Student achievers from SIBM Pune participated and won prizes in various inter-college competitions from January 2011 to March 2011. These competitions included case study competitions, business plan competitions, marketing campaigns and more. SIBM students defeated teams from IIMs, IITs, NMIMS and other top B-schools to win prizes ranging from certificates to cash awards worth thousands.

1. Student Achievers
Jan 2011 – March 2011

2. Nikhil Shah
Dilip Talerja PGDM - BD
Vivek Agarwal
Mind2Market Case Competition
Venue - ISB Hyderabad (Indian School of Business)
The live case given was on stoves( Chullahs) being used in the rural india and
they were device a complete executable plan around it.
Date of Contest – 21st March 2011
Defeated - ISB,IIM Bangalore, Calcutta, Shillong, Indore, SP Jain,
MICA, IIT Delhi, NMIMS
Prize – Rs. 25,000 & Certificate

3. Ashwini Vasudevan (PGDM E-Biz)
CIRCUMLENS- "Shoonya- The world of endless possibilities“- Photography competition
Organized by - K.J Somaiya College
Date of Contest – 5th Feb. 2011
Defeated - XIMB
Prize - Prize worth Rs. 2000 (Gift Vouchers)

4. Nikhil Ghare - MMS 2010-12
Kumar Gandharva Mishra - BD 2010-12
SIBM Colossus MadAd event
Venue – SIBM, Banglore
They were given 15 minutes to come up with whacky ideas and make an ad for the
product GPS Sunglasses.
Date - 27TH Feb 2011
Defeated - SIBM Bangalore
Prize - A gift vouchers worth Rs 1000

5. Nikhil Ghare - MMS 2010-12
Kumar Gandharva Mishra - BD 2010-12
Pranav Bathi Math - BD 2010-12
Event - Callidus
Organised By – SIBM
Nature of contest –
Rounds 1,2,3: These rounds tested our interpersonal skills through the medium of Facebook.
Final round: The presentation would involve two components:
o A sales pitch, explaining the business case and relevance of your module to the organization.
o A demonstration of the training module itself.
Date of contest – 23rd Feb 2011
Prize - cash prize of Rs 12000 and certificates
Mentor – Prof. Anjali Joshi

6. Ashwini Vasudevan (PGDM E-Biz)
Business standard award - Best B-school project award 2010
Open paper-writing contest
Topic - Music, Memes and me which studies the impact of music in all its forms
from English songs, trance, rock, regional songs, national anthem, the secret by
rhonda bryne, quotes etc on human behavior.
Venue – Renaissance Mumbai Convention Centre Hotel, Pawai.
Date of Contest – 1st Feb’11
Defeated – IIM A, FMS, Great Lakes
Prize - Rs. 50,000 + Certificate + trophy
Mentor – Prof. Deepa Dixit and Prof.Kaustubh Dhargalkar

7. Chinmay Athaley,RohanMenon,Romil Khare,Ashwath Rajan,
Praful Khurana
- PGDM Batch -2 , 2010-2012
EVENT -R IDEA
Organiser - RAISONI Group, NAGPUR
Award:- Judges Choice Award
Details of event :-
The biggest Business Plan competition in the central India. Their b plan 'saaf safai' for residential
housekeeping service
Topic :- B plan on using mobile for payments. Various scopes & real scenarios across industries &
sectors are tapped in detail by Mobile wallet concept.
Event dates 4-5 FEB 20111
Prize :- Plan has been sent for Incubation of business from IIM A in Incubation centre.
Mentor – Prof. Kaustubh Dhargalkar

8. Uday Muthe – PGDM B- 2, 2010-12
EVENT -R IDEA – B-Plan contest
Organiser - RAISONI Group, NAGPUR
Award:- Judges Choice Award
Topic – ‘M-Paisa’ which is a mobile money & cashless transaction system
Date of contest - 4-5 FEB 2011
Prize – Certificate + B plan forwarded to CIIE for possible incubation.
Mentor – Prof. Kaustubh Dhargalkar

9. Vishal Maheshwari, Amulya Tadimeti, Janice Aarora -
PGDM 2010 - 2012 | 3
PRAYAAS
Event - Perspective 2011
A marketing campaign where we had to promote a social cause
Date of Contest – 12th Feb 2011
Defeated - IIM Ahmedbad, JBIMS, NITIE(2), MICA, IRMA & NIRMA.
Prize – Certificate + Rs.10,000/-

10. Nikhil Khemani
Sai Mandlik PGDM batch 3 Batch 2010-12
Ritesh Sapre
SIMSREE's Movie making Competition
Promotion Plan Contest
Other Winners - Sydenham college
Prize - A cash prize of Rs.1000/- and Certificates

11. Ankur Shrivastava & Saket Bihari -
PGDM BD 2010-12
Event: Orion-Mercurise 2011
organizer B-school: SIMS Pune
National Level B-Plan competition
Topic - Manufacturing of ethanol for biofuel
Date of Contest- 30th Jan 2011
Prize – Certificate + Rs. 10,000

12. Saket Bihari - PGDM BD 2010-12
Pragati 2011
Innovation challenge competition
Amrita School of Business, coimbatore, Tamilnadu
Topic – Ethanol ‘ The fuel future’
Date of contest – 5th Feb. 2011
Prize – Certificate + Rs. 5,000/-

13. Rahul Manerikar
Dhaval Mehta PGDM Ebiz
Darshan Salgia
Rohit Kshirsagar
HP smart color contest
A promotion plan for HP printers
Theme – ‘color your kismet’
Date of contest – 26th Nov 2010
Prize- Certificate, trohpy + Goa trip

14. Akhilesh Shenoy, Kartikey Seksaria - PGDM B - 1
IIM Shillong – Niveshak – Feb 2011 Issue
Article on Islamic banking & its impact on india published in Finance Magazine

15. Yogeeta Raisinghani - PGDM -1
Business World Infocom Future Leadership Awards 2010-2011
Venue- Kolkata at ITC, Sonar
This year’s theme was – Moving towards Convergence – in which she focused on 3 aspects
of convergence: Social Media, Cloud Computing and Good to Great organizations – its
impact and challenges and the future ahead in the field of business and technology and
its impact on human life.
Date of Contest – 17th Feb 2011
Position- 6th position
Prize –500 USD along with the trophy and certificate
Other winners – ISB, Hyderabad, TAPMI, Manipal ,IIT,Madras,SPJain, Mumbai
Mentors - Prof. Vijayan, Prof. Deepa Mam, Prof Kaustubh.

16. Chetan Gupta - PGDM EBiz 2009-11
DNA Best Student in Management Award
Date of contest - 12th Feb 2011
Prize – Trophy + certificate

17. Glenda D'Souza - PGDM -BATCH 2 (2010-2012)
• Article published in Bizbook - Jan 2011 issue of Newsletter of G.D Goenka World
Institute.
• Theme of the newsletter was Social Media.
• Won Best entry in VAAD VIVAAD Section - Are social networking sites
responsible for increase in social and psychological problems among youth?

18. Ashwini Vasudevan (PGDM E-Biz)
Event - the SOIL - Inspired School of Leadership's "Print D Peace" competition
Date of Contest – 15th Feb 2011
Prize – Rs. 2,000/-