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Seed to stitch: Fabric Monde shows the way Fabric Monde is a B2B player that brings low carbon footprint fabrics of Indian origin to mainstream fashion brands. The company came into existence when the Co-founder & CEO Jyothi D, from IIM Lucknow, discovered that the space of homespun fabrics like khadi was only 2.5% from 2001-14 but had leapt to 35% in 2016-17. After studying the sector and working on several pilots in their business model, the co-founders, Jyothi and Hemalatha, believed they could build an enterprise based on sustainability that has now taken the world by storm.

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Co-founders Jyothirmayi Dakkumall and Hemalatha Kanneganti Fabric Monde works on addressing market linkage for 95 weaver units out of 4859 leads from across 16 states within the first year of establishment. They are a sourcing partner for 30+ brands and hope to grow this portfolio to 350 brands in the next year. “There are many start-ups in the area of handlooms and sustainable fashion, but they are based on the B2C model. The real challenge lies in sourcing these fabrics for all the small and large labels,” says Jyothi. Accolades…

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Going Truly Global – Part 1

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31 May, 2018, Bengaluru: The decision to join the one-year full-time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP) at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) was not an easy one.   Coming from a middle-class family in India, it is never an easy decision to quit your job to pursue higher education, especially if you have a young family. Also, after working for eight years, I had doubts about how much I would be able to shift my orientation to a classroom model of learning. What finally tilted the scales…

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The One-Year Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management at IIM Bangalore: A Journey to Remember

Tridisha Goswami FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak Uncategorized  0

It has been four weeks since EPGP Batch IX completed its programme at IIM Bangalore. While some of us are looking for accommodation and booking the services of packers and movers, others are enjoying some precious family time. As I glance through our Convocation Day pictures that celebrate the ‘we did it’ moment, I pause to reflect on this one-year roller coaster ride. When I joined the one-year fulltime Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management at IIM Bangalore, I fretted that competing with the best minds in business would wear…

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Business, Travel, and Tales with Turkish Delights Parul Aggarwal & Saurav Singh, who have just graduated from the one year full-time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management share their Global Network Week experience at Koç University Graduate School of Business, Turkey, where they studied the challenges of family businesses across the world

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02 April, 2018, Bengaluru: The Global Network Week (12th to 16th March, 2018) for MBA students, organized by the Global Network for Advanced Management, provides a unique opportunity to pursue a focused, theme-based course in one of the 32 leading business schools of the world. The Global Network Week aims to encourage students and faculty members from different countries, cultures, and economies to learn together and to learn from each other, to build relationships, to enhance awareness about issues and arrive at solutions for global and complex issues. As representatives of IIM Bangalore,…

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Global Network Experience at Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT, USA EPGP student participates in Global Network Week at Yale University

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IIM Bangalore is a member of the Global Network, which includes 32 eminent business schools around the world, convened by Yale University. Being an active participant in the Global Network, IIMB hosts Global Network Weeks (GNWs) in the months of March and October every year when international students from partner schools visit IIMB. The GNWs feature sessions by eminent faculty, guest speakers from the industry coupled with company visits. Likewise, IIMB students enrol for the Global Network Weeks conducted around the world. Nikhil Dhar, from IIMB’s one-year fulltime residential Executive…

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Work-Life-Study balance for a PGPEM student of IIM Bangalore

Shijo Joy FEATURED Life @ IIMB – Student Speak Student Connect  1

Joining the Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management at IIM Bangalore has been one of the best decisions I have ever made, and the experience at IIMB the most rewarding! PGPEM as a course, focuses on the ‘back to college’ theme. On Friday and Saturday, all of us executives morph into students, complete with assignments, case studies, pulling one another’s leg, fighting for that extra mark, etc. So, picture this, we have executives with more than ten years of work experience, balancing three lives – that of work, family and…

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Online vs. Offline Study Meghana Manay | PGPEM 2016

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To answer the question on whether online or offline classes work better for a Master’s level programme, we need to go back to the fundamentals of communication. Each individual works differently and has differences in understanding and in learning. Finance may seem like a cakewalk for some while Operations may not be as simple. We take time observing and picking up the momentum. We have been taught and have understood the need to communicate important, sensitive information in person rather than over a phone call or an e-mail unless absolutely…

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NSRCEL at IIMB hosts special edition of 4Startups in association with ‘Drishti 2018’ At the Open Day celebrated on February 11, incubatees at IIMB’s innovation hub showcased their products and services

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13 February, 2018, Bengaluru: The entrepreneurship and innovation hub of IIM Bangalore – N. S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), hosted 4Startups this month in association with Drishti 2018, a visionary leadership summit and alumni event, anchored by the students of the Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM) at IIM Bangalore, held on February 11 (Sunday). NSRCEL hosts its flagship event 4startups each month for aspiring entrepreneurs and start-ups. A big part of this special edition of 4Startups was the start-up open day, which tied back to the…

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‘My journey as an entrepreneur’ A first person account by Suhruta Kulkarni, who is being incubated at IIMB’s NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) under the Women Startup Programme (WSP) 2016-17

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Suhruta Kulkarni – GoCrackIt 08 January, 2018: Today, the Women Start-up Programme 2017-18 was launched at IIM Bangalore, and I got nostalgic about the day I received the email in November 2016 and the roller coaster ride thereon. I had just quit my job after we had got a little traction for our business idea with two paying institutional customers and 200 satisfied students. The Goldman Sachs Women Start-up Programme seemed apt to take the business to the next level. I completed the MOOCs and got into the Bootcamp, and…

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What women want…. Worksera, being mentored under the Women Startup Programme (WSP) 2016-17, at IIMB’s NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), helps women find work opportunities

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Meeta Verma – Worksera 10 January, 2018: Meeta Verma, an alumnus of NIT Raipur, is a Product Manager with expertise in engineering and product development in iOS applications. Meeta has been working as a freelance Product Manager on the international platform Elance (Upwork) for more than 10 years, and has now started on an entrepreneurial journey, having been selected among the top 15 in the Women Start-up Programme for incubation at NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), IIM Bangalore. Meeta’s brainchild, Worksera, aims to tap the vast and underutilised…

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