Pragati 2010

Entrepreneurship Academy was part of Pragati 2010 which is one of the Best Practices of MBA Department of Karnataka University. Pragati is a Acdademic Forum where all teachers of all the affiliated colleges of North Karnataka gethered. It is also an opportunity for the senior and successful teachers to share their good experience and Innovations in their course delivery to the MBA students. The guest speaker Mr Shiva Ramamoorthy (Group Director, Sales and Marketing, Tejas Networks) & Mr Naveen Jha ( Director DCSE India) were present in the function. More than 100 faculties of MBA Colleges form North Karnataka had attended this function. Mr Shiva Ramamoorthy spoke about the Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

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.

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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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.

Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande meets with faculty, directors & E-Cell members.

On 12th April, Desh met with EA’s E-Cell members and faculty at DCSE. During the event, Desh gave awards to students from GBS (Hubli) for their involvement in the 2K Challenge. Following the awards’ ceremony, one student from each school gave a brief presentation about their E-Cell activities and interest in engaging in entrepreneurial activities through the E-Cell. Desh then addressed the group with an inspirational talk on pursuing an entrepreneurial life. Below are some students’ feedback on what they learned from the session.

• You are the CEO of your own life
• Learn not just to be an entrepreneur, but also learn to lead an entrepreneurial life.
• Life is full of opportunities.
• Enjoy playing in every stage of life.
• Don’t give up or comprise one’s passion to be something.
• Entrepreneurs must have the guts to face Uncertainties..

IMSR hosts event in honor of C.K. Prahalad

On 20^th April 2010, E-Lite, the E-Cell at IMSR, hosted a special event to honor the legacy of C.K. Prahalad. The event began with a memorial to Prahalad, which was followed by a video highlighting Prahalad’s work.

The keynote speaker for the event was Dr. Satyajit Mujumdar, who has studied Prahalad’s work and spoke about the profound impact Prahalad has made on the world of business by pushing people to think innovatively. Dr. Mujumdar encouraged students in the audience to heed Prahalad’s wisdom and think about how they can beat their competitors in the business world by envisioning where the future will lead and being the ones to create the markets of the future.

Naveen Jha, Director of DCSE, spoke next about Prahalad’s insight on the bottom of the pyramid and how the concept has entered mainstream vocabulary around the world. Naveen highlighted that Prahalad’s work focused on India and played a major role in how the world views India as a land of opportunity.

The panel then had an interactive discussion with students about how corporations can cater to both low and high income clients by diversifying their products.

Genny King, a Sandbox Fellow with the Entrepreneurship Academy, shared some closing remarks on Prahalad’s profound insight on the bottom of the pyramid and how he revolutionized the way the world views the poor. Genny encouraged students to take advantage of the immense opportunities that lie in their home country and carry on Prahalad’s legacy by considering how they can use business strategies to alleviate poverty at the bottom of the pyramid.

E-Lite showed great initiative by taking this opportunity to honor a leader in the social entrepreneurship movement and host an enlightening discussion on some key issues in the field of entrepreneurship.

For more information on Prahalad’s recent passing, please read the recent New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/business/22prahalad.html?hpw

Site visits:

As part of the Social Entrepreneurship course, students and faculty from JSS (Dharwad), GBS (Hubli) and IMSR (Hubli) visited Akshaya Patra (www.akshayapatra.org) and Agastya Foundation (www.agastya.org). Site visits are an important component of EA’s courses, as they give faculty students an opportunity to see local examples of the material covered in EA courses first hand. Below are some students and faculty members’ comments about their site visit experience.

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"It was on March 18, 2010 that we had visited the Agastya Foundation in Hubli.Some of the experiment we saw were interesting, many experiment where based on the visual and mind connection, they were very simple experiments but explaining much more than what it appears. We where lucky enough to try some of those and have an hand on experience on it."

By Ninaad N Musale GBS Hubli.
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IT trainings for faculty & students:

E-Cell members are engaging in trainings on IT applications for aspiring entrepreneurs. The first round of training covered a variety of areas, such as advanced Google applications, FaceBook and Blogs.
Through regular trainings, faculty members are developing advanced IT skills for academics. Trainings thus far have covered, advanced Google applications, FaceBook, Blogs, Dropbox, and advanced applications of Microsoft office suite.
EA plans to continually engage faculty and students in trainings to enhance their ability to utilize cutting edge IT applications in their work