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| ashu |
Posted
on 07-Dec-03 10:03 PM
PM awards entrepreneur
Himalayan News Service
Kathmandu, December 7
Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa today gave away the boss top 10 Awards for Business Excellence to companies, entrepreneurs, chief executive officers (CEOs) and best management students amidst a special function organised here by Speciality Media Pvt Ltd, the publisher of the boss magazine.
Giving the welcome speech Shalini Wadhwa, CEO and managing editor of the boss magazine said that the boss top 10 Awards for Business Excellence, was the first of its kind in Nepal and is a tribute to the spirit of entrepreneurship and business.
Wadhwa said "today everybody is celebrating each other's strengths, dedications, entrepreneurship and the potentials we have."
Moderating the award giving ceremony, Ravin Lama, managing director of The Himalayan Times, wooed the audience with 'constructive and innovative' words.
Speaking on behalf of panellist, Prabhakar SJB Rana said that the selection process for the award was well-processed. "There is a transparency and professionalism in the selection of the awards, said Rana at the huge gathering of people, adding "The selection was as good as unanimous. The awards were instituted to bring corporate governance in Nepal."
the boss Top 10 Business Awards for Excellence were awarded to the Best Company- Manufacturing/ Marketing, Best Financial Institution, Best Entrepreneur - Company, Best Entrepreneur - Information Technology, Best Entrepreneur - Women, Person to Watch, FNCCI Young Entrepreneur, Top five CEOs and Top five management Students.
The event partners namely Palash Bhattacharya, country representative, AC Neilsen (ORG-MARG) Nepal Pvt Ltd and Jitendra Rajbhandary Sr Partner, JB Rajbhandary and DiBins were honoured for their contributions.
Similarly, consultants of the boss Top 10 Business Excellence Awards viz Ranjit Acharya, CEO, Prisma Advertising Agency; Ravin Lama, managing director, The Himalayan Times and Anil K Thaman, managing director of Sea Services were also honoured at the function.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 07-Dec-03 10:15 PM
Best Company- Manufacturing/ Marketing
Dabur Nepal
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Best Financial Institution
Standard Chartered Bank
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Best Entrepreneur - Company,
Karna Shakya of KGH Group
****
Best Entrepreneur - Information Technology (tie)
Chandra Hari Karki, MiDas Technologies
Rajesh Kumar Shakya, Hitechvalley iNet
*****
Best Entrepreneur - Women
Sharada Risal, Milan Garments
*****
Person to Watch,
Rajendra Khetan
*****
FNCCI Young Entrepreneur,
Saurabh Jyoti, Jyoti Group
******
Top five CEOs
Sujit Mundul, CEO, Standard Chartered Bank
Indrajit Lahiri, CEO Asian Paints
Sashin Joshi, CEO, Nepal Industrial and Commercial Bank
TK Gupta, CEO, Dabur Nepal
Rabindra Man Shrestha, CEO, Himalaya Snax & Noodles
*******
Top five management students:
Robina Maharjan, Ace Institute of Management
Raja Aryal, Apex College
Bhushan Tandukar, Campion College
Kiran Pandit, People's Campus
Beepana Rana, Kathmandu University
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| Bhunte |
Posted
on 07-Dec-03 10:25 PM
Congratulation to the winner! The recent trend recognizing current and future enterpreneurs and managers is very encouraging .....
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| hehe |
Posted
on 08-Dec-03 03:21 AM
Ashu!!
Just a correction, the name on the 'best entrepreneur-information technology' is not Chandra Hari Karki. His name is Chhatra Hari Karki (Midas Technologies), who happens to be a friend of mine. He is a young, hard-working and smart guy and has returned from Australia (Melborune Uni) after his education. Well, he would have lived there as he had PR in his hand but came to do 'something real' in Nepal about two and half years before. During this short period of time, I was surprised to see how his companyhas expanded and how he has established himself in the IT sector when I met him in last May.
hehe
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| Gokul |
Posted
on 08-Dec-03 05:12 AM
Ashu,
Thanks for informing us. The lack of "business research" category is painfully obvious. Are you aware of any institutuion, organization that conduct business-related research in Nepal? How do we know what we know?
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| ashu |
Posted
on 08-Dec-03 05:18 AM
Hehe,
Thank you for the correction.
Karki's company's work is impressive. He edged out other strong contenders such as Sanjib Rajbhandari (Mercantile) and Dileep Agrawal (Worldlink).
