About SPARKS –
Benchmark SPARKS is a “write to influence” contest series that started on 15 November 2013. Each part of this series focuses on a contemporary business theme. The contest is open only to top B-Schools across India. The list of eligible B-Schools can be seen here.
The Judges’ Panel
Vivek Madan
VP, Operations, MBB
GE Commercial Finance
Suresh Jayaram
Director, Business Excellence, MBB
Philips
B Waware
Master Black Belt
IBM
PB Mohan
Dy Director Process Engineering, MBB
CMA CGM
Tina Arora
Service Head, MBB
Citibank
Winners
First – Deepak Gupta, IMT Ghaziabad
Second – Aseem Shandilya, IMT Ghaziabad
Third – Suhani Popli, IIM Kozhikode
Fourth –
- Partha Mitra, IMT Ghaziabad
- Prateek Chaturvedi, IIM Ahmedabad
- Swatee Singhal, NITIE
Contest Timeline
- Theme – This series had a topic on which contestants had to write. The topic was “Data driven decision making (DDDM).
- Contest start date – The contest started on Friday 15th November 2013, 09:00 IST.
- Article submission – Submission deadline was Friday 22nd November 2013, 23:59 IST.
- Online interaction assessment – Assessment by panelists was completed on Friday 06th December 2013, 09:00 IST.
- Announcement of results – Results were announced to finalists on Saturday 07th December 2013 at 09:00 AM and to all others at 9 PM.
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