"Rattling Minds" at BIMS a Success!

On Monday, February 21^st, BIMS E-Cell students held an inter-collegial quiz and business plan competition. The event, called ‘Rattling Minds’, was a great success! The idea for ‘Rattling Minds’ was sparked, in part, by the 2k CHALLENGE, a competition conducted by Entrepreneurship Academy. In this challenge teams of 3-4 students are given Rs. 2000 to invest and turn a profit on in a short period of time.

D.C.S.E. Director Naveen Jha was the chief guest and addressed the attendees about the importance of thinking entrepreneurially. Genny King and Malcolm Charles of Entrepreneurship Academy were the judges for the business plan competition. The competition’s theme was “Art out of Waste” and contained 3 rounds: the first was a brief presentation on each team’s product, the second was an ‘elevator pitch’ delivered to the judges, and the third was a five minute formal presentation. It was great seeing E-Cell members from IMER and GBS do so well at the event.

Ideas ranged from the hydroponic farming of strawberries to a cheap water filtration system. The winning team, from Gogti Institute of Technology, Udyambag, presented a plan to take old, discarded saris and use them to create blankets.

The day concluded with awards for the winners of the quiz and business plan competitions. Mr. Deepak Dhadoti, a Belgaum-based entrepreneur, delivered the valedictory speech.

EA would like to congratulate the Envision E-Cell for a wonderful event. In particular, credit should be given to Kiran Wali and Shabaz T. for managing the business plan competition, Shoaib Syed and Aishwarya D. for managing the quiz, and Moses Carvalho and Sayed Inamdar for acting as event coordinators. Students also had the support of BIMS Director Dr. Anilkumar Garag, Prof. Shreedevi Shintri, and Prof. Prasanna

2011 Development Dialogue Kickoff

After the close of the Yuva Summit in the afternoon, the 2011 Development Dialogue began with an inaugural Kickoff.

The event included speeches by Deshpande Foundation Trustees Jaishree and Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, as well as an overview of Deshpande Foundation activities. In order to showcase their work, organizations like LEAD, Hubli Champions, and the Deshpande Fellowship Program used a range of media and performances from skits to video, music, and dance.

The Entrepreneurship Academy held a “Rocket Toss” competition between students from BVB and Oxford College in order to illustrate the kind of activities and critical thinking that are core parts of EA’s mission. Each team of 3 was asked to make an “initial investment” for the paper needed to make the rockets. This investment was manifested as negative points. Teams were then given 45 seconds to make the rockets. Afterwards, one team member held a plastic pail and another was blindfolded. The third team member guided the blindfolded teammate in throwing the rockets into the pail. In the end, BVB College triumphed.

See video of EA's segment on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhUuc43Dhco&feature=player_embedded

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DD Kickoff Event

M.I.T.'s Professor Ken Zolot visit with students at D.C.S.E.

In advance of the 2011 Yuva Summit and Development Dialogue, Professor Ken Zolot met with students on the D.C.S.E. campus. Professor Zolot is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) School of Engineering. He teaches entrepreneurship and is also the founder of M.I.T.’s “Innovation Teams” Initiative.

Prof. Zolot conducted an activity with students to illustrate the important distinction between entrepreneurship and business management. A business manager will start with a goal and then will collect and structure resources in order to achieve that goal. In comparison, an entrepreneur might first consider all of the resources at his/her disposal and then experiment with them to create something undetermined.

We don’t want to give away the specifics of the activity as we plan on using it with more students in the future! It was effective in delivering its message about entrepreneurship and business management and the Entrepreneurship Academy thanks Professor Zolot for his time and experience.

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Zolot Fabric Activity

“Desh” session for EA

Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande is the Chairman of Sparta Group LLC, A123 Systems (AONE), Sycamore Networks (SCMR), Tejas Networks, Sandstone Capital and HiveFire. He was also a founding investor in Airvana, Cimaron, Webdialogs and Relicore.

Prior to co-founding Sycamore Networks, Dr. Deshpande was founder and chairman of Cascade Communications Corp.

Dr. Deshpande serves as a member of the MIT Corporation, and his generous donations have made possible MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation.

Dr. Deshpande holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, an M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and Ph.D. in Data Communications from Queens University in Canada.

Dr. Deshpande is a trustee of the Deshpande foundation. He and his wife are involved in several non-profit initiatives that include support for MIT, IIT, TiE, Akshaya Patra Foundation, Public Health Foundation of India and the Social Entrepreneurship Sandbox in India.

E Cell Meetings in Hubli, Dharwad and Belgaum

Entrepreneurship Academy had conducted E Cell meetings in all the partner colleges from Hubli, Dharwad and Belgaum thought this week. To introduce a new person in E A Team Mr Davalasaheb Babusaheb Vanageri, who has working as operational manager in DCSE is now working with E A from this month. He was also involved in IT training for DFP Cohort 4 and was working in a college as a faculty in Dharwad. He is more interested in working with students and teaching.
E cell meetings were conducted in Hubli : IMSR & GBS, Dharwad : JSS and Belgaum: BET's GBS & BIMS MBA colleges the E cell members had a brainstorming about the activities to be done in this month and next month. Some of the activities were finalized in some colleges like the Football tournament and other activities and had discussion on Cracking the Code competetion and the activity called 2K challenge. Cracking the Code competition is already going on and 2K challenge will start very soon in most of the colleges.

