New Venture Management Student Award
Regent’s College’s International Visiting Professor, Professor
Jonathan Liu and Academic Director, Dr Richard Gregson are proud to
announce the winner of Regent’s College Houghton Mifflin’s Best
Student Award in Managing New Ventures for Autumn 2008.
The award recognizes the aspirations and passion that students
have in developing their ideas and turning them into sustainable
ventures that benefit society and individuals as a whole.
Shruti Rathod receives the Managing New Ventures Award
The award winner, Shruti Rathod said,
“Managing New Ventures is one of the very rare modules that require
an efficient combination of theory and practice. The very
hands-on nature of the module gives it an edge over the rest of the
theory based modules. I gradually learnt the creative
element of the business environment as the module
progressed. My interest in the subject was developed further
in the team assignment. The group work for the module was far the
best group work I've had at Regent’s College. The teacher's support
during the classes and also outside of regular class hours has been
phenomenal. It was like being part of a small family."
Celebrating Students Achievements
The award celebrates the achievements that
students have to make in developing themselves and the hard work
that they have put into making the module a success. The
module enables students to explore the challenges and processes
involved in the creation of new ventures. Students are
required to apply analytical and technical skills that they have
learnt from the module and attempt to use them in a practical
setting.
The award is made to the student who achieves
the highest grades in the assessment process and by working in a
team of students developing a bespoke merchandise product or
service idea. The assessment process involves presenting the
idea and answering questions from a panel of external industrial
experts in a Dragon’s Den format.
The panel assesses the presentation and rates
the venture idea as they would do in real life. This brings
realism into the classroom and enables students to gain experience
of presenting in competitive and sometimes hostile business
environments to which they would not otherwise have exposure.
The Award
The award is sponsored by Cengage and Tom
Owen, Field Sales Representative, said that “Cengage having taken
over Houghton Mifflin continues the relationship with Regent's
College as sponsors of the award because the module meets Cengage’s
goals of being a global provider of learning materials and
facilitators of knowledge transfer”.
The award is made annually and allows students
to be creative and think out of the box by applying what they have
learned both from the module as well as from other modules they
have covered at the College.