Category: Life @ IIMB – Student Speak

If there is one thing that the IIMB experience has made me in the last one year, that would be – ‘humble’. Irrespective of what one has achieved in their pre-IIMB career, the pedigree of the cohort at IIMB is such that it makes one feel respectful. IIMB, being the best B-school in the country, was always my dream college. The opportunity to study and experience life at this prestigious institute is nothing less than ‘living a dream’ for me. I still remember entering the hallowed gates of the institute…

As a memorable year comes to a close, I look back at my journey spanning 15 thousand kilometers from Atlanta to Bangalore. Deciding to pursue MBA from IIM Bangalore meant more than just going back to school to me. It meant leaving the United States; a country which had been my home for a decade, and has some of the top business schools worldwide. I chose IIM Bangalore because of its rich legacy, eminent faculty and leading-edge curriculum in a very exciting business scenario of India. IIMB, as an educational…

George Orwell once said, “I’d rather be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!” Orwell was absolutely correct and EPGP 2019 was fortunate to witness this truth during the International Immersion trip to the prestigious IE Business School in Madrid. After our examination got over, a cohort of 25 of us, led by Prof. R. Narayanaswamy, Chair, Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management, left for Spain just before Thanksgiving, and the excitement was palpable aboard the plane. Immersion Commences On…

‘Data is the new oil’. The fastest growing jobs today are in the field of data analytics, Big Data, Machine Learning and AI. Companies are putting in immense efforts and investments to collect data and it’s paying off handsomely. It is safe to say that Data is going to be a core competency of successful companies. Right from Amazon to political parties to sports, the scope of application of data analytics is infinite.  Cricket is one such domain that is rapidly becoming data driven.  There is a new buzzword that’s…

22 June, 2019: The Data Centre and Analytics Lab (DCAL) at IIM Bangalore, led by Prof. U Dinesh Kumar, organized the Ninth Business Analytics & Intelligence Symposium on 21-22 June at IIMB. As a part of the program, a two-day workshop was held on ‘Machine Learning using Python’ and ‘Deep Learning’ conducted by Manaranjan Pradhan and Naveen Kumar Bhansali, respectively. Both spoke about how Machine and Deep Learning could be used to solve real-world problems by helping the participants with a hands-on approach to understand the application of Machine and Deep Learning algorithms.…

22 May, 2019: The PGPPM Class of 2019-20, at IIM Bangalore, hosted Dr. Kalpana Gopalan, an accomplished and experienced serving IAS officer and an alumna of IIMB, on May 22. In her talk, she traced the city’s growth story from humble beginnings to a heaving metropolis. She also described the socio-cultural influences that shape the character of the city, which she called “a contested space”. The focus on urbanization is timely as projections point to the fact that while it took nearly 40 years (from 1971 to 2008) for India’s…

As the protagonist walks down the winding pathways that lead up to the Management Development Centre, he feels a sense of calm. Having spent the last five years negotiating traffic, that at times is intent on killing you, yet at others pins you down and lets you marinate your lungs in hydrocarbons and other noxious gases, scrambling to “clock in” and making your grand presence felt at your presumptuously important yet claustrophobic office cubicle (In moments of clarity you can hear the cacophony of keyboard clicks generated by souls such…