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Frisbee fun!

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The ‘Campus Ultimate’ team from IIMB participated in ‘Sakkath’, a three-day Ultimate Frisbee tournament, held on Aug 18th-20th 2023, in Bangalore. Teams from different parts of the country participated in the tournament. The IIMB team comprised students, alumni, faculty and campus residents. The month leading up to the tournament was exciting, with non-team members from the PGP cohort and campus residents joining the training sessions and practice matches. It was a wonderful opportunity to rekindle bonding and community building at IIMB. admin

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IIMB interviews co-authors of ‘Found Again: Real Stories of Women, Work & Flexibility’

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The book tells stories of 20 women who have found their way back to professional fulfilment, creating their own unique career paths aligned to their life needs Interview features co-authors Shreya Prakash, Deepa Narayanaswamy and Rashmi Rammohan, alumni of the PGP 2008 batch and co-founders of FlexiBees 1.What was the reason behind choosing the title ‘Found Again’ and what motivated you to compile the narratives of these 20 women? Most of us know that women’s workforce participation in India is at an all-time low currently, at 23%. To put it…

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Bringing industry to the classroom – Pawan Sachdeva and classmates, PGP 1996

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One of the strong points of an MBA programme at IIM Bangalore is its ability to infuse the latest industry perspective into classroom teaching. And what better for a student than when they gain this exposure from their own seniors who are now industry experts. This workshop concept was conceived by Pawan Sachdeva during one of his interactions with the institute. Mr. Sachdeva wears several hats, including those of an author, environmental activist, teacher, and investing expert. His guiding principle in life is to constantly reinvent yourself in order to…

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Pandemic Diaries: Coping with the Migrant Crisis in Karnataka By Dr. Kalpana Gopalan, IAS, and Alumna of IIMB

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Covid-19 was a health crisis, the likes of which the world had not witnessed in over a century. In India, the health crisis was compounded by a humanitarian crisis triggered by the mass exodus of migrant labour. In this narrative, I describe how Karnataka coped with the migrant crisis during the second wave in 2021.  To set the context, by 2021, the department of Labour had struggled with the strains and constraints of 2020. Union representatives, volunteers and labour officers had worked round the clock to ensure food, shelter and…

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From Nurturing Engineering Dreams to Engineering Organ Transplant Feats

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An alumna of the General Management Programme for Healthcare Executives (GMHE), an Executive Education Programme at IIM Bangalore, Dr. Gomathy Narasimhan is a liver and kidney transplant surgeon. She was recently conferred  the ‘Woman Leader in Transplantation Award’, a prestigious international award presented  by The Transplantation Society. In this first-person account, India’s first woman multi-organ transplant surgeon shares with her fascinating journey A recent alumna of the General Management Programme for Healthcare Executives (GMHE), an Executive Education Programme at IIM Bangalore, Dr. Gomathy Narasimhan is a liver and kidney transplant…

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Howzzat! Alumni of Bangalore and Chennai chapters of the IIMB Alumni Association face off in a friendly cricket match at IIMB

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ANGLO SAXON COUSINS UK and GERMANY: A CONTRASTING PICTURE This article by EPGP alumnus Ram Iyer seeks to contextualize the role reversal between UK and Germany with interest rates rising faster in the West compared to the East

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After prolonged periods of near negligible borrowing costs, the last six months have seen a role reversal with interest rates rising faster in the West compared to the East. This article tries to contextualize the volte-face from the perspective of the Anglo-Saxon cousins – UK and Germany. Germany, traditionally pro–austerity, has legislated a tax-cut to help tide through the inflation crisis, expected to get worse this winter1  Manufacturing exports to China have been responsible for Germany’s turnaround from the sick man of Europe in the 90s to delivering consistent positive…

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‘Entrepreneurship changed my wiring as a person’ As part of a group of problem-solvers and responsible builders of ecosystems, Viraj Tyagi, an alumnus of the PGP Class of 1993 and current CEO of eGOV Foundation, talks about life as an enabler of change.

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Please tell us something about your background and the initial phase of your career… I was born in Nepal, and grew up in Delhi, Dehradun and Itanagar. After graduating from IIMB in 1993, the first part of my career was in payments and I spent eight years with American Express in the UK, leading their cards business. We decided to come back to India in 2004 and in 2007, the start-up bug bit me. Along with Nitin Gupta (PGP 1998, IIMB), I co-founded NettPositive Analytics, one of India’s first start-ups…

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PGP alum Rohit Goel’s career trajectory: an inspiration for current students to design academic and career goals

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Having joined Barclays Capital from campus, thereafter making a career switch to join the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Rohit Goel, an alumnus of IIM Bangalore’s two-year full time MBA: Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) 2010-2012 batch, has had an interesting and successful career trajectory, which makes him a role model for the current students of the institute. Rohit joined Barclays Capital India from campus, where he worked as a lead analyst doing stock market research. While a career in investment banking is common amongst the IIM alumni, Rohit’s next…

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A Snapshot of My Doctoral Journey A warm cohort, a supportive environment, inspiring faculty-mentors and a campus that proved to be a nourishing cocoon are the highlights of her years of doctoral study at IIMB, writes Anjana Karumathil

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As Professor Haritha Saranga called out my name from the podium, on a summer evening in April, and as I stepped up to collect my doctorate, I was overwhelmed at how miraculous that moment seemed. Shining robes, wide smiles, rounds of applause, and bright camera lights. How blood, sweat and tears of the past five years had instantaneously morphed into this precious paper in my hands! How the miracle of technology made it possible for my loved ones to be part of the occasion from thousands of miles away (and…

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