Music Club Event “Raga” on 9th Jan 19

Music Club Event “Raga” on 09/01/19

Since time immemorial humans have been singing to express their feelings, gratitude, and love towards fellow beings and nature. Singing helps in inducing a sense of harmony and bliss in this fast-paced life, where quality time and leisure have become distant dreams.

The Music Club of IFMR GSB “Raga”- one of the most loved clubs provided a much-needed detour to the students when they organised a karaoke night in the campus. The event saw over-whelming participation from both first years and second years. The event was a blessing in disguise as the entire week was jam-packed with assignments, surprise quizzes, submissions, and deadlines.

Students participated with much pomp and show. They basically had to sing songs of their choice along with the Karaoke. As the night progressed the house was made open to the audience. It was a free-flowing heart-warming session as many students from the audience turned up and sang their hearts out. The event was marked with light snacks and drinks which kept the audience rooting for more. It was a success and students went back with memories they would cherish for a long time to come.  

       By - Ashish Kumar Bastia (  MBA 2017-19)

Lohri celebration 2019 @IFMR

Lohri celebration @IFMR

Lohri the traditional festival of Punjab, celebrated to mark the end of winter is associated with the harvest of Rabi crops. Anyone who has ever celebrated this festival dancing around a bonfire knows the spirit of this festival. Lohri is characterized by joy and color. Similar to the spirit of Lohri, IFMR indulged itself to celebrate this colorful festival with utmost excitement and zeal. The ever-happening life at IFMR-GSB posed one more halt when the whole of the campus gathered in the football ground to contribute to the cheerful celebrations of this eve.

The celebrations began with a traditional pooja where all the IFMRians dressed in traditional attires came close to pray for wellbeing. Soon the folk dance of Punjab started and everyone showed their best bhangra moves dazzling and dancing all over the place. The celebrations continued till around 12 midnight with groundnuts and gajak being distributed to everyone. Soon as the clock ticked away the tired crowd went back to their hostels after a night of joy and excitement.

IFMR Super League

IFMR Super League

ISL is a flagship event organized by the Sports committee of IFMR which is typically a sports tournament where teams compete against each other.

The event kick-started on 4^th December which was the auction day and hence every team had few choices to choose between players with few budget constraints thus making the event a mix of strategy and sports.

On 6^th of December, the football matches began with 5 teams comprising of 8 boys and 4 girls each playing against each other to win the crown. The matches held across the teams witnessed big crowds which came to enjoy the atmosphere of fun and excitement.

The tournament went on for 2 days with the finals being played between team Guns and Joses and team All-stars, ultimately Guns and Joses won the tournament with Andrews Joseph being the best player of the tournament.

Guest Lecture_Journey from tiny to large by R G Chandramogan CMD Hatsun Agro Product Limited

R G Chandramogan – CMD – Hatsun Agro Product Limited

Topic – “Journey from tiny to large”

It was a great pleasure for IFMR-GSB to host Mr.Chandramogan, the Chairman and Managing Director of Hatsun Agro Product Limited for a guest lecture. 

The topic of the session was "The Journey from Tiny to Large", which showcased his glorious entrepreneurial journey of how he turned his investment of mere Rs.13000, into a Rs 5000 crore pan-Indian organization. He enlightened the students with stories about the successes and failures of his company and how his strategy of "fencing the market, without attacking" helped him dodge large competitors and gain greater dominance in the industry. When others worked within the comforts of Chennai, he decided to move beyond its realms into the rural hinterlands and promote his product which boasted of unparalleled and uniform quality. When he faced a dilemma to liquidate his business like some of his competitors or carry on with it in 1993, he realized the demand and potential of the Indian masses and went ahead with making his brand even bigger and much more diversified. With great knowledge of his business and entrepreneurship, he also guided the students about the ''key drivers to growing a business'' which are technology, finance, methods and scale of operations. He pointed out that openness to new technologies such as Thermal cooling system for Milk and scale of operations were critical ingredients of the organization's growth. Now, Hatsun is one of the top 3 ice-cream manufacturing companies of the country under the charismatic leadership of Mr. Chandramogan and this, according to him, couldn't have been achieved without endurance and patience.

IFMR B School is now IFMR Graduate School of Business at KREA University

The Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) has an impressive and long record of contributing to the expansion and enrichment of the knowledge base in the financial services industry. While applied research and executive education activities flourished since its inception in 1970, IFMR launched its flagship 2-year full-time Post-Graduate Diploma in Management in the year 2000. It is embarking on a new phase now. From the batch of 2017-19, IFMR Business School offers a two-year post-graduate Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree under the auspices of the KREA University.

KREA University, promoted by IFMR Society, aims to provide liberal arts education to high potential individuals so that they would learn to create positive and catalytic impact in a dynamic and diverse world. World over, universities offering business and management education are asking hard questions of the purpose of their MBA programmes. KREA University’s liberal arts education provides the answer. MBA graduates must be competent in functional areas, must be decisive and effective managers and leaders, with a strong moral compass and a firm sense of purpose. That was the original vision of the founding fathers of business and management education in the late 19th century in the United States of America.

IFMR Business School will continue to retain its strong core competence and competitive edge in Finance and in particular, catering to Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sectors. At the same time, KREA University’s liberal arts education will provide a strong liberal art and ethical foundation to build a host of functional and behavioral competencies. In other words, there is a big change with a strong sense of continuity.

Signaling this important shift to the world, IFMR Business School has decided to rebrand itself. Henceforth, it will be IFMR Graduate School of Business at KREA University.

IFMR Graduate School of Business at KREA University aims to provide top-quality management education that prepares students to be ethically grounded, be highly skilled in integrated reasoning and be effective leaders of enterprises.