Prof A Damodaran wins Dewang Mehta Award for extending economics research to IPRs, Creative Industry & Sustainable Development

November 29, 2016August 21, 2018 admin News and events Uncategorized 0

Prof A Damodaran, MHRD Chair Professor on IPRs at IIM Bangalore MHRD Chair Professor on IPRs at IIM Bangalore gets the award under the ‘Best Professor in Economics’ category 29 November, 2016, Bengaluru: Professor A Damodaran from the Economics & Social Sciences area of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has been conferred the Dewang Mehta Award, under the category ‘Best Professor in Economics’, at a function held in Mumbai on November 26, 2016. The award is in recognition of Professor A Damodaran’s work for extending economics research to IPRs,…

What do you think about the Demonetization? – Influence of Cognitive Biases on Individual and Collective Sensemaking

November 19, 2016August 20, 2018 admin Opinion Uncategorized 0

By Dr. Ramya Ranganathan A post on the role of cognitive biases in the way we (as individuals and as a collective) are making sense of and responding to the recent Demonetisation of Indian currency. It can be read here on linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/test-ramya-ranganathan?trk=pulse_spock-articles. Can also be read here on blogpage https://goo.gl/3kVtFc admin

Journal Article: ‘Monetary Policy and Noise Traders: A Welfare Analysis’

November 18, 2016August 20, 2018 admin Research Papers Uncategorized 0

Chetan Subramanian Faculty, Economics & Social Sciences IIM Bangalore Abstract: This paper studies the choice of monetary policy regime in a small open economy with noise traders in forex markets. We focus on two simple rules: fixed exchange rates and inflation targeting. We contrast the above two rules against optimal policy with commitment under productivity shocks. In general, the presence of noise traders increases the desirability of a fixed exchange rate regime. We also evaluate the welfare impact of Tobin taxes in this milieu. These taxes help…

The Tata affair: Are we judging too soon?

November 17, 2016August 20, 2018 admin Opinion Uncategorized 0

G Sabarinathan Faculty, Finance & Accounting, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore The answers won’t come so quickly. In any case, nothing’s ever black and white Given the scale and scope of the Tata group’s business activities and the antiquity of the group, the recent developments there are bound to catch popular attention. The media has been feeding this interest with its relentless coverage. The two factions involved, namely that of Ratan Tata and Cyrus Mistry, have also been fanning the imagination of the reader with statements and counter-statements. What is…

Getting the Succession Process Right

November 17, 2016August 21, 2018 admin Opinion Uncategorized 0

Professor K Kumar Apeejay Surrendra Chair Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship & Chairperson (Academic Programmes) N.S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning Indian Institute of Management Bangalore In all the excitement generated by the recent events in the Tata group, where the chairman was replaced by his predecessor- albeit as an interim measure – the real issue has gone into hiding. A substantial focus of the discussions and comments from the press, observers and experts has been on procedures and personalities. Whether the incumbent chairman was given adequate notice about…

IIMB PGSEM Alumni Meet

November 16, 2016August 20, 2018 admin Alumni Connect Uncategorized 0

PHOTO GALLERY: PGP(S)EM ALUMNI MEET Professor Raghavan Srinivasan, Director Incharge, IIMB, highlights the institute’s achievements and the alumni’s contributions on Day 1 of the reunion on November 12. IIMB faculty member from the Marketing area Dr. Seema Gupta, who is also Chairperson, Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM), welcomes the alumni and students to the meet. Professor Ishwar Murthy, Dean Faculty, addresses the gathering on the first day of the meet. Haragopal Mangipudi (PGSEM 2001), CEO and MD of finUNO, who received the Distinguished Alumni Award…

Women Start-up Programme

November 16, 2016August 20, 2018 admin News and events Uncategorized 0

IIM Bangalore and Goldman Sachs Partner to Launch Women Startup Programme First customized programme to offer online and classroom training, as well as business incubation, to support the next generation of women entrepreneurs November 16, 2016 – The NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), with the support of Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment bank and active investor in India, today announced the official launch of the Women Startup Programme. This announcement was made at WEConnect International’s ThinkBig Summit 2016, Asia’s largest women’s entrepreneurship empowerment…

Best Executive Education in Bangalore

November 15, 2016August 20, 2018 admin News and events Uncategorized 0

IIMB offers both Open and Customized programmes. The Open Programmes are either Short Duration Programmes(SDPs) or Long Duration Programmes(LDPs). The SDPs are of 3-5 days duration and address some of the issues facing the industry practitioners and/or based on the research interests of our faculty. The LDPs are part-time programmes offered over 2-12 months. They address the needs of Managers for General Management sklls or impact specialized skills/knowledge in a niche area such as Business Analytics, Entrepreneurship or Finance. The participants’ diversity in open programmes contributes significantly to cross-learning and provides continuing networking opportunities…

Student Exchange Programme

November 14, 2016August 19, 2018 admin Global MBA Stories Uncategorized 0

In order to provide a cross cultural exposure and a global perspective to the students, IIMB has developed an extensive International Students Exchange Network. The Student Exchange Programme has become increasingly popular with the students and nearly 40% of the batch gets a chance to spend a term at a Partner Institute. Efforts are underway to expand the Programme further and enable an even larger number of students to avail of this unique opportunity. The students not on the exchange programme benefit through interaction with the large number of overseas students spending a term at IIMB.…

Supply Chain Management Centre at IIM Bangalore

November 12, 2016August 20, 2018 admin Opinion Uncategorized 0

The Indian Institute of ManagementBangalore (IIMB) has been actively pursuing Supply Chain Management as a major area of teaching and research. With a distinguished faculty line-up including world-class scholars and a talented pool of researchers and doctoral students (Fellow Programme in Management), IIMB has carried out dedicated research, teaching and consulting activities in different aspects of Supply Chain Management covering logistics management, inbound/outbound transportation, network design, modeling and optimization, partnership and negotiation, information technology and e-commerce and end-to-end Supply Chain Management strategies. Recognizing the need for an effective mechanism to promote closer and…