Mangalore : 'Corporate Speed' Inspires Management Students at'Verve-2010'
Media Release
Mangalore, Mar 21: Verve 2010 –“Corporate Speed” had inspired and instilled in the participants vigour, valour and the experience required to face the Corporate World with the speed to match with. The Mega Event which was held on 18th, 19th and 20th March 2010 inspired participants to bring out their talents, creativity, innovation and their competitive spirit. The icing on the cake was the valedictory ceremony on 20th March which started at 5.00p.m. The ceremony started off with video presentations on the events of Verve and Manasa Manthana, a national level paper presentation which was held on 16th of October, 2009.Dr. Derek Lobo was the chief guest who was accompanied by his Mrs Lobo. The other dignitaries on the dais were Fr. Denzil Lobo, Fr. Jeevan Prabhu, Dr. Shridar and Santhosh Shanbag. The College Choir led the gathering into prayer.
Santhosh Shanbag welcomed the chief guest and gathering on and off the dais.
Verve-2010 was a unique business management fest with the theme ‘Corporate Speed’, where the organizers had unique and interesting events including real time applications of management principles. This gave a real time exposure the participants and also helped the organizers hone their management skills.
The fest was sponsored mainly by Toshiba, Vrixx and many more co sponsors in and around Mangalore. Big 92.7 fm was the official media partner and V4 movies gave ample promotion for the fest.
Dr. Derek Lobo released the proceedings of Manasa Manthana, followed by his address. He focused on duty honor and hope which tells what one ought to be, what can be and what will be. He spoke about AMIT campus and inputs given by the college. He stressed his views on the vision of the director and said that the dream of AIMIT becoming one of the best in the world will become true. The education should focus not only on exams and pursuing the job but also on victory and success in life. Verve builds up the personality, and soft skills and the learning in this fest is equal to the three month class teachings. Throughout his speech his views were on development of personality and skills. He also said people want to know how good one’s skills are and also their areas of interest. Real life situation are stressing their importance on personality, moral values, analytical skills, public relations, public speaking, positive attitude, commitment, good practices. Verve 2010 is the potential ingredient to corporate world.
Then Lobo released the Impulsion Magazine which gives insight of the yearly activities of AIMIT .
Participants also had a chance to give feedback on the how “Verve-2010” was organised. Their response was positive and pleasing to the College and indicated the fruits of their efforts. Various participants gave glory about “Verve- 2010” as the most organised, coordinated, cultural events, food and accommodation, the friendliness of AIMIT students and well structured events.
Fr. Jeevan Prabhu said that Verve was just the “Tip of the Ice Berg” and the real mass lied below the tip that is “the efforts put in the preparing for Verve-2010”. He also said that Verve has given practical training to the students of AIMIT and inspire them to be budding entrepreneurs and CEO’s of many companies.
Fr Denzil Lobo SJ, in his presidential remarks quoting Swamy Vivekananda said that true education is not “filling the mind with ideas which run riot there, undigested, but that we need man-making, character-building assimilation of ideas “. He said that AIMIT strives towards such an education, and organizing programmes like VERVE, Pragathi, Milan, Sanjivini and Manasamantha students inculcate values of Competence, Consciousness and Compassionate Commitment- The Jesuit 4C formula of true education. He congratulated Prof Santhosh Shanbag, the faculty coordinator of Verve, the faculty team for guiding students and he commended the efforts put in by Mr Viresh, Vivek and their teams in meticulously planning and executing the three days fest successfully.
Dr. S Shridar gave away mementos to the top fund collectors. Govil, Norwin, Derick, Sheldon and Allen were the top fund collectors for “Verve-2010”. Dr. Derek Lobo and Mrs Lobo awarded the prizes to the winners.
The Management Club, secretary Veeresh proposed the vote of thanks. Verve-2010 was an astounding success and the echoes of this success are here to stay for years to come.
