KSHAN '09

Who is the first woman to head a B-school in India?,
Suzlon raised 1735Cr by selling 35% stake in Belgium based gearbox maker. Can you name the Belgium company?
If a firm with a highly volatile price is willing to widen its shareholders‟ base gradually, what will it issue?



These were some of the questions put forth to the participants during the preliminary quiz round of KSHAN’09, the two day quiz and equity analysis event conducted by FINCLUB of BIM. The first round saw a huge turnout of teams with creative names like, “Angels and a Demon”, 3sigma and Laymen brothers to name a few. The quiz had 38 questions grilling the participants’ knowledge in financial world. Out of the 20 odd teams that participated, 6 best teams were selected for the equity research round. Each team was given a company and asked to give a thorough analysis of their stock and requested to present their findings the next. Each team’s presentation was evaluated by a panel of judges comprising professors and experts in field of corporate finance. Out of the 6 teams, the winners were

1st - BIM BULLs - L & T - Padmaselvan, Saravanan, Govindraj Prabhu

2nd - Anarchists - Sterlite Industries - Ankit Bhargav, Jai doshi, Yuvraaj

3rd - Stuck On Mars - Cairn India - Chakravarthy, Nagasantosh, Parthipan

SMASHES - Play on....

It was as if the Rain Gods decided to give Trichy a chance to see the sun after weeks of lashing rain just to watch the volleyball tournament held at BIM. It was the much awaited SMASHES '09 which was filled with nail biting moments, fun, comic moments, memorable fight-backs, and some of beautiful gameplay ever witnessed by BIMITES. It started with a great spelendour and ended with a fitting finale. As usual students formed teams with unique names with a funny touch (e.g. AMEOBA - Association of MOst Eligible BAchelors) and 12 teams fought for the title of the best vollyball team of BIM. All the matches held the audience at the edge of their seats and everyone got to witness great games after great games.


The tournament ended with a gargantuan five setter fame which stretched beyond midnight and not to add none of the audience moved an inch away from their seats, some even going to the extreme of praying for their favorite team to win. At last It was Dark knights, who came out as the best and were crowned as the champions of 09.

The Winners - The Dark knights
The Runners - Power acers

BIM MARATHON... Keep running...

The annual BIM marathon was held on BIM campus last sunday and hordes of students participated with unbridled enthusiasm. The marathon started at 6 starting from the hostel gate and the route covered the BHEL campus and runners were expected to come back to hostel gate after reaching the BHEL roundabout. PK was the winner and he was presented with the medal by the hostel warden. The registration fees paid by the runners were gifted to a charity organisation.

Rajrup and Sumantra Trophy

R & S Football Tournament 09' was the first of many sporting events to come for the year 2009-2010. This tournament is held in memory of Rajrup and Sumantra of BIM25 batch.


The tournament was conducted in two games football for guys and throwball for girls. It started off with 8 teams in play, 4 each from PGP1 & PGP2. The football tournament was played on league cum knockout basis with 2 teams from each group of 4 qualifying for knockout rounds. The tournament saw several close encounters in the league phases and threw up new heroes to the limelight. But at the end of league stage 4 teams namely, the Dark Knights & Kaalais of PGP2 and Catalans & Arcanes of PGP1 stood out. The Dark knights won the tournament after a nailbiting final against kaalais. The catalans (in their flamboyant, fluorescent jerseys !!!) ended in the third place.



The ladies had their share of fun too with the throwball tournament throwing up some fiercely competed matches and at the end the supernovas had the final say and ended up as winners.



The whole BIM crowd turned up to support their favorite teams and everyone had a gala time with continuous drum beats echoing the strong vocal support of the crowd.

INDEPENDENCE DAY

Welfare com 26 (the student body entrusted with the welfare of students at BIM) officially took charge on August 15 by organising Independence Day celebrations. The event had the august presence of Mr. Uma Shankar, GM of Regent Industries, Trichy. The function started with tamilthai vazhthu at 8 AM and ended promptly within a span of 25 min. After the flag hoisting and recital of national anthem, Mr. Uma Shankar spoke a few words to the students about the importance of personal independence in life. He also wished all the students well in their career paths they are going to choose. As a token of appreciation, a memento was presented to the chief guest by Hostel Warden, Mr. Sakkaram.

Friends indeed...

