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SEED CAPITAL Bharat Khanna, PGP Class of 2018 from IIM Bangalore, develops ‘Zero Maintenance Garden’ supported by the school’s incubation hub – the NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning. His Student Run Venture shows that some start-ups do need a different kind of capital

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“I always wanted to do something on my own, and I got the push after taking up the Entrepreneurial Mindset course with Professor Suresh Bhagavatula in Term IV of my PGP programme at IIMB”. Bharat Khanna, Co-Founder, ErbGro and PGP Class of 2018. Bharat Khanna at ErbGro’s first exhibition in a residential society on Bangalore’s Kanakpura Road Bharat Khanna, who graduated from IIM Bangalore’s Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) in 2018, has co-founded ErbGro, the ‘Zero Maintenance Garden’, as a Student Run Venture (SRV) of NS Raghavan Centre for…

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‘I learnt how to build an institution by seeing how IIM Bangalore was built’: Dr K Radhakrishna The ISRO Chairman, who is a distinguished alumnus of the PGP batch of 1976, lists the future thrust areas of ISRO and dwells on the role of a Chief Executive in organization building and succession planning

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Update: 27th Feb, 2018: K Radhakrishnan, is the chairman of the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, since December 2014. Source Dr. K. Radhakrishnan, ISRO Chairman, received the Padma Bhushan Award on the eve of Republic Day (January 26, 2014) for his immense contribution to Science and Engineering, especially in the field of Space Science and Technology. In this interview, he shares his assessment of what has been achieved so far in India’s Mars Orbiter Mission and what lies ahead. Dr. Radhakrishnan, who is Chairman, Space Commission and Secretary,…

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Breaking new ground comes naturally to her No glass ceiling, no sticky floor. Radio City CEO and IIMB alumna Apurva Purohit says nothing – neither biases nor boundaries — can stop a determined woman professional from reaching the top

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Update, Feb 27th 2018: Apurva Purohit, PGP ’89, is now the President of Jagran Prakashan Ltd. Source CEO of a popular radio station, author, evangelist and public speaker, Apurva Purohit, IIMB alumna (PGP ’89), wears many hats with panache. One of the very few women CEOs in the Media and Entertainment industry in India, Apurva has built several media brands like Zoom TV and Radio City. She strongly believes in building organizations around an enabling culture and employee focus; and in encouraging diversity of opinion and thought. Her formula for success…

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An opportunity, not a challenge: Malavika Harita Be it dealing with labour trouble while running a factory at 19 or getting her point of view across in a roomful of alpha males in corporate board rooms, she has done it with aplomb. Meet Malavika Harita, the bindi-wearing, soft-spoken advertising ace and winner of IIMB’s Distinguished Alumni Award 2013 who has turned every cliché on its head

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Titles do not bother her. Tags do not define her. Alpha Woman, Ice Queen, Holy Mother …they throw it at her and she takes it all on the chin. With a smile and a shrug, she races along the highway of life — learning, teaching, sharing, and then learning some more. But when she walked up to the dais to receive IIMB’s Distinguished Alumni Award 2013 on October 28, 2013, Malavika Harita had eyes and ears for only one person. Mrs. Leela Ramanathan, her 86-year-old mother, who demanded to be…

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Anybody Can Become an Entrepreneur – Just Do It!

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At the centre of a lot of innovation today is the ‘entrepreneur’. Somehow, this word conjures up the image of a group of youngsters who have left their high-paying jobs to follow a dream of an idea. Does it require something special to become an entrepreneur? How can one qualify to become one? Professor Suresh Bhagavatula, Chairperson – NSRCEL at IIM Bangalore, believes that ‘anybody can become an entrepreneur’. Filled with this passion of empowering those with an ‘idea’ with the paraphernalia to starting their own ‘ventures,’ he created aMassive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled ‘DO…

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IIMBAA Hosts Saturday Musings on ‘Disruption in the Services Sector’ on March 25

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The third edition of Saturday Musings will feature a talk by Prof. G Shainesh of IIMB on ‘Service Innovations’ and a panel discussion 14 March, 2017, Bengaluru: The Alumni Association of IIM Bangalore will present the next edition of ‘Saturday Musings’ themed on ‘Disruption in the Services Sector’ on March 25, 2017, from 10 am to 12.30 pm, at the IIMB auditorium. The event will include a talk by Prof. G Shainesh, faculty from the Marketing area, IIMB, on ‘Service Innovations’. This will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Anurag Saboo (PGP…

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IIMB Alumni Association Presents 2nd Edition of Saturday Musings on February 25, 2017

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Talk by Prof. Sai Yayavaram, Chairperson, Corporate Strategy and Policy, IIM Bangalore, ‘Innovation in India: Opportunities and Challenges’. Panel discuss on Innovation in the FMCG Sector: Nirupama Kaushik (PGP 1991), Brandscapes, Sanjay Singhal (PGP 1995), COO, ITC Dairy and Beverages, and Kapil Khamboj (PGP 1999), Vice President, Johnson & Johnson. Date: 25th February,2017 Time: 10:30 am -12:30 pm Venue: IIMB Auditorium Visit @ IIM Bangalore Share This Story admin

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