ICFAI Business School
Ahmedabad

FORESIGHT
The Business Plan Contest (2005-2006)

Let Money Pour
With your Idea...

IBSA'vantage

Win prizes worth...
Rs.25,000...

Applications invited for "Business Plan Contest".
The competition aims to promote the spirit of entrepreneurship amongst the youth in the country
SEND a Write-up on your Business Idea (in about 500 words)

Eligibility:
* Young Executives below the age of 30 years as on 01, July 2005.
* Students pursuing MBA or equivalent thereof

Participation Fess:
Rs.100 per team (B-School); Rs.200 per team (Working Executives)
Teams should comprise of up to 4 members. Each team has to
be guided by a Mentor
(Faculty member of a B-School or Senior/Middle level executive of
the applicant's organization)

Last date for receiving entries: September 30, 2005

Registration & other details visit: www.ibsahmedabad.org
or contact: Prof. Amiya Sahu, (Event-in-charge)
ICFAI Business School
"ICFAI House", Near GNFC Tower, S-G Highway, Bodakdev,
Ahmedabad-380 054
Phone: +91-79-26850148/1245/8632, Fax: 26850107
Cell: +91-98256 33652, E-mail: foresight@ibsahmedabad.org

Source: E-mail August 16, 2005

ICFAI Business School
Ahmedabad

Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

IDEA 2006
Business Plan Contest

IIMK launches a unique Business Plan Competition

IDEA 2006: Business Plan Contest is a path breaking initiative of Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK). Launched in association with Kerala Venture Capital Fund (KVCF), IDEA, unlike the usual business plan contests, has a refreshing approach by specifically inviting participation from would-be entrepreneurs, start-ups and incubators. The uniqueness of this competition is that IDEA would showcase bankable business propositions with an added advantage of possible conversion to actual business ventures.

IDEA is conceived and launched by students of the Entrepreneurship Cell of IIMK.

A business plan is a master plan for a business venture that details, among others, business objective, implementation, resources deployment and value creation, especially for the society and consumers.

IDEA offers a total prize money of Rs. 2,00,000/- to the participants. This is one of the highest prize money packets offered across all Business plan competitions conducted by Indian B-schools today.

Though participation is open, at least one member of the participating team should be a full-time student of a business management programme from any of the management institutes in the country. The business plan can be either for commercial or not-for-profit purpose.

The detailed rules and information are available at http://intranet.iimk.ac.in/~ecell

According to Mr. K. A. Joseph, Managing Director, KVCF, the partnership with IIMK and conducting of events like IDEA would bring out to the fore the best in innovation, both in terms of technology and business and would facilitate conversion of bankable business propositions into commercial ventures. It would also provide a unique forum for budding entrepreneurs to walk through a constructive learning process. As a special case, there is a separate award for the best business plan proposed for Kerala.

It is expected that this event will set a precedent of such open contests and would have special significance for nurturing entrepreneurship.

Media Cell Team
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
IIMK Campus P.O.
Kozhikode 673 570, Kerala
E-mail: mediacell.iimk@gmail.com

Source: E-mail November 13, 2005

Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

St. Francis Institute of Management and Research
Mumbai

anveshi 2007
- The Researcher
(February 28th and March 1st 2007)
Call for papers

About St. Francis Institute of Management and Research

The Institute was established by "The Society of the Congregation of Franciscan Brothers". This international charitable society of Religious Brothers was founded in 1901 and runs orphanages, schools, formal and informal technical education centers, agriculture training farms, leprosy centers, homes for street children, clinics, dispensaries and hospitals. The society now has 76 such centers in India and abroad. With change in times, the society has ushered into quality educational activities especially into higher technical education focusing on self-employment.

The establishment of St. Francis Institute of Management and Research (SFIMAR) is one such effort.  It was established in the year 2002 with a vision to flourish as a seat of learning of international standards for developing an entrepreneurial class of value based   industrial leaders, empowered with techno-managerial competence to sustain innovation for building global businesses of the future.

The Institute is affiliated to the University of Mumbai and offers its MMS programme.

anveshi 2007

In order to give due recognition to the inquisitiveness and creativity of management students, we are organizing anveshi - a National Level Paper Presentation Competition on 28^th February and 1^st March 2007. This endeavor is taken to provide a platform to the potential researchers and scholars to demonstrate and further hone their skills. The event is expected to be a liaison of corporates, academicians and students.

Themes

Papers are invited from the students studying in various post-graduate courses of the management institutes across India on the following topics:

* Financial Inclusion: Deeds, sins and salvation: Financial inclusion aims to provide the banking and insurance services to the masses particularly the low-income and disadvantaged section. Despite the economic growth that we have witnessed, a large number of people in India still do not have access to the basic financial services offered through formal channels like banks and insurance companies. The prospective anveshis could attempt to find out:

• Our march towards achieving financial inclusion so far.
• What kind of products and services can be offered to achieve our goal?
• What can be the alternative delivery mechanisms?
• Effectiveness of directed lending, micro-finance and co-operative banking.
• Use of technology to serve masses.
• Improving financial literacy.

Registration forms can be downloaded either from the website or can be requested by sending an e-mail at anveshi2007@gmail.com .

