MBA office announces winners of Merit Scholarships from the MBA batch of 2023

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Merit Scholarships from the MBA batch of 2023. This year, IFMR GSB offered three full scholarships to the top three candidates. The scholarships are given based purely on merit, assessed through school and college academic records, work experience, standardised test scores, writing ability, and the candidate’s …

MBA Office releases the medal winners, merit scholarship awardees, and Dean’s Merit List from the IFMR GSB MBA batch of 2019-21

We are delighted to share the list of medal winners, merit scholarship awardees and the Dean’s Merit List at IFMR Graduate School of Business (IFMR GSB), Krea University from the MBA batch of 2019-21. Medal winners:  The first three medals – the C.M.Kothari Medal; the A.Sivasailam Medal; the A.M.M. Arunachalam Medal – are awarded to …

New Faculty appointments at IFMR GSB, Krea University

We are glad to announce that Prof Vinod Kumar (Associate Professor of Finance, IFMR GSB); Prof Jayasankar Ramanathan (Associate Professor of Marketing, IFMR GSB); Prof VN Rajesh (Associate Professor of Data Science and Information Systems, IFMR GSB) and Prof Gayathri Sampath (Associate Professor of Strategy, IFMR GSB) have joined Krea University!

‘Social Science and Medicine’ Journal accepts impactful paper on supply chain co-authored by Prof Vijaya Subramanian

Prof Vijaya Subramanian — Sundram Fasteners Associate Professor of Operations Management at IFMR GSB — has co-authored a paper titled “Essential medicine shortages, procurement process and supplier response: A normative study across Indian states”. Accepted in the “Social Science and Medicine” journal, the paper analyses the supply chain factors leading to essential medicine shortages in …

Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University accepts paper for presentation authored by Dr Shobha Das

Dr Shobha Das, Dean – IFMR GSB at Krea University, will present her paper “Transitional Entrepreneurs in the Gulf: Examining transnational temporary migrant entrepreneurship in Qatar” at a virtual conference hosted by Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University. Adhering to the theme of the conference — ‘Transitional Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship among Veterans, Women, Minorities, …

MBA Office releases the list of medal winners and Dean’s Merit List awardees from the MBA cohort of 2020

The medals are awarded to students based on their academic performance, as well as extracurricular activities. Students who are ranked in the top 5% in their respective cohort on the basis of their academic performance (CGPA) at the end of the second-year are included in the Dean’s Merit List.

Krea University appoints Dr. Mahesh Rangarajan as Vice Chancellor

Eminent scholar of history and environmental studies to lead Krea University’s efforts to re-imagine education 31st March 2021, Sri City: Krea University announced the appointment of Dr. Mahesh Rangarajan as its next Vice Chancellor, effective July 2021.  A scholar of global renown, Dr. Rangarajan has an MA and a DPhil, both from Oxford University, where he was …

IFMR GSB students bag CMA scholarships again!

We are delighted to share that four IFMR GSB students from the MBA cohort of 2022 have received scholarships from the CMA Program, awarded by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), USA. Our heartiest congratulations to Siddharth Poddar, Meenakshi Murugan, Nitin Kumar Khandelwal and Shreyans Bandi!

‘The Case for Women’ Global Case Writing Competition shortlists impactful case study by Prof R Sathyanarayanan

‘Happy Self Publishing’, a business management case study authored by Prof R Sathyanarayanan (Associate Professor of Marketing at IFMR Graduate School of Business – Krea University), has been shortlisted as one of the Top-6 Global finalist case studies in “The Case for Women” Global Case Writing Competition open to management faculty members around the world. …

“Marketing has moved from Brand-led to Category-led,” says Shiv Shivakumar, Management Thinker at IFMR Graduate School of Business’ Marketing Conclave

Giving the keynote at the virtual conference ‘Inside Marketing 2021’ organised by the IFMR Graduate School of Business (IFMR GSB), Krea University, management thinker and Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development at Aditya Birla Group, Shiv Shivakumar said, “Marketing, thanks to digital, has moved from being brand-led to category-led. In the past, I …