We at InsideIIM have recognized that the worth of an MBA student to an employer goes much beyond PORs, grades, percentiles, or simply an MBA degree. What you bring to the table in terms of decision making, conflict management, people management, dependability, and strategic thinking is what truly determines your employability in the long run and the rest is just icing on the cake. Thus we have for the first time launched the Most Promising Incoming MBA Student Competition.
In 2021, InsideIIM for the first time launched the Most Employable CA Challenge. It was an exclusive program to give India's top CA talent a chance to build their own brand and showcase their business acumen and communication skills to their peers and prospective recruiters. To participate, CA professionals were tested on their communication skills, presentation skills, business acumen and strategic thought process through multiple rounds. Amongst all the entries that came in from India's top talent, four stood out! Check out the winners of the InsideIIM Most Employable CA Challenge and the entries that helped them win!
I recently told a friend that I learned more from case competitions than I did in most of my classes put together. Of course, that sentence is laced with a little bit of smug hyperbole, but the premise is largely sound – case competitions have taught me many of the things an MBA programme is supposed to teach you – applying theoretical concepts to a real-world problem, evaluating a given situation along every possible dimension, even in the absence of complete information, making sharp, concise presentations, and of course, doing all of this against a short deadline with a thousand other things to do. Reaching the finale of IIM Bangalore’s Numero Uno from among 1800 participants gave me a serious case of the imposter syndrome – the other presentations were simply so much better. Their analysis was so much deeper, the tools they used so much more sophisticated. I was stunned when my name was announced as the winner, but less so when the judges gave the reasoning. “The problem,” they said, “is that you have gotten so deep into the analysis that you forgot to apply 360 degree common sense solutions to a business problem.” That, I realized, I could do. Winning NITIE’s Enpower 3.0 competition (with my dearest friends Suyash Kumar and Utkarsh Nagar), coming third in IIM Indore’s Management Studio, and winning IIM Calcutta’s OpsWorld competition told me that there was something I was doing right. Hence the desire to pen down this article, with some of my learnings.
InsideIIM had launched the Professor Of The Year Competition this year, where we recognize the efforts that various B-School professors throughout the country have put in to ensure that their students are not left behind and continue to meet their potential and achieve great things. We asked MBA students of the current batches in 2021 to nominate their favorite professors on campus for the title of 'Professor of The Year' as a small token of gratitude for professors.
Case competitions at business schools are more than just competitions: winning these competitions can potentially get you placed with your dream company without ever having to sit for the highly competitive campus placements process. Case competitions are a great test of your managerial aptitude, and winning them can make your CV shine. So, what is the route to winning case competitions? Which competitions should you target to win at b-school? What are the benefits of winning case competitions at b-school in terms of career and personal growth? To find out, we bring to you a panel of case competition winners from IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Kashipur and SCMHRD. Join now!
It’s almost been a year since we launched Kounsel, a platform where you get 1-on-1 personalised career coaching by industry stalwarts & in that one year, 100+ mentees have benefitted with about 250+ hours of career coaching & rated Kounsel 4.73 out of 5. Sounds great, right? Not to us!
In 2021, InsideIIM launched for the first time the E-Commerce Prodigy Challenge, an exclusive program to give India's top talent at business schools a flavor of Marketing and Growth Hacking in an E-commerce set-up. To participate, MBA students were asked to create a marketing strategy for their favorite E-commerce platforms. Amongst all the entries that came in from India's top talent, five stood out! The winners of the challenge created detailed marketing strategies for top E-Commerce companies like Flipkart, BigBasket, Nykaa, Quikr, and L'Oreal. Check out the winners of the InsideIIM E-Commerce Prodigy Challenge and the entries that helped them win!
In 2021, InsideIIM launched for the first time the E-Commerce Prodigy Challenge, an exclusive program to give India's top talent at business schools a flavor of Marketing and Growth Hacking in an E-commerce set-up. To participate, MBA students were asked to create a marketing strategy for their favorite E-commerce platforms. Amongst all the entries that came in from India's top talent, five stood out! Here is a glimpse into the marketing strategies formulated by Yogesh Kumar Das, a SIBM Pune student who worked on creating a strong marketing strategy for Quikr and is a winner of the InsideIIM E-Commerce Prodigy Challenge!
