Guruprasad Srinivasan, ED and CEO of Quess GTS, delivered a guest lecture to first-year PGP students on 01st March 2025. He spoke on ‘Labour Markets in India: The Quess Story’. The lecture was part of the course, ‘Business, Government, and Society: Ethics and Responsible Business’ offered by Prof. Allen P. Ugargol and Prof. Arnab Mukherji.
Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan, Chairperson, IIMBx, and Prof. Sabarinathan G, Programme Director, and members of IIMx with representatives of the Fintech COE Upskilling Program initiated by the Govt. of Karnataka, on 1st March 2025.
The Centre for Software and IT Management at IIMB, in collaboration with ISPMA, hosted the 7th India Software Product Management Summit, between 28th February and 1st March 2025. The ISPMA University Chapter at IIMB was unveiled by Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan, Prof. S. Sadagopan, Dr Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Prof. Shankhadeep Banerjee, Prof. Merlin Nandy, Ms Subhashini Dhandapani, and Dr A Velumani. (Right) Dr. S. Somanath, Dr Vikram Sarabhai Professor and Former Chairman, ISRO, delivered the keynote address.
Participants from Otto Beisheim School of Management, Sweden, were part of the Executive Education Programme, ‘Doing Business in India, on 03rd March 2025. They are seen herer with the faculty programme directors from IIMB, Prof. Srivardhini K. Jha, and Prof. R. Srinivasan.
Participants of the General Management Programme for Healthcare Executives Batch 7’, along with the faculty programme directors,Prof. Ashok Thampy, Prof. Padmini Srinivasan, Prof. U. Dinesh Kumar and Prof. Haritha Saranga, on 03rd March 2025.
Participants from ‘Mid-Career Training Programme for Officers of Indian Economic Service (IES)’, along with the Faculty Programme Directors, on 03rd March 2025.
Manjunatha Kukkuru, Associate Vice President, Infosys, delivered a guest lecture to first-year PGP students on 03rd March 2025. The lecture was part of the course, ‘Entrepreneurial Mindset and Action’, offered by Prof. Sai Chittaranjan Kalubandi, Entrepreneurship area, IIM Bangalore.
Pawan Kumar, CEO & Co-Founder of Spense, delivered a guest lecture to first-year PGP students on 03rd March 2025. The lecture was part of the course, ‘Entrepreneurial Mindset and Action’, offered by Prof. Sai Chittaranjan Kalubandi, Entrepreneurship area, IIM Bangalore.
Walmart Global Tech India participants of the Exec Ed programme, ‘i-LEAD’, along with the programme directors, Prof, Vijay Venkataraghavan and Prof. S. Raghunath, on 04th March 2025.
(L-R) Prof. Chetan Subramanian, Economics area, and Prof. Debolina Dutta & Prof. Abhoy K. Ojha from the Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management area, delivered the lectures at ‘Navodaya’, the farewell lecture series hosted by the EPGP Class of 2024-25, on 04th March 2025. The professors also unveiled the EPGP Yearbook 2025.
Dr. PNSV Narasimham, President & Head of Corporate Functions, Cyient, and Dr. Pallab Bandyopadhyay, Founder, HR Plus, addressed first-year PGP students, on 05th March 2025. They spoke on ‘Career Transition and Career Success’, as part of an OB&HRM course offered by Prof. Gopal Mahapatra.
At ‘Pragya 2025’, on 06th March 2025, the graduating PGP and PGPBA cohorts at IIMB listened as Prof. Y.L.R. Moorthi, from Marketing, Prof. Sourav Mukherji, from OB&HRM, and Prof. Haritha Saranga, from Production & Operations Management, offered their perspectives on the pursuit of excellence, sportsman spirit and self-awareness. IIMB Director Prof. Rishikesha Krishnan, PGP and PGPBA Chairperson Prof. Manaswini Bhalla, Dean Programmes Prof. Mukta Kulkarni, and IIMBAA President Harish Mittal, also interacted with the students.
International Women’s Day was celebrated by the IIMB community.
(left) PGP ’98 alumnus Gajendra Ramteke, Head of Retail, HCL Technologies – UK & Ireland, addressed the PGP-1 cohort at IIMB, as part of a course offered by Prof. Gopal Das, from Marketing, on 7th March 2025.
Igor Galligo, Founder, Automedia.org, and Associate Researcher at TU Berlin, spoke on ‘A New Paradigm of Entrepreneurship: From Disruption to Negative Entropy’, on 7th March 2025. He was invited by Prof. Sourav Mukherji, from the OB&HRM area.
Preeti Vyas, CEO & President, and Reena I. Puri, Editor-in-Chief, Amar Chitra Katha, addressed PGP students as part of the Technology & Innovation Strategy elective, offered by Prof. Nilam Kaushik, on 07th March 2025.
The Centre for Teaching and Learning at IIM Bangalore hosted the Academic Leadership Programme from 8th – 13th March 2025, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Government of India. The cohort comprised Vice Chancellors from various centrally- and state-funded universities and Directors of Institutes of National Importance.
Dr. Sujatha Rao, Former Union Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, delivered a guest lecture to PGP-1 students on 08th March 2025. She spoke on ‘Healthcare: State’s Role in Managing a Wicked Problem’. The lecture was part of the course, ‘Business, Government, and Society: Ethics and Responsible Business’, offered by Prof. Arnab Mukherji and Prof. Allen P. Ugargol.
Swati Bajaj, Head of Products at Artium, addressed PGP-1 students on Corporate Entrepreneurship, on 8th March 2025. The lecture was part of the Entrepreneurial Mindset and Action course, offered by Prof. Ramya K. Murthy, Entrepreneurship area.
Prof. Aditya Aradhye, Ashoka University, presented his paper on ‘Mechanism Design with Spiteful Agents’. The seminar was organized by the Office of Research and Publications, on 12th March 2025.
Meera K, Managing Trustee of Oorvani Foundation, delivered a lecture titled ‘Change What You Can’t Accept’ to PGP-1 students on 15th March 2025. The lecture was part of the course, ‘Business, Government, and Society: Ethics and Responsible Business’.
The PGPEM cohort of IIM Bangalore bid farewell with Odyssey, an evening of reflection, nostalgia, and celebration on 16th March 2025. Prof. Rishikesha Krishnan, Director, IIMB, Prof. Ashis Mishra, Chairperson, PGPEM, Dean Programmes Mukta Kulkarni and a few faculty members addressed the students.
The Real Estate Research Initiative at IIMB, in collaboration with Bangalore Apartments’ Federation (BAF), has launched a certificate programme for Resident Welfare Associations in the City. The programme was launched on 16th March 2025.
Delegates and students from Kelley School of Business, USA, at IIMB on 17th March 2025. Prof. R. Srinivasan, Chairperson, Center for Digital Public Goods at IIMB and Professor of Strategy, hosted the students.
Participants of the Exec Education programme, ‘Strategic Management of Innovation’, with the faculty programme directors, on 17th February 2025.
Participants of EGMP Batch 73, with the faculty programme directors at IIMB, on 17th February 2025.
