IIM Shillong wins Rs 1.5 lakh prize

Updated on: Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Flagship Event: Ashwamedha: “Think. Act. Lead”, In search of the Best Leader for India among all Business Schools

The Location: Ahvan: IIM Indore’s Annual Business Summit

The Competition: Over 500 participants; 14 non stop rounds over 2 days; 1 winner

The Stakes: Glory of beating all IIMs and the other top 30 B Schools across India

The Takeaway: Ashwamedha Crystal Trophy; Prize money of Rs 1,50,000

Known as the “Mother of all B school events”, Ashwamedha is the Flagship event of IIM Indore and has grown from strength to strength over the past eight years.

The campus rounds began on November 19 with 30 finalists and included unconventional quizzes, public speaking, extempore, strategy games, marketing campaigns, negotiation skills, objective critiquing, creative writing, outdoor performances, community service and the final stress interview. The underlying common theme across most events was the ability of participants to manage between conflicting personal and team objectives across the rounds.

The first round of Ashwamedha, ‘Hurdle’ was an aptitude-based round that stressed on out-of-the-box thinking. 70 successful soldiers crossed over to ‘Ignite’ where they were assigned topics for which ideas had to be presented on 1 out of the 7 topics like irrigation management, river pollution etc. Allowing readers and fellow participants to comment on the presentations uploaded on the ’Ignite’ blog received huge support & enthusiasm.

The top 30 were finally reduced to five who were taken to a nearby village for a task. Provided with 100 rupees and four hours, they had to constructively contribute to the village in any way that they deemed appropriate.

The top five were finally reduced to top three in the final round and that included: Ashutosh Dikshit from IIM Shillong, Raghav Sehgal – a corporate participant (IIM Ahmedabad alumnus) and Vivek Menon from IIM Indore.

The spotlight round followed which was a Personality/Stress interview conducted by the eminent jury of Prof Chandrashekhar from IIM Indore, Prof Vijay Menon (HR Consultant and Pioneer of the concept of Ashwamedha) and Arvind Sharma, chairman and CEO of Leo Burnett.

After the spotlight round that lasted for almost an hour per participant, Ashutosh Dikshit of IIM Shillong was declared as the final winner of Ashwamedha 2009.

IIM Shillong wins Rs 1.5 lakh prize

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