Indus World School of Business

Day 1 - Saturday, February 7, 2009

Half Marathon and Planting of Tree Sapling  

The E-Week 2009 at Indus World School of Business, Greater Noida kicked off today with a marathon starting from the campus. 50 odd participants from 8 colleges around Knowledge Park took part in the event, the theme for which was ‘Go Green’. The Marathon was flagged off by Ms. Kalpana from the National Entrepreneurship Network. The participants took pledge prior to the start of the marathon promising to work and excel for the development of the society. The 5 Km marathon was run in the right spirit with participants spreading awareness of ‘Go Green’ by means of placards and banners. The finishing point of the event was at the new campus of IWSB where the construction of ‘Green Campus’ of IWSB is under progress. The marathon which witnessed a lot of fun, excitement and enthusiasm saw Ashish Shulk from ITS,Greater Noida coming first, Navdeep Dalal from IWSB securing the second and Pushpendra Kumar from Skyline College bagging the third place. The winners would be felicitated with cash awards worth Rs. 15,000 at the closing ceremony of E-Week at YMCA on the 12th of February 2009. A tree sapling was planted by the winners at the new campus of IWSB which marked the end of the marathon event.    

Day 2 - Sunday, February 8, 2009

Junkyard Wars Creativity with waste and Role Play Competition

The second day of the Entrepreneurship Week at Indus World School of Business was a fun filled one which saw two more events occupying the day’s activities. The first was the Junkyard competition where the teams were expected to make something creative out of the waste materials they could gather. The participants used all their brains and creative minds to come up with models which were judged based on the proportion of waste materials used, creativity, feasibility to sell the product and response to questions that were raised by the judges. The keenly contested event saw the team from Hindustan Business School emerging as winners. The team came up with an excellent model of Lord Ganapati which was crafted out from glass pieces, marble chips, bamboo sticks, paper plates, disposable paper glasses etc. The team from IWSB who came up with a model of a rural village emerged second.The next event was the role play in which the teams were supposed to perform a 10 minute play pertaining to the ‘Go Green’ theme. Hindustan Business School made a grand double by coming first with a play to spread awareness for non-wastage of natural resources. The Role play competition also saw the host team participate by enacting a play depicting environment changes through the theme of Ramayana. The day concluded with the HBS team enlightening the audience with a Business Plan on recycling of waste material.

Day 3 – Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Shodyatra

Shodh yatra is a journey into the rural India in search of innovations, creativity and knowledge. We walked across four villages, Dhankaur, Nevada, Salempur and Ladhpura where we found people with really creative solutions for problems they faced on a daily basis. We met a 13 year old boy who wanted to make a machine which would clean the walls covered with algae inside the wells. He said that he had seen his father struggling to clean the walls sometimes and felt he would design a hand held motor device with a piece of cloth attached one end which would clean the walls with less effort.In Salempur, we met a school principal who had devised a formula to translate Hindi sentences to English with a 3 step method. He has been teaching this method to the children for the last couple of years and claims he has had reasonable success with students who found the English Grammar confusing. The Shodh yatra was a day long event which gave us a close look of the villages and understand the problems they face on a daily basis.

Day 4 - Wednesday, February 11,2009

Global E-Summit: AviraQuest'09

Day 4 of the keenly participated E Week celebration turned out to be one of the highpoints of the week long festivities at the IWSB campus.The students got to interact with some of the top corporate leaders and one of the luminaries of management education from INSEAD, France.The distinguished guests were namely:-

1. Prof Subramanium Rangan, INSEAD

2. Julian Lopez, CEO, Zurich Financial Services

3. Phil Bloomer, Director Campaigns and Policy, Oxfam

4. Agostino Galvagni, Exec Board Member, Swiss Re

5. Azita Owlia, Senior Vice President, APAC, Bayer Material Science

They interacted with the students primarily focussing on the issue of creating Next generation leaders in India and shared their experiences spanning various fields of corporate life.It turned out to be an experience worth remembering for the students at IWSB and one of the chief learning’s that came out was how Humility is of paramount importance in achieving  success in one's life.

Day 5 - Thursday, February 12, 2009

Entrepreneurial Boot Camp

Day 5 of the week long festivities as part of the E-Week celebrations at saw the students from various colleges of Greater Noida interacting with Mr. Mahesh Murthy, Founder Pinstorm.Interacting with Mahesh, somebody who truly embodies the spirit of an entrepreneur in every letter and spirit of the word, was an experience that the audience shall remember for years to come. A risk taker, a leader, an inspiration hearing Mahesh's story his journey that started with dropping out of college and starting his career at the tender age of 17 left each one of us spellbound! The audience made sure that they extract every ounce by posing question after question to Mahesh. Mahesh on his part humble as always donned his Boot camp master hat by conducting a random Quiz and then drawing analogies as how brands like Ferrari, RedBull, Google, Yahoo have thrived on word of the mouth publicity and not multi-million dollar ad campaigns to achieve immortality, simply because of theunmatched value that they offer to the customer! The afternoon session saw Osama Manzar, another entrepreneur in field of social work enlighten the students with his talk on the challenges faced in this field and various oppurtunities that are still untapped.The E-Week at IWSB concluded with the prize distribution ceremony which was done by Mr. Osama Manzar.