Seed to stitch: Fabric Monde shows the way

Seed to stitch: Fabric Monde shows the way Fabric Monde is a B2B player that brings low carbon footprint fabrics of Indian origin to mainstream fashion brands. The company came into existence when the Co-founder & CEO Jyothi D, from IIM Lucknow, discovered that the space of homespun fabrics like khadi was only 2.5% from 2001-14 but had leapt to 35% in 2016-17. After studying the sector and working on several pilots in their business model, the co-founders, Jyothi and Hemalatha, believed they could build an enterprise based on sustainability that has now taken the world by storm.

June 28, 2018August 21, 2018 admin FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak 1

Co-founders Jyothirmayi Dakkumall and Hemalatha Kanneganti Fabric Monde works on addressing market linkage for 95 weaver units out of 4859 leads from across 16 states within the first year of establishment. They are a sourcing partner for 30+ brands and hope to grow this portfolio to 350 brands in the next year. “There are many start-ups in the area of handlooms and sustainable fashion, but they are based on the B2C model. The real challenge lies in sourcing these fabrics for all the small and large labels,” says Jyothi. Accolades…

India Innovation Challenge Design Contest 2018 is launched at NSRCEL, IIMB’s incubation centre

June 21, 2018August 20, 2018 Dhruva Jaishankar FEATURED News and events 0

There was a clear call for innovative ideas from India’s engineering students at the Texas Instruments – India Innovation Challenge Design Contest (TI-IICDC) 2018 which was launched at the NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) at IIM Bangalore on June 20, 2018. The event was also broadcast live on Facebook.The N.S. Raghavan Centre for Entreprenurial Learning (NSRCEL) is an incubator for entrepreneurial ideas. Representatives from Texas Instruments, NSRCEL and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) opened registrations for a new batch of fresh entrepreneurs to convert their ‘dreams…

PGPEM student represents IIMB at Oxford seminar

June 21, 2018August 20, 2018 admin FEATURED News and events 0

Neha, a student of the Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM), was selected to attend a seminar, ‘Leading with Purpose in a Networked world’ at Oxford. The seminar was organized by Saïd Business School, in collaboration with the Aspen Institute US in Oxford, U.K. Twenty-two selected students representing different countries and 19 different business schools explored some fundamental questions underlying leadership in a globalizing world such as how do leaders align individual and organizational values across cultures; what is the vision of a good society which honours entrepreneurial…

IIMB alumni are back at school As part of a unique alumni relations strengthening initiative launched by the school, eight alumni with a keen interest in management education attend a five-day programme on campus

May 3, 2018August 20, 2018 admin FEATURED News and events Uncategorized 0

03 May, 2018, Bengaluru: Providing management education requires mastery of course design, class preparation and delivery, and creation of specific teaching aids. A unique programme, ‘Effective Teaching’, launched by IIM Bangalore’s Centre for Teaching and Learning, along with the school’s Alumni Relations Office, seeks to develop and enhance specific competencies required for management teaching among its alumni.The first five-day programme, led by programme directors Prof. R Srinivasan and Vasanthi Srinivasan, was launched on April 30. The teaching faculty included Prof. Bringi Dev, Prof. Chetan Subramanian, Prof. Haritha Saranga, Prof. PD Jose, Prof.…

EPGP Batch X hosts Prof. Ravi Sundar Muthukrishnan for the Seminar Series

May 1, 2018August 20, 2018 admin FEATURED News and events Uncategorized 0

“I never thought I would find a seminar on a financial topic so interesting,” exclaimed a student of the one-year full time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management at IIM Bangalore. And, he was not alone. All his batch mates were visibly engrossed as Professor Ravi Sundar Muthukrishnan, Head, Institutional Equity Research at Elara Securities, discussed the market, its future and its impact on financial careers. Prof. Muthukrishnan’s experience as both an academician and an industry leader placed him in a unique position to share, with the students, his ideas related to…

Silent vigil articulates outrage

April 25, 2018August 20, 2018 admin FEATURED News and events 0

Several members of the IIM Bangalore community, including faculty, students, staff, and campus residents, came together for ‘mounagraha,’ a silent vigil, from April 20th to 23rd, outside the college campus. “The mounagraha was organized to express outrage over uncurbed gender violence in India, and to demand swift justice for victims starting with the young girls from Kathua and Unnao,” said an organizer of the protest.In addition to the silent vigil, several faculty members of IIMB have also written an open letter to the Prime Minister. The letter says that in order…

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

April 25, 2018August 20, 2018 Bharat Khanna Alumni Connect Alumni Stories FEATURED Uncategorized 1

“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…

The One-Year Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management at IIM Bangalore: A Journey to Remember

April 11, 2018August 21, 2018 Tridisha Goswami FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak Uncategorized 0

It has been four weeks since EPGP Batch IX completed its programme at IIM Bangalore. While some of us are looking for accommodation and booking the services of packers and movers, others are enjoying some precious family time. As I glance through our Convocation Day pictures that celebrate the ‘we did it’ moment, I pause to reflect on this one-year roller coaster ride. When I joined the one-year fulltime Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management at IIM Bangalore, I fretted that competing with the best minds in business would wear…

Business, Travel, and Tales with Turkish Delights Parul Aggarwal & Saurav Singh, who have just graduated from the one year full-time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management share their Global Network Week experience at Koç University Graduate School of Business, Turkey, where they studied the challenges of family businesses across the world

April 3, 2018August 19, 2018 Parul Aggarwal Saurav Singh FEATURED Global MBA Stories 0

02 April, 2018, Bengaluru: The Global Network Week (12th to 16th March, 2018) for MBA students, organized by the Global Network for Advanced Management, provides a unique opportunity to pursue a focused, theme-based course in one of the 32 leading business schools of the world. The Global Network Week aims to encourage students and faculty members from different countries, cultures, and economies to learn together and to learn from each other, to build relationships, to enhance awareness about issues and arrive at solutions for global and complex issues. As representatives of IIM Bangalore,…

Global Network Experience at Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT, USA EPGP student participates in Global Network Week at Yale University

March 29, 2018August 20, 2018 Nikhil Dhar FEATURED Global MBA Stories Student Connect 0

IIM Bangalore is a member of the Global Network, which includes 32 eminent business schools around the world, convened by Yale University. Being an active participant in the Global Network, IIMB hosts Global Network Weeks (GNWs) in the months of March and October every year when international students from partner schools visit IIMB. The GNWs feature sessions by eminent faculty, guest speakers from the industry coupled with company visits. Likewise, IIMB students enrol for the Global Network Weeks conducted around the world. Nikhil Dhar, from IIMB’s one-year fulltime residential Executive…