In an op-ed for Financial Express titled ‘A liquidity mismatch for CAS’, Dr. Raja Reddy Bujunoori, Dr. Sumit Saurav and Dr. Venkatesh Panchapagesan of IIM Bangalore’s Finance & Accounting area examine the liquidity mismatch at the heart of India’s equity-options market and why it may matter more than the mechanics of the new Closing Auction Session (CAS).

On expiry days, the notional value of index derivatives traded in India can reach 3,000 times the turnover in the underlying shares, compared with roughly 5-15 times in most developed markets. The authors argue that this imbalance has important consequences.

In a new op-ed for Business Standard titled ‘Profit and purpose: The ongoing clash’, Dr. M S Sriram, Public Policy area, explores the governance tensions that can arise when a philanthropic institution has a controlling interest in a commercial enterprise.

In a new Deccan Herald op-ed, Dr. R Srinivasan, Chairperson, Centre for Digital Public Goods and faculty of Strategy, and Dr. Jitamitra Desai, Member, IIMB BoG and faculty of Decision Sciences, examine what will determine India’s next phase of data-centre growth. India’s data-centre race is no longer a race for subsidies, but one for infrastructure, they write in ‘Build, power, cool: India’s data centre mantra’.

In their Business Standard article, ‘Understanding double deflation: What it does and why it matters’, Dr. Saurabh Garg, Secretary, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI), and Dr. Shubhabrata Das, Decision Sciences area, IIM Bangalore, demystify the methodology behind India’s new GDP series and explain why “one price index may not be enough” to measure real economic activity.

IIM Bangalore’s two-year full-time MBA programme, the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), has strengthened its position among the world’s leading management programmes, moving up to the 21^st position globally in the Financial Times Masters in Management (MiM) 2026 ranking, from 28^th in 2025 and 41^st in 2024.

The Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP), IIM Bangalore’s one-year residential MBA for experienced professionals, has been ranked #2 in the Asia-Pacific region in the Bloomberg Businessweek Best Business-Schools Survey 2026, moving up from #3 in 2025. EPGP has also retained its position as the No. 1 MBA programme in India for the fifth consecutive year.

IIM Bangalore’s Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), Post Graduate Programme in Business Analytics (PGPBA) and the Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP) have once again secured the No. 1 positions in India in their respective categories in the QS Business Master’s and Global MBA Rankings for 2027, featuring prominently among leading management education programmes worldwide.

The Centre for Capital Markets and Risk Management (CCMRM), IIM Bangalore, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ACUMO Graylight Learning Labs LLP on 8^th September, 2026. The partnership deepens the two organisations’ ongoing collaboration on the ACUMO Finathon, a nationwide school finance competition, and formalises ACUMO’s role as CCMRM’s technical and content partner.

Four IIM Bangalore alumni of the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) have been named to The Economic Times 40 Under Forty, a list that recognizes outstanding young leaders across India’s business landscape under the age of forty.

The alumni featured on the list are:

• PGP 2010 Parul Bajaj, Managing Director & Partner, Boston Consulting Group
• PGP 2011 Karan Dhall, Partner, Kearney India
• PGP 2012 Mohit Arora, Managing Director, Blackstone
• PGP 2014 Piyush Goswami, Partner, Bain & Company

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IIM Bangalore has opened admissions for the second cohort of its Undergraduate Programmes, with applications invited for the 2027 batch of its four-year, full-time residential BSc (Hons) in Data Sciences and BSc (Hons) in Economics programmes. The application window is open from 17^th August to 15^th October 2026, 5:00 pm IST.

Applications can be submitted through the UG admissions portal: https://cdn.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/1345/101967/Registration.html