Build your Adversity Quotient

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…

Unearthing Shared Identities and Cultural Similarities of India & Japan

November 16, 2020November 21, 2020 admin1 FEATURED Global MBA Stories News and events 0

16 November, 2020, Bengaluru: “When we think of Japan, we think of it as an insular culture. However, Japan and India share many cultural similarities such as festivals marking the changing seasons, rituals and art inspired by nature, and an adherence to the lunar calendar,” said sarod artiste and Japanese language expert Anupam Joshi, in his talk, ‘Identifying Our Shared Identity! Astonishing Cultural Similarities between India & Japan’, as part of the ‘Tatsujin – Speak’ – a seminar series hosted by the India Japan Study Centre, an IIM Bangalore Centre…

Combining tech and food Incubated at NSRCEL, Supply6 looks at giving urban working people, who are strapped for time, convenient food options

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

According to National Family Health Survey 2018, 1 in 4 urban Indians skips breakfast almost daily, and 3 in 4 Indians eat unhealthy snacks or fast food for lunch at least twice a week. This can increase tiredness and stress at work, and makes it difficult to focus, apart from having long term health effects. For a professional in urban India, there are very few healthy and nutritious meal options. There are some new age restaurants that serve healthy salads. But these salads do not come cheap. The other problem…

KhaaliJeb: A payments app that woos students Part of the fintech startup incubation programme at NSRCEL, this venture, founded by IIIT Allahabad graduates, is youth-centric

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

KhaaliJeb is an app which makes payments and banking simple, fast and rewarding for youth and students. Live as a full-fledged UPI PSP app for over a year now and sponsored by Kotak Mahindra Bank, KhaaliJeb has a program where its users can avail discounts on brands catering to those below 29 years of age. “We have on-boarded 350+ restaurants and salons in Bangalore,” says Prakash Kumar, one of the founders, who currently handles ideation, product and design. How KhaaliJeb was born “It was the year 2015. I was in…

Over a cup of chai Chaika, an instant tea premix firm, part of the Launchpad program at NSRCEL, has used the lockdown to successfully pivot their business model

August 20, 2020August 21, 2020 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

“The idea for Chaika started when we were working in Singapore, where we craved masala chai but didn’t know how to make it. Even when we tried, we failed! Moreover, the process took 15-20 minutes – we just didn’t have the time in the mornings. This craving made us quit our finance jobs to take the entrepreneurship route,” chuckles Aradhita Agarwal, Co-founder and graduate of Economics from the National University of Singapore. “We also realised that people were switching over, from masala chai, the beverage they grew up with, to…

The First Among Equals As strategic leader, collegial individual and catalyst, Professor G Raghuram combines personal humility and professional will, say his colleagues at his farewell

July 20, 2020December 8, 2020 admin1 FEATURED News and events 0

20 JULY, 2020: The IIMB family bid adieu to Professor G. Raghuram whose term as Director came to a close today and welcomed Professor Rishikesha T. Krishnan as Director of the school. Dean Faculty Chetan Subramanian welcomed the gathering, virtually. “IIMB would like to place on record its deepest appreciation for Prof. G. Raghuram. His boundless energy and his willingness to reach out to colleagues, especially on contentious issues, are remarkable,” he said. Listing Prof. Raghuram’s achievements as Director, he said 23 new faculty had been hired during his tenure,…

For management research in India, IIMB is the place to be Sachidananda B S offers a glimpse into his life as a doctoral scholar

March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 admin1 FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak News and events Student Connect 0

I am a Ph.D. from the Strategy area, with my dissertation research in the nascent stages of Entrepreneurship. I have completed both my Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) and now a Ph.D. from IIM Bangalore. My dissertation research is a valuable milestone that captures many nuances of my entrepreneurial experience over the past decade. In my dissertation, I study how an entrepreneur’s interaction with mentors, other entrepreneurs, vendors, customers, and investors influences the initial venture idea. The research implications directly guide entrepreneurs and indirectly affect the design of incubators…

Decongesting Bengaluru: NSRCEL-incubated start-up shows the way

February 26, 2020February 27, 2020 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

Incubated at IIM Bangalore’s NSRCEL, Series-5 Lab has launched a technology platform for Software Defined Marketing (SDM), a programmatic cloud-based platform to manage assets across all mass media, create TG specific next-generation experiences, run marketing campaigns and report real-time analytics with machine learning and artificial intelligence. The start-up has been working with the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC). In 2019, they launched BMTC Namma Pass, a digital ticketing facility for the Volvo Vajra service. So far, over 3000 passengers use this digital cashless mode of ticketing service, and the founders say…

PROSOC, incubated at NSRCEL, looks to address social needs

February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 admin1 FEATURED News and events 0

PROSOC Innovators is a for-profit social enterprise that designs and develops products and services that can empower people, at the base of the pyramid, in sectors like education, livelihood, agriculture, and healthcare. PROSOC stands for ‘PROducts for SOCiety’. Incubated at IIM Bangalore’s entrepreneurial learning centre, NSRCEL, PROSOC is currently working on two products in the domains of education and livelihood. For school children, PROSOC has designed and developed DESKIT, which is a combination of a lightweight school bag and an ergonomic, foldable, portable and detachable table. Children can carry DESKITs…

(L-R) Shiva Jayagopal, Winvinaya Foundation, Prof. G. Raghuram, Director IIM Bangalore, and S.S. Jayasankar, Oorja Cochin, at the golden jubilee celebrations of Balavidyalaya, Chennai.

IIMB Director G. Raghuram speaks on ‘Experience of IIMB in making the courses inclusive’ during the golden jubilee celebrations of Chennai-based school Balavidyalaya

December 29, 2019December 31, 2019 admin1 FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

27 December, 2019, Bengaluru: Balavidyalaya, the Chennai-based school for young deaf children, hosted the international conference titled ‘Parenting Children to Listen from Infancy & Talk for a Lifetime’, on December 19 and 20, 2019, at the Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall, as part of its golden jubilee celebrations. The conference brought together policy makers, special educators, speech therapists, audiologists, doctors, psychologists, social workers and parents engaged or associated with deafness. A healthy interaction and exchange of information between professionals from different parts of the world during the conference threw…