The latest AmbuRx project taken up by Radhika Shastry is winning the hearts of people. AmbuRx is an auto-rickshaw ambulance service to ease medical access in hilly terrians of the Nilgiris. Born from a simple idea, it took immense grit and determination to pull off such a mission. The success...
– Arun Shankar (EGMP 14B), GM Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Cycling can get you (into High) Places, literally.. Ladakh: The Tibetan and Ladakhi name La-dwags (historically transliterated as La-dvags) means “land of high passes“ and in order to get there you have to cross many high passes (La), each pass getting progressively higher until...
It is no secret that good health is a factor that helps a person perform their daily life more efficiently. And, we all will agree that fitness and good health have never been more important than now. Maintaining a healthy mind and body is crucial for any individual. Ankita Maslekar...
The alumni of IIMB have come forward and raised funds amounting to INR 2 crores to name a classroom on the campus in the loving memory of Professor of Marketing Late PN Thirunarayana (aka PNT). Prof Thiru joined IIMB in 1977 and was with the Institute for over 33 years...
The Group President & Head of Equity at UTI Mutual Fund takes us through the revolution in the equity markets and one of Manmohan Singh’s speeches before he became the Finance Minister. It was like an early view into the liberalized future for Vetri Subramaniam, Group President & Head of Equity...
FinMin Joint Secretary Rashmi R Das appointed to UN Tax Committee Rasmi Ranjan Das, an alumnus of the PGPPM from IIMB (2010) and an IRS officer from Odisha, has been recently appointed to the UN Tax Committee for the 2021-25 term. He currently serves as the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of...
IIMB expert on how and why Platform Business Models offer opportunities to overcome traditional market inefficiencies In the seventeenth episode of the IIMB Podcast Series, to be broadcast on July 11th, Dr. R. Srinivasan, Professor of Strategy at IIMB, shares insights on ‘Platform Business Models’. He has recently authored a...
IIMB doctoral scholar Ankitkumar Kariya’s paper titled, ‘Borrowing from government-owned banks & firm’s liquidation risk’, published in Journal of Corporate Finance. Abstract: Government-Owned Banks (GOBs) have other explicit or implicit objectives apart from profit maximization. In this paper, I study whether this affects the liquidation risk of firms borrowing from...
The student corner is an exclusive section of Lsquare that brings to you the literary creation, pen-craft, creative content contributed by students. AND THEN THERE WERE NONE When Sreenivasan’s Ola cab reached the accessible end of Sri Ram Nagar 4th Street, it was already around 11pm. He got out and...
– Prof U Dinesh Kumar Many skills that exist today may not be needed soon. While jobs are lost in traditional IT, they are being created by new-age technologies, which means jobs in the future will demand completely different skill sets mostly driven by AI and ML, Industry 4.0, digital...
– Saumya Gupta, Megha Malpani and Prof. Chetan Subramanian India’s central bank is following a Quantitative Easing programme of its own device called GSAP 1.0. Here are the nuances of the technique The recent announcements of G-SAP 1.0 and 2.0, where the RBI has committed to buying government bonds from...
– Prof. Rupa Chanda and Neha Betai While the dominance of global value chains (GVCs) in production processes is a widely accepted fact, the impact of participation in GVCs is still being explored. Using data from a sample of 100 nations for 1999-2018, this article examines the improvement in productivity...
– Prof. Allen Ugargol and Prof. Arnab Mukherji, Public Policy area IIMB Overcoming disenchantment among workers is crucial for a functional response system As India’s second Covid-19 wave declines, its rural spread is of significant concern. Karnataka is a case in point— the highest state test positivity rate was 39.7%...
– Prof. MS Sriram Audio and ebooks have changed the dynamics of the book publishing value chain—with the possibility of doing more with less or the same real estate and working capital, and giving new writers a chance to brush shoulders with bestsellers. What does that mean for booksellers like...
Shifting Orbits: Decoding the Trajectory of the Indian Start-up Ecosystem About the Book Write-up for the website and catalog: In the new millennium, the shape of India’s vibrant entrepreneurial economy has changed significantly to move towards one driven by technology and innovation. Today, India is one of the largest start-up...
The campus of IIM Bangalore has won the 17th spot among ‘The 25 Most Significant Works of Post-War Architecture’, according to The New York Times Style Magazine. The results were compiled by three architects, three journalists and two designers who made a list of “the most influential and lasting buildings that...
Coping with COVID through creative techniques Leannie Pais created The Unopened Box as an Instagram page. Since then, with support from NSRCEL, they have grown to have over 2000 organic followers and run a four-employee revenue-generating organisation The Unopened Box is a mental health organisation that helps people heal patterns...