GITAM SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS GITAM UNIVERSITY, VISAKHAPATNAM GUIDELINES FOR SUMMER INTERNSHIP - MBA (IB,IBF,GLSCM) 2010-12 Duration

It is a mandatory requirement to undergo summer internship for a period of eight weeks. Objective The objective of the Summer Internship Project (SIP) is to help the interns acquire managerial skills and expose them to the practical aspects of business management. Faculty Guides Each student will have two faculty guides. For operational convenience, the two faculty guides may decide that the student may be in regular touch with the first guide through email at least once in a week, while keeping informed the second guide. The student is required to copy to the second guide all email correspondence with the first guide. The second guide will also be in regular touch with the first guide and the student. Faculty Guides once allotted cannot be changed or swapped without explicit permission of SIP Committee (viz. Professor V L Rao, Placements Chairperson, and Programme Chairperson). The Project The project will comprise of the following: Industry / Sector Review This Review should put together the students knowledge of the sector / sub-sector to which the company / organization where the student is doing the SIP belongs. Examples of industries /sectors are: Pharmaceuticals, Clothing, and Capital Markets. Examples of sub-sectors are: Mutual Funds, Motor Vehicles and Parts. The content in the Review should be analytical, not just copy-and-paste job. Basic concepts need not be explained. Historical account of the sector/industry is not required. Start with current issues and discuss future prospects. Source-wise summaries should not be made. Own sub-headings should be there and the material from different sources should be arranged under those sub-headings. The students ability to synthesize material from different sources is tested. Deadline: The industry / sector review should be emailed to the faculty guides by 5 May 2011. There would be a penalty of 1 mark per day up to 8 May 2011. After that the student will get zero (for this component of 10 marks).

Work in the Company / Organization After reporting to the Company, the student should be in regular touch with the Company Guide assigned by the Company, and with the faculty guides through regular email correspondence. Any issue during the internship should be brought to the notice of the faculty guides immediately for clarification / advice under intimation to the SIP Committee. Two or more students are not permitted to work on the same project. If there is more than one student in a company in the same city, normally the Company allots different work for each student, e.g. different geographic areas in a particular city. If there is any further difficulty, the concerned students need to inform the faculty guides and also the SIP Committee for advice. If the project work assigned is completed earlier than the required period of eight weeks or alternatively more time is required to complete the work, the student shall contact the concerned faculty guides for necessary help and guidance under intimation to the SIP Committee. In any case the student is expected to be in touch with the faculty guides continuously. Non-Completion of Internship Unauthorized absence from Internship, non-completion of the process of Internship, non-contact with faculty guides and unsatisfactory performance is liable to cause rejection of Internship. In all such cases the students will have to repeat the summer internship at the end of their final year for award of Degree. Format of the Project Report: a} Primary Section: Title Page Attendance (completion) certificate from the company Signed Declaration by the student (stating that the work was done by him / her and that it was not submitted anywhere else) Acknowledgements (not required to be signed) Signed Certificate from Faculty Guides Table of Contents b) Main Body of the Report (1 spacing): Executive Summary: Main findings and recommendations of the whole report summarized in one or two pages. Introduction (Statement of the problem and significance, objectives of the project). Industry / Sector Review Company review (brief review of the functions and operations of the company) Review of literature (A brief review of the earlier studies on the same topic or similar topic) Methodology used

3 Analysis Summary of recommendations and suggestions.

c) Reference Section: Annexes (Questionnaire, List of Respondents, etc.) References Guidelines for Preparing the Report Title The title should be brief, but self explanatory. It should also mention the company's name and place of work. Executive Summary This should be a summary of the important and specific aspects culled out from the Report. It is neither an introduction to the Report nor a description of the plan of the report. The report is nothing but an expanded version of the Executive Summary. The Executive Summary should contain a judicious mix of short paragraphs, side headings (and sub-headings where necessary), and bullet points. References / Bibliography This list should be at the end of the report, after annexes, if any. Each reference should be mentioned briefly at the appropriate place in the Report. For example, an article from Business India by Hugh Sandeman would appear as Sandeman (2009) in the report, and the full details may be given at the end under 'References' as: Sandeman, Hugh (2009), 'Going Multinational', Business India (13 December)

