The selection process was conducted by IBS on 3rd, 4th and 5th May, 2013.
A large number of students were welcomed by IBS Business School during the course of 3 days.
The process was organized so as to suit the comfort of the students/applicants.
IBS executives were available to help out the applicants if they faced any problem during the process.
The selection process was conducted by IBS Gurgaon on 3rd, 4th and 5th May, 2013.
A large number of students were welcomed by IBS Business School during the course of 3 days.
The process was organized so as to suit the comfort of the students/applicants.
IBS executives were available to help out the applicants if they faced any problem during the process.
IBS Ahmedabad provides that platform for the management students by organizing “MANTHAN”, The Business Plan Competition at the campus.
Business Plan competitions allow students to gain experience not only as competitors for a prize, but also in working together as a team, public speaking, strategy, planning ahead and making contacts.
After two elimination rounds, top five plans out of eleven were selected for the final event. Students were required to present their plans in front of the panel of Judges.
Business Plans were analysed considering the Innovation, Creativity, Feasibility, Scope and Budgeting.
A Faculty Development Programme on “Innovative Teaching Methods” was organised on February 28, 2013, at IBS Business School, Mumbai for teachers of degree colleges.
The one-day programme included sessions on Teaching through the Case Study Method, Experiential Learning and Technology in Teaching.
In his keynote address Prof Y. K. Bhushan, Senior Advisor and Head, IBS Business School, Mumbai, reminded the academicians on the joy of teaching and the need to innovate in the classroom.
Dr. G.C. Nag, a senior Faculty Member at IBS-M, gave an introduction to the Case Study Method of Teaching, followed by an engaging demonstration of the Case Study Discussion by Dr Samta Jain.
Prof Rita Rangnekar conducted a team-building and survival exercise to drive home the impact of experiential learning and simulation and assert the role of the teacher as a facilitator in the learning cycle.
Prof. Kavita Venkatachari discussed and oriented the academicians present on new technological resources and support systems available to teachers to enhance teaching effectiveness and encourage creativity.
Sessionwise description
Session One – Teaching through the Case Study Method – Dr. G. C. Nag In an overview to the the case study method of teaching, Dr.G.C.Nag, Faculty Member IBS M, spoke of the inception of the case study, the preparation needed to manage a case study discussion, the infrastructure, administration and evaluation pattern while using a case study.
Session Two – Teaching through the Case Study Method – Dr. Samta Jain Dr Samta Jain, demonstrated how a case discussion can be made interesting and different, for an optimum learning outcome through the use of innovative techniques and different audio-visual tools.
Session Three-Experiential Learning – Prof Rita Rangnekar Prof Rita Rangnekar, illustrated the role of the teacher as a facilitator in guiding students through the experiential learning cycle to gather their own information and data, analyze and learn from it, through a team-building exercise depicting a survival scenario.
Session Four – Technology in Teaching- Prof Kavita Venkatachari Prof Kavita Venkatachari encapsulated how the latest technology can be used by academicians to bring a teacher’s creative into play, through the application of cloud technology, conducting online education, and the use of the electronic whiteboard to solve teaching problems. She provided information of various links, websites and learning support systems.
The FDP event was organized on 16-Mar-2013 at our IBS Campus in Bangalore. Faculty members from 38 colleges across Karnataka were invited. The event witnessed a total participation of 65 faculty members from various colleges across Karnataka.
The opening remarks were address by Prof Harish on the “Case Study Teaching Methodology” the further dialogue on the subject was taken up by Prof. A Lakshminarasimha. The workshop was well imbibed and reciprocated by the participants.Upon concluding the workshop the participants were awarded with participation certificate.
As a gratitude towards their participation and remembrance all the participants were also given a memento.
Few of the faculties extended an interest to conduct the FDP for 2 days.
A collection of pictures shared by outgoing IBS students. If you have a picture to share with us, do send us a mail at media@ibsindia.org
The event was also attended by Varun Agarwal, Film Director and writer, and also Shobharani Yasaswy, the President of the ICFAI Society. The evening witnessed a successful amalgamation of talent, creativity and entertainment. The Alumni were treated to a host of brilliant performances that included soulful renditions of songs, stellar group and solo dance performances, comedy show to tickle the funny bones, and a feat of rocking numbers of Diatribe, the rock-band of IBS.
All this was interspersed with clicking of pictures at the photobooth set up by Nazaria, for everyone to take a piece of memory back home. After the formal dinner, the courtyard was converted into a pulsating dance floor for everyone to shake a leg and head to the music of the DJ. The night came to an end around midnight.
