Archive | October, 2015

From the Editor’s Desk

1. October 2015

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Welcome to a very special edition of Avant Garde brought to you by Prabandhan! This month’s edition just like the previous one, is a special one featuring articles from both our junior and senior batch. But it’s a special one because of Prabandhan. Prabandhan, the annual management festival of the IIT Kanpur MBA program, was [...]

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OPTIMA- Operations & Marketing

1. October 2015

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“If you treat problems as problems, they are problems. If you treat problems as opportunities, they are opportunities.”
With this in mind began Prabandhan’15, to provide people with the opportunity to interact with people from various other colleges and to learn new things. OPTIMA-Operations and Marketing club of IIT Kanpur came up with various events like [...]

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ACCS- Analytics Case Study Competetion & Symposium

1. October 2015

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ACCS saw an enthusiastic response from talented students. The event comprised of two parts- case study competition and symposium. On 26 September, in the case study competition, six teams made it to the finals, held in IME Department, IIT Kanpur. The event was judged by an eminent jury.The Jury had Mr.Vyom Upadhyay ,Ms.Sridevi Vadapalli and [...]

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Summer Internship experience in Japan

1. October 2015

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This summer I had the pleasure of doing my summer internship at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. The internship program was offered under the flagship of Sakura Science Program sponsored by Japan Science and Technology Agency. Every year Japanese Govt. invites 50 students from Asia for internship in various universities. The idea is to promote [...]

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Cognition- IT, Consulting and ecommerce

1. October 2015

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Cognition started with online events one month prior to Prabandhan. It consisted of Tagwars and Guesstimaze which were weekly events. In Tagwars, teams of B School students from all over the country had to create taglines related to business domains. In Guesstimaze, teams had to make logical and calculated guesses, substantiated with facts. These events [...]

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Importance of sports to management students

1. October 2015

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“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” is the most suitable proverb one should quote while stressing upon the importance of games and sports in someone’s life. Be it at recreational or at a professional level, it is important for the individual to give space to the games in his/her routine. An [...]

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Business Communication

1. October 2015

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Communication is an important aspect of business world. Communication is to organization as nervous system is to human body. Proper Communication can help a company to win contracts, make more revenues, have a larger satisfied customer base etc.  Internal communication in a company directs employees to a common goal and helps achieve effectiveness in the [...]

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