March 2017 eNewsletter

LET’S CONNECT!
IIM Bangalore Alumni Association
Editor : Ms Sabari Sanyal, Content Developer, Alumni Office

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 Message from Chairperson, Alumni Our new alumni head and his message :
relations:
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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.
Figure 2: Panelists on Post Budget Insights on 19th
Artificial Intelligence: “The opportunities and challenges”: Feb, 2017
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.
Figure 3: Panelists at the panel discussion on
Link is provided below: Demonetization on 21st Jan, 2017
https://youtu.be/ej5TjbaFclQ

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

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 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

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

“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.

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

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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

Figure 8: (L-R) Santosh Ramdoss, Program Officer, Michael & Figure 9: Nobel Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus addressed an
Susan Dell Foundation, Nobel Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus, enthusiastic audience at IIM Bangalore on entrepreneurship
and Prof. Sourav Mukherji, Dean of Academic Programmes, IIMB, and social business on 8th Feb, 2017.
in a panel discussion, on 8th Feb, 2017.

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 Figure 10: The annual fest- UNMAAD was headlined by Amit
the Alumni Association of IIM Bangalore. IIMBue 2016 Trivedi – a singer, lyricist, composer, a musician and a
took place on 17th & on 18th Dec at Taj Bangalore. It national film awardee!
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

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Figure 11: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson, Board of Figure 12: Leveraging leadership & creating impact- with the
Governors, IIMB and Chief Patron of IIMBue, thanked Piyush panelists along with the talented Bollywood heartthrob Deepika
Goyal with a memento after his address at IIMBue 2016 on 17th Padukone on 17th Dec - IIMBUE 2016
Dec, 2016.

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

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.

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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 Figure 14: Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan being awarded
with the Distinguished Alumnus Award
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 Figure 15: Sumit Mullick, an officer from the 1982
batch, was working as an Additional chief secretary
(FPM) in 2016, was judged as the Best Marketing Thesis in and chief protocol officer.
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”.

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 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.
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.
IIMB’s PGP2 team has won one of
the top three spots in national round
in CFA Global
Dr. M G Thamizh Valavan (PGPPM 2015) was awarded with the Presidential Award Research Challenge
of Appreciation on the
2019-2017. Sahil Makkar, Rishab
occasion of Republic Day, 2017. Khandelwal, Bhavesh Birla,
Vaibhav Gupta and Akshay
Kumar
Prabha Narasimha (PGP 1997) was chosen as one of the most successful of IIMB
people as a emerged as one
part of the of
Economic
the top three teams in the national
Times Corporate Trends Women Rising Stars of India.
round of the CFA Global Research
Challenge 2016-’17, held at the
Bloomberg Office
Sangeeta Devni (MPWE 2009) was selected for International Visitor Leadership in Mumbai
Program, on 4thStart-Up
‘Managing
Incubators for Growth’. February, 2017. The team qualified
for the Asia-Pacific level of the
competition, that is to be held in
RECENT ACTIVITIES Bangkok on 14th & 15th March, 2017.

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.

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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’.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

IIM Bangalore’s NSRCEL was selected by National Institution for Transforming

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newreceive
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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:

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Selected fellows will be offered an intensive, all expenses paid (program fee, round trip economy air
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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.

IIMB Alumni – March 2017

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
[email protected]

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.

IIMB Alumni – March 2017

Sabari Sanyal:

Sabari Sanyal
Content Developer, Alumni office, IIMB
[email protected]

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.

IIMB Alumni – March 2017