Who Was Organizing My Cupboard?

June 29, 2026June 29, 2026 admin Opinion 0

Prof. Ramya Ranganathan’s take on the psychology of why we discount the work we never see The Ghost in My Cupboard When I was in grade twelve, something very strange started happening in my room, and I genuinely could not explain it. My cupboards, which had always been neat and organized for as long as I could remember, started getting messy, and my stuff was all over the place, and my bags were tumbling out, and my clothes (which had always sat perfectly in their racks) were slipping and falling…

IIM Bangalore’s ‘Shadow a Leader’ immerses graduating students in high-stakes decision-making arenas

April 22, 2026April 23, 2026 admin FEATURED Opinion Student Connect 0

The initiative brought students into close engagement with the complexities that define modern-day leadership A defining feature of the IIMB learning experience is its emphasis on rigorous, practice-oriented management education. As part of this approach, 26 students from the graduating PGP Class of 2026 participated in the Shadow a Leader initiative, an experiential programme designed to place students in real-world decision-making areas prior to their graduation. Over a two-month period, participating students engaged closely with experienced leaders across corporate, government and social sectors. Through direct observation and interaction, they gained…

Professor Rajesh Chandwani, Human Resources Management Area, IIM Ahmedabad.

Bearing witness to humanity: An interview with Professor Rajesh Chandwani on God, Vultures and Human

September 1, 2025September 1, 2025 admin FEATURED Opinion 0

IIMB PhD alumnus shares the behind-the-scenes of producing the national award-winning documentary Professor Rajesh Chandwani, alumnus of the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) at IIM Bangalore and faculty member in the HRM area at IIM Ahmedabad, recently won the Best Documentary Film Award at the 71st National Film Awards (2023) for God, Vultures and Human. Produced in collaboration with Studio Lichi and directed by Rishiraj Agarwal, the film brings to the fore the pivotal and indispensable role of Organ Transplant Coordinators (OTCs) in India’s transplant ecosystem. A pediatrician by training…

IIMB students recount industrial visit to Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited

January 9, 2025January 9, 2025 admin News and events Opinion 0

The session was held as part of the ‘CEO’s Agenda Towards Climate Action’ course offered by Prof. Deepti Ganapathy As part of the course ‘CEO’s Agenda Towards Climate Action,’ an industry visit was organized for the PGP, EPGP, and PGPEM cohorts at IIM Bangalore to Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited (TKM) in the Bidadi industrial area on 2 January, 2025. The course, designed by Prof. Deepti Ganapathy, Chairperson, Centre for Management Communication (CenComm) at IIM Bangalore, is the first of its kind in India to focus on providing future leaders…

Vision Beyond Boundaries: Shekar Naik’s unseen journey to IIMB

August 21, 2024August 21, 2024 admin FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

“My journey at IIMB started in 2012, during the first ever T-20 World Cup,” says Shekar Naik, Program Administrator at IIM Bangalore. Shekar is many things- a Padma Shri awardee, an accomplished national cricketer, and captain of the Indian National blind cricket team. Achieving everything that he has, Shekar says, “There is only ability in disability.” The first ever Blind World Cup T-20 witnessed a participation of more than 9 countries. Ramping up to big event, Shekar, then-captain of the India National Blind Cricket team couldn’t avail a single practice…

The Global Ranking of Startup Funding Ecosystems

May 2, 2024August 14, 2024 G. Sabarinathan Case Studies News and events Opinion 0

by G.Sabarinathan, PhD1 So, for all the excitement about being India’s Silicon Valley and so on, Bangalore seems to be ranked 33rd among startup cities in the world. That is what I noticed from PitchBook’s (PB) survey of October 2023.2 The scoring methodology PB’s list identifies the top fifty cities in terms of Venture Capital (VC) financing activity. And its survey ranks cities on two different top level dimensions, namely development and growth. Development itself is measured in terms of size and maturity. Size comprises value and number of deals…

Churn inside the Classroom

March 27, 2024March 27, 2024 Sabarinathan G Books By Faculty FEATURED Opinion Research Papers 0

How does a business school deliver concepts and entire courses that speak to the rapidly emerging needs of various industries, especially the newer ones, without compromising on academic standards? How does it compete against alternate sources of learning that deliver content that have greater appeal as more immediately relevant to the needs of industry? G. Sabarinathan, PhD1, explores the issue A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled The YouTube Effect2. I had articulated my hypothesis about the future of the delivery of learnings inside the classroom. The light…

A Kerala Conundrum

February 8, 2024February 8, 2024 Sabarinathan G Case Studies FEATURED Opinion 0

What are the conditions that will enable the entrepreneur inside many of us to find expression? C Balagopal’s book, ‘Below the Radar – The untold story of how modern manufacturing grew by stealth in Kerala’, explores this question and provokes thought in the reader, writes G. Sabarinathan, PhD1 Well before Vasco da Gama set out for Kerala in 1498, this littoral strip of land in Southwestern India had been in touch with the Greeks and then the Romans and the Arabs, writes Manu Pillai, the young sensation among historians, in…

Golden Jubilee Committee at IIMB hosts ‘The Prophet & The Poet’ Directed by founding faculty of IIMB Prof. Vijay Padaki and starring PGP alumnus Karan Singh, the play reveals rare facets of the friendship between the Mahatma and Gurudev, through a gripping exchange of letters

August 16, 2023August 16, 2023 Kavitha Kumar FEATURED News and events Opinion 0

Independence Day celebrations at IIMB turned a tad more special with the performance of the play, ‘The Prophet & The Poet’, at the IIMB auditorium on Tuesday evening. Designed and directed by Prof. Vijay Padaki, the play, offers rare glimpses of the exchange of correspondence, spanning 25 years, between Gandhiji and Rabindranath Tagore, and takes the audience through the heart and mind of the stalwarts, their triumphs and tribulations, their glory and grief, their dreams and dilemmas, and their delight and despair. Poetry meets philosophy meets practical wisdom, in powerful…

Say goodbye to range anxiety and air pollution with Electripetal

July 28, 2023July 28, 2023 admin FEATURED Opinion 0

Electripetal Technologies Private Limited is a technology company set up in 2019, which develops safe, reliable and accessible EV charging infrastructure to reduce range anxiety of electric vehicle users. Co-founder and COO Shahbaz Pasha says that the firm keeps innovation and creativity at the heart of everything it does. “Our main goal is to work towards safety and to improve green technology for household as well as commercial purposes.” Shahbaz Pasha earned his degree in Mechanical Engineering from ATME College of Engineering and started working on green mobility since 2019.…