Monday, December 15, 2008

EABS: Students participate in the Internet Governance Forum

The third Internet Governance Forum organised by United Nations and sponsored by the Government of India, was held at Hyderabad from December 3-6, 2008 and saw participation from the government representatives, corporate heads and NGOs from around the globe. Abhishek Agarwal, Ashish Thakur, Ravi Parasrampuria and Shreya Agarwal from Europe Asia Business School were the four students selected to be a part of Internet Governance capacity building program conducted by the Diplo Foundation, Geneva in association with NIXI. They went on to earn a scholarship and an opportunity to attend this conference.

The students participated in various IG related issues like Child Pornography, Cyber Security and Privacy, Socio- economic factors, legal issues. Ravi and Ashish were also part of the panel on Youth issues where they gave an overview of their project Lifeunits.com. They also gave various suggestions towards youth involvement in the Internet Governance discussions.

“This is a huge opportunity for the students to get such a rich exposure to complex issues of Internet Governance which is still in the nascent phase in India and we as an institute are committed to explore such emerging issues that require the nation’s immediate attention.” said Dr Nikhil Agarwal, Director Europe Asia Business Schoo

Saturday, November 22, 2008

EABS wins at “Vasundhra Bachao” Business plan competition held at NITIE

Students from Europe Asia Business School(EABS), Pune participated in 'Vasundhra Bachao', a Business plan competition focussing on Green Ventures organized by National Institute of Industrial Engineering(NITIE), in association with Yuvak Biradari, Sri Vile Parle kelavani Mandal, on Nov 18-19,2008. EABS team 'Prakritik Shudhata' - Gaurav Singhal, Ashish Thakur, Ravi Parasrampuria emerged as the 2nd prize winners from various teams all across India. Team Prakritik Shudhata won a cash prize of Rs 15,000 and will get a chance to showcase their project to venture capitalists.

The theme of the competition was environment friendly businesses with the focus on with topics related to air, solid and liquid waste treatment and management, water management, recycling, reuse, environment management systems, greening of supply chain, green marketing, developing a green product or service etc.The competition had three stages and started with the submission of the entire Business Plan. At the second stage held at NITIE 15 teams were asked to present their plans in front of various judges from the industry.five teams from these made it to the finals held at Bhaidas Auditiorium, Mumbai. Team EABS presented a plan on Integrated dairy farming and there entire plan keeps the environment at the core thereby providing value and quality to the customer.

By:- Ravi Parasrampuria

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Mr. Kiran Karnik, former Nasscom President and CEO Discovery

It’s was a  pleasure to have Mr Kiran Karnik, a renowned personality in the Indian IT industry at ZCBI. His educational background includes an Honours degree in Physics from Bombay University, followed by post-graduation from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has served as President Nasscom , worked with Indian central and state governments , served as managing director at Discovery networks in India from 1995-2001 . He worked for over 20yrs in Indian space research organization (ISRO), served  Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), worked with the United Nations in New York and Vienna,  done a  consulting assignment for UNESCO in Afghanistan, and has also been a consultant for WHO, The World Bank, UN Institute for Disarmament Research and Ford Foundation.  

I was awed at the speech and  personality of Mr. Kiran Karnik, a very charismatic, energetic person stealing the attention of the audiences .  He took us through a recap on the subprime crisis  and gave us a valuable insight as to what managers and leaders should do in this constantly changing and uncertain environment. His speech included two important concepts which are imprinted in my mind. First, is the Chaos theory in which he describes how an initial small change may have a huge impact at the end. Second is a very psychological effect called the ripple effect, which is clearly evident in today’s financial turmoil. He talked about how different disciplines impinge on each other and the importance of the need to be interconnected cross disciplinary rather than being cocooned in one discipline. The way Mr. Karnik spoke about the distinct areas of difference between Managers and Leaders is incredible. He says managers typically look at the resources and optimization of those resources. Leadership on the other hand looks at how differently these resources can be used, how to change the constraints and get more of these resources. Leaders distinctively change the rules of the game and the business model itself. Leaders are visionaries and innovators. They do not compete with anybody and don’t outrun but they sure outsmart others in the game.

