Category: Student Connect

Virtually perfect! Sirigauri N credits HUL’s Employer Brand Team for delivering a holistic internship experience

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This summer, I had the opportunity to be a part of the Unilever Leadership Internship Programme (ULIP 2020) as a finance intern. On 15th March 2020, two weeks before I was scheduled to begin my internship, I received a mail from the Employer Brand Team stating that the internship would be virtual until further notice. It was an overwhelming situation. The world was battling the spread of a pandemic, and abundant precaution was the need of the hour. However, a virtual internship also meant that I would be missing out…

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Let’s hear it for work sans long commutes The hiring managers at Flipkart did a lot of homework while providing real work assignments and modifying project objectives to minimize impact to the virtual job, writes Sameer

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I had a fantastic experience as an intern with Flipkart this summer. It taught me more than I could have imagined. I got to work on a data science project that was interesting and important, and could make a significant difference in the way the company operates. It allowed me to learn, think, and execute constantly. I felt that hiring managers at Flipkart did a lot of homework while providing real work assignments and modifying project objectives to minimize impact to the virtual job. The work from the home culture…

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How to make WFH impactful Having a change-embracing, flexible, dynamic attitude helps deliver even in times of disruption, writes N Ramarajwho interned with the Royal Bank of Scotland

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I interned at the Royal Bank of Scotland (Operations). Since the bank’s HR informed me in advance about Work From Home (WFH), I had time to be prepared. Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan’s article in BusinessLine offered some great tips. RBS was incredibly supportive in setting up remote system access. The project was about process improvement. I explored ways of enhancing customer experience and improving productivity, using a range of Six Sigma tools like SIPOC, Pareto, RCA and statistical sampling. I was also able to apply learnings from analytics, marketing and product…

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Quick response from mentors made my virtual internship fulfilling, writes Anindita Rohi who worked with Ola Electric

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As a student at a B-school, one of the major milestones is landing a coveted internship. Personally, this was my first ever internship experience, and I was fortunate to land an internship which linked both my undergraduate and B-school experiences. On the day of my orientation, I was allotted the Ola Electric Mobility division as a vertical. I felt both excited and nervous. Ola Electric is a completely new idea driving to revolutionize the electric domain with the technology of battery swapping. Being an electrical engineer, I was excited to…

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The best fit for aspirations Chirag Soni says EPGP at IIMB has better equipped him for the life ahead

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Having worked for almost seven years in one of the most sought-after career paths in today’s world – Machine Learning and Data Science – in Management Consulting, Retail Banking and Software Product industries, I decided to build further on the solid technical foundation that my experience provided me and accelerate towards more business-oriented roles. Close collaboration with Finance and Marketing teams on various strategic projects that required high performing analytics solutions steered my interest towards acquiring knowledge of fundamental management disciplines for being involved in broader level decision-making. With world-class…

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My Time at IIMB A breakthrough year and a once-in-a-lifetime experience is how Ashish Anja describes his EPGP experience

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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…

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IIMB: A microcosm of India The wide choice of academics, the lush green, stone-walled campus throbbing with activity, the projects, events and competitions made Kushal Waghmare’s EPGP journey challenging and exciting

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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…

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THE FIRSTS AND LASTS OF MANY THINGS – IIM BANGALORE Stepping out of Bangalore airport, I did the most DJ thing and shouted out - Hello Bangalore!!! Except that, Bangalore didn’t respond, because it is some 500 kms away from the airport…………

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These are some of the key punch lines from Rahul Subramaniam’s stand-up stint on Bangalore, and undeniably, they summed up my emotions when I stepped out of Bangalore Airport on 12th June, 2018, heading out for my admissions at IIM Bangalore. Since then, for two years, the agony has persisted, even more so, because after every small trip back home, I have yearned to get back to the green campus, as soon as possible! As I now pack my clothes and books in cartons, ready to be shipped back home,…

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

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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…

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Dr. Saamdu Chetri, a champion of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness, delivers a talk on ‘Journey of Gross National Happiness’, on February 15, 2020 at IIMB.

“Happiness is in knowing the mindful soul”: Dr. Saamdu Chetri in a talk at IIMB

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15 February 2020, Bengaluru: “Mindfulness is in being present with right thoughts, understanding, intention, efforts and action,” said Dr. Saamdu Chetri, a champion of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness, who talked about the ‘Journey of Gross National Happiness’, at IIMB, on February 15 (Saturday). Dr Chetri began his talk by sharing a few glimpses of Bhutan and its sacredness in terms of environment, people and government though the country isn’t spared by the ecological imbalances and climate changes impacting the world. “From one individual’s action, planet Earth is dying,” he observed.…

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