Year:2020

A no-so-ordinary Wednesday morning on August 01 Like many others, Prachi Arora, PGP 2020-22, has also developed a new hobby over this extended lockdown, which in her case is writing

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Five hundred and thirty four students sat in front of their device screens, with backgrounds green with envy! This was it. This was the day they had waited for. Having tied their hopes to the one big dream, they were finally going to get oriented to their dream campus. In that brief moment before the lighting of the lamp, they reflected on the efforts, the dedication and the will it took to get here. IIM Bangalore to them was their Hogwarts! A magical place, with its tapestry of dynamic experiences,…

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Combining tech and food Incubated at NSRCEL, Supply6 looks at giving urban working people, who are strapped for time, convenient food options

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According to National Family Health Survey 2018, 1 in 4 urban Indians skips breakfast almost daily, and 3 in 4 Indians eat unhealthy snacks or fast food for lunch at least twice a week. This can increase tiredness and stress at work, and makes it difficult to focus, apart from having long term health effects. For a professional in urban India, there are very few healthy and nutritious meal options. There are some new age restaurants that serve healthy salads. But these salads do not come cheap. The other problem…

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A Virtual Classroom that is IIMB Trishna Nair, from the PGP Batch of 2020, describes the e-volution of her online life

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For the batch of 2022, we began our journey at IIM Bangalore on Zoom this August. We had an online orientation, an online ‘Aarambh’ and are now in the midst of an online ‘Section War’. I am incredibly proud of how resilient and innovative we have been as a batch. And I am also grateful to the seniors and professors, at IIMB, who have tried so hard to ensure that we enjoy a holistic learning experience. This whole month has been a period of acclimatization. The hours spent staring at…

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KhaaliJeb: A payments app that woos students Part of the fintech startup incubation programme at NSRCEL, this venture, founded by IIIT Allahabad graduates, is youth-centric

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KhaaliJeb is an app which makes payments and banking simple, fast and rewarding for youth and students. Live as a full-fledged UPI PSP app for over a year now and sponsored by Kotak Mahindra Bank, KhaaliJeb  has a program where its users can avail discounts on brands catering to those below 29 years of age. “We have on-boarded 350+ restaurants and salons in Bangalore,” says  Prakash Kumar, one of the founders, who currently handles ideation, product and design. How KhaaliJeb was born “It was the year 2015. I was in…

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Over a cup of chai Chaika, an instant tea premix firm, part of the Launchpad program at NSRCEL, has used the lockdown to successfully pivot their business model

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“The idea for Chaika started when we were working in Singapore, where we craved masala chai but didn’t know how to make it. Even when we tried, we failed! Moreover, the process took 15-20 minutes – we just didn’t have the time in the mornings. This craving made us quit our finance jobs to take the entrepreneurship route,” chuckles Aradhita Agarwal, Co-founder and graduate of Economics from the National University of Singapore. “We also realised that people were switching over, from masala chai, the beverage they grew up with, to…

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The First Among Equals As strategic leader, collegial individual and catalyst, Professor G Raghuram combines personal humility and professional will, say his colleagues at his farewell

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20 JULY, 2020: The IIMB family bid adieu to Professor G. Raghuram whose term as Director came to a close today and welcomed Professor Rishikesha T. Krishnan as Director of the school. Dean Faculty Chetan Subramanian welcomed the gathering, virtually. “IIMB would like to place on record its deepest appreciation for Prof. G. Raghuram. His boundless energy and his willingness to reach out to colleagues, especially on contentious issues, are remarkable,” he said. Listing Prof. Raghuram’s achievements as Director, he said  23 new faculty had been hired during his tenure,…

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Business simulation games, social media break distance barriers Despite not being able to visit markets, the interactions with various stakeholders and working with cross-functional teams and creative agencies added a lot of value to my internship experience, writes Rituparna Ghosh

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After being selected for the prestigious Aditya Birla Group (ABG) Internship Program, I was naturally very excited, and I was looking forward to the summers. Unfortunately, the unprecedented situation due to COVID-19, followed by the lockdown resulted in a two-month online internship. However, the management took care of easing out our apprehensions and planned the online internship seamlessly to ensure that our experience was not compromised. Along with our respective project commitments, we were kept engaged in regular social media activities that pushed us out of our comfort zones and…

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Virtually perfect! Sirigauri N credits HUL’s Employer Brand Team for delivering a holistic internship experience

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This summer, I had the opportunity to be a part of the Unilever Leadership Internship Programme (ULIP 2020) as a finance intern. On 15th March 2020, two weeks before I was scheduled to begin my internship, I received a mail from the Employer Brand Team stating that the internship would be virtual until further notice. It was an overwhelming situation. The world was battling the spread of a pandemic, and abundant precaution was the need of the hour. However, a virtual internship also meant that I would be missing out…

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Let’s hear it for work sans long commutes The hiring managers at Flipkart did a lot of homework while providing real work assignments and modifying project objectives to minimize impact to the virtual job, writes Sameer

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I had a fantastic experience as an intern with Flipkart this summer. It taught me more than I could have imagined. I got to work on a data science project that was interesting and important, and could make a significant difference in the way the company operates. It allowed me to learn, think, and execute constantly. I felt that hiring managers at Flipkart did a lot of homework while providing real work assignments and modifying project objectives to minimize impact to the virtual job. The work from the home culture…

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How to make WFH impactful Having a change-embracing, flexible, dynamic attitude helps deliver even in times of disruption, writes N Ramarajwho interned with the Royal Bank of Scotland

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I interned at the Royal Bank of Scotland (Operations). Since the bank’s HR informed me in advance about Work From Home (WFH), I had time to be prepared. Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan’s article in BusinessLine offered some great tips. RBS was incredibly supportive in setting up remote system access. The project was about process improvement. I explored ways of enhancing customer experience and improving productivity, using a range of Six Sigma tools like SIPOC, Pareto, RCA and statistical sampling. I was also able to apply learnings from analytics, marketing and product…

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