IIT Kanpur MBA Blog

The Department of Industrial Management and Engineering, IIT Kanpur presented the flagship event of Prabandhan – Reflexions on Sept 28th, 2019. The 3rd edition of the event on ‘Tackling challenges of the VUCA world' was concluded with a promising and on a cheerful note. With thunderous applause and riveting questions, the event opened to bridge the corporate world with the real world. Reflexions 3.0 saw the participation of 6 eminent industry leaders and management gurus to share their experiences from their respective trades. They were Karan Marwah, Partner – CFO, Advisory Services, KPMG, Harshavardhan Chauhan, Head-Marketing & digital transformation, DLF Shopping Mall, Neelesh Talathi, CFO, Pepperfry, Hari T N, CHRO, Big Basket, Raj Gupta, General Manager, HR, TCS and our very own Professor, Devlina Chatterjee, Managerial Economics, Applied Econometrics. The talk focused on "How well, can the industries predict the results of their actions in a world of Volatility, Unc...

“ It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. "                                   A new zeal, vigour, and an unquenchable thirst for proving oneself is what describes MBA batch of 2019-21. 52 of us set foot on the pavement of a new journey and needless to say it has been unprecedented. Be it the early morning presentations, the stark midnight deadlines, or the never-ending case studies covering the gamut of concepts and context, each one of these activities can vouch for it. It has hardly been a month, yet the batch has acclimatized well with the life of one the most coveted institutes in the country, IIT Kanpur. For most of us, this is the desired path, and for the rest, it is an opportunity to relive their school days. Since we are in a place that has no norm a...

It was our privilege to invite Mr Mahipal Nair, Chief Human Resource (South Asia/India) – Nielsen, for a guest lecture on Organizational health at MBA IIT Kanpur on 3 rd August 2019. Mr Nair has been associated with Nielsen since 2006 in various HR roles of increasing responsibilities. He is responsible for all people processes including leadership & talent development, transformation & change management. Mr Nair commenced the lecture by drawing a parallel between organizational health and human health. He extended the discussion by defining the factors, which affect human health, after bifurcating them as internal and external factors. Internal factors being psychology, beliefs etc. whereas external factors being climate, demography etc. This comparison served as a base point for further lecture. He then moved the focus of lecture to analyze the qualities of a successful organization by discussing over the best team we could remember and then he made his po...

We were graced with the presence of Mr Vikram Singh on 20th January’19 Account Director - L&T Financial Services, for a corporate seminar at the IME Department. He has over ten years of experience in Banking, capital markets, treasury management and private equity funds in esteemed organisations like HDFC Bank and Reliance Capital. He kicks started with the seminar with the introduction to every student of MBA-IIT Kanpur. His interest developed into AI with investments in technological start-ups. Mr Vikram Singh first focused on how AI is soon going to a General-purpose-Technology and touched upon the recent developments in the field of AI. His examples about firms like Fincorp showed how AI is exploding in the field of finance. AI has increased risk management, helped in agile growth with the development of Deep Learning and Machine Learning. Chatbots being used by various banks are incredibly useful, e.g., Eva for HDFC.  Paypal is using deep learning techno...

The speaker for the seminar was Satish Rajarathnam, HRBP of Cognizant . The topic for seminar was divided into three heads: Region wise analysis of the world, Political risk at present and vertical view of the financial services. Discussion started with the analysis of the economic condition of various region of the world (US, Euro, UK, Asia). Thereafter, the focus of discussion shifted to contemporary political risks (for example: Brexit, US-China trade war) occurring due to the changing economic condition in various regions and its impact on the Indian economy. Later, there was a brief discussion about various financial services and how they are impacting global economy . Speaker also enlightened us about the three types of disruptions that are essential for the overall development of a company. The three disruptions are as follows: Business Model Disruption, Operating Model Disruption and Technology Model Disruption. Learning: A company must cause disruption in a...

Time to take a plunge –  2018-2020 Batch   The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step                                                                                             – Lao Tzu. The energy of the Indian subcontinent unified at the gates of IIT Kanpur when we started our much- awaited journey of MBA. The pre-assignments and admission process gave us a much-needed glimpse of life ahead of us. With all glittering hopes, we, the 54 minds embarked on an endeavour to achieve our dreams and here we are, introducing our remarkable 2018-2020 batch with immense pride and responsibility wearing the badge of IIT Kanpur. For most of us, who have prior work experience, it is a back to school time and for the rest, it is an...

Saturday 24 th March was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable days in the history of MBA IIT Kanpur because it is the very day when the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering embarked the journey towards panel discussions with the first episode of its talk series- Vimarsh. This introductory version of Vimarsh with four eminent personalities and thought-leaders from different business industries as the panelists, saw deliberation on the topic, “Impact of Next Generation Technologies on Employee, Employer and Employability”. The list of honored guests Included Dr. Shiva Kumar R, AVP Talent Acquisition Sodexo as the moderator and panelists were Mr. Sai Chandran, Director OD, Culture: Sapient, Mrs. Poonam Tharad, AVP HR: Mahindra Comviva and Mr. Unmesh Pawar, Director HR, Accenture. The session commenced with the opening speech by Dr. Devlina Chatterjee, Professor at IME Department, IIT Kanpur. She explained the relevance of the topic of discussion in view of the f...

RECRUPTION - TRUE DISRUPTION IN RECRUITMENT! “I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.” - Lawrence Bossidy , GE Human resource is an asset on which companies wager immensely. To talk on this prevailing topic, DIME at IIT Kanpur hosted Ms. Kiran Bhatia Tandon, Ex-Head, Talent Acquisition, Stryker. In her career, spanning over a decade, she has had experiences across diverse industries from Automobile to E-Commerce giving her a bird’s eye perspective of the industry. As charismatic as you get, Ms. Kiran, started off with asking us on the topics we wanted her to discuss upon, keeping the interaction open and filled with candour. While discussing the difference, she experienced in Automobile and Ecommerce, she shared an anecdote which implied that it is always important for an HR Manager to understand the mind-set of an employee with a substantially larger earning ...

The Department of Industrial Management and Engineering, IIT Kanpur played host to one of the most ambitious public events in the department’s recent history in the 6 th edition of Prabandhan, its management conclave, organized by the resident MBA students in association with Uttar Pradesh Tourism and Business Standard. The course of these three days, saw seamless execution of a well-planned extravaganza in a motley of various elements. Pitting the best among 4560 students from 46 premier business institutes against each other, it provided opportunities for embodiment and on-field application of theories and models from academia. It served as the platform for three days of complete co-creation and ideation among leading experts in respective fields to the aspiring managers, and was absolutely prismatic in its coverage of all industries and a bountiful spread of management sciences including Marketing, Analytics, Finance, Operations to Human Resources and Corporate Strategy. ...