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Kohort: Towards mobility, upskilling and access to professional jobs

Kohort: Towards mobility, upskilling and access to professional jobs

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Kohort is a start-up that, according to its founder, strives to include a broader segment of people to experience mobility and access to professional jobs, while upskilling them and exploring a wide array of career pathways.  “The objective of Kohort is to reduce the social mobility gap and ensure more people are mobile; provide high-impact support by teaching hard and soft skills to help people secure professional employment, and teach people that there is always an alternative path. We want people to experience what it is like to be a…

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Shinzo Abe: A central figure in India-Japan ties Former Senior Fellow at Centre for Public Policy and faculty member at IIMB, Prof. N Ravi writes about how Abe Shinzo’s leadership transformed Japan’s relationship with India, in the context of his sudden and tragic demise

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In the demise of former Prime Minister of Japan Abe Shinzo, under tragic circumstances, India has lost an extremely valuable friend. His paradigm for Japan’s role in this century and India’s place in that frame has been farsighted.  Belonging to an elite politcal dynasty, Prime Minister Abe was the son of Shintaro Abe, onetime Foreign Minister of Japan and also the grandson of post-war PM Nobosuke Kishi who finalized a new security agreement with the USA, in 1960.  Prime Minister Abe attained his position at a very young age of…

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Ausum: The wholesome way to stress-free lives

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NSRCEL-incubated start-up Ausum aims to make stress relief simple and self-care effortless so that people can live longer, sick-free and also live lives full of happiness. Founder Mayura says that she believes in getting to the root of the problem by combining ancient knowledge of botanicals with technology. “Humans have coexisted with plants for thousands of years and we believe in using their power to heal our bodies. We extract active ingredients from medicinal plants and clinically validate their effect. We deliver these precise dosages of plant-based supplements in the…

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eShipz: Smart shipping solution to save time and cost

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eShipz enables Small and Midsize Businesses (SMBs) as well as Large Enterprises to enhance their supply chain efficiency and reduce logistics cost, thereby improving customer experience while shipping goods. The firm management shares that eShipz has processed nine million packages on platform and is continuously working on improving business experience by bringing more automation tools via Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). eShipz was founded by Shashi Shekhar Tripathi, Ajaykumar Rajakumar and Shivadeep Mahadi. The founding team comes with a combined Logistics experience of more than 25 years, and…

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Entrepreneurship Diary from IIMB Chapter 1: Ploughing a lonely furrow

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G.Sabarinathan, PhD1, recalls the story of Asvini Kumar, an alumnus of PGP’81, from a time when there was no template for growing the kind of services business that his venture, Thinksoft, was, and believes entrepreneurship seems to have been always ingrained in the alumni and students of IIMB. On June 23rd, I wrote a brief post acknowledging a few unicorns that I knew of that have an IIMB connection.  Here is that post in case you are curious as to what I wrote.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabarinathan-g-7541a9175/recent-activity/shares/ My post on Open set me…

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RBI’s Tight Rope Walk Ram Iyer tries to trace the links between a recent series of monetary actions by various central banks and the impact on India’s own interests. The article draws parallels from earlier scenarios to identify measures for the RBI to ensure that inflation targets are met without scuttling growth and employment.

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Given India’s dependence on oil imports and US recently over taking China as India’s largest trade partner, one can argue Indian currency has to almost operate in a fixed exchange rate regime with the dollar. With US inflation nearing 9% and measures to reduce money supply via rate hikes and quantitative tightening by the US Fed well-nigh certain a few looming questions present itself to the RBI. The government has decided to focus on capital expenditure with the FM stating it has a multiplier effect of 2.4.1 While it would…

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HyCube: Bringing innovative solutions in the automobile industry

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HyCube Works, an ISO 9001:2015 and CE certified company, is a rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing start-up firm, that aims to deliver tested and refined products to its users. HyCube Works is involved in direct digital manufacturing solutions, sales and service of desktop and industrial-grade ALPI series of 3D printers and rapid prototyping services, with the goal of creating complex parts and handholding designers to validate designs and develop various parts for end-use applications. This Maruti Suzuki incubated start-up is Startup India and MSME registered. HyCube Works was set up…

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TRUE Assistive Technology: A step towards disability inclusion and empowerment

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TRUE Assistive Technology is a start-up involved with developing assistive tech products which the founders say are of international standard for mobility that enable disability inclusion. They explain in detail, “We want to make quality and standardized products for India. We aim to emerge as leaders in Assistive Technology and contribute positively to the upliftment of the differently abled. The first solution TurnPlus, launched in 2017, is an award-winning, patent-pending, easy to install, swivel seat mechanism for cars, which addresses an important aspect of easy commute for the differently abled,…

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PGP alum Rohit Goel’s career trajectory: an inspiration for current students to design academic and career goals

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Having joined Barclays Capital from campus, thereafter making a career switch to join the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Rohit Goel, an alumnus of IIM Bangalore’s two-year full time MBA: Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) 2010-2012 batch, has had an interesting and successful career trajectory, which makes him a role model for the current students of the institute. Rohit joined Barclays Capital India from campus, where he worked as a lead analyst doing stock market research. While a career in investment banking is common amongst the IIM alumni, Rohit’s next…

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A Snapshot of My Doctoral Journey A warm cohort, a supportive environment, inspiring faculty-mentors and a campus that proved to be a nourishing cocoon are the highlights of her years of doctoral study at IIMB, writes Anjana Karumathil

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As Professor Haritha Saranga called out my name from the podium, on a summer evening in April, and as I stepped up to collect my doctorate, I was overwhelmed at how miraculous that moment seemed. Shining robes, wide smiles, rounds of applause, and bright camera lights. How blood, sweat and tears of the past five years had instantaneously morphed into this precious paper in my hands! How the miracle of technology made it possible for my loved ones to be part of the occasion from thousands of miles away (and…

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