GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPATION

Summer Research Project Competition 2008

Student Managers doing MBA/PGP/PGDM

 

Last date for Submission of Synopsis:        October 05, ‘08

Date of Event:                                      October 18, ’08, 09:30 hrs onwards

Venue:                                                INMANTEC campus

Registration fee: Rs 250 per entry (refundable after conclusion of the event)

Rules:

1.      The submission must be a conceptual/analytical model or an empirical research project.

2.      The students presenting project must make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. They also need to abide by all other requirements indicated in the information brochure.

3.      The project must be limited to 50 A4/Letter size pages that are double-spaced and in 11 point Times New Roman Font. Margin of one inch must be provided on all sides.

4.      In order to restrict the project size to 50 pages, the participant is encouraged to give importance to the research problem, methodology, findings and conclusions and its relevance in the present business environment.

5.      In addition, the project must also be accompanied by an abstract that does not exceed 100 words.

6.      INMANTEC reserves rights to amend these rules without prior notice, if necessary.

7.      The nomination should be made by the b-school head (or an authorized faculty/officer). It is requested to the concerned faculty/head to do preliminary screening and send only the best qualified entry(ies).

8.      A covering letter providing names of the nominated students and titles of their projects should be submitted for the competition.

  1. Maximum two entries per institute are permissible.
  2. The Competition is open to the member institutions or individual members of 'GMA' (Ghaziabad Management Assosiation) only.

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    Evaluation Process:

    1.      First, the projects will be evaluated by a committee consisting of eminent professor from their respective field.

    2.       Each project will be sent to two external reviewers. Projects will be evaluated using a double-blind review process. This is done to ensure objectivity and fairness in the evaluation process.

    Summer Research Projects must be submitted to Prof Vipin Agrawal, at vipin.agrawal@inmantec.edu

    Awards: 

    First Award:             Rs 2500

    Second Award:         Rs 1500

    Third Award:            Rs 1000

     

    ·         All contestants will receive a participation certificate.

    ·         Exemplary Projects will be published.

    ·         Best winning project will fetch the participant Best Summer Trainee Award of the Year during GMA Annual Convention in November this year.

     

    For further details:

    Contact Prof Vipin Agrawal, +91-9810300791, vipin.agrawal@inmantec.edu

    Web: http://www.inmantec.edu/SRP08