The Tata Business Leadership Award (TBLA), initiated in 2004, is an annual business school event organised by the Tata Group. It offers students from select business schools a unique opportunity to compete with the brightest and display their business acumen.

The award underlines the commitment of the Tata Group towards promoting and encouraging future leaders. It is also an endeavour to create awareness among management students of the Tata brand.

The students (in teams of three to four) are given a strategic problem or situation relevant to the Group. They have to make a presentation to senior managers in the Group and defend their case study. The defence is evaluated on parameters such as creativity, clarity, relevance and business value.

Preliminary rounds are held on campus and chaired by a panel consisting of a cross section of senior Tata managers. The final defence presentation, held at the Tata Management Training Centre in Pune, is seen by Tata leaders and others

The winning team gets the coveted TBLA rolling trophy and a host of other prizes.

TBLA 2008
National winners: IIM Calcutta (Amit Mehta, Puneet Gandhi, Puneet Jain, Ritesh Saxena)

First runner-up: SP Jain Mumbai (Ashish Upadhyay, Raghava Attinuru, Swagata Basak, Sunrita Bhowmik Saha)

Second runner-up: IIM Bangalore (Amlan Chaudhuri, Neetu Chitkara, Parvej Kumar Ravesh, Rahul Arya)

TBLA 2008 in-house winners
National winners: Tata Chemicals (Amitabh Tapadar, Anand Sinha, Madhur Vaghela, Mohammed Altaf S)

First runner-up: HVTL (Heavy Vehicles Transmission Ltd), Jamshedpur (P. Sant Prasad, Sabas Fernando, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Soumik Chatterjee)

Second runner-up: TCS, USA (Prabhat Kumar Asthana, Vikrant Neogi, Devendra Kumar Singh)

TBLA 2007
National winners: IIM, Lucknow (Alok Bhagaria, Sidharth Bansal, Pratik Shukla, Rahul Khaparde)

First runner-up: IIM, Bangalore

Second runner-up: FMS, Delhi

TBLA 2006
National winners: FMS, Delhi (Abhijit Shetty, Manuj Ahri, Vidisha Mehta, Aditya SV)

First runner-up: IIM, Bangalore (Sameer Shetty, Vaibhav Jambhekar, Apurv Parashar, Hemang Mehta)

Second runner- up: SP Jain, Mumbai (Rajeev Singh, Nikesh Samaiya, Gopalakrishnan K, Kapil Lodha)

TBLA 2005
National winners: IIM Lucknow (Tarandeep Singh Ghai, Kunal Arya Shreshta, Ashutosh Bhandari, Saurabh Khandelwal)

First runner-up: FMS, Delhi (Abhijeet Shetty, Mohit Ralhan, Amit Gupta, Curie Balgir)

Second runner-up: IIM Calcutta (H. V. Vinayak, Madhusudan Sharma, Kunal Kumar, Ashish Verma)

TBLA 2004
National winner: SP Jain Mumbai (Ravi Kumar, Anahita Ichaporia, Nilesh Kumar, Asif Shamim)

First runner-up: IIM Ahmedabad (Anish Saraf, Ashish Keyal, R. N. Gautam, Rahul Verma)

Second runner-up: XLRI, Jamshedpur (Diwakar Loshali, Purnima Kumar, Surabhi Loshali, Ritesh Bhardwaj)