IIT Kanpur MBA Blog

A guest lecture was conducted by the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering on Supply chain issues in specific and Accenture in general. The dignitaries present to deliver the talk were • Mr. Harsh Manglik, MD • Mr. Sanjay Dawar, Managing partner-Supply chain • Mr. Prithvi Shergill, Senior Executive-HR The discussion highlighted the business processes at Accenture in general and how its end to end solution implementation helps it live up to its tag line- “High Performance. Delivered.” While Mr. Harsh Manglik stressed on the client relationship management and how Accenture ensures that the solutions are implemented successfully at the client’s end, Mr. Prithvi Shergill talked about the career opportunities and measures that Accenture has taken to reduce employee attrition and increase employee motivation in the current slowdown. Mr. Sanjay Dawar talked about the supply chain issues prevalent in India and how they are different from the issues in the rest of the world. He sp...

Swaraj, or self-rule, a concept propagated by Mahatma Gandhi, is integral to our idea of a democracy. The freedom struggle was, in effect, meant to realize the same. But did Independence actually bring about a sense of self-governance? What kind of democracy are we living in? Does the concept of individual sovereignty still hold any value for us? In the talk on the “Right To Information Act: Path to Swaraj”, a lot of such burning questions were raised, and some of them were answered. IIT Kanpur organized the talk by the Information Commissioner - CIC, Mr Shailesh Gandhi on the 7th of September 2009. Mr Gandhi presented an eye-opening view of the current state of democracy in India: talking about the differences in a participatory and an elective democracy, and created awareness about the RTI act amongst the audience. The RTI act empowers the Indian citizen to monitor the Government individually in large numbers. Some of the salient features of the act are: 1) It makes a public servant ...

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.