February 2022

Alum Ventures: MVPRockets – Giridharan Natarajan, PGP 2010

It is every entrepreneur’s ultimate fantasy and desire to see their ideas flourish and become a business success, but most of the times debutant entrepreneurs lose the battle in the early stages for many reasons. To help young businesses thrive and triumph, Giridharan Natarajan founder of MVPRockets has the secret...

Alum Ventures: KD Ventures – Dhruv Soni, PGP 2015

When you are confident of the destination you want to reach, the journey and the road becomes a rewarding experience. Similar was the case for Dhruv Soni, founder of KD Ventures, who knew very early in his career that entrepreneurship was his calling. Every experience on this path has not...

Hangout with Alums – Ananth Radhakrishnan, PGP 2018

Hangout with Alums 2022 Third Edition Hangout with Alums is a series of interactive sessions by the Student Alumni Committee featuring recent IIMB alumni from different domains of business such as Consulting, Marketing, Finance, General Management, and Product Management, where the speakers share their journey, insights, and advice on how...

Excellence at Work: Indian Forest Service – Jyotsna Sitling, PGPPM 2011

Jyotsna Sitling, the first female tribal Indian Forest Service officer talks about her transition as an institutional entrepreneur who assiduously worked with the community at the grassroots to find sustainable solutions to diverse equity and environment-related problems affecting their livelihoods as a Green Warrior to becoming a seasoned policy entrepreneur...

Snippets

“IT’S THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IIMB SO SPECIAL:” IIMB DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS In this video, Dr. Raghavendra Rau (PGP 1987-89), Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance, University of Cambridge, and recipient of IIMB’s Distinguished Alumnus Award 2022, describes the joys of an academic career. An outstanding scholar, teacher, mentor and role model...

IIM Bangalore: Theory and Practice

– Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director IIMB  A pioneer in diversity and inclusion What’s your magic?” asked one of the members of our International Advisory Committee at a recent meeting. While he was referring to what differentiates IIM Bangalore (IIMB) from hundreds of other business schools, this set me thinking...

Eight trends in entrepreneurship to look out for in 2022

– Anand Sri Ganesh, CEO of NSRCEL at IIMB These eight underlying entrepreneurship and innovation trends will help Indian entrepreneurs endure and survive beyond the pandemic to define the state of entrepreneurship-led progress in the years to come. Recently, headlines have been dominated by entrepreneurs, scaling heights of valuation, creating...

Why are part-time MBA programmes so popular?

– Dr. Gopal Mahapatra Formal management education in India is a little more than 50 years old. But over the past few decades, there has been a meteoric rise in MBA education, especially the part-time MBA programme. Young professionals want to grow professional and keep up with changing trends at the...

Brand-consumer expectations; an impactful journey

– Prof. S. Ramesh Kumar Managing brand associations after owning them, a brand needs to also manage its expectations, after owning them…. We live in a world of expectations, that is only getting more intense by the day, thanks to the fast-paced, digital world. We check our mails, facebook and...

2021: LOOKING BACK AT THE VENTURE CAPITAL INDUSTRY

– Prof. G. Sabarinathan Prof. G.Sabarinathan examines the swelling tide of capital, the growing allocation to alternative investments, institutional evolution and demand-supply dynamics that have impacted the role of the VC industry in the governance of investee firms It has been an eventful week for venture capital (VC). In USA, which...

Events @ IIMB

IIM BANGALORE HANDS OVER EQUIPMENT WORTH RS 20 LAKH TO KODICHIKKANAHALLI PHC On behalf of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Dr. Rajendra K Bandi, Dean Administration, handed over medical supplies and equipment, totalling Rs 20 lakh, as part of the Institute’s CSR activity, to Dr Krishnappa B K,  Senior Medical...

IIMB News

UNIQUE COURSE-FLOW LAUNCHED BY IIMB PROFESSOR FOR NEW BUSINESS SCHOOL FACULTY In a first-of-its-kind initiative involving senior faculty of quality management education in the country, Dr. Ganesh N Prabhu, Professor of Strategy at IIM Bangalore, has published a unique courseflow on the Nodes platform (app.ednodes.com), which will enable new business school...

Student’s Corner

Student’s corner is an exclusive section of Lsquare that brings to you the literary creation, pen-craft, creative content contributed by students. The beautiful sky The new year, of promise, Locked us inside, sigh. Left with only, the lawn green, And the beautiful sky. But cheer there is, The spring flowers,...