Category: Student Connect

Record number of women join the two-year MBA at IIM Bangalore

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IIM Bangalore welcomed the 46th batch of Post Graduate Program (PGP), and the 43rd batch of the Fellow Program in Management (FPM) on June 10 (Monday). A total of 441 MBA students and 25 doctoral students were part of the inauguration on a pleasant evening at the Open Air Theatre on campus. Professor G Raghuram, Director, IIMB, along with the Chief Guest of the evening, Amit Sharma, Global COO, IBM, GBS, awarded scholarships to the top performing students on the Director’s Merit List and Director’s Honors’ List from PGP 2018-20.…

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Bangalore: A test case for Govt, policymakers, urban planners

‘Bangalore: A test case for Govt, policymakers, urban planners’ At a Public Policy talk at IIM Bangalore, Dr. Kalpana Gopalan says the city need to be reimagined. R Kaushalendra Rao reports

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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…

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The PGPPM 2019-20 batch with Chetan Krishnaswamy, Director, Public Policy, Google India and South Asia.

Data privacy and freedom of expression discussed at PGPPM Talk

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19 May, 2019: Chetan Krishnaswamy, Director, Public Policy, Google India and South Asia, engaged in a dialogue with the students of the Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Management at IIM Bangalore on May 15, where he spoke on formulation of tech policies in India. Describing how the internet can bridge the urban-rural divide in India, he listed Google’s initiatives, particualry for farmers and small industries. Talking about the role of regulators in helping the government draft policy, which not only promotes industrial growth, but also empowers consumers, he…

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Logistics and Supply Chain in the Indian business context At the first of the EPGP Seminar Series of the academic year, Ajit Pai, COO, Delhivery and alumnus of IIMB, engages with the Class of 2019. A report by Debapriya Majumdar

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“Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.” − Celebrated mathematician Shakuntala Devi This is what the Seminar Series of the one-year MBA, the Executive Post Graduate Program in Management (EPGP) at IIM Bangalore, is all about. On 17th May, 2019, the 2019-20 batch of EPGP set the ball rolling for the Seminar Series and who better, they decided, than an alumnus to begin this journey with. Ajith Pai, Chief Operating Officer, Delhivery, and an…

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When Impressions Find Expression The IIMB campus inspires poetry…and imaginative prose even from business managers! Anindya Chakaborty, from the EPGP Class of 2019-20, offers you proof…

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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…

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Pegasus

One exhilarating step at a time Mohit Roshan Srivastava, of the incoming class of EPGP 2019-20, describes the first few days of the year-long journey that he and 75 others have embarked on at IIM Bangalore

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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future” – Steve Jobs On the morning of 27th March 2019, 76 odd folks, who came from various cities and towns of our diverse nation, joined IIM Bangalore’s one-year MBA program – Executive Postgraduate Program in Management (EPGP). Unknown to each other, only a couple of known faces and, in some cases just the names, the incoming class of EPGP 2019-20 batch enrolled for…

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….Till we meet again On the eve of convocation, Subham Awasthi, from the Public Policy and Management Program at IIMB, dedicates this post to all those who made his year on campus memorable

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Controlling one’s ecstasy is tough, particularly when you are in situations which demand a specific code of conduct. I was in the middle of a client conference call when the first of the two emails from the admission team of IIM Bangalore showed up on my mobile phone screen. I could never forget the next few minutes, which, by the way, felt like an eternity! I clearly recall how I kept myself composed, excused myself from that meeting just to read and re-read the offer of the admission. I was…

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No mountain too high to climb, no summit too tall to scale: Divyanshu Ganatra At an event co-hosted by the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Cell and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at IIMB, the blind super achiever shares stories of triumph. Arun Nayan Singh reports

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05 February, 2019, Bengaluru: Imagine, you are nineteen years old. One morning, you wake up and realize that you cannot see. You are in a state of disbelief and people tell you that the blind can only make cane furniture or be telephone operators. But you refuse to be corralled. You believe you can do much more, and you actually do. This is the story of Divyanshu Ganatra, for whom achieving firsts and setting records is par for the course. He is the first blind Indian to paraglide solo, the…

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For twelve hours of divine music and dance, years of patient labour Doctoral scholar Prabhu Venkatachalam, key organizer of ‘Yamini 2019’, takes us behind the scenes to tell us what it takes to bring Indian classical artistes of world renown to a dusk-to-dawn concert, under the stars at IIMB, year after year

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28 January, 2019: It was an unusually cold Republic Day morning in 2013. At 3:00 am, a Dhrupad concert was in progress, and some of my friends and I settled in eagerly awaiting Bombay Jayashree who had just then been nominated for the Oscars for her rendition in the movie – Life of Pi. Her concert was short due to the severity of the weather, but there was something about the experience that morning which left a profound impression. The initial push to attend Yamini was an opportunity to visit…

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The road so high

Kevin Dharmesh Gandhi FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak Opinion Student Connect  0

Dark above the world, under this scenic sky, We feel the frostiness of snow, with moonlight as a spy. We finished our mission, and assembled as a group, Warming our hands, cherishing a cup of soup.   Came our trek leader, who was a local host, Frightening us all, with his tale of ghosts. Every mountain has its story, he said with a smile, This landscape creates memories, with every passing mile.   Away from home, with phones free from network, This nature-imposed isolation acted as a perk. Little did…

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