OutThink 2025
Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T)
OutThink 2025: Stages and Timelines
MCQ Assessment
Teams will have to take an online MCQ assessment based on Aptitude questions and will feature questions based on Sales & Marketing, Finance, Operations, Human Resources, IT & Analytics, and Aptitude. Participants will have to answer 30 questions in 30 minutes. It is mandatory for all team members to attempt the assessment. This will be an elimination round.
Case Launch & Submission
Shortlisted teams have to submit a 2-3 minute video pitch and a PPT with up to 7-8 slides. Teams must choose one problem statement and follow the naming convention Team Name_Case Code. Submissions can be updated before the deadline, however late entries will not be considered for evaluation.
Grand Finale Submission
Shortlisted teams will have to make the final submission for the Grand Finale.
Grand Finale
The top 8 teams will be shortlisted for the Grand Finale, where they will have the opportunity to present their ideas to the Senior Leadership of L&T. The finale will take place at the L&T Mumbai corporate office.
All that you need to know about OutThink 2025
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is a multinational conglomerate with over 80 years of industry leadership in engineering, construction, manufacturing, technology, and financial services. With an annual turnover of USD 27 billion and a market capitalization of USD 57 billion, a presence in 50+ countries, and a workforce of over 60,000, we pride ourselves on delivering transformative and iconic projects, As Nation Builders, L&T constantly endeavors to innovate for a sustainable future.
We invite you to be a part of OutThink 2025, an opportunity that challenges participants to solve business case problems with out-of-the-box solutions. Seize this opportunity to shine in the dynamic rounds of OutThink 2025 with the chance to secure a pre-placement interview with L&T and cash prize pool worth INR 2,25,000.
Eligibility:
- The competition is open for all full-time 1st-Year MBA students (all specializations) from selected institutes.
- Team Size: 3 members.
- Cross-specialization teams are allowed.
- Students currently pursuing part-time, distance learning, and executive MBA programs are not eligible to participate.
- Cross-college team formation is not allowed.
- Candidates from the eligible list of institutes can participate in this challenge.
Competition Structure:
The three stages of OutThink are as follows:
MCQ Assessment:
- All registered teams will have to attempt the online quiz round. The average score of all the team members will be considered as the final score for the team.
- It is mandatory for all team members to attempt the assessment.
- Participants will answer 30 questions in 30 minutes.
- The quiz will be based on general aptitude questions as well as specialization-specific questions.
- Teams will advance to the next level based on their performance in this assessment.
Case Launch & Submission:
- Shortlisted teams will be required to submit a 2-3 minute video pitch and a PPT with up to 7-8 slides (excluding cover slides). Annexures can be added to these slides.
- Each team is required to pick only 1 problem statement.
- You may compress your video using this link.
- Team leader can change their submissions by clicking on ‘Submission’ and then ‘Change Submission’, any time before the submission deadline.
- Please submit your files in this naming convention only: Team Name_Case Code.
- Late submissions will not be considered for evaluation.
Grand Finale:
- The top 6 teams would be shortlisted for the Grand Finale.
- National Finalist teams will get the opportunity to present their ideas to the Senior Leadership of L&T.
- Further details on venue/date etc. will be shared with the shortlisted teams at the appropriate time.
Rewards & Prizes:
- Top Performers to win Pre-Placement Interviews (PPIs) with L&T.
- Winners will be rewarded with a cash prize of INR 1,00,000.
- 1st Runners-up will be rewarded with a cash prize of INR 75,000.
- 2nd Runners-up will be rewarded with a cash prize of INR 50,000.
- Participation certificates.
Important dates & deadlines?
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9 Feb'25, 11:59 PM IST Registration Deadline
Rewards and Prizes?
Winner
First Runner Up
Second Runner Up
Top Performing Teams
About Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T)
Larsen & Toubro is a major conglomerate, with its operations in technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and financial services across the globe. The two Danish Engineers, Henning Holck Larsen & Soren Kristian Toubro, founded the company in Mumbai in 1938. The company began as a Danish manufacturers representative of dairy equipment.
L&T is engaged in core, high impact sectors of the economy and span the entire spectrum of ‘design to deliver’ using their integrated capabilities. They have unmatchable expertise in technology, engineering, construction, infrastructure projects, and manufacturing because of 8 decades of a strong, customer-focused approach and a continuous quest for world-class quality and maintain leadership in all its major lines of business.
The company’s manufacturing footprint extends across nine countries including India. The company has several international offices and a supply chain that extends across the globe.
Organization Structure:
Larsen & Toubro manages the following Businesses-
- Construction: Amongst the world’s Top 30 contractors L&T Construction business surrounds multiple businesses like buildings & factories, heavy civil infrastructure, transport infrastructure, the smart world and communication, water and renewable energy and power transmission & distribution.
- Hydrocarbon Engineering: L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering is a wholly-owned subsidiary of L&T. It caters to the needs of the oil and gas sector around the world. It provides construction solutions to offshore and onshore hydrocarbon projects and also delivers turnkey engineering.
- Power: L&T offers comprehensive services for gas-based power plants & supercritical thermal power plants.
- Metallurgical & Material Handling: The Metallurgical & Material Handling business undertakes EPC projects for ferrous and non-ferrous metal industries. It also projects for bulk material and ash handling systems in the power, steel, port and mining sectors.
