XIMB Wins Cognizant's 'Boardroom: Smart Business Plan Contest 2008'

XIMB Wins Cognizant's 'Boardroom: Smart Business Plan Contest 2008'
Post-event Press-release

Shikha Agarwal, Chaitali Roy and Sudeep Vaidya from the Xavier's Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar (XIMB) won the finals of Boardroom 2008, a Smart Business Plan Contest organized by IT and BPO major, Cognizant, for B-schools across India and Asia Pacific. The runners-up were Kaushik Ramakrishnan, Prashant Purushottam and Sarang Malik from Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. The winning team from XIMB, which called itself "The Alexandrian Warriors", received a cash prize of Rs. 250,000, while the runners-up "Project O3" team from ISB received Rs. 150,000.

Debashis Chatterjee, Sr. VP & Head of Pune Operations, Cognizant, Presents 1st Prize to Shikha Agarwal, Chaitali Roy & Sudeep Vaidya from XIMB

The finals of Boardroom 2008 were held on November 21, 2008, at Cognizant's techno-complex in Pune. The other finalists included teams from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C), and Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-I).

Aimed at promoting a spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation among the management students across B-schools in India and the Asia Pacific region, Cognizant had launched the Boardroom: Smart Business Plan Contest in 2007. The contest, held in four phases spanning two months, provides a unique opportunity to budding management students across B-schools to get creative, propose new business avenues for Cognizant, and draw up a business plan on what they think should be Cognizant's next move for growth, differentiation and leadership.

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Contributed by -
Harsh Kabra,
Corporate Marketing & Communications,
Cognizant.

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