We at InsideIIM have recognized that the worth of an MBA student to an employer goes much beyond PORs, grades, percentiles, or simply an MBA degree. What you bring to the table in terms of decision making, conflict management, people management, dependability, and strategic thinking is what truly determines your employability in the long run and the rest is just icing on the cake. Thus we have for the first time launched the Most Promising Incoming MBA Student Competition.
In 2021, InsideIIM for the first time launched the Most Employable CA Challenge. It was an exclusive program to give India's top CA talent a chance to build their own brand and showcase their business acumen and communication skills to their peers and prospective recruiters. To participate, CA professionals were tested on their communication skills, presentation skills, business acumen and strategic thought process through multiple rounds. Amongst all the entries that came in from India's top talent, four stood out! Check out the winners of the InsideIIM Most Employable CA Challenge and the entries that helped them win!
I recently told a friend that I learned more from case competitions than I did in most of my classes put together. Of course, that sentence is laced with a little bit of smug hyperbole, but the premise is largely sound – case competitions have taught me many of the things an MBA programme is supposed to teach you – applying theoretical concepts to a real-world problem, evaluating a given situation along every possible dimension, even in the absence of complete information, making sharp, concise presentations, and of course, doing all of this against a short deadline with a thousand other things to do. Reaching the finale of IIM Bangalore’s Numero Uno from among 1800 participants gave me a serious case of the imposter syndrome – the other presentations were simply so much better. Their analysis was so much deeper, the tools they used so much more sophisticated. I was stunned when my name was announced as the winner, but less so when the judges gave the reasoning. “The problem,” they said, “is that you have gotten so deep into the analysis that you forgot to apply 360 degree common sense solutions to a business problem.” That, I realized, I could do. Winning NITIE’s Enpower 3.0 competition (with my dearest friends Suyash Kumar and Utkarsh Nagar), coming third in IIM Indore’s Management Studio, and winning IIM Calcutta’s OpsWorld competition told me that there was something I was doing right. Hence the desire to pen down this article, with some of my learnings.
InsideIIM had launched the Professor Of The Year Competition this year, where we recognize the efforts that various B-School professors throughout the country have put in to ensure that their students are not left behind and continue to meet their potential and achieve great things. We asked MBA students of the current batches in 2021 to nominate their favorite professors on campus for the title of 'Professor of The Year' as a small token of gratitude for professors.
Case competitions at business schools are more than just competitions: winning these competitions can potentially get you placed with your dream company without ever having to sit for the highly competitive campus placements process. Case competitions are a great test of your managerial aptitude, and winning them can make your CV shine. So, what is the route to winning case competitions? Which competitions should you target to win at b-school? What are the benefits of winning case competitions at b-school in terms of career and personal growth? To find out, we bring to you a panel of case competition winners from IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Kashipur and SCMHRD. Join now!
It’s almost been a year since we launched Kounsel, a platform where you get 1-on-1 personalised career coaching by industry stalwarts & in that one year, 100+ mentees have benefitted with about 250+ hours of career coaching & rated Kounsel 4.73 out of 5. Sounds great, right? Not to us!
In 2021, InsideIIM launched for the first time the E-Commerce Prodigy Challenge, an exclusive program to give India's top talent at business schools a flavor of Marketing and Growth Hacking in an E-commerce set-up. To participate, MBA students were asked to create a marketing strategy for their favorite E-commerce platforms. Amongst all the entries that came in from India's top talent, five stood out! The winners of the challenge created detailed marketing strategies for top E-Commerce companies like Flipkart, BigBasket, Nykaa, Quikr, and L'Oreal. Check out the winners of the InsideIIM E-Commerce Prodigy Challenge and the entries that helped them win!
In 2021, InsideIIM launched for the first time the E-Commerce Prodigy Challenge, an exclusive program to give India's top talent at business schools a flavor of Marketing and Growth Hacking in an E-commerce set-up. To participate, MBA students were asked to create a marketing strategy for their favorite E-commerce platforms. Amongst all the entries that came in from India's top talent, five stood out! Here is a glimpse into the marketing strategies formulated by Yogesh Kumar Das, a SIBM Pune student who worked on creating a strong marketing strategy for Quikr and is a winner of the InsideIIM E-Commerce Prodigy Challenge!
