XLRI Fest Concludes

Updated on: Thursday, November 17, 2011

Ensemble 2011, the 10th edition annual management festival of XLRI concluded recently, bringing to close a succession of arduous multi-domain contests in the fields of human resources, marketing, finance, strategy and operations accompanied by high emotions and unadulterated entertainment.

With an overwhelming participation by more than 200 participants from top B-schools of the country such as ISB Hyderabad, IIM A, B, C, L, I, MDI Gurgaon, IIFT Delhi, IMT-G, NITIE, IIM Ranchi and Delhi School of Economics, the fest certainly turned out to be an amalgamation of passion, business acumen and self-expression.

Teams from these B-schools vied for top honors and a cash prize of Rs 12 lakh in various business competitions spanning all the management domains. Mahindra & Mahindra Group was the title sponsor for the extravaganza.

Ensemble 2011, three-day annual Business Schools Extravaganza at XLRI, kick started with a grand ceremony. The fest was inaugurated by chief guest, Allen Sequeira, executive vice president, Mahindra Group along with guest of honor, Fr Michael Thanaraj, president, Jamshedpur Jesuits Society and Fr Abraham, director, XLRI.

XLRI witnessed massive participation in the events throughout the three days. The flagship event War of Wits (hr management event) was won by the team from ISB Hyderabad and the team from Delhi School of Economics was runners-up.

In Prometheus, flagship event for finance management, XLRI stood first, followed by IIM Indore. Helios, flagship event for operations management was won again by XLRI followed by Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

In ENT (HR) ONE, domain event for hr management, XLRI stood first followed by ISB Hyderabad at the second place. XLRI maintained leadership in Cascade, domain event of operations management followed closely by IIM A at the second position.

Final day of Ensemble commenced with Jamshedpur mini run. This was Jamshedpur’s first ever mini-marathon and it championed the cause of waking up an entire city to our nation’s obvious and subtle socioeconomic inequalities.

The day continued with cluster of events in diverse domains: marketing strategy event Circus Maximus, Pandora – an event based on game theory and strategy, Banker’s Dilemma – a competition based on banking sector cases, business strategy event called Strategikon and general quizzing event named El Dorado.

XLRI Fest Concludes

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