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12th edition of sports contest ‘Sangharsh’ concludes on Jan 7 with IIM Calcutta lifting the trophy

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09 January, 2018, Bengaluru: ‘Sangharsh’, the inter-IIM sports fest, between IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta and Lucknow, was hosted by IIM Bangalore on the 5th, 6th and 7th of January, 2018. The three days of Sangharsh 2018 were filled with enthusiasm, excitement, competitive spirit and passion. The fight for the prestigious trophy managed to bring out the best out of all contingents as well as the crowd. Day 1 The 12th edition of Sangharsh was inaugurated at IIM Bangalore on January 05, 2018 with Anshul Kothari, member of the Indian swimming…

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IIM Bangalore’s Advanced Management Programme – Realize Your True Potential

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When a sense of stagnation and redundancy started hitting many of us in our professional lives, we found our paths leading us to the Advanced Management Programme (AMP) at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). Just like a product matures over a period and ultimately experiences decline, unless reinvigorated with a dosage of innovation, senior executives too, after a point of time, need to reinvent themselves to escape stagnation. According to Professor Vasanthi Srinivasan, one of our professors and co-founder of AMP, the very genesis of the AMP was based…

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EPGP Alumni Come Together at IIMB

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Sparsh 2017, the annual EPGP alumni reunion, featured a masterclass and a panel discussion on ‘Life after EPGP’ 18 December, 2017, Bengaluru: Sparsh 2017, the annual reunion of IIM Bangalore’s one-year full-time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP) alumni, was hosted at IIMB on Dec. 18 (Sunday). The event, coordinated by the EPGP Alumni Committee, focused on strengthening alumni interactions. In the presence of key faculty members of the programme, the session began welcoming the alumni. Prof. U Dinesh Kumar, Chairperson, EPGP at IIMB, provided an overview of the…

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Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Using Blended MOOCs on 9th December 2017

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IMBx conducted a Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Using Blended MOOCs on 9th December 2017. This is the sixthFDP since 2015 and the enrolments and learnings are ever expanding. These programmes are conducted to spread the reach of MOOCs among various institutes and encourage them to blend it with their classroom teaching.   This FDP had about 100 participants registered from over 50 institutes across India. The session began with Professor Jose’s addressing and building the participants’ enthusiasm for the day long event. This was followed by three parallel tracks…

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Seoul Story

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  A gushing rapid on the trail of the Bukhansan trek During animmersion experience at KAIST in South Korea, IIMB’s one-year Global MBA students get insights into the country via field visits, projects and some adventures. Karthik Ramanathan shares his experience. 21 September, 2017, Bengaluru:It was eight o’clock in the evening on 13thAugust 2017: we, the students of the full-time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP) at IIM Bangalore, were lugging our bags, getting ready to load them in the buses waiting to ferry us to the airport. Yes,…

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NSRCEL Third Among India’s Top 45 Technology Incubators: Entrepreneur India

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  Magazine lists MOOCs, workshops, go-to-market orientation, seed funding support, India Innovation Challenge, Women’s Start-up Program, and NSRCEL Social as some the achievements which helped NSRCEL bag the coveted spot 20 September, 2017, Bengaluru: The entrepreneurship and innovation hub of IIM Bangalore – N. S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) has been ranked third among India’s top 45 Technology Incubators by Entrepreneur India, a magazine which provides a platform for entrepreneurs to discover and unleash breakthrough ideas, innovations and insights needed to realize their power to disrupt the social, economic and tech ecosystem. According…

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From River Rejuvenation to Neem Revolution, TedxIIMB Features Inspirational Talks

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Event organized by students and alumni of IIMB elicits enthusiastic response 11 SEPTEMBER, 2017: Students and alumni of IIM Bangalore jointly organized this edition of TEDxIIMBangalore on Sunday, September 10. The theme for this year’s talks was ‘Transformational Ideas’ and featured five eminent speakers. Dr. Rajiv Kumar Gupta, Managing Director, Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd, spoke on the Neem Revolution and how it has been empowering women in rural India. Dr. T.V. Ramachandra, Professor at the Center for Ecological Sciences at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, spoke on ‘Rejuvenating…

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Prof. U Dinesh Kumar Publishes Book on Business Analytics

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Titled ‘Business Analytics – The Science of Data-Driven Decision Making’, the book provides a holistic perspective of analytics with theoretical foundations and applications of the theory using examples across several industries 05 September, 2017, Bengaluru: A book titled, ‘Business Analytics – The Science of Data-Driven Decision Making’, authored by Professor U Dinesh Kumar, faculty and Chairperson, Decision Sciences and Information Systems area, IIM Bangalore, has been published by Wiley India Pvt. Ltd. Written with the aim of becoming the primary resource for students of Business Analytics, this book provides a holistic…

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Consulate General of Israel in Bengaluru and IIMB Celebrate Mutual Collaboration for Business and Academics

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In keeping with the rapid expansion of engagements between the two countries, plans for IIMB to deepen such ties were discussed during the luncheon celebration, which includes hosting an Israel Center at IIMB to build deeper understanding on issues of importance to both the countries 30 August, 2017, Bengaluru: The Consulate General of Israel in Bengaluru and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), organized a luncheon at IIM Bangalore, to celebrate the collaboration between the Consulate and IIMB for the development of business and academic ties between India and Israel,…

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Top 3 Reasons Why MOOCs Should Play a Role in the Classroom

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The past decade has seen MOOC emerge as a buzzword – much has been discussed about the hype around it, its efficacy, revenue model, academic rigour and so on. But, is MOOC an emerging technology? Hasn’t distance learning been around for a while? How is a MOOC different from erstwhile distance learning? Is it just old wine in a new bottle? What we need to understand is that MOOC is different; it is a pedagogically powerful tool and is structured to mimic the classroom learning as much as possible. In…

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