We all imbibed a lot from this experience. We all were flabbergasted and amazingly hooked on to his eloquence and his phenomenal knowledge. Overall, Mr. Karnik’s speech was an unparalleled delight.

Friday, November 14, 2008

EABS wins Dewang Mehta Awards

Zensar Centre for Business Innovation, in its very first year of inception received the Dewang Mehta Best B School award in the 16th Business School Affaire at the Asia Brand Summit in the category ‘Business School which encourages Innovations that leads to better Development’.

Founded on 21st April, 2008 by the Chairman of NASSCOM, CEO of Zensar Technologies and a Harvard alumnus Dr Ganesh Natarajan, this B School has already created jitters in the Corporates and Academia alike. Dr Ganesh Natarajan said: “Developing a niche for itself in this era of ‘Innovation’ and an altogether new concept of emerging I Schools in our country, ZCBI won the Dewang Mehta Best Business School Award which recognises talent and leadership amongst the business schools across India....And rightly enough this B School is named as the Zensar Center for Business Innovation!”

ZCBI won this award along with the IIMs, ISB, and NMIMS. Infact, ZCBI created history as being the first B School ever to win this prestigious award in the first year of its inception. ZCBI, a unique concept, won this award for its Innovative Curriculum and Education, focussed Leadership Development, Unique Industry Interface and a series of Innovative Incubation Projects blooming in its campus. The award ceremony was attended by many Industry Big Shots.

The award was received by Dr Nikhil Agarwal, Director ZCBI. On the occasion, Dr Nikhil Agarwal said: “I dedicate this award to the students and their mentors working on numerous Innovative Incubation projects such as Second Life – a unique virtual world project with ZCBI setting the first B School campus here, Kirana Concept – an organisation of the unorganised retail market in India, Life Units – a budding National Level project in search of a solution to blood shortage in the country, Internet Governance – 4 ZCBIians among the chosen 30 all over India for this unique programme by DiploFoundation and many more.”

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Mandi@EABS

This event was an idea that was shaped to perfection by Dr. T. Prasad to help every student understand management theory in practice. Mandi serves as a platform for students to apply classroom learning to real life situations and maximize pre-determined sales objectives, and in the process achieve social and educational
goals.
Stage1: (Introduction) Understand the product description. Analysis of the market trends in Pune and planning out strategies based on consumer behavior and their buying trends.
Stage2: (On the Streets of Pune) Time to head to the markets where actual learning takes place. Here the students get to understand the dynamics involved in interactions among the product, the prospect and the sales person in the selling process.
Stage 3: (Mandi manthan) Analysis of the previous days outing where students share their first hand experience and learn from the same.
All the proceeds from this event would be donated to NAVNIRMITI, an NGO that has provided the toys for the event. Navnirmiti is a non profit, self-reliant organization working with the objective of universalizing the quality math and science education. It reaches out to all those children who don’t have access to a good education and has developed a simple yet complete classroom kit in order to teach primary level maths in a fun and creative way. Every year Navnirmiti visits schools, organizes and holds exhibitions to promote its learning tools and toys.
At the last day of Mandi three teams were chosen to be best teams amongst the crowd.

The first team comprised of
Arindam Mandal
Rajan Saini
Sayali Deshpande
Saurabh Paithane
Subhodeep Kundu
This team made the total sales of about Rs. 3600,
which was highest among all the other teams.

