Results For Article Contest February 2013

We are excited to announce the results for the MBASkool Article Writing Contest February 2013.

We are thrilled to declare that 327 articles were submitted with students from 65 B-Schools participating in the contest. After going through a series of checks for originality of thought, quality content and plagiarism checks, the MBASkool judge panelists have decided to short-list 117 articles, as the other articles lacked quality content or were highly inspired.

The three parameters on which the articles were evaluated were idea/topic, quality of the content of the article and the language & writing style.

The “Winners” of the contest, “Special mention” articles and other articles which have been selected for publication on MBASkool, are mentioned below:

WINNERS

1^st PRIZE: Akanksha Garg (IIFT Kolkata)

Think beyond Pink and Lovely!

2^nd PRIZE: Shubham Shukla (NMIMS Mumbai)

Seven Sins of Customers

3^rd PRIZE: Harini A (IIM A)

Are You Rational Enough?

3^rd PRIZE: Vandana Somani & Ayush Gupta (MDI, Gurgaon)

Strategic shift in HR

* The judges decided to give a combined 3rd prize.

BEST CORPORATE ARTICLE PRIZE:  Hemanth Crpatna (Google India Pvt. Ltd)

Online Marketing-The Smart Way of Promoting

EXCEPTIONAL APPRECIATION: Our panel of judges highlighted a unique entry from one of our participants which was very catchy!

Inderpreet Bedi  (SP Jain School of Global Management)

Confessions of a Wannabe Marketer

TOP B-SCHOOL RECOGNITION

We have also recognized the top 5 B-Schools on the basis of overall participating entries, quality of submissions and final selection for publication. We would like to highlight the efforts of these coordinators and also all other coordinators who have made this contest a grand success!

RANK	INSTITUTE	COORDINATOR
1	XIMB	Sulabh Shah
2	LBSIM	Neha & Surbhi
3	TAPMI	Shilpa Kulkarni
4	IIMA	Alok Agarwal
5	MDI	Mayur Srivastava

SPECIAL MENTION ARTICLES

The “Special Mention Articles” are those articles which have been appreciated by our panel of experts and are recognized by our panelists. Since the competition was extremely close, and the winners could be only few, we appreciate and honor the efforts shown by these participants.

Name	Institute	Article
Ritesh Baid	NMIMS Mumbai	Let's Get Packing!
Kapoor Parth Sunil	IIM Indore	FGDs, worth the trouble?
Jayant Ankur Kujur	IIM Indore	War for Talent
Ashwani Raturi	IMI Delhi	Consumer Convergence
Meeta Khatri	SIMSR	Why Brands Love Those Big Mouths!
Vaisakh Krishnan	IMT-Ghaziabad	BI and Marketing – How they go hand-in-hand?
Ambati Avinash	IIM Indore	Social Media Marketing Through Avoiding Mistakes
Amber Vasudeo Behre And Rhythm Minhas	University of Petroleum Energy Studies, Dehradun	ONLINE PROFILE AS VALUABLE AS YOUR PRESENCE"
Kshama Adka	Goa Institute of Management	Amalgamation of Idiosyncrasies
Shalini Chhabra	NMIMS Mumbai	Zilch to Zoom
Vatsal Sethi	Keshav Mahavidyalaya	Planned Obsolescence
Aneesha K (Ms)	IIM A	Role of Private Sector in Public health
Sugandha Sinha And Shobhit Birla	Birla-International Management Institute, New Delhi	Consumer Based Sales Promotion
Bir Bahadur Singh	IIM Raipur	Marketing Overdose
Poulami Kuila & Anurag Chaurasia	XIMB	THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF
Shreetam Subhrankar	XLRI	Applications Development - What's in Store in Near Future
Ankur Goyal	IIM A	Shale gas is a solution to the world’s energy needs
Abhishek Chatterjee	XIMB	Role of Youtube in creating an Independent Entertainment Industry in India
Amy S	SP Jain School of Global Management	Sales Support - Backbone of The Sales Lifecycle

Note: The articles mentioned above would be published on website. As and when the articles are published on MBASkool, the author of the article would be informed by the MBASkool editorial team

To all who submitted their entries, your efforts are acknowledged, and we thank you for your participation.

MBASkool would again like to give its best wishes to all those who made the “MBASkool Article Writing Contest” October 2012 edition a splendid success!!

MBASkool Team