Alumni expressed their pride in the superb team work done by their juniors on campus in organizing a glitzy event like this. As goodbyes were said ,to reliving the best two years of their life,the Alumni were sure that they would return again to the campus.
“Such a place as this will bring nostalgia to the depths of my heart.
Reminisce if I must, and I shall.
I guess this is what reunions are meant for,
because this was never meant to last like it has.
So long old friend…onward we go …..”
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with drudgery, drive and passion.
E-Cell @ IBS K conceptualized the Entrepreneurship Quiz. One of the famous quotes by Peter Drucker says “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes”. Though quiz competitions are often viewed as the pursuit of trivial knowledge, they encourage students to achieve academic excellence and increase their awareness of the business environment around them. A must for budding MBAs.
The event was held on the 07th of September 2012. The Members at E-Cell worked tenuously for the Judgement day & marketed the event with full vigour. The E-Cell members under the overall guidance of Dr. Subir Sen gained consensus about the various rounds to be conducted and designed the entire format of the game and made the stage ready for the participants. The competition was open to both Juniors and Seniors.
Dr. Subir Sen was the quiz master and he conducted the quiz show with great aplomb. With the onset of the 1st round which was the Elimination round there was exuberance participation and fierce competition, it was also deceiving as to who would proceed further. Only one team from the batch of 2014 (Juniors) reached the Stage rounds and this team dominated all the other teams throughout the completion. The Stage rounds comprised of: Who Am I, Slogan Wagon, Corporate Stamp, and Name The Chain.
The Rapid Fire round changed the fortunes for the winning team; they scored 40 points in that round to tally their scores with the team of Class of 2014.To decide upon the winner a tie breaker round was conducted and Garima Gupta and Sreejoyee Mukherjee of Class of 2013 were declared as winners while Supratik Ghosh and Kunal Mehta of Class of 2014 edged to the Runners Up. The Winning team and the Runners up team got Trophy’s and cash prize worth Rs.2500 and Rs.1500 respectively.
Business Standard poses a question and solicits responses from students across India for their weekly column “ Student’s Corner”
The topic for last week was “Do you think inviting business houses to set up higher education institutions in India will help better the higher education scenario?”
The current scenario of higher education in India has become a mere game of money. Inviting business houses will worsen the situation, for they will look forward to money making for which again seats will be sold. Surely India lacks in opportunity and infrastructure but inviting business hubs won’t solve the problem. In last couple of years many engineering colleges have cropped up and still the quality has not increased. India surely needs quantity for its huge population but not at the cost of quality.
Indian institutions has been delivering best quality of higher education for the students. Students who go for higher education outside India also been drastically decreasing .By inviting business houses to setup in India, it will cause a huge difference in cost for the same courses providing by our institutions. It will not improve the quality education, rather it will improve only the essence of a foreigner in the minds of Indian students.
– Vinod PV, ICFAI, Kerala.
While inviting business houses to set up higher education institutes would surely improve the quality of higher education, it is necessary to ensure equity by providing financial support to the weaker sections of the society. Business houses are more concerned with profit maximisation as they charge exorbitant amounts in the name of course fee. Moreover as ‘education is for all’ so quality and equity both have to be looked at before increasingly allowing the business houses to step into the field of education, which provide a better learning in a global context through international collaborations with universities abroad.
– Devika Singhal, IBS Gurgaon
Institutions should be invited because in India the need for education is changing with time . The pressure on private schools to take and provide for students of less privileged backgrounds means the students are increasingly diverse. Private schools are institutionalized, but this need not necessarily be a bad thing.Many opportunities are available through a private education which a state school will not provide, sport, music etc. Exploring beyond the curriculum is a key part of the ethos and can help expand student’s minds.
– Ketan Thakur, IBS Pune.
Companies have a lot of power in the community and the economy. The capital required to set up or fund institutes of higher education is in plenty with the business houses. It is a win-win situation for both students and the companies, the students get the best of infrastructure, education and guidance in form of guest lectures by corporate leaders running these institutions. On the other hand business houses get a good chance to build their brand much stronger by opening these institutes under CSR initiatives and in turn get skilled human resource needed to run their companies.
– Varun Kapoor, IBS Hyderabad.
If a corporate sets up an educational institute, one may get 2 years of full time education – cum – training. The office would be merged with the institute. A special department where the seniors and on field officers give us lecturers. Specialization is from beginning and every student is given a tiny work or other. For instance, students are asked to sell a pen worth Rs. 500 by the organization and the lecturer teaches us about differential pricing and market segmentation then. This could be encouraged.
