For the first time in 23 years, students from Indian business schools have won both sections of the prestigious global competition.
Tiruchirappalli, December 03, 2024: A team of three first-year MBA students from Bharathidasan Institute of Management has secured the 1st Rank globally in CAPSIM Fall 2024 Foundation challenge, which concluded in November 2024. The team from BIM comprised the first-year students Muthu Kumaran R, Prasana Subramaniam T R and Yutesh P, guided by Professor R Subramanian. The team now finds a place in the CAPSIM Hall of Fame.
The Capsim Challenge (www.capsim.com) attracts students from around the globe who have completed a Capsim simulation in the previous 12 months. This Capstone and Foundation alumni drawn from leading B Schools globally pits them against each other in a biannual competition to crown the world’s best at running a multi-million dollar simulation company. Twice each year, Capsim alums have the opportunity to test their business acumen against competitors from around the globe. The scoring process considers Balanced Scorecard methods for qualifying and final rounds. The teams or individuals with the six highest scores move on to compete for the title in the finals. Over the years, this competition has gained immense popularity among leading B School graduates to showcase their talent and skill in strategy and consulting roles during recruitment. This year, the countries represented include Australia, Canada, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Türkiye, and the USA. For the official results posted by Capsim Challenge, https://www.capsim.com/blog/challenge-results-fall-2024
Expressing joy over the students’ achievement, Dr. Asit K Barma, the Director of Bharathidasan Institute of Management, said, ‘Today’s rapidly changing business order and global value chain have changed the narrative of strategic decision making. We have invested heavily in software and training to create world-class experiential learning with business simulation, an integral part of our MBA program architecture. BIM now enjoys a good footprint in the country as a top B School in simulation-based teaching pedagogy, consistently winning CAPSIM competitions. This win further vindicates the robustness of our MBA program that aims to make our students future-ready.’
For more information, please contact:
Mr. Jeeva Kumaran (Director’s Office)
Bharathidasan Institute of Management
Mob: +91 9342847284
Email: jeeva@bim.edu
About Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM Trichy):
Established in 1984, Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli, an NBA accredited, ISO 21001:2018 certified, NIRF Top 100 ranked institution, is an autonomous school of excellence of Bharathidasan University. Registered as a Society under the TN Societies Registration Act, BIM Tiruchirappalli Society is governed by an independent Board with the Hon’ble Governor of Tamil Nadu as the Patron-In-Chief. BIM offers a two-year residential MBA program approved by AICTE and affiliated with Bharathidasan University, specializing in Marketing Management, Finance and Economics, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Human Resources Management, and Digital Business & Analytics. It also conducts TN CM’s Two-Year Fellowship Program, besides Management Development /Faculty Development Programs. BIM is in the process of restarting its PhD program. More than 4500 BIM Alumni spread around the globe are significantly contributing to industry, academics, and society today. Former Union Finance and Industry Minister Bharat Ratna, Late Shri C Subramaniam, was instrumental in setting up this B School. He was motivated by starting a School of Excellence in Management that would be organically linked with an industrial complex. He believed that just as a medical school needed to be attached to a hospital to be effective as a teaching institution, a Management School likewise had to be linked with industry. Accordingly, the institute was set up in collaboration with BHEL within its sprawling Tiruchirappalli campus. In addition to its graduate program, BIM has a strong focus on research and has established multiple centers of excellence, including the Operations Excellence Centre, Financial Trading and Analytics Centre (FINTRAC) with Bloomberg terminals, Real-Time Contextual Marketing Labs, and Centre for Sustainable Development to advance contemporary management practices (www.bim.edu).