Year: 2018

IIMB alumni are back at school As part of a unique alumni relations strengthening initiative launched by the school, eight alumni with a keen interest in management education attend a five-day programme on campus

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03 May, 2018, Bengaluru: Providing management education requires mastery of course design, class preparation and delivery, and creation of specific teaching aids. A unique programme, ‘Effective Teaching’, launched by IIM Bangalore’s Centre for Teaching and Learning, along with the school’s Alumni Relations Office, seeks to develop and enhance specific competencies required for management teaching among its alumni.The first five-day programme, led by programme directors Prof. R Srinivasan and Vasanthi Srinivasan, was launched on April 30. The teaching faculty included Prof. Bringi Dev, Prof. Chetan Subramanian, Prof. Haritha Saranga, Prof. PD Jose, Prof.…

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EPGP Batch X hosts Prof. Ravi Sundar Muthukrishnan for the Seminar Series

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“I never thought I would find a seminar on a financial topic so interesting,” exclaimed a student of the one-year full time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management at IIM Bangalore. And, he was not alone. All his batch mates were visibly engrossed as Professor Ravi Sundar Muthukrishnan,  Head, Institutional Equity Research at Elara Securities, discussed the market, its future and its impact on financial careers. Prof. Muthukrishnan’s experience as both an academician and an industry leader placed him in a unique position to share, with the students, his ideas related to…

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Silent vigil articulates outrage

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Several members of the IIM Bangalore community, including faculty, students, staff, and campus residents, came together for ‘mounagraha,’ a silent vigil, from April 20th to 23rd, outside the college campus. “The mounagraha was organized to express outrage over uncurbed gender violence in India, and to demand swift justice for victims starting with the young girls from Kathua and Unnao,” said an organizer of the protest.In addition to the silent vigil, several faculty members of IIMB have also written an open letter to the Prime Minister.  The letter says that in order…

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SEED CAPITAL Bharat Khanna, PGP Class of 2018 from IIM Bangalore, develops ‘Zero Maintenance Garden’ supported by the school’s incubation hub – the NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning. His Student Run Venture shows that some start-ups do need a different kind of capital

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“I always wanted to do something on my own, and I got the push after taking up the Entrepreneurial Mindset course with Professor Suresh Bhagavatula in Term IV of my PGP programme at IIMB”. Bharat Khanna, Co-Founder, ErbGro and PGP Class of 2018. Bharat Khanna at ErbGro’s first exhibition in a residential society on Bangalore’s Kanakpura Road Bharat Khanna, who graduated from IIM Bangalore’s Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) in 2018, has co-founded ErbGro, the ‘Zero Maintenance Garden’, as a Student Run Venture (SRV) of NS Raghavan Centre for…

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The One-Year Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management at IIM Bangalore: A Journey to Remember

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It has been four weeks since EPGP Batch IX completed its programme at IIM Bangalore. While some of us are looking for accommodation and booking the services of packers and movers, others are enjoying some precious family time. As I glance through our Convocation Day pictures that celebrate the ‘we did it’ moment, I pause to reflect on this one-year roller coaster ride. When I joined the one-year fulltime Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management at IIM Bangalore, I fretted that competing with the best minds in business would wear…

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Business, Travel, and Tales with Turkish Delights Parul Aggarwal & Saurav Singh, who have just graduated from the one year full-time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management share their Global Network Week experience at Koç University Graduate School of Business, Turkey, where they studied the challenges of family businesses across the world

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02 April, 2018, Bengaluru: The Global Network Week (12th to 16th March, 2018) for MBA students, organized by the Global Network for Advanced Management, provides a unique opportunity to pursue a focused, theme-based course in one of the 32 leading business schools of the world. The Global Network Week aims to encourage students and faculty members from different countries, cultures, and economies to learn together and to learn from each other, to build relationships, to enhance awareness about issues and arrive at solutions for global and complex issues. As representatives of IIM Bangalore,…

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Global Network Experience at Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT, USA EPGP student participates in Global Network Week at Yale University

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IIM Bangalore is a member of the Global Network, which includes 32 eminent business schools around the world, convened by Yale University. Being an active participant in the Global Network, IIMB hosts Global Network Weeks (GNWs) in the months of March and October every year when international students from partner schools visit IIMB. The GNWs feature sessions by eminent faculty, guest speakers from the industry coupled with company visits. Likewise, IIMB students enrol for the Global Network Weeks conducted around the world. Nikhil Dhar, from IIMB’s one-year fulltime residential Executive…

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Work-Life-Study balance for a PGPEM student of IIM Bangalore

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Joining the Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management at IIM Bangalore has been one of the best decisions I have ever made, and the experience at IIMB the most rewarding! PGPEM as a course, focuses on the ‘back to college’ theme. On Friday and Saturday, all of us executives morph into students, complete with assignments, case studies, pulling one another’s leg, fighting for that extra mark, etc. So, picture this, we have executives with more than ten years of work experience, balancing three lives – that of work, family and…

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Online vs. Offline Study Meghana Manay | PGPEM 2016

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To answer the question on whether online or offline classes work better for a Master’s level programme, we need to go back to the fundamentals of communication. Each individual works differently and has differences in understanding and in learning. Finance may seem like a cakewalk for some while Operations may not be as simple. We take time observing and picking up the momentum. We have been taught and have understood the need to communicate important, sensitive information in person rather than over a phone call or an e-mail unless absolutely…

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A youth empowerment program yielding competent young citizens and change agents will take India towards civilizational greatness: Prof. Pradip Khandwalla Launching his book at IIMB, former IIMA Director says pursuit of creativity and innovation, performance excellence and altruism, in the state, the civil society and the business sector, when aligned, can unleash a powerful virtuous cycle

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05 March, 2018, Bengaluru: “This book is an outcome of both grief and elation. Grief because I see so much going wrong with our civilization, the killings, massacres, scams, man-made starvation, pollution, domestic violence and many other ills of the society. But I am also thrilled by the excellent things that are happening. Some amazing young talented people have made a valuable contribution to society, with work on improving government schools, work on differently abled, website for social improvement, resettling beggars, campaigns against child abuse, improving education and livelihoods, health,…

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