IIT Kanpur MBA Blog

We feel proud to announce that three of IIT Kanpur MBA students won medals at Kanpur district AIR RIFLE SHOOTING CHAMPIONSHIP. Soumya Sajwan won gold medal in women’s category while in men’s category, Manpreet Singh and Utkarsh Maurya won silver and bronze medals respectively. In addition to them, Himanshu Negi also qualified for the state championship. These students were also a part of the six-member team which represented IIT Kanpur at the 38th UP State shooting championship held in Delhi.

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” - Benjamin Franklin The above words very well define the learning methodology practiced at IIT Kanpur, where the transfer of knowledge is emphasized through “Involvement”. The MBA department at IITK is well known for realizing and meeting the corporate world’s requirement for Techno-Managerial skill sets. And the learning experience can be judged by the presence of erudite professors. But its not only education which ties students to the teachers, the department enjoys a strong overall bond among its members. And to strengthen this bond the students organize a cultural night “Vihangam” in the summer term every year where all the members (students, professors and supporting staff) participate in rejuvenating performances followed by informal dinner treat.  The night hosted casio performance, mimicry show, open house quiz and many solo/group dance and music performances, but the most happenin...

We say Heartiest Congratulations to team VERSACORP . . MBA , IIT Kanpur , Batch of 2015-17 for becoming the national champion of Gordion Knot, the flagship business event of IRIS-2015 ,  IIM Indore  . . Cheers fellows for raising our flag high . . You people made us proud . . Congratulations Shreyansh, Abhas and Parmanand :) 

Heartiest Congrats to team Delphi, MBA , IIT Kanpur, 2015-17 for becoming runner up in 3 Marketeers , the flagship event of  IMT Ghaziabad  Business fest Passion 2015  IMTG Passion  .. Cheers for raising our name on top !! Congratulations Shreyansh, Somya and Arunangshu :)

The 4 day six sigma training certification program by Mr Vaibhav Agrawal of KPMG holding a six sigma Black Belt saw a lot of participation from both first and second year MBA students. The 6 sigma green belt certification training deals with making an individual well verse in Lean Six Sigma Methodology which possesses a thorough understanding of all the aspects of DMAIC i.e. Design, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control as well as the tools that are necessary for implementing DMAIC improvement projects. From giving a brief about importance of quality in all types of industries to the origination of six sigma ,its meaning and different criterion and ways of achieving six sigma qualities, the 4 day seminar not only covered the theoretical aspects but also its practical implementation through group activities and interesting tasks to ensure learning and knowledge retention. Training material was supplied in hard copy format. The 4 day training program gave the students an ov...

PRABANDHAN – 2015 : The Snap shot “ Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. ” -Henry Ford As we witnessed the beginning of the Fifth Edition of the Annual Management Fest of IIT Kanpur“Prabandhan’15”, the same vision got reflected in the Welcome speech from Dr. Rahul Varman, Head of the Department, who emphasized on the futuristic approach to address the long term objectives and overcome the possible impediments pertaining to the global Business community. Professor in his speech highlighted some of the basic problems of industry starting from the resource crunch to increase in frauds and scams across the globe impacting the growth and questioning the sustainability of moral and ethical structure prevailing today. He appealed to the budding managers to come out with their out-of-the-box ideas and activities so as to play a major role in mitigating these concerns and answering the long pending questions, where industry is stru...

Meet Anand Singh Shekhawat , student founder and CEO of Tourepedia , an experience and activity based planning cum booking company. Founded by Anand and his friends Sudhir, Rajat Sharma and Rohit Maurya their company is completely driven by the words, “Experience Matters” . This start-up looks to storm the tourism industry with their customizable tours and client focused approach. Hi Anand! Tell us about Tourepedia. In one line it is an experience based tour planning site primarily aimed at the youth. Trip planning Is a crucial part of tourism. People are always concerned about the travel tickets and hotel booking, they don’t spend much time on planning the trip. We are basically trying to provide this service in a planned professional way to the customer. Sounds great! So, how is Tourepedia different from its competitors? I had observed this market closely for one year and found that the conventional trips do not focus on new activities and experiences t...