November 2021

Alum Ventures: Plaeto Shoes – Ravi Kallayil, PGP 1994

A simple letter from a ten year persuaded Ravi Kallayil to think about making world-class tech shoes more reachable for the masses. Though there were a lot of high end brands that were making excellent shoes, they were generally on in the buying limits for most children and parents. Hence...

Alum Ventures: ConnectedH – Suresh Singh, PGP 2014

Sometimes our life’s calling comes in different ways. Most times some personal experiences influence your thoughts so much that it paves way for new ideas and big changes. Nothing could be truer in the case of Suresh Singh, founder of ConnectedH. ConnectedH goal is simple – to simplify healthcare. They...

IIMBAA Event – IIMB Alumni Author Talk Series

IIMB Alumni Office hosted its Author Talk Series Part 3 focused on alumni authors. The talk series focussed on their books, writing journey, motivations, and tips for other fellow alums who wish to write and author books. This series was held on 23rd Oct’21 in an online zoom session and was...

Snippets

Build To Last | What It Takes To Create Enduring Brands Special series featuring guest host Raja Rajamannar, Global CMO and President – Healthcare Business, Mastercard, helps us decode new realities and the power of Brand in building lasting and legendary companies. In the first episode, Rajamannar chats with e-commerce...

IIM Bangalore 48th Foundation Day

At IIMB’s 48th Foundation Day celebrations, Institute of South Asian Studies Director Prof. C Raja Mohan says India has now reached the position to negotiate relations with other major powers on reasonable terms 28 October, 2021, Bengaluru: “As the interface between India and the West grows by leaps and bounds, across a...

Events @ IIMB

Launch of Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship Phase II “District Collectors and the IIMs have to facilitate the Fellows to script a success story of change through MGNF”: Union Minister at the launch of Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship Phase II IIM Bangalore welcomes the second cohort of 79 Fellows of the...

IIMB News

IIMB wins Gold at 14th Eduniversal Convention IIM Bangalore won the Gold award once again with the highest votes from the Deans of peer schools and retains its position as the Best Business School in Central Asia. The 14th edition of the Eduniversal Awards ceremony was held, online, late Thursday...

Book Releases

14 Stories and One Rogue Paperback, M GopaKumar Menon PGP 1991 14 Stories and One Rogue is a book of fifteen delightful stories of everyday life, journeys, experiences, transactions, taunts, acquaintances, connections and friendships; some transient, others deep and vibrant. With humour, that is gentle and evocative, the stories in this...

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. In Here, Out There (Musings when covid was at its peak) Escaping the pandemic unscathedAmidst a ground with innocent bodies ablazeAmbulance siren innocuous to the earA facade to...

Better ways to help workers than minimum-wage hikes

– Prof. Vivek Moorthy, IIMB Easier zoning laws to raise rental housing supply are needed for a living wage in America This year’s Nobel prize for Economics was awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens for their natural experiments on a range of labour market issues. Card and...

Customer experience; The technology – Behavioral interface

– Prof. Ramesh Kumar Customer experience besides being sensory in nature can also be associated with thepositive feelings and emotions of consumers, through their shopping journey in consumer marketing and buying experience in business to business- marketing… Few years back, it might not have been so evident that behavioral insights...

Crisis and Mobile Money

– Prof Rahul De’ and Abhipsa Pal In the absence of the availability of cash in circulation, and shortage of cash in banks and ATMs, users migrated to the easiest alternative of using mobile money, visible in the sudden spike digital payments and its subsequent growth post-November 2016. Mobile payment...

NSRCEL Startup: Food Safety Genie

Making eating out safe Incubated at NSRCEL, FSG FoodWorks helps restaurants maintain food safety standards Food Safety Genie (FSG FoodWorks) is a year-old startup that aims to enable food establishments meet and maintain hygiene standards and make each of these food establishments a safe place to eat. “Each year, it...

NSRCEL Startup: All About Architecture

As a SAAS platform, All About Architecture, incubated at NSRCEL, aims to introduce the concept of circular economy for the real estate sector and popularise the use of products and technologies that are environmentally safe and financially viable Sayari De is the Co-Founder of the tech-driven community-based platform ‘All About...