IIT Kanpur MBA Blog

The 2 nd edition of Reflexions, a flagship event of Prabandhan, presented by Department of Industrial Management and Engineering, on ‘Revolutionary Innovation OR Remastered Ideas: Way forward for the global business ecosystem’ was concluded with a promising and on a cheerful note. The event opened with thunderous applause and unrelenting questions bridging business world with the real world. Reflexions saw participation of 7 eminent personalities and thought leaders from their respective industries in Mr. Sambasivan G, CFO at Tata Sky Ltd, representing Television Service Industry,  Mr. Sameer Dhanrajani, CSO at Fractal Analytics representing Analytics Industry, Mr. Bhavesh Lakhani, CTO, SBI Mutual Fund representing Banking and finance Industry Mr. Imran Saeed, Director, with Absolutdata Analytics representing AI Industry Mrs. Annapurna A, Director, Human Resources at Inspirage representing Supply-Chain Industry,  Mr. Rohit Gandhi, Editor-in-Chief, DEMOCRACY NEWS re...

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life – Henry David Thoreau The role of money is very important in today’s world.  Majority of the people do not have adequate money at the right time when they require it the most. To hedge this unpredictability, one must learn how to invest smartly. Most of the people invest in the mutual funds but with time there are many other investment products prevailing in the market gaining people’s attention. The Students of IIT Kanpur were fortunate enough to get a chance to learn about other investment options specifically Exchange Traded funds when DIME IIT Kanpur hosted Mr. Sivananth Ramachandran, Director of Morningstar Indexes under its Corporate Seminar series on 11th August 2018.  Mr. Sivananth is an IIM Lucknow pass out and has over 11 years of experience in the investment industry. He mainly deals in new products development at Morningstar. Mr. Sivananth in his session explained about Exchange-Traded Fund, which is a hybr...

IIT Kanpur | MBA 2016-18 batch students organised informal city meets for the upcoming batch’s (2017-19) prospective students to clear admission related queries; and to give the prospective candidates a glimpse of the unique MBA program and life at IIT Kanpur as per their viewpoints based on their year long experience.  The meets were organised in the two metro-cities: Delhi and Kolkata, on Sunday, 18 th June, 2017. The date and cities for the meets were decided based on online survey amongst the candidates, taking current location and availability of majority as the criteria.  Minutes of the two meetings are as follows:  1) Place- C.C.D., Janpath, New Delhi Student Facilitators- Abhinav Arora, Shivam Gupta, Siddharth Vohra Queries were related to the department, the courses offered, Extra-curricular activities, internship opportunities, final placements and the campus. The prospects were informed that they would have 5 compulsory subjects in ...