Here's why it was raining awards on IIM Indore students at the Texas University competitions

For the third consecutive year, Texas Executive Education at The McCombs School of Business hosted 50 students from the Indian Institute of Management in Indore.

IIM Indore, a top-five business school located in Madhya Pradesh, sent their best and brightest for a five-week Custom Program focused on analytics for business excellence. The students from the Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management of IIM Indore also brought laurels to their institute by winning various competitions which were organized in Red McCombs School of Business.

EPGP participant Ayush Khaitan participated in a Hackathon and his team won the 2nd prize. Hackathon is a competition which requires coming up with a working solution to some existing problem using an existing technology, in a limited time. This Hackathon was organised by Moovel, a subsidiary of well-known Diamler Group. Ayush participated in the 48 hour non-stop session which required the use of technology to solve a problem in the mobility domain.

Participants also took part in an IIM Indore/UT Austin Social Media Analytics Challenge 2016. Social Media Analytics is an exciting new field which can help a marketer in many ways such as planning a marketing campaign, predicting an election’s result, forecasting sales using the data from social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Akhil Jhingan, Anjani Kumar Sinha, Anupam Singh, Himanshu Makkar, Gaurav Tyagi and Eshana G won the first prize in the challenge. They presented their work on giving suggestions to HR for an enhanced employee satisfaction, IIM Indore officials said.

Ankur Jain, Gourav Arora, Samir Singh, Shantanu Roy, Vaibhav Agarwal and Vaibhav Singhal won the second prize in the event. They worked on designing a social media campaign for a hypothetical political party for upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Another team comprising of Himanshu Bhatia, Rupak Laskar, Kirthirani, Prashant Mishra and Sandeep Reddy bagged ‘honourable mention award’ in the event and they analysed the dynamics of start-up culture in India.

Notably. IIM-Indore has a tie-up with McCombs School of Business, wherein the EPGP participants complete one semester while staying at the University campus and are taught by the some of the most imminent professors.