IIMB Alumni –March 2017

March 2017 eNewsletter

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IIM Bangalore Alumni Association Editor : Ms Sabari Sanyal, Content Developer, Alumni Office

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Message from Chairperson, Alumni relations: Dear alumnus, I am excited to announce the launch of our monthly alumni e-Newsletter. As all of

you are aware, two editions of the bi-annual alumni magazine was published as a flipbook, accompanied by coffee table limited print copy editions. Based on the feedback from alumni, we decided to do away with bi-annual editions and instead, focus on having monthly e-Newsletters that carried latest articles and information on alumni. The e-Newsletter has many interesting sections that focus on events on campus, conferences and seminars, alumni achievements, faculty developments, reunions and a section that we wish was not there – obituaries. We have a young content developer who joined the alumni office recently – Ms. Sabari Sanyal who completed her Masters in Marketing Management and Communication - Toulouse Business School, Paris, France in 2016. She is the editor and content developer of the e-Newsletter. If you have interesting developments at your personal or professional end – drop an email to sabari.sanyal@iimb.ernet.in. And yes, do not be surprised if she connects to you for some interesting insights or narratives! Have a wonderful day!

Our new alumni head and his message : S. Parthasarathy joined as the Head-Alumni Relations on 24th Oct 2016. He belongs to the PGP 92-94 batch. He joined ITC Classic Finance in the Merchant Banking soon after his PGDM from IIMB. After a tenure of two years in ITC Classic, he was an entrepreneur for over two decades. He has developed multiple software products, run a successful manpower recruitment agency, is a co-founder of a parent-child centric business and has written a book on entrepreneurship. He is also a keen student of amateur astronomy. Message : “It is a pleasure to be back at the institute to head this important role. My primary focus would be on exploring different ways to deepen engagement with alumni and add mutual value. I would also urge alumni to plug into www.iimbaa.org and update their profiles. We have initiated many solutions that will deepen our connection using technology. You will begin to see its impact in the next few months. I am looking forward to the support and cooperation from IIMB alumni to build a community that is empathetic, compassionate, grateful, having an impact on society that will make one thankful for being part of this community.”

RECENT EVENTS ON CAMPUS:

Innovation in the FMCG Sector: IIMB Alumni Association presented the 2nd edition of Saturday Musings on 25th Feb, 2017. This was a forum for interaction between industry leaders, alumni, faculty and students. The panelists were Nirupama Kaushik (PGP 1991), Brandscapes, Sanjay Singhal (PGP 1995), COO, ITC Dairy and Beverages, and Kapil Khamboj (PGP 1999), Vice President, Johnson and Johnson. The key note talk was delivered by Prof. Sai Yayavaram on “Innovation in India: Opportunities and challenges”.

Link is provided below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4BOOz05JHs

Figure 1: Panelists on Innovation in the FMCG Sector on 25th Feb, 2017

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On Demonetization: The PGPEM organized a panel session on Demonetization on 25th Feb, 2017. The venue was IIMB Auditorium. The speakers were Professor Vivek Moorthy, faculty, Economics and Social Sciences Area IIMB, Debashis Basu, Co-Founder and Editor of MoneyLife (a financial news portal) and Sathvik Vishwananth, Founder and CEO, Unocoin , a Bit coin company based out of Bangalore.

Post Budget Insights: IIMB’s Centre for Public Policy (CPP) hosted a panel discussion on Post Budget Insights on 19th Feb, 2017. Professor Rupa Chanda, RBI Chair Professor in Economics, IIMB moderated the panel discussion on the yearlong implications of the Union Budget 2017 organized by the Centre for Public Policy of IIM Bangalore, in partnership with the students, Public Policy Club on 19th Feb, 2017 at IIMB. IIMB faculty, students and alumni were present during this panel discussion.

Artificial Intelligence: “The opportunities and challenges”: The center for software and IT Management at IIM Bangalore, conducted this workshop on 17th Feb, 2017 at N001 Classroom in order to discuss the opportunities and challenges in the field of AI. One of the technologies that is bound to have a significant impact in our lifetime is perhaps Artificial Intelligence.

‘Finding your purpose in life’ with the author of ‘Leading Ladies’, (Rohini Rathour, alumna, PGP 91, R

Vaidyanathan-PGP 91) took place on 14th Feb, 2017 at the IIMB auditorium. The panel discussion highlighted specific actions and skills needed to find purpose in life and had an interesting Q&A session with the audience.

