Inter B-school event at ISB

B-SCHOOL BEAT

The Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad organised its first ever inter-B-school event "Poseidon" recently. More than 150 students from B-schools across the country participated. The theme for the event was the ocean and all events were named to reflect this.

Among the events were "Turbulence", an energy case contest, the first of its kind in Indian B-schools; "Coke Wave", a real-life case study about Coca-Cola, drafted in association with the company; "Bermuda Triangle", an on-the-spot tech case competition; "Twister", a business simulation game; and "Tsunami", a business quiz.

MDI's new affiliation

The Gurgaon-based Management Development Institute has become an affiliate school of the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School. It claims to be the only Indian B-school to thus associate itself with HBS.

From the 2005 session on, MDI will offer a course on Microeconomics of Competitiveness. The course is an integrated course on Strategy which talks about economic development and firm level strategy.