Selected to the Best 50 of India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2024, Nikita Rath brings technical depth and people-first leadership to Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. At Optum (UnitedHealth Group), she built and migrated APIs on Azure, led cross-team coordination for an architecture overhaul, and, as Security Champion, turned vulnerabilities into teachable guardrails—mentoring peers while raising the team’s bar. A branch-rank holder from VIT Chennai, she’s pressure-steady in P1 war rooms (root-cause first, communicate clearly, revert safely), and curiosity-forward in upskilling (Azure certification, multi-cloud work, asking the “naïve” questions that unlock real fixes). Beyond code, she’s a creator—dance and art informing her systems thinking—and a proven competitor and researcher (Top-20/22,000 in Flipkart Grid, SAE AeroDesign runners-up, IEEE leadership wins, Infosys Summer of Ideas global finalist, MITACS research fellow).
Why She's Most Promising
Promising is composure plus compassion at scale. Nikita meets high-stakes problems with structured calm, learns in public, then lifts others. With IIM Bangalore's platform and her logic-meets-creativity toolkit, expect a change catalyst who makes teams safer and systems stronger.
Congratulations, Nikita! Well deserved!
Note from The Editor → We are live with India's Most Promising Incoming MBA Students 2025 and India's Most Employable MBA Graduates 2026 competitions. Scroll down to read to eligibility criteria, and participate now. The last date is 31st August 2025.
India’s Most Employable MBA Graduate (Class of 2026)
Eligibility (who should participate)
- This competition is for those graduating in 2026:
- Two-year MBA 2024–2026, or
- One-year MBA 2025–2026.
India’s Most Promising Incoming MBA Students (Class of 2027)
Eligibility (who should participate)
- This competition is for those who joined B-School in 2025:
- Two-year MBA 2025–2027
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