Category: Centres of excellence

From Waste to Flame: How the Biogas system at IIMB turns food waste into clean energy

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In-campus biogas system that transforms daily leftovers into cooking fuel and compost In a world increasingly turning its attention to sustainable living, IIMB stands out with a hands-on, efficient approach to waste management, particularly in food waste. At the heart of this initiative is a biogas plant that doesn’t just process waste; it powers kitchens, nourishes the soil, and sets an example for others. Converting Waste into Clean Energy Installed in 2016, IIMB’s biogas plant has become an integral part of its sustainability ecosystem. With a treatment capacity of 400…

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How Saksham Is Reimagining Rural School Development in Karnataka

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At IIM Bangalore, education isn’t confined to the boundaries of classrooms and case studies. Spearheaded by Prof. Gopal Naik, Chairperson, Centre for Public Policy, Saksham brings together years of IIMB’s work in school development, launched during its Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2023. The vision of inclusive, grassroots change is now taking firm root, quite literally, in the villages and schools of Karnataka. Saksham, translated from Sanskrit, means “able.” The Centre engages with the local Gram Panchayat, the Zila Panchayat, as well as the School Development Management Committee consisting of parents,…

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IIM Bangalore’s Textbook Recycle and Reuse Initiative: A Step towards Sustainability

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IIMB’s commitment to sustainability through textbook reuse At the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), sustainability is not just a principle; it is a practice integrated into everyday academic life. The textbook Recycle and Reuse Initiative reflects the institute’s commitment to reducing environmental impact through mindful resource use. How It Started: From Choice to Change The Textbook Recycle and Reuse campaign at IIM Bangalore launched in 2023, under the “Beyond Books at B” campaign, a collaboration between IIMB’s Sustainability Taskforce and the Environment & Sustainability (ENS), a student-run club that…

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A glimpse from the two-day National Conclave on Organ Donation held at IIMB on September 2 - 3, 2023.

Building Social Sustainability Through Organ Donation Research at IIMB

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Satyajit Roy, PhD scholar at IIMB, focuses his research on public healthcare systems. Satyajit Roy is a PhD research scholar at IIM Bangalore in the Production and Operations Management area. His research interests are in the environmental and social sustainability value chains. One of his core research projects explores systemic inefficiencies in India’s organ donation ecosystem, where the deceased organ donation rate remains under one per million population (PMP). He is currently working under the guidance of Prof. Haritha Saranga, his Dissertation Advisory Committee Chair. Prof. Haritha Saranga, Chairperson, Sustainability…

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The Global Ranking of Startup Funding Ecosystems

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by G.Sabarinathan, PhD1 So, for all the excitement about being India’s Silicon Valley and so on, Bangalore seems to be ranked 33rd among startup cities in the world.  That is what I noticed from PitchBook’s (PB) survey of October 2023.2 The scoring methodology PB’s list identifies the top fifty cities in terms of Venture Capital (VC) financing activity.  And its survey ranks cities on two different top level dimensions, namely development and growth.  Development itself is measured in terms of size and maturity.  Size comprises value and number of deals…

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Churn inside the Classroom

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How does a business school deliver concepts and entire courses that speak to the rapidly emerging needs of various industries, especially the newer ones, without compromising on academic standards? How does it compete against alternate sources of learning that deliver content that have greater appeal as more immediately relevant to the needs of industry? G. Sabarinathan, PhD1, explores the issue A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled The YouTube Effect2.  I had articulated my hypothesis about the future of the delivery of learnings inside the classroom.  The light…

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A Kerala Conundrum

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What are the conditions that will enable the entrepreneur inside many of us to find expression? C Balagopal’s book, ‘Below the Radar – The untold story of how modern manufacturing grew by stealth in Kerala’, explores this question and provokes thought in the reader, writes G. Sabarinathan, PhD1  Well before Vasco da Gama set out for Kerala in 1498, this littoral strip of land in Southwestern India had been in touch with the Greeks and then the Romans and the Arabs, writes Manu Pillai, the young sensation among historians, in…

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Elective Story

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An elective, in a B-school, resembles a living organism to the extent that it needs to adapt itself to the emerging environment if it has to survive. The number of mutations that his elective – New Enterprise Financing (NEF) – has been through, over 21 years, is an example of such adaptation, writes G. Sabarinathan1 A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on the last edition of my elective, New Enterprise Financing2, that I had taught at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB).  The comments on the post and…

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Making universal healthcare affordable Through her venture, in the GS-NSRCEL 10K Women program, Dr Sumona Karjee Mishra brings self-monitoring devices in healthcare to all

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Prantae Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a healthcare device and diagnostic startup from Bhubaneswar, Odisha. It was founded in June 2015. Winner of the CII-IPR award for the last four years, they pride themselves on their R&D capabilities and have a DSIR-recognized R&D facility.  Prantae has received grants from DBT-BIRAC, DST, MeitY, Tata Trust, Millennium Alliance, Grand Challenge Exploration-India for product development.  During the pandemic, Prantae developed three diagnostic solutions and two of them were validated by ICMR for SARS-CoV2 detection. Their team comprises 12 young engineers and two scientists. Prantae’s…

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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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