– Vivek Kumar Debuka, IBS Kolkata.
The corporate world plays a major role in providing the right feedback and requirement for today’s managers. How well they need to be trained and be prepared for the challenges of localisation and globalisation in today’s corporate industry and amidst stiff competition. Big business houses ultimately know their own requirement and accordingly they play a major role in shaping the managers who will lead tomorrow. Therefore, it is very important to have the involvement of business houses to set up higher education institutions in India and it will also definitely improve the higher education scenario in the right context.
– Stephan Rodrigues, IBS Mumbai.
In India, corporate sector is the biggest user of educated manpower but very few are ready to contribute in the educational sector. Inviting them to set up higher educational institutions will not only create healthy competition among students but also encourage them to take higher education. Moreover, quality of education provided in private colleges is way better than any government college. Establishment and expansion of educational institutions have been mainly shouldered by state. So inviting business houses to set up educational institutions will expand the horizons of knowledge to meet the demand of resources in various sectors.
– Abhishek Fanse, IBS Hyderabad.
India at present is facing a opacity in education sector. For instance, if an MBA aspirant wants to get enrolled himself into a premier B-school, he/she has to pay high capitation fees, unless he is able to secure a seat through merits. So if business houses setup their institution, there would be augmentation in the this opaqueness and thus would accelerate the burden on these students. The possible solution to this standpoint is that if government, in consensus with these companies, start institutes with lateral funding to them then it can reduce students’ burden.
– Vivek Kamalia, IBS Mumbai.
The corporate sector should set up educational institutions because the amount of public resources available for health and education is limited. The working group on higher and technical education for the 12th plan projected a resource requirement of Rs 4,13,368 crore. So allowing funds from business houses will initiate improvement in quality education with technological up-gradation. However, these houses should not make the institutes another business ventures like their factories. They have to think of the social and service aspects. Monetary returns should not occupy their minds while providing education to the society.
– Devang P Gandhi, IBS Mumbai.
The eyes in me never saw you in solitude. I never walked the moments when you were in isolation. You were incessantly filled with different hearts piercing into their deepest instincts. The trembling and the firm feet were walking in aloof and never knew that you stuck by those deepest instincts. You carried them towards oblivion, you ushered them into the world of ambiguous management and you distracted them for life. Of course these years of fakeness accumulate around you, can be seen in your overstepped tiles in red and not red. Useless words, the enormous voices and the ambivalence of pathetic and yet pumping hearts are the first things you look for under your sunless roof in every sunshine morning imbibing the Jurassic park. Fortunately you don’t know that you will experience the betrayal when these foolish people make merry the time they bid adieu this untold conversation with you. They might never know you were a stranger in disguise. They even might not remember those footsteps. And they will never recollect your untouched presence and aching touch.
Time goes by; it passes. For you this merciless time will make no amends and leave you for different footsteps of slander and ungratefulness. My dear friend you will never find the form that is an expression of your innermost desires and aspirations. Remember, every morning you will be consulted for denigration and for all the nights you will be quit as an abject failure for an abyss of nothingness. You will be ripped in their stink. The trees around you will grow old, the air engulfing you will get thicker and for your own stoned heart you will become an insufferable bore. There aint even a blink of a moment of love, truth and understanding tipped for you and yet you big hearted scoundrel spreads like the unconditioned mother.
Your silence has been destroyed. Hopeless books, wasted papers, meaningless placards, disgusting music that lost its essence in heartless I-pods, never so worthy mobile phones, objective less laptops, and the world of non sense pierce through you, in your constant awareness, bidirectional. Don’t question them you eternally blessed fool. They are too quick to revere your pain. They will walk away and leave your paper blank. They won’t even spill the ink. Their hands won’t ache. I have spied with the armor of my eyes and have seen a dull beginning and a flamed end. The window in my room, the balcony outside it has witnessed your grief. But the feet will churn you and I neither am any good of a friend. You blathering nincompoop, every heart will wake against you.
My eyes will again open to a new day and I will walk through you in another morning light, the dark leaves still by your side. You probably would have gulped the yesterday’s tormented blood and made those chatter like an old man tiles firm again for another tourney of atrocity. You fool of the first water, how in this world could you?
You think to yourself: get the hell out of here, get out quick and don’t look back.
Contributed by Mohd Haris Bhat ( Class of 2012, IBS Hyderabad)