August 2021

Social Impact: AmbuRx – Radhika Shastry, FTGMP 2003

The latest AmbuRx project taken up by Radhika Shastry is winning the hearts of people. AmbuRx is an auto-rickshaw ambulance service to ease medical access in hilly terrians of the Nilgiris. Born from a simple idea, it took immense grit and determination to pull off such a mission. The success...

Travel and Learning – Musings from a Trans-Himalayan cycling expedition

– Arun Shankar (EGMP 14B), GM Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Cycling can get you (into High) Places, literally.. Ladakh: The Tibetan and Ladakhi name La-dwags (historically transliterated as La-dvags) means “land of high passes“ and in order to get there you have to cross many high passes (La), each pass getting progressively higher until...

Snippets

FinMin Joint Secretary Rashmi R Das appointed to UN Tax Committee Rasmi Ranjan Das, an alumnus of the PGPPM from IIMB (2010) and an IRS officer from Odisha, has been recently appointed to the UN Tax Committee for the 2021-25 term. He currently serves as the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of...

Events @ IIMB

IIMB expert on how and why Platform Business Models offer opportunities to overcome traditional market inefficiencies In the seventeenth episode of the IIMB Podcast Series, to be broadcast on July 11th, Dr. R. Srinivasan, Professor of Strategy at IIMB, shares insights on ‘Platform Business Models’. He has recently authored a...

IIMB News

IIMB doctoral scholar Ankitkumar Kariya’s paper titled, ‘Borrowing from government-owned banks & firm’s liquidation risk’, published in Journal of Corporate Finance. Abstract: Government-Owned Banks (GOBs) have other explicit or implicit objectives apart from profit maximization. In this paper, I study whether this affects the liquidation risk of firms borrowing from...

Students Corner

The student corner is an exclusive section of Lsquare that brings to you the literary creation, pen-craft, creative content contributed by students. AND THEN THERE WERE NONE When Sreenivasan’s Ola cab reached the accessible end of Sri Ram Nagar 4th Street, it was already around 11pm. He got out and...

Covid in rural areas: Empower ASHAs

– Prof. Allen Ugargol and Prof. Arnab Mukherji, Public Policy area IIMB Overcoming disenchantment among workers is crucial for a functional response system As India’s second Covid-19 wave declines, its rural spread is of significant concern. Karnataka is a case in point— the highest state test positivity rate was 39.7%...

Book Releases

Shifting Orbits: Decoding the Trajectory of the Indian Start-up Ecosystem About the Book Write-up for the website and catalog: In the new millennium, the shape of India’s vibrant entrepreneurial economy has changed significantly to move towards one driven by technology and innovation. Today, India is one of the largest start-up...

NSRCEL Start-up: The Unopened Box

Coping with COVID through creative techniques Leannie Pais created The Unopened Box as an Instagram page. Since then, with support from NSRCEL, they have grown to have over 2000 organic followers and run a four-employee revenue-generating organisation The Unopened Box is a mental health organisation that helps people heal patterns...