Students of Welingkar Institute of Research and Management win at various events organized by different B-schools in India. They have been successful to meet their goals with conscious efforts and by applying their capabilities. Some of the events were regarding photography, Advertising, media, business, movie making, marketing, etc which require a lots of creativity skills to be the victor. The competitors were from well-known institutes like Alliance Business School, Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, etc.

1. Student AchieversJan 2011 – March 2011

2. Janhavi Shah DiptiRaka PGDM Business Design 2009-11 MughdaGhag “All India Welingkar - Infosys Innovation Awards, 2011” Venue – Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Bengaluru campus. Round 1: Submission of an innovation story Round 2 at Bangalore Campus: 'Co-creating innovative solutions for Indian rural Healthcare' The entire exercise was of ideating, collating ideas and then prototyping. Date of Contest - 31st March 2011 Defeated - Alliance Business School, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Kolkata Prize – Certificates and Rs. 35,000 /-

3. Nikhil ShahDilipTalerja PGDM - BDVivekAgarwal Mind2Market Case Competition Venue - ISB Hyderabad (Indian School of Business) The live case given was on stoves( Chullahs) being used in the rural india and they were device a complete executable plan around it. Date of Contest – 21st March 2011 Defeated - ISB,IIM Bangalore, Calcutta, Shillong, Indore, SP Jain,MICA, IIT Delhi, NMIMS Prize – Rs. 25,000 & Certificate

4. AshwiniVasudevan (PGDM E-Biz) CIRCUMLENS- "Shoonya- The world of endless possibilities“- Photography competition Organized by - K.J Somaiya College Date of Contest – 5th Feb. 2011 Defeated - XIMB Prize - Prize worth Rs. 2000 (Gift Vouchers)

5. Nikhil Ghare - MMS 2010-12 Kumar GandharvaMishra - BD 2010-12 SIBM Colossus MadAd event Venue – SIBM, Banglore They were given 15 minutes to come up with whacky ideas and make an ad for the product GPS Sunglasses. Date - 27TH Feb 2011 Defeated - SIBM Bangalore Prize - A gift vouchers worth Rs 1000

6. Nikhil Ghare - MMS 2010-12 Kumar GandharvaMishra - BD 2010-12 PranavBathi Math - BD 2010-12 Event - Callidus Organised By – SIBM Nature of contest – Rounds 1,2,3: These rounds tested our interpersonal skills through the medium of Facebook. Final round: The presentation would involve two components: o A sales pitch, explaining the business case and relevance of your module to the organization. o A demonstration of the training module itself. Date of contest – 23rd Feb 2011 Prize - cash prize of Rs 12000 and certificates Mentor – Prof. Anjali Joshi

7. AshwiniVasudevan (PGDM E-Biz) Business standard award - Best B-school project award 2010 Open paper-writing contest Topic - Music, Memes and me which studies the impact of music in all its forms from English songs, trance, rock, regional songs, national anthem, the secret by rhondabryne, quotes etc on human behavior. Venue – Renaissance Mumbai Convention Centre Hotel, Pawai. Date of Contest – 1st Feb’11 Defeated – IIM A, FMS, Great Lakes Prize - Rs. 50,000 + Certificate + trophy Mentor – Prof. Deepa Dixit and Prof.KaustubhDhargalkar

8. ChinmayAthaley,RohanMenon,RomilKhare,AshwathRajan,PrafulKhurana- PGDM Batch -2 , 2010-2012 EVENT -R IDEA Organiser - RAISONI Group, NAGPUR Award:- Judges Choice Award Details of event :- The biggest Business Plan competition in the central India. Their b plan 'saafsafai' for residential housekeeping service Topic :- B plan on using mobile for payments. Various scopes & real scenarios across industries & sectors are tapped in detail by Mobile wallet concept. Event dates 4-5 FEB 20111 Prize :- Plan has been sent for Incubation of business from IIM A in Incubation centre. Mentor – Prof. KaustubhDhargalkar

