In News – IIMB

Case by IIMB’s Rishikesha T Krishnan and Srivardhini K Jha is among the 2020 bestsellers on The Case Centre platform.

The case, ‘Cisco India (A): Innovation in Emerging Markets’, co-authored by Rishikesha T Krishnan, Professor of Strategy and Director, IIM Bangalore, Professor Srivardhini K Jha, Chairperson, Entrepreneurship area, IIMB, Professor Charles Dhanaraj and Professor Ivy Buche, has been declared as one of the 2020 bestsellers on The Case Centre (UK) [formerly ECCH] platform, in the Economics, Politics and Business Environment category. It was published by the Institute for Management Development (IMD).

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Prof. Rahul Dé features in Analytics India magazine’s list of top AI researchers in India

Professor Rahul Dé, faculty in the Information Systems area of IIM Bangalore, has been featured in Analytics India magazine’s list of top Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers in India.

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IIMB’s EPGP team wins Global Graduate Business Challenge organized by IIM Ahmedabad’s Forum for Industry Interaction & MBA Society of Haskayne School of Business

A team from IIM Bangalore comprising Abhinav Goswami and Joel Mathew James, both students of the one-year fulltime MBA programme Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP), has won the Global Graduate Business Challenge, organized by the Forum for Industry Interaction, IIM Ahmedabad in association with the MBA Society, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada.

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IIMB MOOCs course on People Management is among top-ranked

People Management by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (edX) is a beginner-level program designed to help smoothen the transition for newly appointed people managers.
This course has been listed among the world’s top 10 courses in HR for 2021.
Twenty-five experts have compiled this list of Best Human Resource HR Course, Tutorial, Training, Class, and Certification available online for 2021. It includes both paid and free resources to help you learn Human Resource Management and these courses are suitable for beginners, intermediate learners as well as experts.


Kudos to IIMB’s PGP2 students!

IIMB congratulates its PGP2 students who are National Winners of the Airtel iCreate 2020 case competition. Sudhanyu Veldurthy Piyush Kabra and Aditi Chandak, who competed as Team Conquerors, win top honors in the competition.

IIMB also bags the first runners-up position in the competition. Team IIMPact, comprising PGP2 students Tushar Dhande, Piyush Bailke and Deekshaa Deenanath, are declared first runners-up.


MBA student Khet Singh’s health insurance start-up Claim Buddy receives funding from Titan Capital and other investors

Insurtech start-up ClaimBuddy, the brainchild of 24-year-old Khet Singh, a second-year MBA student at IIM Bangalore, has raised an undisclosed amount in the seed funding round led by Titan Capital and other marquee groups of investors like LV angel fund, First Cheque, and some individual angels. With a fresh influx of capital, the company will focus on business expansion across India and technology investment.

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IIMB doctoral student Dhrithi Mahadevan’s proposal selected as one of the recipients of the AIM – Sheth Grant 2020

The proposal titled ‘Blows for You and Bows for You: An Analysis of Customer Experience Attribution in Access-Based Services’, addresses a new and relevant area of a business problem, and has the potential to create several future research avenues, according to the review of the competition

A proposalauthored by Dhrithi Mahadevan, a student of IIM Bangalore’s Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programme, has been selected as one of the recipients of the AIM – Sheth Grant 2020. The proposal is titled: ‘Blows for You and Bows for You: An Analysis of Customer Experience Attribution in Access-Based Services’.

According to the review of the AIM – Sheth Foundation Research Proposal Competition, the strengths of the proposal lie in: it is interesting, relevant, up-to-date, easy to read, well-written and structured, theoretical background and methodology are solid, addresses a new and relevant area of a business problem, and has the potential to create several future research avenues.

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