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

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.

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 16^th Business School Affaire at the Asia Brand Summit in the category ‘Business School which encourages Innovations that leads to better Development’.

Founded on 21^st 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.”