SIBM-Pune Wins Cognizant's "Board Room - Smart Business Plan Contest 2007"

SIBM-Pune Wins Cognizant's "Board Room - Smart Business Plan Contest 2007"

The team of Amit Nanchahal, Meydhavi Gupta and Soumyadeep Sur from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune won the finals of Cognizant's first business plan contest for B-schools across the Asia-Pacific region. The runners-up were Vinit Kumar Sharma, Vishal Gandhi and Ruchir Mishra from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi. The cash prize for the winning team was Rs. 200,000 and the runners-up, Rs. 100,000.

Winning Team from SIBM-Pune receiving First Prize in Cognizant's B-Plan Contest

Aimed at promoting a spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation among the management students across B-schools in the Asia-Pacific region, Cognizant, for the first time, launched the 'Board Room: Smart Business Plan Contest, 2007'. The finals was held on Friday, November 30, 2007, in the company's Thoraipakkam premises.

The contest, in four phases, spanning two months, provided a unique opportunity to budding management students across B-schools to get creative, propose new business avenues for Cognizant, and draw-up a business plan on what they think should be Cognizant's next move for growth, differentiation and leadership.

In the preliminary rounds, Cognizant received about 400 entries from students from B-schools across the Asia-Pacific region. Of these, 114 entries were found eligible and 20 were short-listed. Of the 20 entries short-listed, those from the National University of Singapore and S. P. Jain Center of Management, also made it to the semi-finals.

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Contributed by -
Ayshwarya Srinivasan,
Corporate Communications Team,
Cognizant Technology Solutions.

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