The Second team comprised of
Anand Agrawal
Monty Ruchandani
Shyam Merchant
Sunny Ruparel

And the third team comprised of
Ashish Bhansali
Ashish Thankur
Gaurav Singhal
Ravi Parasrampuria

I used to see the Sky with love,
Gazing my dreams above;
It’s your gentle touch and warm embrace,
Made this Crow Into a Dove.
Spreading my wings of desire,
Passion of heart burning like fire;
Took Off the ground, kissing the sky,
With you by my side, together we fly.
My Spirits Floats to a Part,
I Feel the Beating of My Heart;
Responsibilities I Bear, In This One Year,
With You Flying Near, Why Should I Fear?
My Being Trembles With Delight,
Now I Am Ready For the Flight;
Ready to Fly, Ready To Tear the Sky;
Sun or Rain, Day or Light.
Leaders Are Many, Teachers Are Few;
Inspiration Has a New Face
And That Is You.
By Debasis Mohanty, EABS, Pune

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Teachers day celeberation

A teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. 5th September, it is this day we celebrate as teacher's day and so did we in our campus at ZCBI-EABS classroom. Having invited all our beloved teachers including our director Nikhil Agarwal, Global HR head Ms Prameela , Tarun ,Prachi, Tanya ,and other staff members of the college , a modest event was organised by whole ZCBIian family to seek the blessings from the honourable teachers and express our gratitude towards them.

The programme started with a sheer rock show by our very own ZCBI -EABS Band, which just enchanted such a spell that the whole of the atmosphere just blasted with absolute enthusiasm. It was followed by a poem composed by a student from our class which touched the heart of every individual and dignified the virtuous image of teachers. The show stealers were the mimicry artists, whose splendid performance filled the hall with joy and laughter.

The proceedings of the show eventually ended with cake cutting ceremony, and all the teachers obliged the students by accepting small token of love and honour from the ZCBI students.

This momentary event gave us an opportunity to strengthen our dignified bond with our teachers. It also gave one and all some moments to cherish in their busy, competitive, ever jostling, hard run Race of Life.


Blood Donation Awareness Campaign


On 14th August'08, Ehsaas- The introspection organized a blood donation awareness campaign at Zensar Technologies.
A graffiti contest was also organized where the participants were requested to write down slogans and thought on blood donation.
The awareness campaign aimed at making people realize about the actual requirement of blood in India. India requires around
8 million units of blood every year of which only 5.5 million is collected through voluntary blood donation. The campaign saw an
active participation from Zensar associates and ZCBI'ans.
The awareness campaign was an extension of the efforts taken by some ZCBI-EABS students to solve the problem of shortage of blood.
The students have also launched an initiative http://www.lifeunits.com through which they aim to motivate more and more people to come forward to donate blood.The team plans to organize a blood donation camp at Zensar in the near future.

Mr. Siva Rangaswamy Retail Head, Zensar Technologies

It was a treat for all the students to listen to Mr. Siva Ranagaswamy,Retail Head, Zensar Technologies.

Mr. Ranagaswamy shared his personal experience of him working with various companies and how few decisions between the age of 21 to 23 made him reach the place he is right now at. His personal life story was itself very motivating and encouraging.

He explained few deep concepts from the '7 Habits of Highly Influential People' like 'The Circle of Influence', which if applied can help us reach great heights.

He shared his thoughts on entrepreneurship. According to him entrepreneurship is about three things.

Idea

People

Launch Pad

He also gave an idea about 'Personal Leadership Chart' which consists of

Time

Relationship

Ideas

People

It was a very informative and enriching session for all of us and this is really going to help us a lot in shaping our future.

Mr.Yogesh Patgaonkar, Regional Head - India, Middle East & Africa, Zensar Technologies

Came Mr. Yogesh Patgaonkar and with him came the furry of ideas innovation to live life, not just careers.
The topic career management intrigued us with him asking us the definitions of career and management. This was actually to make us clear what we want. He cited the examples from the lives of great self made men like Abdulkalaam Azaad, those lives which have seen all highs and lows of life.Those who with their perseverance have achieved the success.

Mr. Yogesh urged us to see through that common thread that ran through all these great lives, the unwavering great dream. The dream that might seem stupid, that might appear impossible to the eyes of the outer world.
What he taught us was to dream unlimited to work for it uninhibited and to remember that life is to live for.