Category: News and events

Conclave featuring experts from academia, industry, start-ups, impact funding, the World Bank and Government to contribute to the dialogue on affordable healthcare policy and its execution 10 February 2017, Bengaluru: The Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship (CCGC) and the Centre for Public Policy (CPP) at IIM Bangalore, along with Sustainability-Next, an e-magazine which provides relevant content from practitioners and thought leaders, will host a one-day conclave on ‘Affordable Healthcare – Building India’s Future Health Economy’ on February 18 (Saturday), 2017, at the campus between 9.00 am and 6 pm. The purpose of the…

Smitha Gopinath, Tejas Shah, Ashish Bijawat and Dr. Venkata Chamala Anil, from EGMP batch 39, advance to the Hult Prize Regional Final Round to be held in San Francisco in March 09 February 2017, Bengaluru: One of the winning teams of the Hult Prize 2017 India National Round is from IIM Bangalore, according to the recently announced Top 10 winning teams of the competition across India. The IIMB team has advanced to the Hult Prize Regional Final Rounds to be held in March 2017, which will be hosted at Hult International Business School’s campus…

09 February, 2017: The Academy of International Business-India Conference, to be held in Pune in April, invites registrations. The AIB-India Conference 2017 will bring together scholars from multiple disciplines and countries to examine international issues and trends in the context of emerging market multinationals (EMNEs), and innovation, and other aspects of international business, with a focus on the Indian context. The AIB India Chapter Chair is located at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. This year the conference is being hosted by Symbiosis International University, Pune. The AIB-India Conference will be followed…

(L-R) Bhavesh Birla, Rishabh Khandelwal, Sahil Makkar, with their mentor Prof. P C Narayan and Director Incharge Prof. R Srinivasan, Vaibhav Gupta and Akshay Kumar. The five-member team comprising Sahil Makkar, Rishab Khandelwal, Bhavesh Birla, Vaibhav Gupta and Akshay Kumar qualifies for the Asia-Pacific level of the competition, to be held in Bangkok on 14th& 15th March 08 February 2017: A five-member team from IIM Bangalore, comprising Sahil Makkar, Rishab Khandelwal, Bhavesh Birla, Vaibhav Gupta and Akshay Kumar has emerged as one of the top three teams in the national round…

The summit, to be inaugurated by IT & BT and Tourism Minister Priyank Kharge, will feature senior corporate captains and leading start-up protagonists, who will deliberate on steps to be taken to launch India in the global arena as a manufacturing, start-up and digital power 07 February 2017, Bengaluru: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore will host a visionary leadership summit, ‘Re-launch India’, on 11th February (Saturday) 2017, at the IIMB auditorium. The IT & BT and Tourism Minister, Government of Karnataka, Priyank Kharge, will inaugurate the summit. Satheesh Reddy, Scientific Advisor, Govt.…

Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus will talk about building and scaling social businesses and the dwindling boundaries between social and business aspects 06 February, 2017, Bengaluru: NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) at IIM Bangalore (IIMB) is hosting a talk on ‘Building Bridges – Social and Capital’ on February 8 (Wednesday), 2017, by Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, under its initiative ‘NSRCEL Social’. Through ‘NSRCEL Social’, with the support of Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, NSRCEL is extending support to social impact not-for-profit ventures, to leverage its experience of nurturing early-stage ventures to…

The one-year full-time executive management programme of IIMB shoots up 13 spots to be placed at No. 49 in the FT rankings 31 January 2017, Bengaluru: IIM Bangalore’s one-year fulltime Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP) has been ranked among the top 50 in the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2017 released on Monday. IIMB’s programme has shot up 13 spots to be placed at No 49 in the FT ranking. The other management schools in the top 50 include INSEAD, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, MIT: Sloan, University of California at Berkeley: Haas, etc. The…

This is no ordinary budget. Coming as it does on the back of demonetization and in the context of uniform tax across the country on Goods and Services, it has generated already plenty of discussion and debate. Analyzing Budget 2017, almost in real time, is a group of experts who will discuss its impact on technology related to MSMEs and skill formation, foreign investment, domestic industries, and on tax laws. CM Envirosystem’s Chairman Dr. Jacob Crasta, Bosch Chairman V.K. Viswanathan, L&T Finance Board Member S. Raghavan, DPK Engineers Chairman S.…

The round table, led by Prof. A. Damodaran, will feature Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Girish Kasaravalli, Alarmel Valli, Sanjna Kapoor, Anmol Vellani, Sharon Lowen, Zasha Colah, Pawan Kumar and Vipin Vijay 20 January, 2017, Bengaluru: IIM Bangalore will host a round table on ‘Creative Sustainability: As Artistes See It’ on January 22 (Sunday), 2017, at the campus on Bannerghatta Road. The workshop, led by Prof. A. Damodaran, the IPR Chair at IIMB, proposes to bring together film directors, leading performing artists, actors and other thought leaders. The focus of the workshop is on how films and other visual arts,…

Friday, January 13, 2017 Bangaloreans need to have the survey number, village, hobli and taluk as found in the registration document to be able to use this portal 12 January 2017: The Real Estate Research Initiative of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB-RERI), with support from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has launched a web-based portal – www.rajakaluve.org to enable Bangaloreans to know if their property is situated on a storm water drain or ‘raja kaluve’. The website is optimized for mobile viewing and enables searches in Kannada as well. Inaugurating the portal for public use, BBMP Commissioner…