• GSVC-2007 Asia Semifinal (January 2007)
• Manfest 2007 Treatise: The International Thought Challenge (January 2007)
• IIM-Calcutta's i2l Business Contest (January 2007)
• Thammasat Asia Moot Corp (March 2007)
• McGinnis Venture Competition (March 2007)
• Cerebration 2007 (March 2007)
• Graduate Business Conference 2007 (April 2007)
• Conquest 2007 (April 2007)
• HKUST International Business Plan Competition 2007 (May 2007)

  Team Sarvodaya: Karthik Venkatesh, Nitin Girotra, 

  Srikanth Karthikeyan

   Team Shuddhi Kiran: Anupam Saha, Abhijeet Singh,
    Pankaj Chowdary, Nutan Mishra

Competition Background

• Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) is an international forum for exceptionally bright students and entrepreneurs with path breaking social venture ideas.

• This high profile international competition provides a unique opportunity to showcase innovative business plans to set up social ventures that have clear and quantifiable social objectives and are self sustainable. It began in 1999 as a student-led initiative pioneered by the Haas School of Business. In due course of time, Columbia Business School, London Business School, Yale School of Management and Indian School of Business have joined the GSVC partnership. The University of Geneva and the Social Venture Competition Korea (SVCK) are Affiliate Partners. This unprecedented partnership brings together the academic and financial worlds to support the creation of social ventures.

• The Asia semi-final round of GSVC organized by Indian School of Business (ISB) had 215 registrations with a total of 118 business plans from 25 schools in China, Taipei, Singapore, Dubai and Thailand. 16 teams were short listed to present their plans at the ISB Campus in the presence of a panel of eminent Venture Capitalists and academicians who support social ventures.

Award(s) won

Team Sarvodaya - Best Social Impact Prize

Team Shuddhi Kiran - Top 6 teams

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Competition Background

• The contest consists of three themes

a) Financial markets in India
b) Infrastructure Creation and Management
c) Knowledge Superpower

• Total of 15 students from various Business schools have been chosen, five from each stream. Five teams (to be chosen by the organizers) will be formed each considering one member from one of the three themes. The teams will have to co-ordinate amongst them online and make a final presentation on 21 January 2007 on "Investment Roadmap" highlighting why India is a preferred destination for investment. The results are based on team and individual presentations.

• Each of our students has submitted their individual papers for the contest.

Tushar Kheterpal - Financial Markets in India

Prashant Pundrik - Infrastructure Creation and Management

Devanand Taneja - Infrastructure Creation and Management

• Prize money is USD 3,000 with coveted title of "The International Thought Champion"

• We would like to congratulate Tushar Kheterpal for being part of the three member team for Treatise which was ranked as the second best team for the competition. They had made a presentation on "Investment Roadmap for India" and among the 5 teams in the final-phrase and ranked second in term of overall performance.

• Also, our appreciation to Prashant Pundrik and Devanand Taneja who have represented NUS Business School!

Award(s) won

Tushar Kheterpal - 1st runner up

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• The entrepreneurship festival has witnessed a 114% rise in the number of entries from 111 last year to 238, while seed capital for the business plan contest has gone up eight times to Rs 20 lakh.

• Of the six business plans that made it to the finals, the winning one from us, NUS deals broadly with social entreprenership, involving the cultivation, processing and marketing of aloe vera plants, thus helping the rural poor. The second prize-winning plan came in from ISB, Hyderabad

•   The 238 entries for the contest came in from across leading management and engineering institutes including the IIMs, the IITs, XIMB, FMS, ISB, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai as well as NUS.

• Following are our NUS team members of Team Sarvodaya which won the i2l Business Plan Competition in Calcutta:

• Nitin Girotra
• Karthik Venkatesh
• Srikanth Karthikeyan

Award(s) won

Champion

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Team New Vistas: Pundrik Prashant, Nilesh Borana,
Monisha Chugani, Srikanth Sridharan

Competition Background

• Asia Moot Corp is the premier intercollegiate business plan competition in the region. The mission of Asia Moot Corp is to foster the entrepreneurial spirit and the ability of future managers in Asia who are receiving business education from the region?s leading business schools.
• Our team, New Vistas, won the SET Challenge round at Thammasat Asia Moot Corp 2007 in Bangkok. We did not breakthrough to the semi-finals in the normal round up. However, New Vistas came in top during the 3 challenge rounds.

