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Industry Overview – Indian Retail

Retail in India was always a challenge from marketers’ point of view, but the consumers are always spoilt for choice. Consumerism in India is witnessing an unprecedented growth driven by a young and working population, urbanization, rising income levels, favorable demographics as well as growing brand orientation. The Indian retail market which is estimated to [...]

Industry-Alumni meet cum symposium-6th& 7th April, 2013

Industry-Alumni meet cum symposium-6th& 7th April, 2013
The spark to organize the first ever Industry-alumni meet-cum-symposium in Industrial Management Engineering (IME) department, IIT Kanpur “Glory of techno-management: Success, challenges and road map for future” on 6th and 7th April, 2013 stemmed from the idea of strengthening the IME alumni network. The event was a grand success [...]

The Tech-Ila-Sizzlers sizzles at Super Techies show

World resigns when IIT Kanpur MBA students contest!!

Success of an educational institute is exhibited by its alumni when they distinguish themselves through different endeavours around the world. Over the last many years, alumni of MBA IIT Kanpur have shown their presence across the occupations. They have conquered every opportunity in different territories winning accolades to [...]

The Asocial Networking – an Author’s Perspective

Some three months back when I used to search on Google with the keyword – ‘The Asocial Networking’, I used to get suggestions like, ‘did you mean, the social networking’ from Google. Now in the same Google I get quite a few search results for my very first book which has just been released and [...]

Reinventing business education

“This was true before the economic crisis, but is even true in its aftermath. The world has changed, and with that has changed the security that use to come almost by default with a MBA degree. High-paying jobs are no longer guaranteed to graduates, and the opportunity cost of two years of training—especially for those [...]

Domain or Consultancy – What Comes First?

Few years back, in early winters, a consultant came over my desk while I was in my office. He was young, freshly graduated from a premier management institute, ever smiling and had a charming personality.  I was working at client’s site and he was supposed to join me as a consultant for a very specific [...]

ET Young Leaders Winner 2011 – View from the top

Vikash Priyadarshi (Batch 2010) has done the MBA program proud with his achievement of being in the elite 22 of the Economic Times Young Leaders – 2011. Here is a blow-by-blow account from the man himself as he tastes well deserved success after a gruelling fight.
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Amidst the ethos and pathos of the daily chores of [...]

A TRIBUTE TO OUR “MAMA” – SREEJIT GOPALAKRISHNAN (1973-2011)

As a tribute to the Late Sreejit Gopalakrishnan (Batch 2003), we are bringing together a collection of memories, anecdotes, personal experiences shared with Sreejit in this article. We hope that through everyone’s contributions, we can keep Sreejit Sir alive in all our memories. The comments to this article would also be incorporated into the article [...]