Annual International B-school Meet of IIM Calcutta Launches Great Innovation Challenge

Annual International B-school Meet of IIM Calcutta Launches Great Innovation Challenge

A cursory look at the summer placement season at all the premier B-schools of the country this year points at the emergence of Start-Ups as recruiters. Keeping in view this new preference, IIM Calcutta's International B-school Meet - Intaglio - has launched its showcase

event GIC (Great Innovation Challenge) to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit of students.

Boasting of prize money worth INR 2 Lakhs, GIC is clearly one of the most closely-awaited events of the year in the B-school calendar. Finalists in GIC will get a chance to work closely with Intaglio's knowledge partners (India's leading companies) from sectors like IT, FMCG and Social Ventures to solve real life problems from the companies, devise strategies of market expansion, and protect market niches, all of this live inside company premises. For the first time, Intaglio has taken the B-school competition to the corporate boardrooms.

As of now, GIC in its first year of inception has already received 761 registrations from 65 B-schools across 7 countries including Europe and America. Not only this, Intaglio's website has seen 20,000+ visits across 49 different countries including US, Singapore, France, UK and China, with just 3 events launched out of planned 14.

This stands testimony to the growing recognition of the Indian B-schools in general and IIM Calcutta in particular. This is reflected in the growing size and scale of Intaglio year after year.

Concluded.

Contributed by -
Krishnan Sekar & Debtosh Mishra,
External Relations Secretaries,
IIM Calcutta.

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