Vishal Narsinghani has made IIM Trichy proud by being the second runner up of the CBC CXO Challenge. Here we are, in a freewheeling chat about his experiences as a participant.
(This is the third part of the series. This Video talks about helping Mahindra achieve one of the top spots at Formula E Racing .)
What excites a business school student the most? Working on real life business challenges, solving complex managerial problems,competing with the best brains and most importantly bringing some real tangible solutions on board. There are very few such opportunities that a business school student is offered during his/her 2 year academic journey. One is the quintessential Summer Placements and the other is a Case Study Competition.
What excites a business school student the most? Working on real life business challenges, solving complex managerial problems,competing with the best brains and most importantly bringing some real tangible solutions on board. There are very few such opportunities that a business school student is offered during his/her 2 year academic journey. One is the quintessential Summer Placements and the other is a Case Study Competition.
Life of a b-school student can often feel like a battlefield. Sometimes it may even feel like going to a gunfight with a knife. Every day is a new fight to be won. You win some, you lose some. But these battles help you fight the war. Small victories and huge defeats only make you stronger to be able to win the war. And that's the whole point, isn't it? B-schools are battlefields that equip you to emerge victorious at the war in the business world. And where there's a battle, there will be chaos, and with chaos comes the opportunity to restore order. Sun Tzu said, "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." To win first, you need to fight in the battlefield. Lose if you must, because when you lose you learn. And in this endeavor to help you learn more, to prepare you for the war, Ares, the Greek God of War along with Mahindra and Mahindra bring to you the Mahindra War Room.
iAspire, a business centric case study competition, was conducted by the Aspirant Relations Team of Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune, for enthusiastic MBA aspirants. This consisted of the best brains in the country, who got together to prove their mettle and challenge the rest. This competition is one-of-its-kind, owing to the fact that it was organised to better prepare the aspirants for their upcoming entrance exams and tests. The event kicked off on 2nd August 2016 with Inscribe. This was a précis writing competition wherein participants were given an article that had to be summarised in 100 words. This was done to test the writing skills of the aspirants. Then followed BizQuotient, a six day online business quiz. Every day, 3 questions were posted on the official Facebook, Instagram and Twitter channels of iAspire. The quiz topics included Current Affairs, Business, Famous Personalities, Logos and more. The ones who responded with the most prompt and accurate replies got an edge over other aspirants. They directly qualified for the final round, which was the Case Study Competition.
The Economic Times Young Leaders B-School Edition is a platform for recognising and rewarding India’s most promising final year management students. (Register here. Last date is September 16th, 2016). This initiative is meant to encourage, identify and nurture young individuals, many of who will be stepping into the corridors of India Inc. for the very first time. The programme administers a combination of assessment tools, online as well as on-ground, and culminates in face-to-face interviews with leaders from the corporate world. A List of the top B-School Young Leaders is attained at the end of assessments across four phases.
In the dilapidated corridors of the boys’ hostel, I was minding my own business. Assignments. Deadlines. Food. Sports. While I was walking, my phone buzzed. Placement committee mail for launch of Mahindra War Room. “Embracing the paradoxes”, was the tagline. As if my life wasn’t paradoxical enough (low sleep due to assignments and constantly being picked by professors of the same subject in the following class), I thumbed the date on my to-do list and moved on.
