2nd E Cell Meeting

E A Team has organized 2nd E Cell meeting on 20th June 2010 in DCSE Hubli, 15 (Fifteen) students (E Cell Members) form GBS & IMSR Hubli, JSS & KIMS Dharwad and BIMS and BET’s GBS Belgaum MBA colleges had attended the meeting. Aparna Rau, the mentor for the university of Southern California innovators program in Hubli. Aparna discussed the work the innovators are doing in to apply entrepreneurial principals. Aparna also discussed a social venture she developed in Guatemala and encouraged students to consider how they can apply their work in business school to challenges they encounter in the real world.
After the discussions there was an activity with the newspapers were all the students participated and came up with business ideas from the daily news paper which helped them in thinking like an entrepreneur (entrepreneur finds the opportunity in the challenges), all the students presented their Idea one by one and the best Idea and was Rehabilitation centre by Mr Noel Kallu of GBS Hubli, selected by all the students. This activity helped them in thinking creatively.

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Dr Sushil Vachani

Distinguished professor, Sushil Vachani, from Boston University visited DCSE on Friday 18 June to meet with directors of EA partners and discuss entrepreneurship education.

Dr. Sushil Vachani brings with him a breadth of knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship education. He has a doctorate in international business from Harvard Business School, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and an undergraduate in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Additionally, he has extensive managerial and consulting experience, having worked as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, where he was involved with designing business strategies for American, Japanese, and European multinationals. Dr. Vachani has also worked in India as a research engineer with the Dutch electronics multinational, Philips and as a member of the Tata Administrative Service. His research has been published in the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies and numerous other publications.

The session included a discussion of the following topics:

• Utilizing entrepreneurs and faculty members’ unique perspectives and knowledge of business to best prepare students to pursue an entrepreneurial life.
• How to pique faculty and students’ interest in entrepreneurship education.
• The opportunity that exists in 2nd and 3rd tier Indian cities to make a major impact in the field of entrepreneurship education.
• Examples of what other colleges have done to broaden their perspective and inspire the next generation of leaders.

E Cell 1st Meeting

Entrepreneurship Academy team has organized the first weekly meeting with the E Cell members in DCSE Hubli on 13th June 2010 (Sunday) at 11:00am. All the E cell members were invited to attend the meeting from all the EA partners (MBA College) of Hubli, Dharwad and Belgaum.

The students have attended the meeting and they got the opportunity of talking to the MBA students of USC marshall (This school is considered a top 20 business school by both U.S. News & World Report and BusinessWeek. The USC Marshall School of Business (also known as USC Marshall School of Business) is a private research and academic institution at the University of Southern California. It is the largest of USC's 17 professional schools) they interacted with each other and talked about the courses and the activities that they do apart from the academics and how the outdoor activities helps them in their education.

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Training of Trainers

EA hosted training of trainers on achievement motivation last weekend! 13 trainers from a wide range of backgrounds came to DCSE on 12 & 13 of June to participate in an intensive two day training of trainers on achievement motivation. Participants engaged in a range of discussions and activities that stretched their minds to think about training in a new light.
EA opened enrollment in the training to MBA faculty, BBA faculty and professional trainers from the field. The diverse group allowed for a very engaging and informative training in which participants were able to learn from others with varied backgrounds and perspectives. The training covered topics such as microlabs, the test of creative imagination, David McClelland’s research on achievement motivation, motivational types, locus of control, achievement imagery language analysis, entrepreneurial learning cycle, designing entrepreneurial curricula and much more.

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