The Business Today-Aditya Birla Group Acumen 2006 fever moved to the west, converting the venue at Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai into a battleground between some of India’s top B-schools. The headlining surprise of the day was that the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) went empty handed after participating at the Quiz, its traditionally strong constituency.
After the preliminary rounds on Day 1, Mrunmay Mehta and Saurav Palit from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune spoke for and Pahuna Tagra and Amit Kumar of SP Jain, Mumbai spoke against the motion ‘Made in India is far from being a world class brand’.
The other two semi-finalists NITIE, Mumbai, represented by Shreyas Srinivas and Amit K Shah spoke for and Sydenham Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai’s Siddhesh A Ranade and Komal Puri spoke against the topic ‘Strategy is a matter of intuition and not formulation.
SP Jain and Sydenham made it to the Debate finals, slated to talk on the subject ‘Peter Drucker once rightly said, “Profits will seize to be a reason of death for corporations’.
Meanwhile in the Quiz preliminary round, SIBM-Pune’s Rohit Jain and Nikhil Narayanan, IIM Ahmedabad’s Ashiwin Bale and Rohan Murarka, K J Somaiya Institute of management and Research’s Sandeep Rajpurohit and Shameer Bandeally and Narsee Monjee students Brian D’souza and Eva Joshi made it to the West Zone Quiz Finals.