On a larger note, yes, there are tons of problems in Nepal, and one can talk endlessly about those problems.
But, fortunately, all of those problems can be viewed as opportunites . . . as Karki's success has shown.
In coming years in Nepal, let there be thousands more Karkis across Nepal.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| ashu |
Posted
on 08-Dec-03 05:36 AM
Gokul,
The numbers for each company were vetted by a group of independent chartered accountants led by Jitendra Rajbhandari.
Further market research was provided by the Nepal office of AC-Nielsen (of 'Nielsen ratings' fame) . Each nominee company/person had to submit detailed answers to
a set of questions that was wide-ranging, and had borrowed appropriately from
similar American (Business Week) and Indian (Business Standard) models.
Armed, then, with numbers and qualitative data, a group of panelists (myself included) spent days -- reading the documents, and then debating, discussing and arguing back and forth before reaching some sort of decisions . . . just like, to draw a crude parallel, what they do in an admissions office.
Plus, there's this fact that Mr. Pravakar SJB Rana, the ex-chairman of Soaltee Group and one of the panelists, went on record to say that "the selection process for the award was well-processed . . . . There is a transparency and professionalism in the selection of the awards".
Again, any judgement by human beings is bound NOT to be 100 per cent 'correct' in
a cosmic sense. But the judgements here seemed to have left most people satisfied, with the knowledge that this Award thing is ONLY a beginning this year.
Personally, I had a great time -- working with a remarkable group of panelists (bankers, accountants, economics professors, CEOs and others) since last August, and have
come away appreciative of the whole selection process and of the entreprenurial energy
of fellow Nepalis.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| Gokul |
Posted
on 08-Dec-03 05:56 AM
Ashu,
Perhaps I was not very clear. I was not questioning the validity and reliability of the selection process. I wanted to know why there was not any category like "Top five business research institutions".
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| ashu |
Posted
on 08-Dec-03 06:03 AM
Gokul,
Your point is well taken.
I don't know the answer to your question. All I can say is business research is a relatively new thing in Nepal, and not many people know what to do with it.
The biggest player in town for market research is AC-Nielsen, and even its staff say
that they have a hard time persuading name-brand Nepali companies to spend
money on research.
The second biggest player -- Key Research (a Nepal-Sri Lanka joint venture operation)
is struggling to generate business, though a number of 'boutique' research firms serve primarily aid agencies and NOT private-sector businesses.
Maybe this category could be taken up in future years.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| Gokul |
Posted
on 08-Dec-03 06:51 AM
Ashu
Thanks for the info regarding ACNielsen. You once correctly said that our country is brimming over with such potential that it is impossible to hide the excitement. I believe that if we want to change Nepal for better, then it is NOT the political leaders but the business leaders that we should have our faith on. The success of a business leader is determined by his action not just speech, while that of a political leader (at least in the context of Nepal) rests on his ability to fool people. Business revolution will lead us to the right place. A system of profound knowledge - it is Deming, not Mao.
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| south |
Posted
on 08-Dec-03 10:40 AM
Ashu dai, i was wondering which is the best institute in nepal for MBA program. Could you please post some information about MBA programs in Nepal. Thank you.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 10-Dec-03 05:52 AM
Gokul,
More than business leaders in the conventional sense, I would say that it's the innate entreprenuership of Nepalis (whether they are being entrepreneurial to make money for themselves in a legal way, or spot opportunities to explot to their advantage or apply business-like thinking to solve larger social-political problems) . . . . it's the innate entreprenuership of Nepalis that should save the day.
The challenge is how to put incentives in place so that such entrepreneurs (broadly defined) can thrive in Nepal.
Fortunately, almost 80 per cent of 24 millions of Nepalis are under the age 40 . . . so, at least in theory, profoundly positive changes ARE indeed possible in Nepal within a generation or two, say, within the next 10 to 20 years or so.
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South,
From what I know, (privately-run) Kathmandu University's MBA program enjoys a good reputation among recruiters from multinational companies based in Nepal.
Ace Instititute of Management (privately-run) also appears to have a well-run MBA program.
Publicly-run Shanker Dev Campus, too, has produced a number of MBAs/MComs who are now running many of the banks and other companies
Hope this helps.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| south |
Posted
on 10-Dec-03 09:56 AM
Thanks Ashu dai.
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