Registration fee

* Participating teams: Rs. 300 per team

* Attendees:
For students – Rs. 50
For academicians and corporates – Rs. 100

* Outstation attendees
Non-residential: Rs. 100
Residential: Rs. 300 per head per day
(Includes 3 meals & 2 tea-time snacks and accommodation on sharing basis)

Fee should be paid by a Demand Draft/Local Cheque payable at Mumbai, in favour of "St. Francis Institute of Management and Research".

Paper submission guidelines

* The soft copy of the paper on the listed themes must be sent by email to anveshi2007@gmail.com with theme mentioned in the subject line.
* Paper must be sent as an attachment in Microsoft Word format.
* One hard copy should be sent to the Institute's postal address.
* All the correspondence should be addressed to "The Convener – Anveshi".
* Papers must be in English.
* Your submission should include a title page containing: 

- Theme of the paper 
- Name(s) of authors
- Authors' contact numbers and e-mail addresses
- Name of the Institute
- Institute's full postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address

* Authors' names should be on the title page only, in order to facilitate the blind review. 
* The manuscript must be typed with 1.5 lines spacing. The font size used for all the headings including title should be 16 point, sub-headings 14 point while text should be 12 point. Font used should be Times New Roman. Margins must be 1.5 inch on left side and 1 inch on all other sides.
* Length of the paper should not exceed 2500 words.
* Abstracts should be of maximum 300 words.
* Follow this order when typing manuscripts:
Table of Contents, Table of Figures, Table of Charts, Abstract, Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix and References.
* List of references must be arranged in the alphabetical order.
* References should be written in the following format:

Author(s) name (last name, first name), year of publication, chapter or article heading, book title or journal name, volume, issue and page numbers. Book title or journal name should appear in Italics.

e.g. Mehta, C.K., 2004, Creating Value for Shareholders, Financial Management, 2^nd edition, pp 245-250
* Papers should reflect original thoughts and research work and should not have been presented or published elsewhere.

* All accepted papers would be compiled and published, provided authors confirm to the guidelines mentioned.

Evaluation criteria (100 Marks)

Prizes and certification

* There will be two prizes under every theme.
* Winners will receive a cash prize of Rs. 10,000 and a Certificate of Excellence.
* Runners-up will receive a cash prize of Rs. 5,000 and a Certificate of Excellence.
* Remaining participants will be given Certificates for participation.

Important dates

For participating teams
* Receipt of the registration form: January 5^th 2007
* Receipt of the papers: January 25^th 2007
* Intimation to the short listed teams: February 10^th 2007
* Presentations: February 28^th and March 2^nd 2007

For attendees
* Receipt of the registration form from outstation attendees: February 15^th 2007
* Receipt of the registration form from local attendees: February 25^th 2007
* Presentations: February 28^th and March 2^nd 2007

Organizing Committee

Chairman: Bro. Julius George, Chairman, SFIMAR
Co-chairman: Dr. Thomas Mathew, Director, SFIMAR
Chief Advisor: Bro. Francis More, Registrar, SFIMAR
Convener: Mr. Neerav Nagar, Core Faculty, SFIMAR
Co-convener: Ms. Jaskiran Arora, Sr. Core Faculty, SFIMAR

Student Organizers

Annabel D'Souza
Melbourne Trinidade
Neil D'Souza
Prachee Chavan
Priyanka Chavan
Santosh Rodrigues
Sheril D'Souza
Venkateswaran Iyer
Vikash Kumar Singh

Venue

St. Francis Institute of Management and Research
Mt. Poinsur, S.V.P. Road, Borivali (West), Mumbai-400 103
Tel. 91 22 28958403, 28917089, Fax: 91 22 28906567
Website: www.sfimar.org  E-mail: anveshi2007@gmail.com

Convener

Mr. Neerav Nagar, Core Faculty 
E-mail: neeravnagar@gmail.com
M: 09890752671

Co-convener

Ms. Jaskiran Arora, Sr. Core Faculty
E-mail: jaskiran12@yahoo.co.in
Mail your queries either to the Convener, Co-convener or anveshi2007@gmail.com
 

St. Francis Institute of Management and Research
Mt. Poinsur, S.V.P. Road, Borivali (West), Mumbai-400103
Tel. 91 22 28958403, 28917089, Fax: 91 22 28906567
Website: www.sfimar.org E-mail: anveshi2007@gmail.com
 

Source: E-mail November 28, 2006

St. Francis Institute of Management and Research

NITIE, Mumbai

NITIE Launches
First Ever Case-study competition for MBA aspirants

The management students at NITIE have launched the "IMPACT Case Study contest", a first of its kind for MBA aspirants. The case has been designed especially for MBA aspirants to give them a feel of the business acumen required to gain entry into a top B-school.

The unique endeavor has been initiated by IMPACT, a student committee committed to share their learning and experiences with MBA aspirants. The case can be downloaded from www.life.nitie.net, the NITIE management students' website.

Important Information:

Case Launch: 6^th October 2006
Last Date for Submission: 30^th November

Methodology

• A team, maximum of two students, registers at www.life.nitie.net to download the case.
• Mail the case solution to impact.nitie@gmail.com.
• Short listed teams declared on www.life.nitie.net in the second week of December.
• Teams come to NITIE to present the case for which dates will be notified along-with the shortlist.
• Winning teams will be awarded cash prizes and certificates.

Visit www.life.nitie.net for further details
 

Sriram Vasudevan, Media Cordinator
Management Batch 2008
NITIE
E-mail: impress.nitie@gmail.com
 

Source: E-mail October 13, 2006

NITIE, Mumbai