Category: Centres of excellence

Plop from NSRCEL’s Women Start-up Program The Women Startup Program of NSRCEL, the start-up hub at IIM Bangalore, aims to support ambitious and innovative women entrepreneurs by enabling them to transform their idea into a business venture. Plop is one such example.

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About the venture In the world of podcasts and Insta stories, Plop is a global, mobile-first company that creates immersive and interactive fiction for a young audience. Co-founded by Anushka Shetty, an IIMB alumna and Vineet Shetty, an ISB alum, in 2019, Plop hooks on a unique, fast-paced format to develop interactive bite-sized fiction to entertain and educate the Gen Y and Gen Z audience. The Mumbai-based platform uses a format that takes written word and infuses multiple multimedia elements like video, audio, and role-playing mobile-based simulations to give a…

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Cunomial from NSRCEL-GS 10K Programme Through programs such as 10,000 Women, NSRCEL, the start-up hub at IIM Bangalore, has successfully impacted several ventures of women entrepreneurs. Cunomial is one such venture.

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About the Start-up Cunomial provides cloud-native, simple and easy-to-use digital products for institutions of all sizes through the Software-as-a-Service [SaaS] business model which reduces the need for institutions to buy and support a broad range of IT infrastructure. One of the critical challenges faced by most institutions is inadequate technical infrastructure and the skilled manpower to adopt and use digital products. Cunomial intends to bridge this digital divide by providing easy-to-use and simple cloud-native products with no infrastructure requirements and best-in-class customer support for appropriate adoption and usage. Cunomial was started in June 2018 after incubation at…

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Learning Matters from Social Program of NSRCEL

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NSRCEL, the start-up hub at IIM Bangalore, through its Social Program, aims to support early-stage non-profits and for-profit ventures with a focus on harnessing digital technology to tackle pressing social problems. Learning Matters is one such venture. Learning Matters is an award-winning ed-tech organization headquartered in Bangalore. They focus on one of the largest problems faced by the Indian education sector – falling quality of learning outcomes in the majority of students. They use tech tools and Artificial Intelligence to solve this systemic problem and to scale the solution effectively, to large numbers…

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‘Mind Without Fear by Rajat Gupta – My Reflections’ Prof. G. Sabarinathan delves into the book and discovers much more than courtroom drama in the compelling tale of resilience and growth

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When Mr Rajat Gupta was elected Managing Director of McKinsey, it was headline material in Indian business media. A few years later came the news about Rajat Gupta’s being charged with insider trading and his going to jail.  So, when I saw his book, Mind Without Fear, in the campus bookstore I wasted no time in getting a copy. The book broadly deals with three aspects of Gupta’s life.  His personal life, of which he offers relatively scanty details, his life at McKinsey of which he speaks at some length…

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Build your Adversity Quotient

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The pandemic has me concerned about how our kids will handle adversities. It is imperative to put in place tools that will enable our youngsters deal with hardships better than we have. We invest a lot of effort into building Intelligence Quotient and Emotional Quotient. Now is the time to look at Adversity Quotient (AQ) – a measure of how we choose to respond and handle adversity, writes Rakesh Godhwani Between 1988 and 89, the Indian cricket team toured the West Indies and played many ODIs and test matches. The…

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Twenty Years On… Prof. G. Sabarinathan shares glimpses of his journey of two decades at IIM Bangalore

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It was twenty years ago to this day that I drove into IIMB to start a new phase in my life.  It was not just the start of a new career.   It was Kannada Rajyotsava day.  As my black ambassador, as old as myself back then, rolled through the streets of the campus, directionlessly because I did not know the way, it may have been a curious sight to the few residents who may have been looking at the streets.   Cars were relatively few on the campus in those days. …

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Research Week @ IIMB discusses research relevance to industry practice and policy making

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IIM Bangalore celebrated the second edition of Research Week from 26th December 2019 to 4th January 2020, showcasing the Institute’s growing research capabilities and commitment to high-quality, interdisciplinary research in Business, Management, and Public Policy.  The event was inaugurated with a panel discussion on the topic, ‘Research Relevance to Industry Practice and Policy Making’. The panel included Dr. R.B. Barman, former chairman, National Statistical Commission and former ED, RBI, Sharad Sharma, Co-founder, iSpirt, Prof. Arnab Mukherji, faculty from the Public Policy area at IIMB. The discussion focused on the challenges…

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IIMB’s Centre of Public Policy (CPP) hosts a discussion on the book ‘Data Sovereignty: The Pursuit of Supremacy’ on August 13, 2019

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The Centre of Public Policy (CPP) at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) hosted a book discussion on 13th August on the book,’Data Sovereignty: The Pursuit of Supremacy’, co-authored by Lt. Gen. D.B. Shekatkar (retd.), Lt. Gen. V.M. Patil (retd.), Lt. Gen. Vinod Bhatia (retd.), and Lt. Gen. Vinod Khandare (retd.), Jayadev Ranade, Bharat Panchal, and Vinit Goenka.  Professor Hema Swaminathan, Chair, Centre for Public Policy, said: “The Centre was established in 2000. It aspires to lead policy-thinking and praxis in India, promoting equitable, inclusive and sustainable solutions to the…

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Monetary Policy and Debt Management Policy: Should they be controlled by Independent Entities? At a panel discussion hosted by IIMB’s Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship on July 04, experts also take questions from students

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The Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship (CCGC) at IIMB hosted a panel discussion on Independent monetary policy and a separate debt management policy for India on July 4, 2018. The discussion is current and topical because of the increasing globalization across the world. This results in a need to create an independent monetary policy and separate debt management from the Reserve Bank of India. The panel was composed of Dr. S.S. Bhalla, a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, Mr. B.K. Bhattacharya (IAS), the former Chief Secretary…

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IIMB alumnus writes book on ‘Unmet Needs of Entrepreneurship’

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20 February, 2018, Bengaluru: A book titled, ‘Unmet Needs of Entrepreneurship: Why Entrepreneurs Do What They Do’, written by S Parthasarathy, Head – Alumni Relations, IIM Bangalore, and alumnus of IIMB’s Post Graduate Programme in Management, Class of 1994, has been published recently, by Rupa Publications. S Parthasarathy, Head – Alumni Relations, IIM Bangalore   The book, with a plethora of examples and illustrations, is centred around the idea of ‘needs’ and its impact on various aspects of entrepreneurship. It explores what motivates/stops people from getting into entrepreneurship, which needs…

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