Tata Business Leadership Awards (TBLA) 2007 preliminary rounds held
January 9, 2007

The Tata Business Leadership Awards, one of the most eagerly anticipated competitions in the Indian business school arena, culminated its preliminary rounds across the country yesterday. The campus final round of this national competition took place across the top seven business schools of the country – IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, XLRI Jamshedpur, FMS Delhi and SPJAIN Mumbai – simultaneously yesterday.

Like every year, this year too over 300 teams comprising over 1200 students had registered from these seven campuses. The campus finals yesterday saw over 70 teams (shortlisted from over 300 registrations) across 7 campuses battle it out for the 7 top slots.

The theme for this year's TBLA is "Identifying new business opportunities for the Tata Group". The campus finals saw a slew of ideas for the Group ranging from healthcare to shipping, sports to entertainment, equity to power generation. These ideas with their detailed business cases were evaluated by panels of senior Tata Managers across these seven campuses to arrive at the national finalists.

The seven winners, one from each campus, are to further fight it out on 10th January in the National Finals being held at Hotel President, Mumbai, to determine the winner for the year 2007. The finals will be judged by Tata GCC members followed by an award ceremony felicitating the best of the business ideas.

The TBLA is conducted by Tata Administrative Services (TAS), a premier recruiter at Indian business schools. TAS has been the flagship recruitment programme for the Tata Group aimed at developing young leaders for the Tata Group for the past 50 years.