A meet on Union Budget took place on 1st Feb, 2017 at the IIMB auditorium. “The budget reflects the

large volume of financial resources that have been collected by the Government due to demonetization. Hence, the liberal proposals on taxation and high capital expenditure. But this is a routine budget and given that five states are going to polls in the next few weeks, the aim seems to please every segment of society,” said Prof. Charan Singh on the day of Budget 2017. He also observed that recapitalization of banks should not be automatic but follow some strict eligibility conditions. The panelists during this meet included V K Viswanathan, Chairman, Board of Bosch Limited; S Raghavan, L&T Finance Limited; Dr. Jacob Crasta, Founder and Chairman, CM Environsystems Pvt. Ltd., S. Sampathraman, Chairman and Managing Director, DPK Engineers Pvt. Ltd., and B.P. Rao, Founder and Senior Partner, B.P. RAO & Co., Chartered Accountants.

On Demonetization – IIMB Alumni Office hosted the first Saturday Musings session on 21st Jan, 2017 with a discussion on demonetization. The key note speaker was Prof.Charan Singh and the panelists were Mr. Amrit Pandurangi, PGP ’78, Partner, Deloitte; Mr. Sharad Sharma ex. SBM Managing Director and Mr. CVSK Rao, Sr. Partner, Amit Ray & Co, Chartered Accountants.

Link is provided below:

https://youtu.be/ej5TjbaFclQ

Figure 3: Panelists at the panel discussion on Demonetization on 21st Jan, 2017

Figure 2: Panelists on Post Budget Insights on 19th Feb, 2017

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3rd Annual Women Leadership Summit on 15th Jan, 2017- This was an event to promote gender equality and also to ensure that women find their rights in terms of education, industry and entrepreneurship. Women in Management (WIM) at IIMB has launched a number of initiatives to create awareness about issues faced by women in industry and roles played by various stakeholders in encouraging and developing women leaders. A flagship event of the club is the Women Leadership Summit, which witnessed multiple events, a large footfall and an engaged audience. There were two sessions: (i) The morning session was addressed by Neeta Revankar (CFO, Sasken Technologies) and Kaustubh Chakraborty (Ex-Partner, McKinsey & Company) (ii) Panel discussion on ‘Priming for Success’ The afternoon session was on ‘Social Entrepreneurship’

‘Getting Started into Entrepreneurship’, a panel discussion, took place on 12th Nov, 2016 during the

grand PGPEM reunion. S. Parthasarathy, Head, Alumni Relations, IIMB, moderated the discussion. Professor Vasanthi Srinivasan, Chairperson of Alumni Relations, IIMB, invited the alumni to engage with the institution in a supportive way, during her interaction with the participants on the first day of the event. Prof. Ramesh Venkateswaran, PGP ’80, Adjunct Faculty, IIMB, conducted the Masterclass on ‘Customer Experience’ on the first day of the Reunion.

CONFERENCES, SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS:

General Management for Healthcare Executives (GMHE) 2016-’17, introduced the first chapter of the ‘GMHE Healthcare Leadership Summit’, i.e., AYUSHMAT, took place on 12th March, 2017 at the IIMB Auditorium. This event was an opportunity for participants and executives to network and learn from each other. It was mainly focused on bringing together the brightest and most experienced minds in the industry and academia to discuss the challenges in the fast evolving healthcare setting.

A conference on AI, Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis took place on 8th and 9th March, 2017 coordinated by Prof. Sankarshan Basu and Prof. Prithwiraj Mukherjee.

A seminar on “Growth Funding for Startups: Going beyond Series A” took place on 4th March, 2017 at IIMB Auditorium. It was hosted by NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurship Learning (NSRCEL), the incubation and entrepreneurship hub at IIMB. The seminar included a presentation by the research team, a panel discussion and a Q&A session with the audience. The panel was moderated by Prof. G. Sabarinathan, faculty from the Finance and Accounting area at IIM Bangalore.

