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Ananya Manikandan, an MBA student at IFMR GSB secured the Runner-up position in Vitarka, held as part of Fiesta’25 by FMS Delhi. The competition featured two rounds: Article Writing, where Ananya demonstrated analytical and articulation skills through thought-provoking articles, and Extempore, where she engaged in spontaneous speaking on contemporary societal issues. As a part of …

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IFMR GSB’s PhD Scholar Soumyabrata Basu presented a paper that looks into the impact of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code on Indian firms at the Doctoral Colloquium on Financial Markets and Corporate Finance organised by IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. The paper is co-authored with Prof.Praveen Bhagawan and Prof. Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay

Ananya Manikandan, MBA Cohort of 2025, IFMR GSB secured first placein CRE-AI-TIVE Writing at Chrysalis 2024–25, a national-level inter-collegiate competition organised by the Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai, on 12 February 2025. The contest featured two rounds: Round 1 involved creating a 10–25-line poem using AI text-generation tools, a 100-word AI usage note, and five …

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Professor Madhuri Saripalle, Professor, Economics and Chairperson – MBA Programme, IFMR GSB, participated in the International Conference on Enabling Sustained Growth in Emerging Asia, held on 7-8 February at the School of Economics, University of Hyderabad. She presented her paper titled Agricultural Transformation in Telangana: A Case Study of Paddy Cultivation, which is part of an ongoing …

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Professor Lakshmi Kumar, Dean, IFMR GSB led the seminar on ‘Global Business Transformation for a Resilient Future’ organised by the Commerce Department of Stella Maris College, Chennai.

Dr R S Sathya Saminadan, Associate Professor of Practice, Marketing, IFMR GSB participated in a panel discussion on ‘Data-Driven Decision Making: Real-World Applications & Best Practices’ at Guru Nanak College, on 7 February 2025.  

Mohammed Hasim, PhD student, IFMR GSB, won the best paper award and a cash prize of ₹10,000 at the Spatial Econometrics Workshop and PhD Colloquium held at IIT Indore. His winning paper, Illuminating Inequality: Intra-State Economic Convergence and Regional Disparities in Karnataka, India, explores regional economic patterns and disparities within the state.

Jyothis Franklin, PhD scholar, IFMR GSB has presented a research paper titled ‘A Bibliometric Study of the Literature on Advertising Ethics’ co-authored with Dr Jayasankar Ramanathan, Associate Professor, Marketing, IFMR GSB at the  American Marketing Association (AMA) Winter Academic Conference 2025  (Virtual) on 10 February, 2025. Abstract:This study aims to analyse the research impact, key …

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Three first-year MBA students from IFMR GSB — Rahul Kumar, Jayesh Sharma, and Harsh Verma — secured second place in Entrée-preneurship 7.0, an online case study competition held as part of Tangerine Trails, organised by the Entrepreneurship Cell of IIM Nagpur on 16 December, 2024.

Mugdha Kinhikar, PhD student, IFMR GSB has successfully presented a research paper titled Does The Fiscal Position of States Matter in the Allocation of Climate Adaptation Funds in India, co-authored with Dr Soumya Pal, Assistant Professor, Economics, IFMR GSB at the 6th Annual Conference on Economics and Finance (ACEF 2025), hosted by Birla Institute of Technology …

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