WINNERS:
OVERALL CHAMPIONS: Justice K.S Hegde Institute of Management, Nitte
Runner UP: MATS School of Business, Belgaum
Strategic development - Four strokes
Winners Ashwith S and Harry Fernandes of Justice K.S Hegde Institute of Management, Nitte.
Finance – Fuel
Winners: Arun D’Souza and Vikas Jain of Justice K.S Hegde Institute of Management, Nitte.
Marketing – Nerve
Winners- Varsha B, Rachan Raj and Shashi Vardhan of Justice K.S Hegde Institute of Management, Nitte.
Human Resource – Pulse
Winners: Sandeep Shetty and Savina Soans of Justice K.S Hegde Institute of Management, Nitte.
Business Quiz – Alacrity
Winners :Punkaj Naidu and Madhur Shah ofMATS School of Business, Belgaum.
Bidding – Wild Card
Winner- Surya Bhaskar of Institute of Management Studies, Davangere
Best CEO – Valor Anoop of Institute of Management Studies, Davangere
Ice Breaker- Team Buggati- Institute of Management Studies, Davangere
The events held in the fest were as follows:
Strategic development - Four strokes
This is a new event introduced in the verve 2010. This event was basically based on the business life cycle stages i.e., introduction, Growth, maturity and decline on the base of the business plan submitted by the participants. There were two rounds in each of these stages including overnight assignments. The rounds consisted of business plan, prelims, business promotion, business solution, mergers and acquisition and Fire back (repositioning or re-branding of the product/services).
Finance – Fuel
The rounds included Business Quiz, Case study analysis on mergers, a crossword puzzle,a press meet where the participants had to play a role of a prominent personality in the corporate world, a commodity market round where they had to buy and sell commodities as per prevailing market rates and a portfolio building round which was an exercise to construct a custom made portfolio to cater to the risk appetite of various investor segments.
Marketing – Nerve
The rounds in this event consisted of business & logo quiz focusing on core concepts of marketing,the U-KNOW round where the participants had to submit their CV’s and had to sell themselves, Drive to succeed was a real time event at city centre mall Mangalore which was basically a market research, next a rebranding old bollywood movies by inculcating consumer behavior and services marketing concepts. Next creating a complete advertising strategy for a failed brand in the market and the last was a role play relating to brand wars.
Human Resource – Pulse
This included case study analysis on manpower planning, quiz, creative ads on recruitment and its presentation, gathering information on different designations i.e. basically to collect information on job specification, roles and responsibilities which was unique and different because it was a real time exercise for the participants, then identifying HR aspects after viewing short movies, and collective bargaining round where the panel members ( Trade union) and the participants ( HR managers) had to bargain to arrive at an agreement to be signed and various over night assignments were given to the participants.
Business Quiz – Alacrity
This consisted of general aptitude tests, logo and ad identification, connection rounds where three clues given to participants and they had to relate, the highlighting feature of the event was that the quiz master Mr.Ajith Pai from Mumbai conducted further rounds of Quiz in a brilliant way involving unique tactics of quizzing such as connections, assembling clues and so on.
Bidding – Wild Card
This was an event introduced for the first time in VERVE 2010 in order to help participants who were eliminated in other events. Based on the performance of all the teams, the team members invest on different teams. Here a buying and selling of shares is included and the teams with the maximum cash in hand are declared as the winner.
Best CEO – Valor
It included rounds like Business Quiz, Extempore, over night assignments, Visual resumes to promote themselves, Collage where they had to exhibit their creativity by creating collage on t-shirts provided, video presentations regarding the participants themselves, crisis management and real time event at The Gateway Hotel Mangalore that is to evaluate the candidate’s Dining etiquettes.
One of the rounds also included real time business simulation game which gave the participants an exposure to manage a business virtually. The business simulation in any event is probably used by very few B-Schools in the country in a B-School fest. In addition to this, the participants had to undergo a stress interview.
Therefore all the events held were of prime importance to both organizers and participants to grab the real life applications of management terms and principles.
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