November 2020

Travel Photographer: Manish Baser, PGP 2010

A picture is worth a thousand words, well in the case of pictures captured by Manish Baser, they are worth way more than that. His name is often included as one of the leading photographers in the travel space. Manish has a huge fan following on Instagram and his pictures...

IIMB’s 47th Foundation day

Healthcare is not charity for the poor or a commodity for the rich – Dr. Gagandeep Kang IIMB’s 47th Foundation day celebrated this and more on the 28th of October, 2020. One of IIMB’s unique traditions is the Foundation Day Lecture, where outstanding individuals are invited to deliver the special...

Snippets

Dr. Rajkumar Upadhyay, alumnus of IIMB’s Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy & Management (2004) and Fellow Programme in Management Dr Upadhyay took over as Executive Director and Chairman of the Project Board, C-DOT with effect from October 19, 2020. Dr. Upadhyay holds a Ph.D in Corporate Strategy & Policy...

IIM Bangalore Vista 2020

01 November, 2020, Bengaluru:  Vista, IIM Bangalore’s Annual Business Summit, has been a celebration of ideas and leaders that shape the face of business and the global economy for the past two decades. Vista 2020 is celebrated with the theme “Portraits of Progress”, which focuses on capturing the evolving nature of...

IIM Bangalore – Eximius 2020

Digital start for Eximius 2020, an entrepreneurship fest, at IIMB with fireside chats, workshops and a host of contests 17 OCTOBER, 2020: Eximius 2020, an entrepreneurship fest organized by the students of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, got off to a digital start, today, with the theme, ‘Get Set Disrupt’. The...

Book Releases

Mystery of the School on Fire (The SMS Detective Agency) – Ravi Subramanian, PGP 1993 From the master storyteller and writer of bestselling thrillers, Ravi Subramanian, comes a delightful new series of detective fiction for young children. A charming hill town. A close-knit community. A school cradled in the lap...

Student’s Corner

The student corner is an exclusive section of LSquare which brings to you the literary creation, pen-craft, creative content contributed by students. “वो समय भी आएगा” वो समय भी आएगा,जब तू शिखर पर जाएगा।संघर्ष जो भी आज है,वो “कल” तेरा बनाएगा।। श्रीराम भी संघर्ष हैं,तू भी तो उनका अंश हैlखुद...

NSRCEL Start-up: Kydzadda

About the Startup: Kydzadda is one of the biggest and one of the first indoor play centers in Bengaluru. With the first outlet commencing in the year 2014, Kydzadda is now an established and reputed brand in India for providing a great entertaining place for children, hosting birthday parties, organizing...

NSRCEL Start-up: Ridgeland Industries Pvt Ltd

About the Startup – Started in the year 2014 in Hyderabad, Ridgeland Industries Pvt Ltd is one of the first few enterprises which started making snacks made of millets under the brand name RIGDAM which means wealth. RIGDAM snacks offer ready-to-eat affordable tasty and healthy snacks to your entire family...

Archaeologist Muhammed KK shares management lessons from a time spent negotiating with dacoits while restoring heritage in India’s Chambal Valley

21 OCTOBER, 2020: The Bateshwar group of temples, located 50 kilometers from Gwalior, is deep in the Chambal Valley. Here, over 200 temples, dating between the 8th-11th centuries, lay in ruins.  After protracted negotiation with the dacoits, whose writ ran large in the area, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in Madhya...

The Flipkart story: Reflections of a fly on the wall

– Professor G. Sabarinathan, Faculty Finance IIMB Would the story of other unicorns be similar narratives of unbridled ambition, pumped by the hubris of VCs and egotistic, inadequately thought-through moves by their founders? For a better part of this decade, a number of commentators wrote about the story of Flipkart....

In Memoriam

IIMB PGP Class of 1981-83, announces with deep sorrow the untimely demise of a much-loved classmate of ours – Janardhan Kothari. Janardhan (variously nicknamed Kots, Goldie, Killer, etc.) was among the youngest in our batch and was a mere 58-year-old, when he passed away after a spell of covid-related illness...