City B-school beats IIMs!

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">Move over IIMs, Mumbai''s S P Jain Institute of Management and Research is better. Or so it seemed at the recently held Tata Business Leadership Awards (TBLA), with a team of four first year students of the Andheri college beating final year management students from some of the best institutes in the country.<br /><br />Anahita Ichaporia (22), Asif Shamim (25), Ravi Kumar (25) and Nilesh Kumar (27) presented a business model for marketing Tata Tea in the US as a ready-to-drink lifestyle beverage, and were given first position by judges from Harvard Business School, including K G Palepu, senior associate dean, Nitin Nohria, Professor of Business Administration and Das Narayandas, Associate Professor of Business Marketing.One of the more prestigious awards amongst B-schools, the short-listing process of TBLA is thorough. "Organisers encourage competition within colleges, and 10 teams from S P Jain participated," the students say. "The final round has eight colleges participating." Besides S P Jain, finalists this year included IIM-A, IIM-B, IIM-C, IIM-L, XLRI, FMS and IIFT.<span style="" font-style:="" italic="">jamal.shaikh@timesgroup.com</span></div> </div>