Figure 4: Panelists at the panel discussion on Annual Women Leadership Summit on 15th Jan, 2017

Figure 5: A seminar on Growth Funding for Startups by NSRCEL on 4th March, 2017

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PGPPM Policy spoke on ‘Re-Imagining Indian and Government’ on 3rd March,2017: Padma Shri awardee Ashok Malik, Fellow at the observer Research Foundation and India’s leading political analyst and commentator, delivered the talk. The talk was organized by IIM Bangalore’s Post Graduate Program (PGP) in Public Policy & Management (PGPPM). It took place on 3rd March, 2017 as part of PGPPM’s event ‘Policy Speaks’ a Public Policy talk series. IIMB CCGC hosted a conclave on Ecotourism on 25th Feb, 2017. The IIMB Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship along with Dharthi and the Karnataka Forest Department, Karnataka Ecotourism Development Board, and all other stakeholders of Ecotourism Karnataka hosted a meeting on the Ecotourism Policy of Karnataka. “Digital India is the new narrative in governance and can succeed only if it connects government, entrepreneurs and citizens” said Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Rajya Sabha MP and Founder of Jupiter Capital, during ‘Nexus 2017’, on 24th Feb, 2017 at IIM Bangalore. In his keynote address at Nexus 2017, a public policy event hosted by students of IIMB, the Rajya Sabha MP said “regulatory capacity and digital literacy are key in making Digital India a big success”.

Visionary Leadership Summit ‘Re-Launch India’ took place on 11th Feb, 2017 at IIMB Campus where Mr. Priyank Kharge, Minister for IT-BT & Tourism, Government of Karnataka spoke about Karnataka Government’s partnership with Dassault Systems in opening a center of excellence in aerospace management. The summit was hosted by the Post Graduate Program in Enterprise Management (PGPEM), students of IIM Bangalore, associated by the Centre for Software & Information Technology Management (CSITM) of IIM Bangalore.

“Making money is happiness, but making other people happy is super happiness”. – Muhammad Yunus

“You are lucky to be in this day and age, in this great institution and in this city of Bangalore, which is the world capital of technology and unlimited opportunities. You have the power to change the entire world. The point is: are you aware of it?” was stated by Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, during his talk on ‘Building Bridges – Social and Capital’ at IIM Bangalore on 8th Feb, 2017. He also described about the various challenges and successes in constructing and highlighting the social business.

Figure 6: A conclave on Ecotourism on 25th Feb, 2017

Figure 7: (L-R) Phil Shaw, CEO, and Lockheed Martin, Prof. R. Srinivasan, and Director In charge, IIMB, Priyank Kharge, IT & BT and Tourism Minister, Government of Karnataka and Dr. Seema Gupta, Chairperson, PGPEM, at the ‘Re-Launch India’ summit at IIMB on 11th Feb, 2017.

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“I dream of an economy that can be shared by everybody. We need to get out of greed-based civilization and

create a society of human capability and caring and sharing” – Muhammad Yunus

The biggest B-School college fest in India – IIMB UNMAAD- took place on 29th Jan, 2017 and continued for three days at a stretch, packed with excitement. This fest happened to be the platform to flaunt the skills, an arena to gape at talent in order to have loads of fun. Unmaad drew participants across India and featured events like dramatics, music, dance, quiz, debate, street play, professional concerts and the grand Unmaad fashion show among many others. IIMBue, an Annual Leadership Summit was organized by the Alumni Association of IIM Bangalore. IIMBue 2016 took place on 17th & on 18th Dec at Taj Bangalore. It was attended by alumni, students, and faculty of IIM Bangalore along with the speakers. This Summit being an annual event brought together renowned thinkers and achievers over a weekend of thought provoking conversations, fun and nostalgia. The theme for the year’s event was “Multiple facets of Leadership: Start, Scale and Disrupt”. The event had different activities including speaker sessions, discussions and networking sessions.

Link is provided below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZMfC9kKJmk

Figure 8: (L-R) Santosh Ramdoss, Program Officer, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Nobel Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus, and Prof. Sourav Mukherji, Dean of Academic Programmes, IIMB, in a panel discussion, on 8th Feb, 2017.

Figure 9: Nobel Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus addressed an enthusiastic audience at IIM Bangalore on entrepreneurship

and social business on 8th Feb, 2017.

Figure 10: The annual fest- UNMAAD was headlined by Amit

Trivedi – a singer, lyricist, composer, a musician and a

national film awardee!

