Tiruchirappalli, November 20, 2025: Two teams of students from the first-year and second-year MBA courses at Bharathidasan Institute of Management have earned international recognition by winning top honors at the prestigious “Capsim Challenge” in both the Foundation and Advanced-level competitions during Fall 2025. With this achievement, BIM has consistently won both competitions in Spring and Fall 2025, a rare accomplishment for any college globally in the 20 years of the prestigious CAPSIM Challenge.
The Capsim Challenge is a widely recognized biannual business simulation competition for students, organized by Capsim Management Solutions Inc., USA. In this competition, students run virtual companies in a fast-changing market, making real-time decisions across R&D, marketing, production, and finance. The event promotes hands-on learning, helping students prepare for the complexities of global business. The best performers are inducted into the Capsim Hall of Fame.
A team of final-year MBA students—Prasana Subramaniam T R, Yutesh P, and Muthu Kumaran R—secured first place globally in the CAPSIM Capstone 2.0 Fall 2025 Challenge. This achievement marks BIM’s second consecutive worldwide victory in the Capstone Challenge. In the Core category, first-year MBA students Vaithiyanathan S, Shrie Sannith N, and Khailaash Lakshminarasimhan claimed the top spot globally in the CAPSIM Core Fall 2025 Challenge, marking BIM’s third straight global win in the Core simulation. Prof. R. Subramanian mentored both teams. Participants from India, Canada, Israel, Thailand, and the USA competed in the final. Other Indian business schools in the finals included SPJIMR, Mumbai, IIM Bangalore, and NMIMS. (For Detailed results
Expressing joy over the achievement, the Director of BIM, Dr. Asit K. Barma, commented, “Today’s Gen Z learners need a different pedagogy to bring out their best. We have invested in building several CoEs and introduced simulation-based learning across all courses, right from the first term. This win underscores BIM’s continued position as a leading B-school in experiential and simulation-based learning, consistently delivering globally competitive talent.”
The professor in charge of the BIM team, Dr. R. Subramanian, said, “These honors of students reflect not only their individual business acumen but also the nurturing environment in BIM, which propelled our students to outshine at a global level. We are proud to see our students’ consistent accomplishments in this global competition, and it is a testament to the institute’s commitment to nurturing borderless competitive skills that are required for today’s business order.”
The students reported that the competition helped them understand: 1. How to navigate high time pressure in decision-making, 2. How to balance short-term performance with long-term sustainability, 3. How to manage cross-functional trade-offs and competitive dynamics, 4. How to compete against top global B-schools on a real-time leaderboard. The winning students shared that the global recognition was a proud moment and validated the institute’s strong focus on practical, analytics-driven decision-making.
About Bharathidasan Institute of Management
Established in 1984, Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli, is an ISO 21001:2018 certified, NIRF Top 100-ranked institution and an autonomous school of excellence under Bharathidasan University. Registered as a Society under the TN Societies Registration Act, BIM Tiruchirappalli Society is overseen by an independent Board, with the Hon’ble Governor of Tamil Nadu serving as its Patron-In-Chief. BIM offers a two-year residential MBA program approved by AICTE and affiliated with Bharathidasan University, with specializations in Marketing Management, Finance and Economics, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Human Resources Management, and Digital Business & Analytics. It also runs the TN CM’s Two-Year Fellowship Program, along with Management Development and Faculty Development Programs. BIM is actively working to restart its PhD program. Over 4500 BIM alumni worldwide are making significant contributions to industry, academia, and society today. The former Union Finance and Industry Minister, Bharat Ratna, Late Shri C Subramaniam, played a key role in establishing this business school. He envisioned creating a School of Excellence in Management that would be organically linked with an industrial complex. He believed, much like a medical school needs a hospital to be effective, a management school must be connected with industry. Consequently, the institute was established in collaboration with BHEL within its extensive Tiruchirappalli campus. Besides its graduate programs, BIM emphasizes research and has founded multiple centers of excellence, including the Operations Excellence Centre, Financial Trading and Analytics Centre (FINTRAC) featuring Bloomberg terminals, Real-Time Contextual Marketing Labs, and the Centre for Sustainable Development to promote modern management practices (www.bim.edu).
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