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The Institute for Financial Management and Research ( IFMR) organised a National Level Annual Intercollegiate B School Meet-Abhyudaya 2007 on January 20th and 21st 2007 at IFMR campus in Chennai. The meet saw participants from all the leading Business schools from different parts of the country. They competed for Prizes worth Rs.2 lakhs in over eight different stimulating management events. Our flagship event - The Art of War, National Level Business Quiz challenge was held on January 21st 2007 at Hotel Marina Towers, Egmore. Teams from leading corporate setups participated in the same. The Festival also included spot events that witnessed participation from engineering and other undergraduate colleges.
The theme for this year was “See the Big picture”. This was reflected in different events like Business plan, Market Research, Advertisement, Business Simulation, Business Analyst Challenge and Business Quiz. Prizes worth Rs.2 lakhs were won by participants during the course of the two-day event. The fest was inaugurated by Mr. Ramkumar, President, Fenner India Ltd.
Mr. J.N.Amrolia, Executive Director of Ashok Leyland Ltd addressed the students during the closing ceremony and gave away the prizes to the winners. He exhorted the students to develop a mindset for life-long learning to succeed in this competitive environment in the wake of our booming economy.
The fest witnessed participation from over 500 students representing 36 B- Schools and five engineering colleges spread across 12 states. Winners of the various events included teams from IIM Bangalore, IIM Kozhikode, NITIE, JBIMS, SCMHRD, BIM, MICA, ICFAI Gurgaon, ASB and LIBA.
Also, there was an advertisement we issued in Business Line duly recognizing our sponsors for the event. SS music covered the entire event which was telecast in their ‘College Da’ program on 4th, 8th & 10th February, 2007.
Team from Sun Microsystems, represented by Mr. Vishwajeeth and Mr. Mitesh won a cash prize of Rs.25,000 for securing first in Art of War- Corporate Quiz. The cross-corporate team from IBM and Cambridge Solutions, represented by Anish and Sethu were the runners up. The other finalists included teams from Citigroup and cross-corporate teams from Kotak/Wyse Technologies, Infosys/Hindu and Sanmar/ICICI. The quiz was conducted at Comfort Inn Marina Towers, Egmore.
Abhyudaya 2007 was sponsored by Indian Oil, Fenner India, ICICI Bank, TCS, and Allsec Technologies. Partners for the event include SS Music, Business Line and Pagalguy.com.
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