IMSR Hubli E Cell Meeting

IMSR Hubli had an E Cell meeting on 20-09-2010 in IMSR Hubli. The fresher’s of the college and the existing members with the Director Dr Prasad Roodagi gathered for the E-Lite (E Cell) meeting and different committees were formed and the roles and responsibilities have been divided among the students. During the E Cell meeting an activity was done for the members (News papers reading); with this activity the students have read the news paper and identify some article and think of some idea to srtat a new and innovative enterprise they were able to understand the mindset of an Entrepreneur and helped them in thinking critically. They shared their innovative ideas based on the article in the newspaper, they told that we read newspaper daily but this is the first time we read the newspaper so deeply and interestingly and there was lot of things going on in the brain. If we practice this attitude in us in all the activities we are sure that we will be different from all the other students.

E Cell Meeting in GBS Belgaum

To understand the mindset of an entrepreneur an activity was conducted for the members during the meeting, It was News paper reading activity and come up with the business opportunity by the given articles in the news paper. Limited time was given but by the end of the activity they had come up with many ideas. This is the activity to show the difference between how an entrepreneur thinks all the time.

The E D Cell Members of BET’s GBS Belgaum had a E cell meeting on 27-09-2010, during the meeting responsibilities were divided among the students and lots of activities were planned for the coming days in which this E Cell would be actively participating in all the activities.

"Cracking the Code" Competition for the Students.

Cracking the Code Flyer

Oxford College IT Class

Oxford College had an IT training on the communication and Social networking tools, on 20-09-2010 in Deshpande Centre for social Entrepreneurship. These tools are very useful to set the communication level high, these tools will be used by them in communication with the E A team as well as their faculties. E Cell members have got this opportunity to gain this extra knowledge which can be helpful for them in their entrepreneurial thinking, the tools they learned are useful for their academics also.

E A Team wish Oxford college E Cell members All the Best for their Future.

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Rashmi Bansal In DCSE Hubli

Rashmi Bansal the author of “Stay Hunger Stay Foolish” has visited Deshpande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship Hubli on 14th September and had a discussion with Mr Naveen Jha (Director, DCSE India). Reshmi Bansal has interacted with DF staff and in house entrepreneur (SEIR) Miss Sharvani (Safe Hands) Mr Shikandar (Rain water harvesting) E A faculties and all the E cell members from Hubli Dharwad had an interaction with Rasmi Bansal in IMSR College Auditorium Hubli, the faculties and the students had a chance to know more about the book and the inspiration behind the book. Rashmi Bansal’s first visit to Hubli (DCSE) and visited Akshay Patra & Agastya (NGO Partners of DCSE) and spoke with Hubli Champions and had secession with DFP cohort 5 Fellows. It was greate having her here in DCSE.

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Comment on TOT 2round

I joined TOT on Achievement Motivation because Mr Naveen Jha invited me to join and I like learning new things. I am extremely happy that I joined this training and looking forward to finish last module and accreditation. Thank you Mr Naveen!The content coverage, different style of training that is more experiential is excellent for this type of model. It was more of understanding our self to understand others. Be aware of your own motivational style and others style, so we can use this knowledge to achieve success. If I am achievement oriented person then I am looking at excellence in all aspect of my life. One can be working in organization and can still be entrepreneurial. Most important is clarity of our goal, everything else will fall in place. We will be proactive in facing and dealing internal and external challenges and blocks. We can use this training on self as well as in future to train others.
Madhu Lodaya
Hubli Champion 2

3rd E Cell Meeting

EA had 3rd E Cell meeting on 04th July 2010 in DCSE Hubli. EA had introduced Suma to the E Cell members, who have recently joined for EA program. The students from GBS and BIMS Belgaum and IMSR Hubli had attended this meeting; there was an interaction with Elisha and Azim the English instructor of DFP from North Eastern University Boston. The students had a brainstorming secession for the activities to be done with the E Cell after the internship, lot of Ideas had come out and the students are excited for the action.

Achievement Motivation training

The 2nd round of Achievement Motivation training for the faculties and DF staff was organized by Entrepreneurship Academy of Deshpande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship Hubli, from 26th June to 30th June 2010. It was a TOT (Training of Trainers), held in DCSE Hubli. Mrs. Rita Sengupta and DR M M P Akhouri (NIESBUD) were the resource people for the training; the EA partner Faculties from Hubli, Dharwad and Belgaum with DF staff was involved in the training. The participants had a better understanding on the achievement, power and affiliation motivation

TOT aims at equip trainers with skills and knowledge that are essential for inculcating entrepreneurial values in students and guiding and monitoring their progress towards entrepreneurial career.

The TOT will provide inputs on process and practice of entrepreneurship development, communication and inter-personal skills, creativity, problem solving, achievement motivation training, and inputs on resource and knowledge industries. The training methodology includes case studies, group discussion, games and simulation exercise, field visits and classroom lectures

Objectives of the training

- To help individual the threat of bettering standards set by `Self’ and `others’ as opposed to competing with others.
- To help the participant to examine our self and relate our image of himself with the environment.
- To understand ones’ own Goal Setting and Planning Behavior.
- To understand one’s own Risk taking behavior.
- To make one aware about his own style of influencing others and on-going situations.
- To enable him to recognize his creative and innovative potential.

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TOT on Achievement Motivation Training was in terms of learning from the first and second module was more to reflecting on our self and realizing the inner skills and shortcomings. this training was more to check self behaviour in decision making and risk-taking. most of the time all blame on others or make excuses like; no colleagues have performed well so me also or because of others less support i was not able to perform excellent. but this is the point where entrepreneurial and motivated person takes charge/ responsibility into her/his hand of the failure or success and they react very quickly to overcome from the last failure,instead of wasting time in blaming. As an EMT trainer there should be always concern of excellence to do perfectly. Feedback taking and giving is very important when it is asked and not from own self as evaluator or judgemental attitude.

By Ajay Suman
Program Manager
LEAD Program.

Deshpande Foundation
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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.