![]() ![]() The Champions walked away with a cash prize of Rs 250,000 and a trophy. Steel-a-thon 2015 was made more attractive for the ‘future business leaders’ with respect to the rewards. “The overall response and the success of Steel-a-thon II clearly indicates that we are on the right track in connecting with the brightest talents from the top B-Schools in the country,” said Gupta. ![]() The challenge also helps demystify the idea that the steel industry does not have good problems to solve that are related to the dynamics of market. Steel-a-thon provides opportunity to all the participants to work on real-life problems in a two-month tenure from their campuses. “Steel-a-thon’s first edition in 2014 received an overwhelming response and we have further raised the level of the competition this year,” said Peeyush Gupta, Vice President - Steel (Marketing & Sales), Tata Steel. It’s an ideal win-win platform for both the fresh and brightest talent in management and for the company,” said Suresh Dutt Tripathi, Vice President, HRM, Tata Steel. “In today’s world, the young minds are always looking for challenges and Steel-a-thon is the ideal platform to dwell on providing solutions to the challenges on a real-time basis. The presentation spanned across business verticals of HRM, Supply Chain Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Marketing and Sales as well as Strategy Planning. The event invites students from top-rated B-schools to present their ‘Big Idea’ to the management of Tata Steel. Tata Steel initiated ‘Steel-a-thon’ to connect with the young minds of B-schools and provide them with an opportunity to work on real-time challenges faced in the work environment. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, won the 1st runners up position and JBIMS, Mumbai secured the 2nd Runners Up slot. ![]() Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, emerged as champions of Steel-a-thon 2015. This year Steel-a-thon received 56 per cent higher participation from B-schools compared with last year, with a total participation of 941 teams (3095 students). The finale was closely contested between teams from 15 different B-schools who presented their business cases live to jury members - Peeyush Gupta, VP - Steel (M&S), Tata Steel Suresh Dutt Tripathi, VP, HRM, Tata Steel Debashish Chowdhury, Chief-Procurement-MRO & Services, Tata Steel Deepa Verma, Chief HRM Services, Tata Steel Sarajit Jha, Chief Corporate Strategy, Tata Steel and Subrat Mahapatra, Head Education, Corporate Social Responsibility, Tata Steel. MUMBAI: Tata Steel on Tuesday witnessed the grand finale of Steel-a-thon, an intellectual marathon between the best B-School students of India in Kolkata. ![]()
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