9. UdayMuthe – PGDM B- 2, 2010-12 EVENT -R IDEA – B-Plan contest Organiser - RAISONI Group, NAGPUR Award:- Judges Choice Award Topic – ‘M-Paisa’ which is a mobile money & cashless transaction system Date of contest - 4-5 FEB 2011 Prize – Certificate + B plan forwarded to CIIE for possible incubation. Mentor – Prof. KaustubhDhargalkar

10. VishalMaheshwari, AmulyaTadimeti, Janice Aarora - PGDM 2010 - 2012 | 3 PRAYAAS Event - Perspective 2011 A marketing campaign where we had to promote a social cause Date of Contest – 12th Feb 2011 Defeated - IIM Ahmedbad, JBIMS, NITIE(2), MICA, IRMA & NIRMA. Prize – Certificate + Rs.10,000/-

11. Janhavi Shah DiptiRaka PGDM Business Design 2009-11 MughdaGhag Event - Shankhnaad 2011 Venue – IIT Madras Round 1: Submission of an executive summary on an idea to achieve India 2020 Round 2 at IIT Madras Campus: Presentation on a detailed road map to execution, viability of the idea and socio-economic impact of the idea. Date of Contest – 1st April 2011 Prize – Certificates and Rs. 5,000 Mentor – Prof. Pendse and Prof. Kaustubh

12. Nikhil Khemani Sai Mandlik PGDM batch 3 Batch 2010-12 Ritesh Sapre SIMSREE's Movie making Competition Promotion Plan Contest Other Winners - Sydenham college Prize - A cash prize of Rs.1000/- and Certificates

13. Ankur Shrivastava & Saket Bihari - PGDM BD 2010-12 Event: Orion-Mercurise 2011 organizer B-school: SIMS Pune National Level B-Plan competition Topic - Manufacturing of ethanol for biofuel Date of Contest- 30th Jan 2011 Prize – Certificate + Rs. 10,000

14. Saket Bihari - PGDM BD 2010-12 Pragati 2011 Innovation challenge competition Amrita School of Business, coimbatore, Tamilnadu Topic – Ethanol ‘ The fuel future’ Date of contest – 5th Feb. 2011 Prize – Certificate + Rs. 5,000/-

15. Rahul ManerikarDhaval Mehta PGDM EbizDarshan Salgia Rohit Kshirsagar HP smart color contest A promotion plan for HP printers Theme – ‘color your kismet’ Date of contest – 26th Nov 2010 Prize- Certificate, trohpy + Goa trip

16. AkhileshShenoy, KartikeySeksaria - PGDM B - 1 IIM Shillong – Niveshak – Feb 2011 Issue Article on Islamic banking & its impact on india published in Finance Magazine

17. Yogeeta Raisinghani - PGDM -1 Business World Infocom Future Leadership Awards 2010-2011 Venue- Kolkata at ITC, Sonar This year’s theme was – Moving towards Convergence – in which she focused on 3 aspects of convergence: Social Media, Cloud Computing and Good to Great organizations – its impact and challenges and the future ahead in the field of business and technology and its impact on human life. Date of Contest – 17th Feb 2011 Position- 6th position Prize –500 USD along with the trophy and certificate Other winners – ISB, Hyderabad, TAPMI, Manipal ,IIT,Madras,SPJain, Mumbai Mentors - Prof. Vijayan, Prof. DeepaMam, Prof Kaustubh.

18. Chetan Gupta - PGDM EBiz 2009-11 DNA Best Student in Management AwardDate of contest - 12th Feb 2011 Prize – Trophy + certificate

19. Glenda D'Souza - PGDM -BATCH 2 (2010-2012) Article published in Bizbook - Jan 2011 issue of Newsletter of G.D Goenka World Institute. Theme of the newsletter was Social Media. Won Best entry in VAAD VIVAAD Section - Are social networking sites responsible for increase in social and psychological problems among youth?

20. AshwiniVasudevan (PGDM E-Biz) Event - the SOIL - Inspired School of Leadership's "Print D Peace" competition Date of Contest – 15th Feb 2011 Prize – Rs. 2,000/-