he Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, will host their national B-school festival, Intaglio 2005, from January 7, 2005.

The theme: Excelling at managing change.

The aims

~ To inspire the business leaders of tomorrow to look for answers that can transform challenges into engines of growth.

~ To look for opportunities that new trade policies and business practices, powered by sophisticated technology and rapidly adjusting competition will throw up and in turn make gloabl leaders.

Flagship events include

~ Shastrarth, a paper presentation contest on economics, finance, marketing, systems and strategy.

~ Reverberations, a lecture series by academia and industry heavyweights like Mohanbir Sawhney of the Kellogg School of Business, Kiran Karnik of Nasscom and Ajit Balakrishnan of www.rediff.com.

~ Electrisk, a financial engineering case for display of skills at risk management with derivates. IIM-C claims this is the first such event to be ever held at a B-school in Asia.

~ Intaglio will also have marketing systems, strategy, operations and finance events, as well as a host of online games spanning four weeks.

To participate