“Conduct many such events that nurture entrepreneurship on campus” said Mahesh, a first year student and participant of bizness, as the campus was abuzz with entrepreneurial fervor during the three day entrepreneurship summit at IIM Lucknow.
I have now spent exactly 30 months of my life working full-time on InsideIIM.com.
Over the years, IIM Calcutta has seen a fair share of its students take the entrepreneurial road. After the recently conducted Institute Lecture series (ILS), that number is sure to move up a notch. IIM Calcutta held its 15th Institute Lecture Series on 14th November, 2014, hosting Dr. Shri Harkesh Kumar Mittal, Adviser and Head of the National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB). Soon after an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad in 1984, Mr. Mittal joined the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India and promoted grassroots entrepreneurship, particularly in states like Sikkim and Orissa. He has been with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India for over two decades now.
So far India has mainly viewed entrepreneurship as a vent for the ideas that the entrepreneur has. It is a way to transform such novel ideas into sustainable businesses and then carrying it forward. Another common perception is that those who decide to start something on their own are the ones who are either fed up working for somebody else or do not choose to do so at all. They are valiant risk-takers, excellent negotiators, and perseverance is their middle name. Now, how true these actually are or if they are true at all, is a debate for some other day. Today, I am here to shed light on two responsibilities that every entrepreneur out there has, and are, according to me, of prime importance. They are namely – Job Creation and Wealth Creation.
On 30th October 2014, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur had the privilege of hosting a guest lecture by Dr. Saugata Banerjee, founder and Managing Director of Mindspecs, an online interview platform in the learning and employment space.
IIM Ranchi, jointly with NEN, organised Tata First Dot workshop on 2nd November, 2014. A unique initiative that promotes, mentors and showcases India's youngest and most dynamic entrepreneurs, TATA First Dot is run by the collaborative efforts of TATA group of companies and NEN Trust. Tata first dot workshop is conducted across 20 cities in India and Ranchi is one amongst them. The workshop saw participation of students from different colleges across Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha.
In this series on InsideIIM, we profile students with interesting backgrounds on B school campuses. On the JBIMS campus, we feature Ramalingam Subramanian, a budding entrepreneur. Read the earlier article featuring Tushar Kumar Singh - an avid blogger, actor and dramatist and debater from JBIMS.
When we talk about healthcare innovation in India, the names of pioneers like Aravind Eye Hospital, Shankara Nethralaya and Narayana Hrudayalaya usually spring to mind. I guess its natural in a poor country like ours that our first thoughts go to organizations that have been successful in bringing high quality, low-cost care to the poor. But, if we take a more holistic view, others have made a significant contribution to making healthcare what it is today, even if there are several challenges still remaining.
“Conduct many such events that nurture entrepreneurship on campus” said Mahesh, a first year student and participant of bizness, as the campus was abuzz with entrepreneurial fervor during the three day entrepreneurship summit at IIM Lucknow.
I have now spent exactly 30 months of my life working full-time on InsideIIM.com.
Over the years, IIM Calcutta has seen a fair share of its students take the entrepreneurial road. After the recently conducted Institute Lecture series (ILS), that number is sure to move up a notch. IIM Calcutta held its 15th Institute Lecture Series on 14th November, 2014, hosting Dr. Shri Harkesh Kumar Mittal, Adviser and Head of the National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB). Soon after an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad in 1984, Mr. Mittal joined the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India and promoted grassroots entrepreneurship, particularly in states like Sikkim and Orissa. He has been with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India for over two decades now.
So far India has mainly viewed entrepreneurship as a vent for the ideas that the entrepreneur has. It is a way to transform such novel ideas into sustainable businesses and then carrying it forward. Another common perception is that those who decide to start something on their own are the ones who are either fed up working for somebody else or do not choose to do so at all. They are valiant risk-takers, excellent negotiators, and perseverance is their middle name. Now, how true these actually are or if they are true at all, is a debate for some other day. Today, I am here to shed light on two responsibilities that every entrepreneur out there has, and are, according to me, of prime importance. They are namely – Job Creation and Wealth Creation.
On 30th October 2014, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur had the privilege of hosting a guest lecture by Dr. Saugata Banerjee, founder and Managing Director of Mindspecs, an online interview platform in the learning and employment space.
IIM Ranchi, jointly with NEN, organised Tata First Dot workshop on 2nd November, 2014. A unique initiative that promotes, mentors and showcases India's youngest and most dynamic entrepreneurs, TATA First Dot is run by the collaborative efforts of TATA group of companies and NEN Trust. Tata first dot workshop is conducted across 20 cities in India and Ranchi is one amongst them. The workshop saw participation of students from different colleges across Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha.
In this series on InsideIIM, we profile students with interesting backgrounds on B school campuses. On the JBIMS campus, we feature Ramalingam Subramanian, a budding entrepreneur. Read the earlier article featuring Tushar Kumar Singh - an avid blogger, actor and dramatist and debater from JBIMS.
When we talk about healthcare innovation in India, the names of pioneers like Aravind Eye Hospital, Shankara Nethralaya and Narayana Hrudayalaya usually spring to mind. I guess its natural in a poor country like ours that our first thoughts go to organizations that have been successful in bringing high quality, low-cost care to the poor. But, if we take a more holistic view, others have made a significant contribution to making healthcare what it is today, even if there are several challenges still remaining.
