Frisbee fun!

The ‘Campus Ultimate’ team from IIMB participated in ‘Sakkath’, a three-day Ultimate Frisbee tournament, held on Aug 18th-20th 2023, in Bangalore. Teams from different parts of the country participated in the tournament. The IIMB team comprised students, alumni, faculty and campus residents. The month leading up to the tournament was exciting, with non-team members from the PGP cohort and campus residents joining the training sessions and practice matches. It was a wonderful opportunity to rekindle bonding and community building at IIMB. admin

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The audience at Pragnya 2023, on 2nd March 2023.

Packed house for Last Lecture 2023 Three faculty members, invited to address the soon-to-graduate PGP & PGPBA Class at IIMB at ‘Pragnya’, impart wisdom crowned with wit

Professor Chetan Subramanian, Professor of Economics and Dean Faculty, had some life lessons to share with the PGP and PGPBA Class of 2023 a few weeks before their graduation: Network and build strong relationships with your peers, remain polite in all your interactions – professional and personal, choose your travelling companion on life’s journey wisely and well, and enjoy the glorious uncertainty and unpredictability of life. Opening his address at the ‘Last Lecture’ for the Class of 2023, on a beautiful evening at the Open-Air Theatre, tongue-firmly-in-cheek he asked: “What…

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Bringing industry to the classroom – Pawan Sachdeva and classmates, PGP 1996

One of the strong points of an MBA programme at IIM Bangalore is its ability to infuse the latest industry perspective into classroom teaching. And what better for a student than when they gain this exposure from their own seniors who are now industry experts. This workshop concept was conceived by Pawan Sachdeva during one of his interactions with the institute. Mr. Sachdeva wears several hats, including those of an author, environmental activist, teacher, and investing expert. His guiding principle in life is to constantly reinvent yourself in order to…

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Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director, IIMB; Prof. R Srinivasan, Chairperson, Post Graduate Programme in Management and Post Graduate Programme in Business Analytics at IIMB, and Col. (Retd.) S.D. Aravendan, Chief Administrative Officer, IIMB, with the organizing team of Sangram 2022.

Sangram 2022 closing ceremony

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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.

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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Junior batch wins the PGPEM Cup 2022 held on March 27 in a tug-of-war fight

31 March, 2022, Bengaluru: IIM Bangalore held the PGPEM Cup 2022 on March 27 (Sunday), 2022, at the institute’s Sports Complex, after a gap of two years. The event, organized annually by the students of the two-year weekend MBA programme of IIMB: Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM), is a battle of sports and games between the PGPEM senior and junior batches. This year’s event was organized by Kranthi Chennamsetty & Aniketh M Rao, the Sports Coordinators of the Senior & Junior batches respectively. The PGPEM Cup, reinitiated this…

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So, how you doin’? With a nod to the most awaited reunion of ‘Friends’, Mridul Nedungottil, from the EPGP Class of 2021-22, shares two crucial takeaways from learning during the lockdown

Two months of this financial year came to completion, recently. Yes, bankers and financial enthusiasts prefer saying ‘financial year’ rather than just using the word ‘year’. It is boring, and as an ex-banker, I will use financial year! As many listeners have told me in the past, I feel it adds a funny layer of sophistication—something required by an MBA graduate, perhaps! Anyway, a lot has transpired in these 60 odd days. We are attending online classes in our rooms (a few of us at Ajmera and others at our…

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Solutions for kids with learning disability: Giftolexia

Teena Paul’s youngest child was diagnosed with dysgraphia when he was 13 years old. “This life-changing expereience motivated me to help children with learning disabilities because I realized that society lacks awareness about learning disabilities in children, as a result, such children often get sidelined,” explains Teena. She started Giftolexia, which offers early digital screening solutions, teacher-parent workshops, and online intervention support. “There is a huge gap between the potential and performance of students with learning disability. Research has shown that early identification and right intervention are crucial for the…

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Building low-cost medical devices for the Indian market

Innodeev Solutions is a healthcare start-up focussed on identifying the unmet clinical needs in the Indian market and developing cost effective medical devices. “We intend to develop products which balance innovation and cost effectiveness with an ultimate goal to have ‘Made in India’ products. We are incubated at IKP Eden and Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre. We are part of the Launchpad programme at NSRCEL in IIM Bangalore,” says Dr. Deevish ND, the founder who is a practising plastic surgeon based in Bangalore. A Stanford India Biodesign fellow, who has trained in…

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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…

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