BS B-School Projects Award: Winners go off the beaten track for solutions

From staff attrition to manufacturing efficiency and health, the jury was impressed by the choice of subjects and the passion with which the students applied their analytical and research skills

Projects on employee attrition, public health and community-based therapeutic platforms walked away with the top honours at the Business Standard-CG Power and Industrial Solutions Best B-School Project Award 2020 held here on Friday. This signalled a growing trend among the participants this year to look for solutions to seemingly intractable problems through community-based, adaptive, technology-enabled networks.

At the event, held online for the first time because of the pandemic, a power-packed jury chose Subham Sinha from XLRI and his project on building early warning signs to identify attrition risk, as the winning entry. The first and second runners-up this year are