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A Workshop on "Discovering Customer Needs" was held by S. Parthasarathy, Head, Alumni Relations, and IIMB on 16th Nov, 2016. This workshop was about a framework on how to discover customer needs based on a book written by him. This workshop helped in understanding the role of needs, values, customer decision making criteria, framing a complete needs statement (CNS) and a complete unmet needs statement (CUNS). Reunion of Grand PGP(S) EM Alumni Meet took place on 12th and 13th Nov, 2016. This is an event that brought all the PGP(S) EM batches together for an informative and fun activities session. It was through this event that memories were cherished and old friends and faculty got to meet each other. Professor Raghavan Srinivasan, Director In charge, Marketing area, IIMB, highlighted the Institute’s achievements and the alumni’s contributions on the initial day of the reunion on 12th Nov, Professor Ishwar Murthy, Dean Faculty addressed the gathering on the first day of the meet, VK Menon, Chief Marketing and Development Officer, IIMB, spoke on how PGPEM is considered as an important place for future growth with support from Alumni. UPCOMING EVENTS:

The Alumni Association of IIM Bangalore will present the next edition of ‘Saturday Musings’ themed on ‘Disruption in the Services Sector’ on 25th March, 2017 at the IIMB auditorium. The event will include a talk by Prof. G Shainesh, faculty from the Marketing area, IIMB, on ‘Service Innovations’. This will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Anurag Saboo (PGP ‘96), Co-Founder, Gumption Labs, (Fintech sector); Siva Ganapathi (PGP ‘94), COO, Idea Cellular (Telecom sector), and Dr. Charit Bhograj, Co-Founder, Tricog, D.M. in Interventional Cardiology from Sri Ramachandra Medical College 2009 (Healthcare sector). The session will be moderated by Parag Dhol (PGP ’93), Managing Director of Inventus Capital Partners.

Figure 13: Grand PGP (S) EM ALUMNI MEET on 12th & 13th Nov, 2016

Figure 12: Leveraging leadership & creating impact- with the

panelists along with the talented Bollywood heartthrob Deepika

Padukone on 17th Dec - IIMBUE 2016

Figure 11: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson, Board of Governors, IIMB and Chief Patron of IIMBue, thanked Piyush Goyal with a memento after his address at IIMBue 2016 on 17th Dec, 2016.

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Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) and Toulouse Business School (TBS) will launch the third edition of the Management Program on Aviation on 8th May, 2017 at the IIMB campus.

The India Finance Conference 2017 (IFC 2017), the annual event of the Indian Finance Association (IFA), invites papers for its seventh edition to be held at the IIMB from 20th -22nd Dec, 2017. The annual conference is jointly organized by the IIMA, IIMB, and IIMC. Academics, researchers, doctoral students, and practitioners are invited and encouraged to submit research papers in all areas of finance.

ACHIEVERS Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan from the Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management area (OBHRM), IIM, Bangalore won the Distinguished Alumnus Award from her alma mater Xavier School of Management (XLRI). She was felicitated during the two-day celebrations of ‘Annual Homecoming 2016’ at XLRI, held on 10th & 11th Dec, 2016 which saw around 250 alumni taking part.

Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) gave a Life Time Achievement award to Sridhar Ramanujam of PGP 1982. Ankita Dash, a student of the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM 2013-‘18), the doctoral programme of IIMB, won the Best Paper Award for her paper titled as- ‘To be or Not To Be in Global Value Chains-Empirical Evidence from Indian Automotive Sector’, at the IIT KGP Management Doctoral Colloquium, held recently. Sumit Mullick (PGPPM 2002-’04) was appointed as Maharashtra’s new Chief Secretary. On 28th Feb, 2017 senior IAS official Mr. Sumit Mullick was chosen as the Chief Secretary of Maharashtra to succeed Swadheen Kshatriya whose extended tenure ended on the same day.

The doctoral thesis, of Anup Krishnamurthy who graduated from IIM Bangalore’s Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) in 2016, was judged as the Best Marketing Thesis in India for the year 2016-‘17, by the Scientific Committee for the Best Thesis Award of the International Marketing Trends Congress and ESCP Europe. Anup represented India at the 2017 International Best Thesis Award - Marketing Trends, and presented his thesis in Madrid in Jan, 2017. Dr. Deepak Malghan, faculty at the Centre for Public Policy, IIM Bangalore, won the Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao Award in Social Sciences for the year 2015. In an announcement made on 14th Feb, 2017 Dr. Malghan has won the award in the Human Geography and Ecology category. Professor S. Badrinath pursued MBA in Finance from IIMB (PGP 1980) and was appointed as the Chair Professor of “Canara Bank Chair in Banking and Finance”.

