Sathyanarayanan R, Sundram Fasteners Associate Professor, Marketing at IFMR GSB, Krea University has been invited by the Network for Business Sustainability, powered by the Centre for Building Sustainable Value at the Ivey Business School (Western University, Canada), to present his Purpose, Permanence and sustainability teaching intervention in the Brand Management elective course of the IFMRGSB’s MBA programme. The intervention covers …
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IFMR GSB Student placed third in Trading Challenge
Siddharth Poddar, student of IFMR GSB, MBA Class of 2022 secures third position in Shri Ram Trading Challenge, an online mock-stock competition in which the 2050 participants from various B schools were competing against each other on a virtual platform with Rs. 10 lacs as virtual currency, but with real stocks and live price movements. …
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COVID-19: A Turning Point for Fintechs in India?
Anoushaka Chandrashekar and Fabrizio Valenti pen this final installment in the three-part blog series – ‘Beyond Health: How the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting financial services in India’. Based on discussions with founders of two fintech companies, this piece looks at implications of the COVID crisis on fintechs in India. It explores the challenges faced by fintechs in the current context, and highlights opportunities for growth.
Krea announces Post Doctoral and Visiting Research Fellows
Krea welcomes Dr Nayantara Ramamoorthy, the awardee of the inaugural Krea Faculty Fellowship 2020 and Saloni Atal, our Visiting Research Fellow. Their strong expertise in Psychology ably propels the research vision at Krea. Krea Faculty Fellowship and Visiting Research Fellowship are set up with an aim to strengthen the research mandate at Krea.
Vice-chancellor Sunder Ramaswamy shares the learning narrative
Emphasising on Krea’s mission statement ‘to help humanity prepare for an unpredictable world’, Dr Sunder Ramaswamy discussed how classes weren’t just about dispensing information, but rather about aiding students to learn, to think like a mathematician, a scientist, a philosopher.
Shobha Das on world post COVID-19
Dr Shobha Das, Dean at IFMR GSB shared her perspectives on the world post COVID-19 and its domino effect on organizations. The panel of experts discussed ‘COVID19 Impact on Innovation and Innovation Trajectories’ in an e-conclave hosted by IIM Sirmaur. The discourse featured thoughts on COVID-19’s impact on Innovation processes, role of technology, healthcare products, and challenges for leaders and organizations in revamping innovation trajectories.
COVID-19 and the Future of Seafood Markets in Chennai
Rahul Muralidharan, Research Fellow at LEAD notes that rapid insights from the ground are important to shape policy actions and programs for seafood industry. He shares his insights in this piece based on interactions with small-scale fisherfolk, co-operatives and union leaders in Chennai.