IIM Calcutta & Tata Chemicals Win Tata Business Leadership Awards 2008

IIM Calcutta & Tata Chemicals Win Tata Business Leadership Awards 2008

The Tata Group, India's largest private sector conglomerate, announced the winners of the 7th Tata Business Leadership Awards (TBLA). 'Tata Business Leadership Awards (TBLA)' is part of the TAS programme - the Group's managerial development programme for young managers.

Mr. Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons, handed over the trophy and cash prize of Rs. One Lakh to the winners. Team of Amit Mehta, Puneet Gandhi, Puneet Jain and Ritesh Saxena from IIM Calcutta won the campus round, whereas the team of Amitabh Tapadar, Anand Sinha, Madhur Vaghela and Mohammed Altaf S. from Tata Chemicals Ltd. won the internal track, which was for group companies.

The team from S. P. Jain, Mumbai, was the first runners-up, while IIM Bangalore walked away with the second runners-up title for the campus round. The first runners-up of the internal track for the Tata Group companies were HV Transmission and TCS-USA were the second runners-up.

Tata Business Leadership Awards has been successfully conducted for students from the country's top 7 business schools in India for the past 6 years. This year, TBLA was also extended to the employees of the Tata Group companies across geographies in which the Group operates.

The seven teams from IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, FMS-Delhi, S. P. Jain-Mumbai and XLRI-Jamshedpur were short listed from amongst 239 teams who registered for the contest. The 9 in-house teams which were short listed for the finals from amongst 225 entries, were, two teams from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), USA, two teams from TCS, Chennai, TCS, Mumbai, Tata Steel, Calcutta, TCS, New Delhi, HV Transmission, Jamshedpur and Tata Chemicals, Mumbai.

Mr. Ratan Tata with IIM Calcutta Team, Winners of Campus Round of Tata Business Leadership Awards 2008

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Suresh Rangarajan / Asha Bajpai / Siddharth Patkar,
Vaishnavi Corporate Communications.

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