March 2022

Snippets

Prabha Narasimhan named as CEO of Colgate-Palmolive India Prabha Narasimhan has been appointed as the CEO and MD of Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited. She succeeded Ram Raghavan, who has been promoted to the role of President, Enterprise Oral Care, at Colgate Palmolive Company. Prior to this, she was working as executive director of Hindustan Unilever (HUL)....

Events

RBI’S FORMER DEPUTY GOVERNOR NS VISHWANATHAN CALLS FOR PROGRESSIVE PROPERTY TAX AND STRONG TAX ADMINISTRATION In the second lecture in the series, ‘Inequality Conversations’, hosted by the Centre for Public Policy, he observed that taxation policies can alter income and wealth distribution to the benefit of those in the lower economic...

Book Release

Media and Climate Change: Making Sense of Press Narratives – Prof. Deepti Ganapathy, Management Communication at IIMB About the Book This book looks at the media’s coverage of Climate Change and investigates its role in representing the complex realities of climate uncertainties and its effects on communities and the environment....

The Potential Role of District Skill Committees in Solving the Poverty and Unemployment Challenge

– Jaishri Rai, MGN Fellow Employment, Poverty, Localized Planning, Formalization, Skill Development, End to End Project Management Solving the unemployment challenge has been a puzzle for developing countries, especially those in the third stage of the Demographic Transition Model. Since independence, India’s population has quadrupled, and so has the burden...

TEACHING TIPS ON TAP

This is a new initiative of the Centre for Teaching and Learning. The Centre’s webpage has started building a database of short video clips that explain and explore various useful aspects of teaching and pedagogy. The short videos are available in the public domain for benefiting the teaching community everywhere. This time, the...

IIMB News

Consulting and Product Management domains lead recruitment at IIMB 513 students get 662 offers at India’s premier B-School The lateral and final placements for the PGP and PGPBA Class of 2020-22 saw 662 offers, leading to all 513 students who appeared for placements being placed over two interview days. Consulting companies made 248 offers led...

Challenges of telemedicine

– Prof Rahul De’  with Sharvari Dabhade and Monalisa Mallick Despite the challenges, there is a positive outlook for telemedicine practice, and there are a number of successful initiatives India has achieved a significant milestone in medical access for its citizens: it has surpassed a doctor-population ratio of 1:1000, which...

How to take small firms global: Tips for entrepreneurs

– Prof Ludwig Levasseur with Masoud Karami and Jintong Tang Internationalising small firms transform their readily available entrepreneurial orientation into successful international performance through learning and networking capabilities. Here are a few ways to nurture it further Research has shown that entrepreneurial orientation (i.e., risk-taking, proactiveness, and innovativeness) is a...

It’s Tough to Slow Down

– Prof. Ramesh Kumar, Marketing Amidst the glitz and glamour of alluring lifestyles and ceaseless hunt for material, power and recognition, we are constantly bombarded with message about slowing down. It is about reducing the intensity of our motivation to prevent the burnout that may be experienced early in one’s...

GANs is changing the face of advertising

– Prof. Rahul De’, Dhanvi Kamath, Anamika Saha The Generator does not make exact copies of the original but learns the underlying structure from it. So it may produce an output that looks and feels like the original. In a recent series of advertisements on YouTube, Shah Rukh Khan, one...

NSRCEL Startup: Ikshana – Another way to look at eyewear

Set up in March 2021, eyewear accessory brand Ikshana aims to be the most creative and sought-after platform for eyewear accessories that changes the way people look at eyewear. The brand consists of a range of products such as charms, arm covers and crochet covers which are used to add...