Clubs and Committees
On the 23/08/2017, PGDM 17 students organised themselves into four different clubs namely, Entrepreneurial Development Club (EDC), News Club, HR Club – Anthro Dynamik and Movie club. They presented the mission and objective of their respective clubs and listed out the events/activities they intend to conduct this year. The students driven clubs of RSB focuses on team building, leadership, innovation and problem solving. The agenda for each club is to conduct one event every
The extra-curricular activities at RSB are structured in the form of various clubs namely Entrepreneurship Development Club, News Club, Anthro Dynamik – The HR Club and Movie Club. These club activities provide opportunities to students to initiate action on innovative thoughts, glean and reflect on an array of managerial skills, engage in constructive exchange of thoughts, debate on the current happening in the business world, learn etiquette and refine their interpersonal skills. The clubs are primarily student driven with faculty serving as a facilitator and guide.
Entrepreneurial Development club (EDC)
Activities focusing on an innovation and a business plan thereafter to facilitate the all-round development of the student in general and to increase awareness about marketing function in particular.
The “Entrepreneur Development Club” (EDC) organised the event “Learning from Failures, Entrepreneurs Way” on October 13, 2017. The objective of this event was to showcase how successful entrepreneurs learn from their failures. The teams discussed how the entrepreneurs overcame their personal disabilities, problems and failures to become successful businessmen later. The teams also discussed how the successful entrepreneurs persisted in spite of the failures in the beginning of their career. The teams also listed the lessons that an aspiring business student should learn in order to successful in life. The presentation ended with the discussion on the leadership qualities of the showcased successful entrepreneurs.
Six teams participated in the event and the Entrepreneurs discussed were 1. Colonel Sanders 2. Jack Ma 3. Walt Disney 4. Richard Branson 5. Elon Musk 6. Steve Jobs.
The “Entrepreneur Development Club” (EDC) organised the event the “Best Salesman of RSB” event on the 9th November,2017. This event was about giving the students an opportunity to sell a product, by which they will be able to understand the difficulties of selling and an opportunity for the students to step into the shoes of a salesman. The students had to sell their chosen products to the judges Dr.Badri and Dr. Srikanth Parthasarathy. The winner, 1st runner-up and 2nd runner-up of the event were Baalamurali, Bhargavi and Sowmya (all PGDM 2017) respectively.
“What If your life depends on your selling abilities? This question laid the foundation for the Entrepreneur Development Club (EDC) event called SHIPWRECK on 28th February 2018. The participant has to convince the captain of the sinking ship to give away the only life jacket available on a sinking ship. The participants had to don the role of a famous personality and plead his case for the only life jacket. We had 11 interesting and famous personalities fighting out for the one life jacket. The objective of this event was to test the selling skills of the students and see how they think on their feet and wriggle out of this ‘life threatening’ situation. The captains (or Judges) were our director Subendu Dey and faculty Dr Badri Toppur and Dr Srikanth Parthasarathy.. The students presented their case for as to why he/she should be given the only life jacket. The Judges (Captain) then retaliated with further questions. The participants will be evaluated on the basis of their presentation, convincing skills, arguments and counter arguments. The winner of the event was Kanishya from 2nd year PGDM. The runners up of the event were Madhavan(2nd year PGDM) and Abishegk(1st year PGDM).
News Club
Edits our RSB flagship management magazine ‘AARUSH’. News club conducts business quiz, debates, problem solving and other activities.
Edited RSB flagship management magazine ‘AARUSH’ for the month of August, September and October 2017.
‘Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom – Aristole’, with this motto the ‘Business Quiz’ was conducted on 31st August 2017 in the presence of esteemed RSB director Dr.Subhendu Dey and other faculty. Five team were selected for the finals and the quiz masters were A. Brijesh(PGDM 17) and Satvik(PGDM 16). They quizzed the students about company logos, identifying the CEO and the company names etc. The winners were – Harshith/Senthil, and Babu/ Saraswathi (PGDM 17). The runners up were Vijayshree and Kanisha(PGDM 16).
The second ‘Business Quiz’ was conducted on 19/09/2017. The students were selected by a preliminary round held on Sep 18, 2017 and the selected students participated in the final round of Business quiz event. The winners were Harshit and Pavithra from PGDM 17.
Six teams participated in the event and the Entrepreneurs discussed were 1. Colonel Sanders 2. Jack Ma 3. Walt Disney 4. Richard Branson 5. Elon Musk 6. Steve Jobs.