A fun filled Friendship day was celebrated at BIM, bringing newly forged friendships between members of PGP1 and PGP2 to the limelight and celebrating friendship with heartfelt enthusiasm. The day was marked by the specia event organised by Zetetica- the HR club of BIM. Friendhip bands were distributed and everyone tied to their friends' hands to signify their freindship. Students even vented out their creativity in getiing teh friendhip bands tied in inoovative ways. A huge cake was ordered and cut by seniors of PGP2. As a part of the event titled MON AMI (which in french means "My Friend", Students were asked to pick names of thier friends from lots and asked to give tasks to their friends. Prizes were also given to the contestants who best performed their tasks. All in all a great day to celebrate ended with much fun and laughter.

MARWAR' 09

MARWAR 09, the flagship event of BISMARC, the marketing club of BIM, was inaugurated with great pomp and splendour on 14th of July 2009. The traditional inaugural event of the BIM culture gives to the new horde of fresh minds that come into BIM, an insight of the life here, by providing them hands on experience on team Work, passion & commitment.
It was inaugrated by one of the brightest minds and a fast growing entrepreneur of the country, Mr. Kiruba Shankar, CEO of Business Blogging. Mr. Kiruba Shankar is also the co-founder of 'F5ive Technologies' and the Board Member of Wikipedia India Chapter. He congratulated BIM on coming up with an extensively knowledgeable and highly interesting event such as MARWAR. The inauguration was presided by the Director of BIM Prof. M.Sankaran and the PGP Chairman S.Sundar.
The first phase started with splitting PGP I into teams of 6-7 students, with an equal mix of boys and girls in all teams. The seniors are not left alone; they being veterans at BIM are made guides and mentors, named as Patrons and Matrons. After basic activities were done with, the war began. Each team is asked to come up with any extremely creative product. It could be totally out of the moon or a very simple one with a very different use. The challenge was in promoting the product and building up a business model.
The teams came out with taglines, logos, posters, banners, a SWOT analysis of the product, Catalogue and Description, Market Survey to study the potential of their product in the market and finally a Business plan for the manufacture and sale of the product. After which approval was got from various committees like the Pollution Control Board, Municipality and Feasibility board (All formed by seniors).
Bidding was done for various advertisement points at BIM, after which teasers were put up before the on-stage product launch. Later promotional activities like Print Ads, Video Ads were displayed, stalls were put up and Personal selling was done. Each team was given some virtual money at the beginning of the event and effective utilization of funds in the various phases of the event would make them successful.
The marketing club of BIM, BISMARC the organizers of MARWAR09, said that the students were given a run for their money, as they were inculcated with the intricacies and delicacies of business in a streak which they can use it for the bigger oceans of life.
E-quills, the next generation pen was the winner whereas Lentes, a multi-functional eye wear and Slumber on, a mosquito repellent mattress were runners up. They were awarded on the Valedictory function during which Mr. Balaji Prakash, Deputy General Manager, Marketing of Kavin Care was the chief guest and gave a thought provoking speech to the students. Hence MARWAR was a grand success and ended in pageantry and grandeur.

BREAKING THE ICE

As they say all conversations begin with breaking the ice. Kalaikom 25, the cultural committee of BIM welcomed all freshers with an ice-breaker event. This event had a signature campaign and also a "know your seniors" campaign. We also had a evening introduction sessions where the freshers were asked to com to the event dressed in wackiest combination possible. Many freshers participated in it with high level of enthusiasm and kicked off their entry in a grand style. As a part of our Freshers party, Prarambh 2009 we had a treasure hunt. Witty, wacky and wow!! that was Prarambh 2009 for you.






This event also had Mr and Ms BIM contest with Mithun Sneh and Anchita Khaitan winning the title respectively.

A New Beginning...

Yes... the 26th batch of MBA students of BIM have arrived... Young minds full of dreams, ready to take on the challenges and the hectic life of B-school, yet ready not to miss the maximum fun in the next two years at BIM. Its been just over a month at BIM, and yet everyday has been eventful with some activity or the other and the newly arrived students have risen up to the challenge and have enthusiastically participated in every event conducted at the campus. They have come up with brilliant ideas and have given great performances. They have already shown that they are not just good at academics but also are a greatly talented bunch.

They have displayed spectacular range of talents from singing to mimicry, dancing to debating. This blog will cover all the events and celebrations at BIM. Here's to BIM and its enthusiastic students, another year of fun and learning are yet to be experienced...

Watch this space...

FOXTROT 2009

FOXTROT is the dance event at BIM. It is one of the most much awaited events at BIM. This event provides a platform for all those who want to dance. FOXTROT 09 was a big hit among the students. We had solo dance, couple dance and group dance. One need not be adept in dancing to participate in this. Anyone who wants to dance can give it a shot.

