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Navya Joshi: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Navya Joshi blends values-first leadership with practical, student-centric execution. As President of the Antha Prerna Cell, she has driven initiatives that improved academic outcomes for 200+ students. During an internship at ProU Education, she designed a podcast-led marketing series by rallying cross-functional teams around clear goals. At the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, her focus is on turning insight into programs that scale.

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Kushal Somani: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Kushal Somani arrives with the IPM foundation, early leadership across positions of responsibility, and a disciplined approach to upskilling, including CFA preparation and structured deep work. He targets roles where strategy meets execution, translating classroom rigour into tangible business outcomes at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore.

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Krishna Agrawal: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Krishna Agrawal blends values-first leadership with large-scale execution. A Biomedical engineer from NIT Raipur now at IIM Indore, he has run complex, multi-stakeholder work—leading a ₹30L cultural fest with a 220-member team and 8,000 attendees, and organising TEDx NIT Raipur with ₹2L in sponsorships and 10+ partners—while keeping decisions transparent (owning tough calls with sponsors) and teams aligned. Beyond campus, he’s driven community initiatives (Volunteer for India, Earth Day) and earned national recognitions (Y-20 delegate; Nestlé Leaders League; Wipro Earthian; Upraised Embark), all while upskilling across data and digital.

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Arushi Gupta: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Arushi Gupta is an empathy-led technologist who turns complex systems into tangible business outcomes. Across 47 months in an investment bank's tech org, she joined the first Big Data cohort at Macquarie, embedded those capabilities into production to drive time and cost savings, and helped migrate a regulatory reporting platform to the cloud. At Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, she brings stakeholder fluency and systems thinking to new problems.

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Keshree Singh: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Keshree Singh is a sustainability-first operator who blends chemical-engineering rigor with cross-functional leadership. Before IIM Lucknow, he improved production productivity and set up advanced waste-recovery systems, then moved to Fortrea as a Program Specialist running compliance and risk mitigation. At the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, he is investing in governance and analytics skills.

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Aman Gyanchandani: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Aman Gyanchandani pairs entrepreneurial grit with a public-minded lens. He built and stabilised a footwear business in a small town, earned public-sector mandates, and led teams in sport and social entrepreneurship. His operating mantra, process over outcome, shows up in how he diagnoses problems, redesigns systems, and ships measurable results. At the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, he is expanding this playbook across broader contexts.

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Vimal Kakwani: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Vimal Kakwani pairs procurement discipline with a values-first stance. In purchasing roles, he refused kickbacks and blacklisted vendors—protecting process integrity—while still delivering savings and faster turnarounds (Fluxteel Insulations). As T&P Coordinator, he spotted an aptitude gap and built training so more classmates cleared placements. At Heliflex, he led a 10–12 member team and tightened supplier performance. At IIM Lucknow, he’ll deepen sustainable supply-chain strategy to scale ethical, efficient procurement.

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Siddhadeb Banerjee: Best 50 | India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024 | Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur

Selected as one of the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Siddhadeb Banerjee pairs QA depth with a clear moral compass. He flagged a critical test-method flaw on a live Infosys project and rebuilt trust through transparent, plan-led fixes; stepped into the PM seat mid-stream to stabilise delivery; and earned an Automation Specialist credential while lifting automation efficiency by 25%. He also institutionalised knowledge-transfer cadences that sped new-hire ramp and improved project profitability. At IIM Nagpur, he’s sharpening strategy and operations to scale reliable, humane tech execution.

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