Internship (MBA)

Advice on making your internship a more fulfilling and entrepreneurial experience:

• Take initiative: Don’t just complete required tasks, constantly seek opportunities to develop new skills and expand your experience by taking initiative. Whenever possible, go above and beyond your supervisor’s expectations.
• Don’t be afraid to ask questions : Take every opportunity to learn as much as possible from those you meet and work with during your internship.
• Think outside of the box: As an intern you have a fresh perspective on the organization and the challenges with which the organization is grappling. Make the most of this opportunity, by thinking outside the box and offering unique insight that may not have occurred to your colleagues.
• Don’t be discouraged by challenges: Entrepreneurs see challenges as opportunities and we hope you will do the same in your internship. Do your best to remain optimistic if you encounter challenges, such as a difficult project, a bad supervisor, lazy colleagues… and focus on what you can learn from the experience, rather than how frustrating the experience may be.
• Talk to others: Stay in touch with your classmates to discuss what you are learning and challenges you are facing in the work place. Reflecting on your internship with others is a great way to enhance your experience.

EA is excited to announce that we have opened partnership opportunities to BBA schools! Oxford College signed an MOU with DCSE to become our first BBA partner on 20 May 2010. EA is now looking to bring on more BBA schools to broaden the impact of the program. If you know of any schools you think would be an excellent candidate for a partnership with EA, let us know.

As the school year nears an end, we wanted to take a few minutes to reflect on EA’s activities over the past semester and thank of all of partners for making this semester such a success!

EA highlights from the semester include:

• Guest speaker session for E-Cell members and faculty with Kanwal Rekhi, eminent venture capitalist and co-founder of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE)
• Guest speaker session for E-Cell members and faculty with Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande
• Faculty trainings on social entrepreneurship courses
• Training of trainers on entrepreneurial motivation for EA faculty with expert trainer, Rita Sengupta
• Trainings on advanced IT applications for academics
• Trainings on IT applications for perspective entrepreneurs
• Memorial event in honor of CK Prahalad at IMSR
• Presentations on 2K challenge
• Inaugural E-Cell Advisory Committee Meeting
• Boot camp for 4th semester students at JSS on how to develop and pitch an entrepreneurial idea
• Site visits to local social enterprises
• Female entrepreneur, Shrvani Hagargi, visited social entrepreneurship courses to discuss women's role in entrepreneurship and building a social venture
• Completed Entrepreneurship Cell inaugurations for EA's current partners, bringing the total number of EA partners to 7. Partners include: IMSR (Hubli), GBS (Hubli), JSS (Dharwad), KIMS (Dharwad), IMER (Belgaum), BIMS (Belgaum) & BET’s GBS (Belgaum)

Good luck on exams!

Good luck to the EA family during the exam period!

Over the course of this semester, E-Cell members and EA faculty have demonstrated great commitment and enthusiasm for entrepreneurship education through their involvement with EA. The EA team commends those, who have excelled in their partnership with EA, and wishes all the best to MBA students starting their final exams today.

EMT By Genny & Xanthine

Deshpande Foundation’s Sandbox Fellows, Xanthine Basnet and Genny King, conducted a training of trainers on achievement motivation at DCSE on Thursday and Friday of this week. Participants included EA faculty from IMSR, JSS, BET’s GBS, Oxford College as well as a couple
outstanding graduates of the Deshpande Fellowship Program. The session started with an introduction by Naveen Jha on the value of developing the ability to entrepreneurially motivate others. Over the course of the intensive two day training, participants engaged in activities that pushed them to think outside of the box, dig into complex issues regarding entrepreneurship education, reflect on their own motivational styles and competencies and develop innovative teaching tools. Feedback from the participants at the conclusion of the TOT, reflected an appreciation for the opportunity and an excitement to transfer the skills they developed during the training into their work training others to lead more entrepreneurial lives.

1 Advisory Committee Meeting

On 12th May 2010, there was a 1st Advisory Committee Meeting in Dshpande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship Hubli. All the E Cell committee members from Belgaum, ( BIMS, GBS) Dharwad (JSS and KIMS) Hubli (GBS) were present for the meeting from 03 : 00pm to 05 : 30 pm. Mr Naveen (Director of DCSE India) has addressed the members.

EA Team had organized the meeting.

News Releses

Jss Dharwad has inaugurated their E Cell on 16th of April 2010 the Guest Speaker was Mr Vivek Pawar CEO (Sankalp Semi conductors) and Mr Naveen Jha Director (Dehspande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship) withe the Director Dr Raj Gopal, the faculty Mr Pursushottam Bung and Mr Gireesh and the Entrepreneurship Academy Team Genny and Charles

E Cell Inaguration GBS Belgaum on 20-04-2010

Entrepreneurship Academy Team (Charles and Genny) and Oxford College Chairman Mr Vasant Horrati and Principal/ Director Mrs Maria Manjula Mathews had a discussion on being the first EA partner in BBA College on 29th April 2010. All the faculties of the college and EA Team had a interaction about Entrepreneurship Academy.
News Release on 05-05-2010 Samyukta Karnataka

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Entrepreneurial Motivational Training by Rita Sengupta

Rita Sengupta Entrepreneurial Motivational Training for the Trainers in Deshpande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship Hubli, on 26th and 27th of April 2010. This was specially designed for the Trainers (Facilities). EA Facilities and DF Staff had attended this training and it was residential for two days. This training gave a lot of understanding on Entrepreneurial motivation the topics covered in this session were very much helpful.