The entire event was filled with fun. The dance shows proved to be absolutely entertaining. The audience was on their toes through out the program. No one could have witnessed a better sangamam of music and dance. We had very funny dances as well.

The audience were literally doubled up with laughter when they saw some performances. So on the whole the event was a grand success. Hands off to the KALAIKOM guys of of Bim, who pulled of the show very smoothly. As always, any event at BIM would be empty without a dance floor. We had an amazing dance floor with mind blowing numbers being played continuously.

HOLI Celebration !!!

RADIANCE- Blood Donation Camp

All work and no play makes Jack a Dull boy. On a similar note, managers without social consciousness are no leaders. Radiance, the dedicated, wholly student CSR club is dedicated to precisely this. The Social Consciousness Club of BIM, it provides a channel through which our students show their sense of responsibility towards the society. It organizes activities for the good of the underprivileged such as reading and activity sessions in orphanages. Tireless and always committed when it comes to a social clause, Radiance is involved in organizing blood donation camps and also collecting clothes, books and other materials for refugee camps in and around the city. At present, it is closely working with a Sri Lankan refugee camp which is taking in people from the strife-torn parts of that country. In order to stir up and sustain noesis towards social responsibility, Radiance does extensive work with NGO's in trying to chart out newer and better avenues of social service.

FINGUNS

It is a financial quiz event which covers both finance related gk as well as conceptual questions on corporate finance and financial accounting. The quiz was conducted online with the question set made on MS Excel and put on the KNET-The Knowledge Network of BIM from where participants downloaded it and sent the solutions by mail to FinClub. The event was for half an hour with each team consisting of 2 members each. The event received a phenomenal response with 35 teams taking part in the event.

The event was won by team DJ consisting of Dev and Jayakanth winning cash prize of Rs 2500. Team Dragons, consisting of Francis and Sivaram G, were runners up winning prize of Rs1500, followed by Team Investomaniacs , consisting of Pradeep and Sivaprakasam, who got Rs 1000 as prize money.

YUDH VIDHYA

Yudh Vidhya is a business simulation game. The first year students were divided into 20 teams comprising of 4 members each, with one donning the mantle of the chief executive officer and the rest taking up th roles of Directors representing Marketing, Finance and Information Management functions. Twenty teams competed in the first round and the top ten teams moved to the finals. This simulation game was a very good learning experience it gave the required impetus to learn to take operative and strategic decisions in the corporate world. Teams vied with one another with the gut instinct and visionary thinking and the decisions were captured and processed using software developed by our students and that churned out results in the form of business reports in real time. The final round consisted of two quarter, at the beginning of the each quarter the teams were given data about the market share and the new product launch. After each quarter the profit reflected the effectiveness of the decision. This simulation game is being organized by the Finclub since 2001, have proven to be an effective tool to familiarize students with peer group dynamics, a high level interactivity, competitive pressure, interpersonal communication and multidimensional participation.

The event was won by the team Scubes consisting of Sivakumar.N, Srijayaram.S, Saravanan.M and Deepak M Chordia winning cash prize 5000 and the first runners-up were Team The usual Suspects consisting of Palaniappan, Rajesh Soundar, Sivakumar and Surendran.E winning cash price of 3000 and the second runners were team Dragons consisting of Harendhira Prasad, Karthikeyan.S, Sivaram and Sharan Kumar R winning cash price of 2000.

BUFFET’S PICK

It is an equity research contest that tests ones skills at valuing stocks based on strong fundamental analysis and various valuation models. The event required each team to submit an equity research report giving recommendations on a stock of their choice with the long term perspective. Each team was to be constituted of 3 members with at least one member of PGPII so that PGPI students can leverage the knowledge of their senior colleague. The research reports have been sent to eminent investment advisor and visiting faculty to BIM Mr B. Venkatesh who will be evaluating the research reports. The event got a warm response from students with 25 quality research reports from BIM students.

BROWN BAG SESSION

Brown Bag Session is a lecture on equity research, was organized by FINCLUB for the students of PGP-I. The lecture was given by Mr. Venkatesh of Navera Consulting. The lecture was organized as a part of FINANZ UTSAV ’09. He enlightened the students with his ideas regarding how to make a basic equity research report. The lecture gave ideas regarding the various models available to make a equity research report. The ideas given were grasped by the students which was evident from their enthusiastic participation in BUFFET”S PICK-Equity research contest. There was an overwhelming response rom the student community. FINCLUB thanks sriraman sir for his involvement and guidance throughout the event.