Figure 14: Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan being awarded with the Distinguished Alumnus Award

Figure 15: Sumit Mullick, an officer from the 1982 batch, was working as an Additional chief secretary and chief protocol officer.

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Dr. M G Thamizh Valavan (PGPPM 2015) was awarded with the Presidential Award of Appreciation on the occasion of Republic Day, 2017. Prabha Narasimha (PGP 1997) was chosen as one of the most successful people as a part of the Economic Times Corporate Trends Women Rising Stars of India. Sangeeta Devni (MPWE 2009) was selected for International Visitor Leadership Program, ‘Managing Start-Up Incubators for Growth’. RECENT ACTIVITIES

Women’s Day celebration on 8th March, 2017 at IIMB campus: The Human Resources Department of IIM Bangalore and the N S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) at IIMB together hosted a lot of events for Women’s Day, 2017. The week-long celebrations included various competitions, games, public speaking and sports. On 8th March, there was an exhibition and stalls were set up by women entrepreneurs at the Central Pergola. Writer Reshma Krishnamurthy delivered a short talk on ‘Women and Motherhood’. She is the founder of ‘Mums and Stories’. Jacintha Jayachandran, founder of NOW or Nurturing Outstanding Women, spoke on ‘Women at Workplace’ and focused on the ways to enable women to stay in the workforce. Prof. Dalhia Mani, from NSRCEL at IIMB and Prof. Ana Marques, Visiting Faculty at IIMB, discussed on ‘Women in Management across Countries’. Discussions were followed by prize distribution by Prof. G. Raghuram, Director, IIMB.

IIMB’s PGP2 team won one of the top three spots in national round of CFA Global Research Challenge 2016-2017. Sahil Makkar, Rishab Khandelwal, Bhavesh Birla, Vaibhav Gupta and Akshay Kumar of IIMB emerged as one of the top three teams in the national round of the CFA Global Research Challenge 2016-’17, held at the Bloomberg Office in Mumbai on 4th Feb, 2017. The team qualified for the Asia-Pacific level of the competition, along with the teams from NMIMS Mumbai and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade New Delhi.

IIMB’s PGP2 team has won one of the top three spots in national round in CFA Global Research Challenge 2019-2017. Sahil Makkar, Rishab Khandelwal, Bhavesh Birla, Vaibhav Gupta and Akshay Kumar of IIMB emerged as one of the top three teams in the national round of the CFA Global Research Challenge 2016-’17, held at the Bloomberg Office in Mumbai on 4th February, 2017. The team qualified for the Asia-Pacific level of the competition, that is to be held in Bangkok on 14th & 15th March, 2017.

Figure 16: (L-R) Bhavesh Birla, Rishabh Khandelwal, Sahil Makkar, with their mentor Prof. P C Narayan and Director Incharge Prof. R Srinivasan, Vaibhav Gupta and Akshay Kumar.

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VIKASANA, the annual social impact club of IIMB hosted SAHAY on 18th Feb 2017, an annual social summit and brought together various stakeholders in the social sectors such as NGOs, government, business, and educational institutions – in order to discuss ‘Upskill and Upscale: Skill Development & Employment Generation in India’. “Make healthcare a fundamental right”: Dr.H Sudarshan Ballal – ‘Affordable healthcare- Building India’s Future Health Economy’ was jointly organized by the Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship (CCGC) and The Centre for Public Policy (CPP) at IIM Bangalore on 18th Feb, 2017 along with Sustainability Next- an E-magazine that provides relevant content from practitioners and thought leaders.

Professor G. Raghuram took charge as Director of IIM Bangalore on 22nd Feb, 2017. He said that he would like to reach out to all stakeholders to work towards taking the institute to greater heights. Prof. G. Raghuram has a PhD from Northwestern University, USA, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from IIM Ahmedabad and a BTech degree from IIT Madras. IIMB’s one year fulltime Executive Post Graduate Program (EPGP) in Management was ranked among the top 50 in the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2017 that was released on 30th Jan, 2017.

Figure 19: (L-R) Meghna Shah, from the Women in Management club at IIMB, Prof. Dalhia Mani, from NSRCEL at IIMB and Prof. Ana Marques, from the Finance & Accounting area at IIMB at the panel discussion on 'Women in Management across Countries'. Figure 20: Prof. G. Raghuram, Director IIMB at the ‘International Women’s Day’ celebration on 8th March, 2017.

