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Arming CXOs with data: 25-year old's budgeting tool project goes global

An MBA candidate is helping companies increase efficiency, use data-based budgeting

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(From left to right) Kinjal Medh, head of marketing at National Stock Exchange; Ramesh Iyer, general manager (HR) at CG Power and Industrial Solutions; Harshil Shah of KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai (1st runner-up); A

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From offering increased efficiency and cutting down on research time when catering to clients for a data-based budgeting tool, Harshil Shah's summer internship projects have already been adopted by his parent company, consulting firm GEP Worldwide, and one of its key clients.  

Harshil, a 25-year-old MBA candidate at K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research from Mumbai, was the first runner-up at the Business Standard Best B-School Project Award 2018 for developing a "budgeting forecasting tool" and "category strategy dossier for the meetings and events category".   

His first project aimed to build a budgeting forecasting tool for