The competition will be held in two phases:
Phase I: Participants are required to mail a soft copy of the paper before 25th September 2008 at
papyrus@iimb.ernet.in
Phase II: Five papers will be short listed from the papers submitted for each vertical i.e. Marketing, Operations and Social Entrepreneurship. The short listed participants will be invited to present their papers on 11th October, 2008 before a panel of distinguished judges at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Presentation will be for 15 minutes followed by 5 minutes of Q/A
One winner and a runner-up will finally be declared in each vertical.
Participants are to choose topics from one or more verticals, and work in teams of one or two members each. Participants can submit entries for more than one vertical.
Rules
• Papers should represent original research work which has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
• The number of authors for a paper should be upto 2. All team members must belong to the same institute.
• The word limit for the paper is 2500 words (excluding annexures).
• The file should be in .pdf format.
• The participants are required to send only a soft copy of their entry to the following mail id:
papyrus@iimb.ernet.in
• Acknowledgement of the receipt of the soft copies of entries would be sent within 24 hours of the receipt of the papers.
• The last date for receipt of entries is September 25th, 2008.
• The soft copies should be typed in Microsoft Word, with 1.5 line spacing and font Times New Roman, size 12.
• Each entry should have a cover page mentioning names of the author(s), the topic, e-mail id and telephone numbers. This cover page shall be detached before the papers are given for panel evaluation. The name(s) of the author(s) or their institute should not appear anywhere in the body of the paper.
• The teams selected to present their respective papers will be reimbursed AC III tier, two-way train travel expense. The reimbursement will be for the shortest route between the members’ institute and Bangalore. Team members are required to present a copy of their tickets for reimbursements. In case of a flight journey, reimbursements will be made only on producing original boarding passes. Reimbursements will be capped at INR 2000 (to and fro) for distance less than 700 Km (one way distance) and INR 6000 (to and fro) for distance greater than that.
• The decisions of the organizers of the contest and the panel of judges will be final and will be binding on all the participants.
The entries received will become the property of the organizers.
Prizes
1st Prize: Rs 20,000 in every vertical
2nd Prize: Rs 10,000 in every vertical
Topics
Marketing
Evolution of organized retail in India & its impact on consumer behavior
Operations
Will India Inc.'s SCM Backbone limit/enhance its Future Growth Opportunities?
Social Entrepreneurship
Microfinance ventures in emerging economies: Revenues versus social responsibility
Congratulations to the shortlisted teams!!! An email will be sent to all shortlisted teams. Please respond to that email with your acceptance.
Marketing
| Participants |
College |
| Riyaz Vohra, Suryya Sarkar |
Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai |
| Abhishek Kumar Sharma, Sheeladitya Mohanty |
XLRI Jamshedpur |
| Anand Choudhary |
International Academy of Management and Entrepreneurship(IAME) |
| Amit Garg, Pradeep Kothari |
NITIE, Mumbai |
| Kanojia Chandra Kumar, Rahul Raj Jain |
IIM Bangalore |
Social Entrepreneurship
| Participants |
College |
| Vandana Dandge |
VGSOM, IIT KGP |
| Amit Varshney, Ankit Sharma |
IIM Kozhikode |
| Prosenjit Bhowmick, Ritu Vats |
IIM Ahmedabad |
| Jimmy Thomas, Manabendra Mukherjee |
NITIE, Mumbai |
| Ankur Uttam, Gourav Chattopadhyay |
IIM Bangalore |
Operations
| Participants |
College |
| Manish Shukla |
IIM Kozhikode |
| Anoop Aravind, Deepti Gupta |
SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai |
| Ravi Shankar, Varun Alawadhi |
NITIE, Mumbai |
| Saurabh Jajoo, Arun Kumar S |
NITIE, Mumbai |
| Anshul Gupta, Sweta Kumari |
IIM Bangalore |
