BS best B-School project awards

Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rediff.com. Speaking at the function, Balakrishnan said he was impressed by the wide range of projects. He said that there was quantitative methodology and analysis and there was use of social media and applications for solving problems

Ravi Kant- Tata Motors, Vice Chairman. Speaking at the function he said that these are uncertain times and the key is to remain innovative in this competitive environment. He also said that people skills are important.

Sanjay Jorapur, EVP, Global Head Human Resources; Ajit Balakrishnan, founder & CMD, Rediff.com; at the Business Standard Best B-School Award 2013, in Mumbai. The process of selecting the award winners was rigorous. All 157 entries were evaluated by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, which reduced the number to 16. Subsequently a six member external jury, headed by Ajit Balakrishnan, founder and Chairman and managing director, Rediff.com, assessed the projects in two stages.

Sanjay Jorapur, Executive Vice President, Global Head - Human Resources, Crompton Greaves Limited, Ambar Chowdhury, Senior Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt Ltd and Vatsal Jain, IIM, Ahmedabad (second consolation prize winner ). Vatsal Jain and Kalyan Bhaskar from IIM-Ahmedabad won the second consolation prize for a social business model of electronic waste management in India.

M G Parameswaran, ED, FCB Ulka, R Suresh, MD, RGF Executive Search and Lavina Mittal, Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (first consolation price winner ). She won the prize for her project on helping Mahindra Retail develop a new version of an 'own-your-customer' model to increase customer stickiness.