IIT Kanpur MBA Blog

Ideaz - 09 is a pan IIT Business idea challenge in serach of the most innovative IITian. Students at IIT are expected to start their entrepreneural journey from the college itself and in pursuit of this excellence they are trained for this. Yesterday, E-cell of IIT Kanpur organized a workshop for mentoring of the students who want to transform their dreams into reality. The objective of the workshop was to guide students towards idea generation and improve it with proper guidance and mentorship. Workshop was taken by Ankur Agarwal, a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Ankur, an IIT Delhi alumnus, is intersted in Business startegy, Technology and social entrepreneurship. His area of expertise involves broad spectrums of management consulting. Ankur discussed the process of generating a feasible and economically viable idea. Ideas may not sound realistic at first go but, if groomed properly these can turn out to be successful business ventures. Looking out for a problem is the first ...

The past few months have been eventful – oh yes they have and how! The techie in me was finally willing to die owing to my growing interests in the ever-challenging arena of business management. Change was round the corner – I had decided to pursue an MBA. Destiny, for a change, did its bit, and I found myself with an offer letter from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur . The IITs have always fascinated me – the brand spells quality and success. I had my thinking to do though. After four years of quality experience in a challenging industry, was I settling for something below par? After all, weren’t the IITs schools for technology? [The first thing that comes to your mind when one says IIT Kanpur is aeronautics]. It isn’t surprising how misleading perceptions can be. As I debated with myself, I laid down the facts before me. The IIT Kanpur boasts of an unimaginable infrastructure, quality faculty, a well designed MBA course, established (over-established really) ind...

The Industrial and management engineering department organized 2nd Capacity Building Programme for Officers of Electricity Regulatory Commissions on the 3–8 August, 2009. This event would feature a number of talks by eminent personalities on a variety of topics dealing with electricity regulations. For further details on the conference visit : http://www.iitk.ac.in/ime/ anoops/for09/

  The annual finance conclave of IIT Kanpur – ‘Finatics’ was organized on the 4 th  and 5 th  of this month. The event sponsored by IDFC, drew huge participation from various b schools across the country.    The conclave comprised of a gamut of events ranging from case studies to debates etc.   A number of online events such as quizzes and crosswords were also organized and garnered in a lot of enthusiasm and participation from students. An  NCDEX workshop was held for the benefit of students interested in commodity trading. The workshop was more relevant in the current financial turmoil as it aimed to apprise the students of the industry trends and practices in such a scenario. Industry veterans such as  Mr    Ashish Sethia, who heads New Carbon Finance’s Research & Business development in India ,  Mr Prashant Reddy, business development manager at NCDEX were the guest speakers who gave enlightening talks pertaining to their field of expertise. 

The Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) taking a note of the tragic death of Shri Satyendra K Dubey, an alumnus of IITK who died fighting against corruption, had instituted the Satyendra K Dubey Memorial (SKDM) Award for honoring outstanding alumni of the IIT system i.e. all existing Indian Institutes of Technology, who have shown professional integrity and have been upholding human values The presentation ceremony of the Distinguished Alumnus Award and the Satyendra K. Dubey Memorial Award was held on the occasion of the Alumni Day (Annual Alumni Convention) of the Alumni Association of IITK i.e on the forenoon of Saturday, February 28, 2009.  The dignitaries present at the occasion were : 1. Dr. D. Subbarao, Governor, Reserve Bank of IndiaDr.  2. Udai P Sing, Vice President, CH2M HILL, CA USA and President-Elect, Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers 3. Mr. Manoj Pratap Singh, Global Managing Partner, Ope...

Dept of HSS, IIT Kanpur conducted a short term course on Global Financial Management from 4th to 13th February 2009. The course was taken by  Prof. Dr. Michaela M. Kiermeier, Professor Financial Management, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Dr. Michaela, an expert in portfolio management, have visited many universities around the world and conducted short term courses in Finance. First and second year MBA students who wanted to specialize in finance were also invited to attend the course. The main objective of the course was to make the students understand and adapt to changing and challenging global environment. The course also enabled the students to acquire and apply knowledge and tools in various financial areas to solve business problems in global context. The course helped students to get introduced to global financial management. It also assisted the future managers to get acquainted with concepts, activities and management techniques related to the planning and...