From Nurturing Engineering Dreams to Engineering Organ Transplant Feats

November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 admin Alumni Connect Alumni Stories FEATURED News and events 0

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…

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

September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Ram Iyer Alumni Stories FEATURED 0

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…

‘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.

August 25, 2022August 26, 2022 admin Alumni Stories 0

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…

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

May 24, 2022May 24, 2022 admin Alumni Stories FEATURED 0

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…

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

April 26, 2022May 2, 2022 admin Alumni Stories FEATURED 0

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…

L-Square gets its Wall of Fame

November 20, 2021December 1, 2021 admin1 Alumni Stories 0

The PGP Class of 2009 had donated INR 52 lakhs as part of their “Giving Back” campaign during their 10th-year reunion in December 2019. A part of the contribution (INR 12 lakhs) was used to fund the ambulance for use by the IIMB community. The remaining amount has been channelled towards fractional naming rights at L-square, which is vibrant part of the IIMB Hostel. As a part of this initiative, the IIMB Alumni Relations & Development Office has installed a board called ‘Wall of Fame’, with a collage of the Class of 2009, to acknowledge their donation. The event was marked by a lamp lighting…

Canebot products GannaPanna® and Immunity Shots.

Sugarcane juice, revolutionised Founded by Kirty and Milind Datar and incubated at IIM Bangalore’s NSRCEL, Canebot launched two products, during the pandemic, which proved to be game changers

May 24, 2021May 24, 2021 admin Alumni Stories FEATURED News and events 0

Canebot® has been among India’s most diverse agro-based farm direct companies in the organized cane juice sector since 2012. Canebot builds on the synergy between culture and technological advancements and aims to create an organized sugarcane juice industry. The firm has been operating hygienic kiosks in cafeterias in corporate enterprises and has served over 28 lakh glasses of fresh sugarcane juice. Incubated at IIM Bangalore’s NSRCEL, Canebot is a part of the Atal Innovation Mission ‘AIM Catalysts’ under NITI Aayog, a Government of India initiative. When the pandemic hit, all the Canebot corporate kiosks were closed down, that too, overnight. They very quickly succeeded…

Dalmia Bharat Group MD and IIMB alumnus Puneet Dalmia engages with MBA students in a case discussion

January 30, 2020 admin Alumni Connect Alumni Stories Student Connect 0

Puneet Dalmia, Managing Director, Dalmia Bharat Group and alumnus of IIM Bangalore, visited his alma mater on January 25, to interact with second-year MBA students. He discussed a case study on Dalmia Cements’ sustainability journey as part of ‘Business Process Improvement’, an elective course taught by Prof. Haritha Saranga, from the Production & Operations Management area at IIMB. The case, written by Prof. Haritha Saranga, along with Prof. Sirish Kumar Gouda of IIM Trichy, discusses the efforts of Puneet Dalmia and Mahendra Singhi, the Group Managing Director (MD) and the…

Celebrating ‘50 EGMP Star Alumni’ IIM Bangalore has led the way in delivering innovative learning experiences for business executives through its Executive Education Programmes. It provides informed global perspectives, an exceptional faculty and flexible, forward-looking practices to its participants. The Executive General Management Programme (EGMP) is one such transformational learning experience. Meet the ‘50 EGMP Star Alumni’ here…

October 23, 2019October 23, 2019 EGMP Annual Alumni Connect Alumni Stories 0

The Executive General Management Programme (EGMP), an Executive Education Programme offered by IIM Bangalore, is celebrating a milestone this year. This is the 50th batch of the programme and as part of the year-long celebrations, illustrious alumni of the programme, who have created impact in their respective fields, will be acknowledged as ’50 EGMP Stars’ on the occasion of IIM Bangalore’s 46th Foundation Day on October 28th, 2019. The objective of this initiative is to highlight the impact that IIM Bangalore’s EGMP has made in business, government and society. The…

Professor G. Raghuram, Director, IIM Bangalore, lights the lamp and is watched by Dr. Suranjan Bhattacharji, former Director, Christian Medical College, Vellore.

“Rendu varsham aachu saar…”

October 17, 2019October 17, 2019 S. Vaidyanathan Alumni Connect Alumni Stories FEATURED 0

It’s two years since I saw the charpoy – Kasinathan, a person who spent the first 15 years after his spinal cord injury at age 14 on a charpoy inside and occasionally outside a small hut in a village near Tindivanam in Tamil Nadu. He fondly held the charpoy, the only stage prop, and also indicated that ever since he sat on a wheelchair in 2017, he has been on a roll. This moment enthralled the 200-plus who joined the 10-year celebration of The Ganga Foundation on September 28, 2019…