- Heavy Engineering: L&T Heavy Engineering is a manufacturer and also the supplier of custom-designed equipment & critical piping to process industries such as chemical, refinery, fertilizer, petrochemical, and oil & gas, as well as to thermal & nuclear power and aerospace sectors.
- Defence: L&T provides design-to-delivery, indigenous solutions across the whole defence spectrum.
Ship Building: L&T’s shipbuilding arm offers total solutions – from concept to design for new builds as well as repair and retrofit – for warships. - Electrical & Automation: L&T Electrical & Automation provides a wide range of products & solutions for electricity control & distribution, across various sectors like industries, buildings, residences, utilities marine vessels, and agriculture.
- Construction & Mining Machinery: L&T’s construction equipment business manufactures, distributes and provides after-sales support for construction and mining equipment.
- L&T Valves: L&T Valves is a leader for critical services in flow-control solutions. The company has a good marketing network across the globe through strategic alliances with international distributors.
- LTI: A subsidiary of L&T, LTI is a global IT services and solutions provider with presence in 23 countries. With 22 delivery centers and a diversified workforce around the world, the business now expands into new geographies even as it consolidates its client-facing organization in North America and Europe.
- L&T Technology Services: The company provides design and development solutions through the entire development chain in multiple industries.
- L&T IDPL: This is India’s premier infrastructure developer. Being a leading player in ‘Public-Private-Partnership’ projects, L&T IDPL, has business interests in roads & bridges, ports, metro rail, and power transmission.
- L&T Metro Rail: The Hyderabad Metro Rail involves public-private partnerships and is one of the world’s largest projects of its kind in the mass transport sector.
- Finance: L&T Finance Holdings offers a diverse set of financial services & products that covers mutual funds, infra finance, home loans and more.
- L&T Realty: All properties of L&T Realty embody a sustainable design philosophy and focus on fostering integrated communities.
Clients:
L&T Special Steels and Heavy Forgings (L&T SSHF) supplies critical forgings for process equipment fabricated by manufacturers including Larsen & Toubro group companies. In addition, their client base includes reputed Indian & International equipment manufacturers, contractors & user industries as represented below:
- Larsen & Toubro Multinational Conglomerate Company
- Godrej
- Aditya Birla Group
- Reliance Industries Limited
- Andritz Hydro Private Limited
- ITER
- Voith Hydro Power Generation
- Areva Transnuclear Inc.
- Triveni Engineering & Industries Limited
Merger & Acquisition:
- L&T set to buy 20% in Mindtree for ₹3,269 cr in a hostile takeover bid. This acquisition adds to L&T’s IT services platform with a focus on new-age digital/cloud solutions, making it highly complementary to L&T’s current technology services portfolio.
- A global player in energy management and automation, Schneider Electric, has entered into a definitive agreement in May 2018 with Larsen & Toubro, to buy its electrical & automation business for an all-cash consideration of Rs 14,000 crore.
News:
- 13 February 2020: L&T Wins Two Risk Management Trophies from CNBC TV18.
- 11 February 2020: L&T Chosen as the ‘Company of the Year’ by Business Standard
- L&T Built Statue of Unity is nominated for the World Architecture News Awards 2019- The Statue of Unity is the world’s tallest monument built as a tribute to India’s first Deputy Prime Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and has been nominated for the esteemed World Architecture News Awards 2019 in the mixed-use category.
- L&T completed iconic Medigadda Barrage- The construction arm of Larsen & Toubro, L&T Construction, completed the iconic Medigadda Barrage project in just 2 years. The megastructure is a part of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation project which was inaugurated on 27th June 2019.
Awards and Recognitions:
- Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) Corporate Award 2019 was given to L&T in the Construction & Infrastructure Development category. The D&B Corporate Awards have been honoring outstanding performers among Indian Inc. since 2000. A team of D&B analysts identifies financial parameters pertinent to each category for evaluating the performance of organizations.
- ‘Best Performing Power Transmission and Distribution Organization’ was awarded to the Construction Vertical of L&T by the Central Board of Irrigation and Power or CBIP which is a premier institution of the Government of India.
- Forbes the leading business magazine listed L&T among the World’s Best Employers for 2018. The list was based on Forbes’s Global 2000 rankings of publicly traded companies in 60 countries around the world and it placed L&T at Number 22, making it the highest-ranked Indian firm across all sectors. The list takes into account factors such as brand image, working conditions, and diversity in the firm to determine how employees regard their own employer, as well as other companies they may admire.
- Randstad, the global HR services provider awarded L&T as a 'Special Recognition Award' by the Employer Brand Research Survey conducted in India in the year 2018.
Corporate Social Responsibility:
L&T stimulates a culture of caring, trust and continuous learning while meeting the expectations of all the employees, shareholders and society at large. As a responsible Corporate Citizen, the company contributes to inclusive growth by empowering communities and accelerating development.
They leverage their inherent strengths and capabilities to build India's social Infrastructure. They are taking the following measures towards it-
- To implement sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility programs towards "Building India's Social Infrastructure".
- To partner with communities, NGO's and Institutions to create positive impacts in areas of water & sanitation, education, health and skill development.
- To harness innovation and technology-driven solutions to address social needs.
- To strengthen systems and processes to achieve measurable results.
Their aim, motivation, and effort are to contribute to a better quality of life, mitigate social inequalities, and also to help individuals in identified communities to achieve their true potential.