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• McGinnis Venture Competition is one of the premium global venture competitions in the world and is a feeder to the Moot Corp International venture competition in the US.
• Amongst the 25 teams selected from world over for the semi finals at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, only 3 teams from Asia were able to make to the semi-finals of the McGinnis Venture Competition ? NUS Business School, Singapore, HKUST Business School, Hong Kong and BIMBA-Peking, China.
• The NUS Business School team, TMN Bio-fuels was represented by Kishan Karunakaran who was placed third, and was part of the only Asian team in the finals of the McGinnis Venture Competition held at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon

Award(s) won

2nd runner up

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Team Perspectives: Julie Nathan, Julian Cornelius,
Abhav Bangi

Competition Background

Cerebration 2007, the annual global graduate-level business case challenge staged by our MBA students since 2005, drew more than 600 registrations from top business schools. As in previous years, Cerebration 2007 was also successful in garnering strong industry support, reflected in the diversity of the case sponsors, namely Thai Express, Osim, and Ron Kaufman's Up Your Service! College.

The six teams that made it to the grand final were from Mays Business School of Texas A&M University, Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University, INSEAD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jones Graduate School of Management of Rice University, and our very own NUS Business School.

Award(s) won

1st runner up

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NUS Business School hosts Asia’s first-ever Graduate Business Conference 2007

NUS Business School chosen from among 50 schools around the world to be celebrate 25th anniversary of conference for world’s student leaders

Graduate Business Foundation Board has selected NUS Business School to host the Graduate Business Conference 2007. The Graduate Business Conference is living testimony to its founding ideals since its inception in 1983: camaraderie, leadership, dedication and tradition. True to its mission, which is to inspire student leaders to do great things, the conference is organized by student leaders, for student leaders. All practical arrangements in relation to the organization of the conference are planned, organized and executed by students of the host school. This experiential learning by students will ultimately foster better leaders, high-quality MBA experiences, and more significant contributions to business and local communities. Graduate Business Conference (GBC) 2007, the flagship event of the Graduate Business Forum (GBF), the global network of student leaders around the world, is being hosted in Asia for the first time in its 25 year-old history and NUS Business School has the unique distinction of being the very first Asian business school to host the conference. With this, NUS joins the league of schools such as Wharton, Columbia and UCLA among others as host schools of the prestigious conference.

“In celebrating its silver jubilee in Asia and holding its annual conference here, GBF recognizes the growing importance of the continent as a business and education destination of the 21st century. Singapore, and NUS in particular, exemplifies Asia’s leadership position in the global economic and education landscape," says Jim Deveau, Chairman of GBF.

The three-day conference aims primarily to provide student leaders from the world’s leading business schools a platform to interact and debate on challenges student leaders face. Themed The Silk Route- From Tapestry to Technology to highlight the prominence of Asia in the world economy, GBC 2007 will be graced by an esteemed list of attendees which include President S R Nathan, Mr. David Lim, former Minister and former CEO of NOL (NUS MBA,1989) and Mr. Sunny Verghese, CEO of Olam International.

Mr Deveau continues, “GBC 2007 is the conference’s debut on the Asian Rim for the first time in our 25 year-old history. And the Forum believes that the student organizers for this significant conference, namely, NUS MBA students, would effectively connect some of the world’s most promising business leaders with one another in the rich cultural and economic context of Asia and Singapore.”

GBC 2007 not only underscores Singapore’s status as an important education hub and business centre in the region, but also attests to our growing reputation as a global business school.

The highlight of the conference is a dinner graced by President S R Nathan and Mrs Nathan and the presentation of the GBF Student Leadership Award 2007 at the dinner.  The annual award is presented to a student leader, picked from more than 50 member business schools, for outstanding contributions to their school and community. The winner will be announced at the dinner on April 13, 2007 at Orchard Hotel.

Besides lectures, industry visits, networking sessions and workshops on best practices, GBC 2007 delegates will also participate in a trading and strategy game based on the value chain of commodities trading firm, Olam International. The conference ends with a gala dinner to be held on Siloso Beach in Sentosa.

Conquest 2007 (April 2007)

Team Members: Pundrik Prashant, Nilesh Borana,
Iris Tan, Srikanth Sridharan,

Competition Background

In Conquest 2007, organized by BITS Pilani in India, our team Transtrack placed second in the Business Plan Competition. Our MBA conquerors are Pundrik Prashant, Nilesh Borana, Iris Tan and Srikanth Sridharan.


Award(s) won

1st runner up

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Team campusADS: Sunny Ng - MSc FoE (ESE),

Stan Lin - MBA exchange student (McGill),
Jiang Hao - PhD SDE,
Radhika - MBA

Competition Background

There were 12 international teams with 9 from US, 2 from Europe and 1 from the hosting university, HKUST.

The team's business plan was based on the idea of a website dedicated to post-secondary campus students to exchange information, products and services. This service is supported by our innovative technology in the form of message detection, message posting, personalised search and retrieval functions.

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