This year, the 7th edition of the Women Leadership Summit at IIM Bangalore hosted a thought-provoking panel discussion with speakers who work in the private sector, government as well as entrepreneurs. The theme for this year- “Re-imagining the New Generation” where we set forth to re-imagine a future generation by setting a frame of reference from our present actions in moving one step closer toward gender parity. As the moderator of the panel, I sought to peel through these questions, layer by layer so that our audience were able to…
Author: Deepti Ganapathy
The Unsung Guardians To mark World Environment Day, Dr Deepti Ganapathy writes on forests and their caretakers
This World Environment Day, I would like readers to shift their focus to the sentinels who guard our forest eco-systems. It could be the farmer staying on the fringes of a forest or Padmashree awardee Saalumarada Thimakka. India’s rich biodiversity makes it a land of plenty. Rivers originate from this thriving eco-system, irrigating the hinterland, and plants and animals flourish in these forests. The Western Ghats, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, passes through all the states on the western peninsula, and is host to millions of organisms. It is also…
B-school grads have avenues to create jobs in Karnataka’s flourishing eco-system Deepti Ganapathy, Faculty of Management Communication, IIMB writes about the context, culture and communication of Karnataka’s industrial path to help potential investors navigate through its complex eco-system…
Karnataka retaining it’s No.1 position in the second edition of India Innovation Index ranking released by NITI Aayog, opens up a vista of opportunities for young management graduates. As noted by a top Government official in a media report, “the pandemic triggered an economic shutdown, while the role of innovation to revitalise the economy took precedence.” In this innovation matrix, the role of dissemination of crucial information pertaining to policy and ease of implementation of schemes cannot be undermined. This is where communication – through traditional mainstream media channels as…