Experiential Learning

It was clear to Mr. Anand after having run global multi-billion-dollar businesses in over 136 countries and served on the Board of a $40 billion corporation that management education could only be learnt by doing real business and not sitting in a classroom. He was educated in the top B-schools in the world like Tuck Business School, Michigan Ross... School of Business, IE Business School and SP Jain Institute of Management and Research where he learnt the best practices in management education. He was keen to empower UBS students and ignite their minds to germinate ideas enabling them to organize themselves in an organization with goals, purpose, structure, teams, leadership and a profit motive. The concept of ELC was born from the Earn While You Learn Program initiated as a Scholarship towards deserving and highly talented students. In August 2013, we started by creating Team Leaders (TLs) under the leadership of Ms. Samita Chahal, who were given revenue generating and profit targets and were allocated resources. The first divisions created were Global CEO Series (Samita Chahal, Abhijeet Thorat & Saikiran Mimani), Green thinking (Shreya Prabhu & Kuhu Pathak), Global Trading Room (Vivekraj Shah), Marketing (Sanket Bhawakar, Hitesh Jain & Avril Rodrigues), Symposiums & Conferences (Sankalp Sekhsaria & Ravi Garg), Campus Tour (Prashant Shah & Reshma Raghavan), Library Services (Sudarshan Sahu) and Digital Marketing (Anurag Bisen, Surpreet Singh & Mary Divya). Those that contributed and participated were promoted to Vice Presidents and those that were not performing were fired. Weekly business reviews were conducted based on the Business Scorecard Method. In 2014, the first set of VPs including Amit Sekhar, Manik Kataria, Shwetal Kadam, Vaneet Chaudhary, Tejpratap Anand, Sakshi Natani, Ankit Boratkar and Jaya Lalwani decided to give the organization a shape, structure and investment. We decided to transform this 'so called club' into a Private Limited Company and create a thriving enterprise. Towards this goal, ...Read More