The Ranchi Dreamers from IIM Ranchi have won the 4th edition of Deloitte Campus Maverick, the premier case study competition for B Schools in India conducted by Deloitte. The team from Ranchi beat 12 other national finalists in the finals held at the Deloitte Hyderabad Campus on the 4th of September 2015. The team comprised of Yagna Teja, Deepak Nair and Abhishek Praveen all of whom are second year PGDM students at IIM Ranchi. The national winners won a cash award of INR 3 Lakhs.
Deloitte Campus Maverick is a case study challenge conducted in multiple rounds and spans over a month. The competition reaches out to more than a 100 B schools in India including the premier B schools and has a reach of around 36000 students. The 4th edition of Campus Maverick saw roughly 15500 registrations from 2200 teams.
After the initial submission, 74 teams were selected for the regional finals across 4 regions- North, South, East and West. The Ranchi Dreamers were among the 16 teams to have qualified for the Eastern Regional Finals. The Eastern Regional’s was conducted over 2 rounds after which 3 winners were identified who would progress to the National finals at Hyderabad on the 4th of September. IIM Ranchi qualified along with IIM Calcutta and XIM Bhubaneswar from the East Zone. These teams were joined by 9 other teams from the other zones to complete the 12 team roster for the Grand Finale.
The Grand Finale was held over 2 days which included surprise rounds which kept the teams on their toes. The 12 teams included Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) Delhi, IIM Rohtak & IMT Ghaziabad from the North; ISB Hyderabad, Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai and Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies (SIBM), Bengaluru from the South; Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) Pune & Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, from the West; XIM Bhubaneswar, IIM Calcutta & IIM Ranchi from the East.
The final was conducted over 2 days and from the 12 national finalists, 4 teams progressed to the final stage round: ISB Hyderabad, XIM Bhubaneswar, IIM Ranchi and JBIMS Mumbai.
In a glittering grand finale attended by senior directors and principals from Deloitte, IIM Ranchi was adjudged the National Winners of the Deloitte Campus Maverick Season 4.