January 2022

Alum Ventures: Subodh Gyan – Pooja Chopra, PGP 2003

An awakened soul will find its true purpose sooner or later and it couldn’t have been truer for Pooja Chopra. Leading the monotonous routine like most, her heart yearned to find a holistic vision to lead life by. She found her answers through spirituality which led her to initiate Subodh...

IIMB announces DAA Awards 2022

Vipul Parekh, Raghavendra Rau, Apruva Purohit and Saugata Gupta are the four alums who will be feted at the pre-convocation day celebrations Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) is delighted to announce the recipients of the IIMB Distinguished Alumni Awards for 2022. Instituted in 2007, the Distinguished Alumni Awards are...

Snippets

Indian Architect Balkrishna Doshi Wins Royal Gold Medal 2022 IIM Bangalore congratulates Dr. Balkrishna V Doshi architect of its iconic campus for receiving the 2022 #RoyalGoldMedal – the UK’s highest honor for architecture. RIBA said that with a 70-year career and over 100 built projects, 94-year-old Doshi has influenced the...

Book Releases

The Counterfeiter : Abdul Karim Telgi and the Stamp Scam – Bhaswar Mukherjee, PGP 1988 About the Book Telgi and the stamp scam? Didn’t that happen a quarter of a century ago? Why now? Because the complete story of the counterfeiter and scamster has never been told before. Because the...

The Year in Review at IIMB – 2021

IIMB Alumni Achievements As 2021 draws to a close, we highlight the achievements of people and projects that inspire us and give us hope in tackling the challenges of the future. Books by IIMB Alumni Highlighting the achievements of people – faculty, students and alumni, and projects – research, cases...

Events

NSRCEL HOSTS ‘SUMMIT UP’ ON DECEMBER 10-11: THE TWO-DAY EVENT FOCUSED ON TOPICS LIKE SCALING BUSINESSES, BEING FIRST-TIME FOUNDERS AND BUILDING A BRAND NSRCEL, the incubation and innovation hub of IIMB, hosted ‘Summit Up’, a two-day Women Entrepreneurship Summit, on December 10th and 11th, 2021. The initiative provided a platform...

News @ IIMB

IIMB’s MOOC courses among top edX courses of all time The top 100 courses gathered a staggering 32 million enrollments for the platform. Programs offered from IIMB like – Operations Management, People Management were some of the top 100 programs. edX, founded in the heyday of the MOOC hype, is one...

Student’s Corner

The student corner is an exclusive section of Lsquare that brings to you the literary creation, pen-craft, creative content contributed by students. A Cultural Confluence The end of 2021 graced the IIMB campus with festivities and warmth. The IIMB family came together to celebrate the vibrant culture and delicacies of...

Digital touch points – The secret sauce

– Prof. S Ramesh Kumar, from the Marketing area at IIMB It is not about the brand’s digital advertising blitzkrieg, that bombards the consumer. Those consumer -digital touch points, that add value are the ones that matter, both to the consumer and the respective brand, the author writes… Digital-brand connections...

Aravind Eye Care to Jaipur foot—India did well in frugal innovation but new innovators needed

– Dr. Rishikesha Krishnan, Director, IIMB, and N Dayasindhu, Founder-CEO, Itihaasa Research and Digital The locus of frugal innovation has shifted to the government and startups. While this needs to be sustained, industry must partner as well. In 2012, Nesta, a UK-based not-for-profit innovation foundation concluded that India’s distinctive competence lies in frugal...

A CASE OF CHOICE

– Prof. Jitamitra Desai, Decision Sciences & Prof. Srivardhini Jha, Entrepreneurship at IIMB Analysing the advantages and need-gaps in using the case method as a pedagogical tool for management education in India The case method of teaching is a discussion-oriented pedagogy that is popular across a wide range of disciplines...

NSRCEL Startup: Hapchi

From safe childhood to secure future… NSRCEL-incubated start-up Hapchi aims to build a safe childhood for every child by accompanying children along their transformational journey through all the years of pedagogy Hapchi is a body safety and skill development organization that aims to empower children from an early age. The...