Example of a book reference: Prahlad and Krishnan (2008, p .... ) in the Report and in the References as: Prahlad, C.K. and M.S. Krishnan (2008), The New Age of Innovation (New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill Company Ltd). If there is any web source, the source with links may be given to enable the reader to open the web site and get to the article. There should be a one-to-one correspondence of the articles, books, etc. referred in the Report and the list at the end - i.e. references mentioned in the report should appear at the end and all the references in the list at the end should be referred in the report. Certificates The following should be included in the Report:

4 Photocopy of the Completion Certificate (attendance-cum-conduct certificate) from the company. Student's declaration (signed by the student), mentioning that the work has not been submitted anywhere else. (Student's Acknowledgement need not be signed.) Signed certificate from the Faculty Guides. Confidentiality If any material is confidential, the students should a get a certificate from the Company Guide specifying what material is confidential, so that the remaining could be used for the report. If such a certificate is not given by the company, the student should give in writing what material is confidential, so that the same could be verified from the company. Submission of Draft Report The students should submit their draft reports, complete in all respects, to the faculty guides on 1 July 2011. Submission of Email Correspondence The students must submit hard copies of all the email correspondence with the faculty guides during the internship to Programme Chairperson on 1 July 2011. If these are not submitted, the concerned students will not be allowed to make presentations. Presentations The presentations will be completed during 4 6 July 2011. Submission of Final Report The suggestions given by the faculty may be incorporated in the final draft of the Project Report. The students have to submit their final reports (three copies) in bound form to the faculty within four days of presentation. All the three copies will be signed by both the faculty. One copy is for the student, one for the company, and one for the School Library. One signed copy will be sent to the company/ organization by the Placement Office. The students should not submit any reports to the company / organization on their own. However, if the company requires the same for issuing Completion Certificate, the student may submit the report but inform the Company Guide that the final report signed by the faculty will be sent to them by the Placement Office. Evaluation The project will be evaluated for 100 marks as below: Report (50 marks): jointly by the two faculty guides - evaluation with respect to Industry / Sector Review, content quality, and analysis & organization of the material in the Report. Presentation (50 marks): to the two faculty guides - evaluation with respect to PPT

5 Content, PPT Presentation, and Answers to Questions. The Guidelines for Presentation before the faculty guides are: Presentation time allowed: 15 minutes with PPT Maximum number of slides: 15 The slides should not be cluttered with too much material. They should contain only the points to be explained. The slides should not be with too lttle matter either. The slides may be organized to include: The subject matter of the project Objectives Research methodology used Results of the study and analysis Recommendations and suggestions Administrative Matters Each student is required to provide to the concerned Faculty Guides and to the Business Development Manager, Mr. V. R. Reddy (vrreddy@gitam.edu) his/her own contact telephone number, and the name, telephone number and email ID of the supervisor in the company/organization with whom the student is attached. The decision of the Director, GSIB will be final in all matters pertaining to summer internship. Important Dates Meeting both Faculty Guides before leaving for the SIP (before 16 April 2011). Submission of Industry / Sector Review to faculty guides through email: 5 May 2011. Penalty of 1 mark per day up to 8 May 2011. Zero score after that for this component. Submission of complete draft report to faculty guides: 1 July 2011

Submission of hard copies of correspondence with faculty guides to Programme Chairperson: 1 July 2011 If these are not submitted, the concerned students will not be allowed to make presentations. Presentations to Faculty Guides: 4 6 July 2011 Submission of 3 hard-bound copies of final Reports to the Faculty Guides: 11 July 2011.