Figure 17 & figure 18: IIMB’s Human Resources Department organized competitions, fun events and also a 5K walk on campus as part of the ‘International Women’s Day’.

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IIM Bangalore’s NSRCEL was selected by National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) to receive INR 10 crore scale-up support, over the next two years under Atal Innovation Mission. EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) praised IIMB and conferred 5-year accreditation on 21st December, 2016. The EQUIS Accreditation Board has conferred the EQUIS Accreditation label upon this institution, for a period of 5 years. RESEARCH

Journal Article: ‘Commonality decisions when designing for multiple markets’ - Sreelata Jonnalagedda, Haritha Saranga, to be published in May, 2017.

Journal Article: ‘Services outsourcing under asymmetric cost information’ – B. Mahadevan, Jishnu Hazra and Tarun Jain in March, 2017.

IIMB’s Women Startup Program picked 15 new ideas-

“Since 2008, through our 10,000 women initiatives, Goldman Sachs has been investing globally and in India in the economic empowerment of women through education and access to capital,” said Mr. Sonjoy Chatterjee, Chairman and Co-Chief Executive, Goldman Sachs (India).

The NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) at the IIM Bangalore and Goldman Sachs selected 15 Women Entrepreneurs and their ideas for incubation over the next year as the final phase of its women startup program. The women selected to incubate (their ideas) at IIMB will receive a monthly fellowship of Rs. 40,000, while they further develop their business ideas.

IIMB’s Women Startup Program picked 15 new ideas-

“Since 2008, through our 10,000 women initiatives, Goldman Sachs has been investing globally and in India in the economic empowerment of women through education and access to capital,” Goldman Sachs (India) Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Mr. Sonjoy Chatterjee said.

The NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) AT THE IIM Bangalore and Goldman Sachs on Sunday selected 15 Women Entrepreneurs and their ideas for incubation over the next year as the final phase of its women startup program. The women selected to incubate (their ideas) at IIMB will receive a monthly fellowship of Rs. 40,000, while they further develop their business ideas.

Figure 21: India's first customized online and classroom startup programme for women.

A four member team of Executive Post Graduate

Programme (EPGP) students, from IIMB comprising

Abhinav Gupta, Bhartendu Vimal, Kumar Parimal and

Anshul Arora, has bagged the first prize at IIM

Lucknow’s entrepreneurship summit ‘Ventura’. The

team bested 165 participating teams from 36 B-

schools including IIMs, IITs & ISB, held from January

27th - 29th, 2017.

The summit - ‘Ventura’ is a national-level B-Plan

challenge organized by Indian Institute of

Management Lucknow.

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OBITUARIES:

We are saddened that some of our alumni passed away in the last few months. We pray for their families and loved ones.

Jeetendra Jain, PGP 1990-1992 batch, passed away on 2nd March, 2017 due to cardiac arrest. He is from Hyderabad and lived in Bombay. Mr. Jain was the author of the book ‘Sack the CEO’. He was running a marketing consultancy in Mumbai. He has written numerous marketing literature for Business Standard, Brand Equity, A & M and Business World.

Sudip Roy, PGP 1993-1995 batch, passed away in the US in Jan, 2017 after battling a rare type of cancer. He worked with Amazon and stayed in Seattle. He is survived by his wife Meenakshi and two daughters aged 14 and 8.

Dilip Iyer, PGP 1999 batch passed away on 20th Dec, 2016 after battling a severe illness. Our heartfelt condolences to Dilip’s family for their loss.

Prof.Kalyan Guin, an alumnus from the batch FPM 1986-1994, passed away on the 26th of Nov, 2016 in Kolkata as a result of a massive heart attack.

Pensioner Mr. Thyagarajan Babu N, Administrative Officer – Hostel and Mess, who superannuated in March 2015 passed away on 17th Feb, 2017 at 4.30 pm.