The News club conducted a debate on 26/10/2017 on the topic ‘Trial by Media-good or bad’. Though 15 students participated in the preliminary round, eight students were selected for the final round. The debate was lively with points and counterpoints. At the end, the judges for the event Dr.Badri and Dr.Srikanth pointed out the areas of improvement to all the contestants and emphasized the need for more depth with more facts. The judges declared Jayanth and Babu as the winners and Harshith and Santhanalakshmi (PGDM 17) as runners up.
The News Cub has organised the event ‘STOCK GYAN’ from the 7th March 2018 to 21st March 2018. News club is organizing a ‘Stock Gyan’ competition for managers . A shareholder investing his money in a company needs to be well informed, more so, for budding finance professionals. This competition was meant to give an opportunity to budding finance professionals and stock market enthusiasts to forecast the short term movements of a portfolio stocks. The students are expected to use technical analysis to forecast the future price movements based on past prices and volume. Five teams participate in the event and each team was given a virtual money of Rs 10,00,000 at the start. The team selected their desired companies (5 companies) and the proportion of investment in each company from the listed 50 companies of India from NSE Nifty index. The team consisting of Bhargavi, B, 1st year PGDM and SaiCharan, 2nd year PGDM had the most valuable portfolio and were declared the winners.
HR Club – Anthro Dynamik
The RSB HR Club plans various activities where the students can hone their team building and leadership skills and increase their knowledge base.
HR club event – CULTURA was conducted on Sep 12. 2017 under the theme: How to make RSB a livelier place? By developing ideas to make RSB a livelier place, their primary objective is to acclimatize the students with RSB and help to understand various cultures in different organizations. Six teams participated in the event.
The Group Discussion event was conducted by the Anthro Dynamik on 14/12/2017. Group 1 were given the topic ‘Free flow of information in an organization – good or bad?’ Brijesh kamath and Aruna Devi were the best performers in the group. Group 2 were given the topic ‘Should actors enter TN politics?’ Ravi Kumar and sireesha were the best performers in this group. Group 3 were given the topic ‘Is social media good or bad?’ Vichitra and Arun were performed the best. The topic for the final round was ‘Is AI good for business?’ The winners of the final round were 1. Ravi Kumar 2. Aruna Devi 3. Brijesh Kamath
“What If your life depends on your selling abilities? This question laid the foundation for the Entrepreneur Development Club (EDC) event called SHIPWRECK on 28th February 2018. The participant has to convince the
Anthro Dynamik (HR Club of RSB) organized a role play contest on 9th February 2018. The shortlisted students were divided into four groups and given a case each to solve and present it in the form of a role play. The first case was an adaptation of Suits season 1 Episode 1 & 2 and the second case was an adaptation of the movie ‘Money ball’. The Judges for the event were our director Subendu Dey and faculty Dr Badri Toppur and Dr Srikanth Parthasarathy. Mr. Babu Raghavendran gave the welcome speech and the Groups 1 and 2 were given the first case. Groups 3 and 4 were given the second case. Group 4 consisting of A. Brijesh Kamat, R .Baalmurali. S. Sireesha. R. Manikandan, Y. Arun Kumar, N.H. Anathakrishnan, P. Vichitra, and S. Senthil (All 1st year PGDM) emerged as winners. The performance of Group 1 was also appreciated and were the declared the runner-up.
Movie club
Providing managerial and leadership skill lessons; Bringing people to share their experiences; Attempts to inculcate leadership qualities through movies.
On Sep 25, 2017, the Movie Club screened the movie “Inside Job”.
Six teams participated in the event and the Entrepreneurs discussed were 1. Colonel Sanders 2. Jack Ma 3. Walt Disney 4. Richard Branson 5. Elon Musk 6. Steve Jobs.
The Movie club of RSB screened a movie “The Pursuit of Happiness”, in the Ratan Tata Gallery, on 22nd February 2018. The protagonist Chris Gardener, as depicted by actor Will Smith demonstrates the vision, courage, and persistence required of a strategic leader. Chris Gardner has big dreams for him and his family but it doesn’t seem to come together for him. Chris business was selling medical equipment but the business soon failed when the medical industry, at that time, found the equipment to be an unnecessary expense. Chris has an opportunity to be a stockbroker but first, he has to go through a gruelling ‘no pay’ internship. Chris decides to do it but when his wife leaves and he is evicted, he has to take care of his son on his own. So, they find themselves struggling to get by. But, Chris is determined to overcome all the obstacles and make it.
The leadership takeaways from the film are
- A strategic leader should have vision and sense of purpose to tide over difficult circumstances.
- All the decisions should be aligned with the strategic vision
- A leader should be disciplined and committed to be successful. A leader must be focused on achieving and getting the job done no matter what. Persistence is the key.
- A leader should be problem solver. He should assess a situation, think strategically, and find a solution.
- The most critical element of strategic leadership is to forge relationships along the way.