SANGAM 2009

Sangam is an annual meet of the BIM alumni.Sangam 09 was a grand success. Alumni of the 23rd, 22nd and 21st batch had come. Since it was on a weekend, many of them were able to make it. The entire college was buzzing with enthusiasm.




There were around 80 of them who had come for Sangam. It was a moment of nostalgia for all of us. It was so good to meet all the seniors after a long time. The moment they entered the campus, they wanted to play cricket. All of them played endlessly. Everyone was whiling their time by chatting with all of us. That day evening there were lots of cultural programs for the alumni. We had everything, right from songs, music, dance, fashion show, mimicry show; drama .We had the privilege to view the performances of a few of our seniors. Special dinner was arranged for the alumni. The cultural activities ended with a dance floor.





The dance floor was simply rocking. This went on till 1 am. The event was filled with fun and frolic. It was basically a wonderful get together for all the alumni. They said that it was a good detour from their usual busy and monotonous schedule. Then the following day, which happened to be Sunday, they met few of the professors. The bim road was filled with the alumni standing in groups and sharing their experiences with their buddies. Then, that day afternoon they had special lunch at the mess. And ,slowly everyone started leaving. We really miss them a lot. It was a sweet home coming for them. Bim streets look empty without them. We await the next Sangam.

SUNDARA RAGHAVAN CRICKET TROPHY'09

Sundara Raghavan Cricket Trophy (SRCT), the flagship event of Sportscom is back with a bang. The SRCT’09 was inaugurated on the eve of 25th January.





This event happened in a grand manner with 24 floodlights decorating the Eden Gardens of BIM hostel. The tournament was spread around 6 nights with 8 teams participating in it totally, 4 teams from first and second year each. The teams are as follows,

PGP-2

YORKERS




THE DEN WARRIORS



BOUNCERS



MATCHFIXERS



PGP-1

ROYALSTAGS



ALL REALS FIRST BALL (ARFB)



DARK KNIGHTS



LAGAAN XI



The SRCT’09 saw a fierce battle among the teams under floodlights as they tried to outplay their opponents to emerge victorious. Each and every match received great support from the crowd which set the entire campus elated. An exciting Grand Finale was played between the teams "ROYALSTAGS" and "YORKERS".

ROYALSTAGS


YORKERS


The team Royalstags won the battle and became the champions of SRCT’09. Meanwhile the DEN WARRIORS won the thrilling third place match that happened against the team ALL REALS FIRST BALL. The ARFBs fought till the last but at last the Den Warriors outplayed them.

THE DEN WARRIORS


The winners, first runners-up and the third runners-up were awarded with the trophies. The SRCT’09 also included an exciting match that was played between the girls’ team of PGP-1 and PGP-2. The teams are as follows,

BANDITS (PGP-1)



DEADLY DIVAS (PGP-2)



The deadly divas were outplayed by the PGP-2 Bandits. In fact, this match made the entire campus agog. Almost every BIMite witnessed this match and it was great to see the cheerleaders supporting their favourite teams. Hats off to Sportscom, for conducting such an exciting event that happened from 25th to 30th January.
The Trophies were awarded to the following team and players,

BOYS

WINNERS: ROYAL STAGS (PGP I)

FIRST RUNNERS-UP: YORKERS (PGP II)

SECOND RUNNERS-UP: DEN WARRIORS (PGP II)


GIRLS

WINNERS: BANDITS (PGP II)

RUNNERS-UP: DEADLY DIVAS (PGP I)



MAN OF THE SERIES: ARAVIND KUMAR A (PGP I)

MAN OF THE MATCH (FINALS): AMIT KHARE (PGP I)

PLAYER OF THE MATCH (GIRLS): RADHIKA (PGP II)

BEST BATSMAN: HARISH (PGP II)

BEST BOWLER: ROHIT (PGP II)

BEST WICKET-KEEPER: GOWRISHANKAR(PGP I) & HARISH (PGP II)

BEST CATCH: SIVALINGAM (PGP II)

MAX. NO OF SIXES: NANDAKUMAR.B (PGP I)

FASTEST FIFTY: ROZARIO (PGP II) & SANDEEP (PGP I)

BEST PARTNERSHIP: NANDAKUMAR & ARAVIND KUMAR (PGP I)

HIGHEST RUN-GETTER: NANDAKUMAR (PGP I)