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SUPERANNUATION

Professor Nayana Tara and Mr. Amarendra K -Senior Office Assistant (Technical, Estate Department) have retired from the services of the Institute on 28th Feb, 2017 upon attaining the age of superannuation. A small farewell function in the presence of faculty, staff and alumni was arranged for them on 28th Feb, 2017 at 4.30 pm at the lawn behind the Director’s office. FACULTY NEWS Dr. Rajeev Tripathi has joined IIMB on 1st Feb, 2017 as an Assistant Professor in the Production and Operations Management Area. He has obtained his PhD from Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras. His Thesis was on ‘Stability of Coalition Games with Externalities’. Dr. Shibashis Mukherjee has joined IIMB on 1st Feb, 2017 as an Assistant Professor in the OB & MRM Area. Dr. Mukherjee obtained his PhD in Sociology from Indiana University, Bloomington. His Thesis was on ‘To Hope is to Human to Hide Divine-Role of Emotions in Negotiations with a Palliative Care Settings in the USA & India’. MAKING AN IMPACT: PARTICIPATE IN THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM ON LEADERSHIP & EXCELLENCE AND GET A CHANCE TO STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD-

Chevening Gurukul Fellowship Program for Leadership & Excellence: It is the flagship Foreign and Commonwealth Office Fellowship that has run for over 20 years in India. It is exclusively offered to a group of mid-career professionals from diverse backgrounds with minimum 10 years’ experience. Selected fellows will be offered an intensive, all expenses paid (program fee, round trip economy air tickets, accommodation and subsistence), residential course on Leadership & Excellence at the University of Oxford at the Department of Politics and International Relations. It is a twelve week program that will commence in the month of Sep, 2017. The online application is active from 1st February till 27th March, 2017. Suitable candidates in the IIMB alumni network are encouraged to apply for this fellowship program.

Application link is provided below:

https://chevening.tal.net/vx/appcentre-1/brand-0/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/1/opp/976-Chevening-Gurukul-Fellowship-Programme-for-Leadership-and-Excellence/en-GB Details of the program is provided below: http://www.chevening.org/programme/gurukul

IIM Bangalore is first Indian B-School to join edX-

IIMB is India’s first B-School to join edX as a new contributing member. As IIMBx - India’s premier leading B-School - will leverage new technologies and deliver education via massive open online courses (MOOCS) to a large scale of learners from around the world within a year from now.

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Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) partners with GOI (Government of India) for ICEGOV2017 in Delhi-

The 10th edition of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance is

being hosted by Government of India and the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance, in collaboration with UNESCO in New Delhi from 7th-9th March.

The Chief Minister’s Good Governance Associates (CMGGA) programme is opening applications for its second year!

The CMGGA programme is a strategic collaboration between Government of Haryana and Ashoka University to train and facilitate the most promising young men and women of the country to work with the State Machinery and tackle some of the complexities that face the country today. This is a 1-year full-time work opportunity with a competitive stipend. The 2017 Cohort of Associates will begin this exciting journey on 15th June, 2017 with an intense training period before they start their work in the districts administrations. Apply online on website before 31st March, 2017.

Link is provided below: http://cmgga.in/apply.aspx

BOOKS & BOOKSHELF – There are 32 published books of alumni that have been contributed to the Alumni book shelf, out of which 10 books are fiction, 14 are nonfiction books, 2 case studies, 1 fiction graphic novel, 1 nonfiction business novel, 1 poetry, 1 nonfiction history, 1 nonfiction true story and 1 text book. We thank them for taking time out to send their books to our office and we appreciate the efforts that have gone into writing the books. New members of the Alumni Office team: Jacob Mundapallil:

Jacob Mundapallil Alumni office, IIMB jacob.mundapallil@IIMB.ERNET.IN

I am Jacob Chacko Mundapallil. I have completed my Masters in Business Administration with specializations in both Marketing and Human Resource. I have 2 plus years of work experience. I have joined the alumni office in IIM Bangalore in 2016. My major area of focus is in Database management. I have been tasked with cleaning up and updating the database of alumni. A complete and verified database can go a long way in reaching out to the alumni network of this prestigious institute.

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Sabari Sanyal:

Sabari Sanyal Content Developer, Alumni office, IIMB sabari.sanyal@iimb.ernet.in

I am Sabari Sanyal. I have obtained my Master’s Degree in Marketing Management & Communication from Toulouse Business School, Paris, France. Before joining IIMB, I was interning with a non-profit organization, named as EFMA in Paris after which I was working with Luxembourg School of Business in Luxembourg. I have joined IIMB in Feb 2017 and is working with the Alumni department as a Content Developer. My role as a content developer is to create content for websites, blogs, social Medias and other articles. I am also responsible for developing and creating content for the monthly online release of alumni newsletter.