Month: March 2023

The High and Lows of Indian business: Four stories unravelled G. Sabarinathan shares his takeaways from Nandini Vijayaraghavan’s recent book, ‘Unfinished Business’

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I first heard about Nandini Vijayaraghavan a couple of years ago, when a friend of mine forwarded a short review of her translation of Shri Krishnamoorthy’s Tamil classic, Sivakamiyin Sabadam (Sivakami’s Vow).  Tamilians of my generation, and that of my parents, grew up waiting for serialized version of this and his other novels in the Tamil weekly, Kalki.   You can get a glimpse of Shri Krishnamoorthy’s life and work at  https://www.thehindu.com/books/how-kalki-penned-ponniyin-selvan-dipping-into-archival-books-in-an-old-steel-trunk/article65949508.ece and https://www.thehindu.com/books/kalki-krishnamurthy-his-life-and-times-more-than-just-a-biography/article65296015.ece Unfinished Business is no work of fiction, although as Vijayaraghavan notes in the book, quoting Aldous Huxley,…

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IIMB & SWAYAM: A fruitful five-year association

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SWAYAM is the digital learning platform launched by the Govt of India. The platform hosts many courses on several subjects from several universities across India. This effort aims to make available the best teaching and learning resources to the remotest area free of cost with the help of this platform. IIMB is one of the nine national coordinators of SWAYAM and has offered more than 50 courses on this platform since 2017. Universities and institutions, across India, send their proposals to IIMBx, the digital learning vertical of IIMB, and the…

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STEMonsters: Making science appealing to kids

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STEMonsters is a learning ecosystem for school children, aiming to build, in them, a strong foundation in STEM concepts through interdisciplinary, application-focused programs. According to the founder, Dr. Sonali Dasgupta, the programs help develop a problem-solving mindset while instilling confidence in children to explore the unknown and keeping them engaged and curious. Dr. Sonali Dasgupta adds, “We offer weekly, after-school science and technology learning programs for children (pan-Asia), in the age group of eight to 14 years, wherein they learn by experimenting and building on their own, right from their…

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The roadmap to boost brand value: Copylove

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Founded in 2015, Copylove is a boutique copywriting and strategic content solutions studio that offers branding, copywriting and strategic content solutions to corporate enterprises, brands, businesses and entrepreneurs.  The Founder Gunjan Pai says that they specialize in creating a wide variety of niche brand work including naming, taglines, positioning, short-form content such as social media, and long-form pieces such as whitepapers, publications, etc. She adds, “We are a lean-principled firm with a collaborative DNA. Our all-women team works remotely from Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Goa. The team makes high-quality, persuasive…

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Kavitha Iyer Rodrigues, Founder and CEO, Zumutor Biologics Inc, Anand Sri Ganesh, COO, NSRCEL, IIMB, Malavika R Harita, Member of the Board of Governors at IIMB, Prof. Srivardhini K Jha, Chairperson, NSRCEL, Ankita Pegu, Program Head, Women Startup Program, NSRCEL, IIMB, Prof. Suresh Bhagavatula, faculty in the Entrepreneurship area at IIMB launch SHAKTI – an e-book which is a collection of stories of entrepreneurial pursuits, marked by challenges, sacrifices, losses, gains, learnings and triumphs.

Launch of SHAKTI – an e-book by women entrepreneurs marks a two-day event by NSRCEL at IIMB

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The audience at Pragnya 2023, on 2nd March 2023.

Packed house for Last Lecture 2023 Three faculty members, invited to address the soon-to-graduate PGP & PGPBA Class at IIMB at ‘Pragnya’, impart wisdom crowned with wit

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Professor Chetan Subramanian, Professor of Economics and Dean Faculty, had some life lessons to share with the PGP and PGPBA Class of 2023 a few weeks before their graduation: Network and build strong relationships with your peers, remain polite in all your interactions – professional and personal, choose your travelling companion on life’s journey wisely and well, and enjoy the glorious uncertainty and unpredictability of life. Opening his address at the ‘Last Lecture’ for the Class of 2023, on a beautiful evening at the Open-Air Theatre, tongue-firmly-in-cheek he asked: “What…

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