Parallel to Academic life at IIMB runs the foot stamping rhythm of the student's social life. Singularly active, student associations and clubs provide a forum for interaction amongst themselves and the world outside.
| Academic Council | : Leading edge academic learning is at the core of IIMB's... |
| Alumni Committee | : The Alumni Committee is continuously engaged in trying... |
| Cultural Committee | : The Cultural Committee organizes and arranges... |
| FII | : Forum for Industrial Interaction |
| ICON | : IIMB Student Consulting Club |
| MARS | : Merchandising and Retailing Society - The student run retail store |
| MASH | : The Marketing Shrine of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore... |
| Networth | : Networth, the finance club at IIM Bangalore functions as the interface... |
| Placement Committee | : Each year eight students are elected to the... |
| SAC | : Student Academic Council |
| SIGMA | : The Systems Club |
| Start Up | : The Entrepreneurship and venture creation club |
| Vikasana | : Social Service Org. |
ACADEMIC COUNCIL
Leading edge academic learning is at the core of IIMB's program. The Academic Council is the student body's voice in all matters pertaining to academics. The Council comprises five energetic members who are elected from the student competitions and various finance simulation games to help students sharpen their finance skills.
ALUMNI COMMITTEE
The Alumni Committee is continuously engaged in trying to strengthen the bond between IIMB and its alumni by undertaking various initiatives. These include maintaining updated directories, websites and organizing alumni reunions every year. A mentoring program is also in place which helps the students of IIM learn from the real world experience that the alumni have to share.
CULTURAL COMMITTEE
The Cultural Committee organizes and arranges all cultural activities in IIMB. Be it the movie shows at the OAT, the amazing parties at L-Square or the flagship annual fest UNMAAD, the CulComm does it all. It has a number of subcommittees that are formed for special activities (music, drama, literary etc). The CulComm ensures that IIMB has its fair share of fun!
FII (FORUM FOR INDUSTRIAL INTERACTION)
The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) is a center for developing managerial excellence that prepares managers to take on the challenges of tomorrow. To do so, IIMB nurtures academic talent in the field of management and works closely with the industry and government.
In 1997, we instituted a forum to further encourage an exchange of ideas among students, academics, government and industry-The Forum for Industrial Interaction. We believe that the academia, government and industry must interact closely and learn from each other. The FII organizes regular seminars and talks by inviting eminent people from the industry and the government. With a view to make create an atmosphere of learning, beyond the academic curriculum. The attempt is to make the institute more industry focused and to better prepare potential managers to face contemporary concerns in the corporate world.
The talks, in addition to serving as a great source of learning for the students, also help in brining the institute closer to specific companies. The Forum attempts to help enhance the visibility of the companies on campus as well as of the institute in the industry.
The Forum, on a routine basis organizes
- Workshops on specific business management issues
- Panel discussions on contemporary management and technology issues
- Informal chat sessions with industry leaders
- Formal dinners with vary focused group discussions
- Corporate leadership series
- IIMB invitation Seminar (IIMBiS)
- Hard talks-debates on controversial issues
- Seminars and talks by functional managers and area experts
The FII is committed to helping students of IIM Bangalore leverage on the resources of this institute to discuss, meet and network with people who make a difference, a difference in their won fields, a difference with affects us all and the future of management practices. The FII forms that vital link between the world outside and that within the Institute premise.
The FII works closely with the other student clubs to ensure cross leverage and minimize overlap. The Forum is elected by the representatives of the student body, and comprises of six permanent members and volunteers during IIMBiS and other event requiring larger scale preparation. All other inquiries can be forwarded to fii@iimb.ernet.in
ICON ( IIMB Student Consulting Club)
ICON's provides high quality end to end consulting services and solutions to the industry in a cost-effective fashion. While training students to apply their knowledge in real-life scenarios. ICON has covered 8 major projects so far.
ICON's mission is to enable students to apply the knowledge and expertise gained in the classroom context to real-life decision-making situations. The main objective is to provide high quality end to end consulting services and solutions to the industry in a cost-effective fashion.
It is drawing upon the strength of a rich pool of over 350 full time students with diverse academic skills and professional experience as well as the highly qualified, experienced faculty.
The Club caters primarily to the needs of the industrial community in the city of Bangalore.
Thought this initiative, we hope to foster a long-term relationship between the IIMB community at large & the IIMB community at large & the industry with an objective of enabling a culture of sharing of new developments and perspectives in the areas of academia and the industry. The Club is run purely on student.
MARS ( Merchandising and Retailing Society - The student run retail store )
MARS (Merchandising and Retailing Society) is a unique student-run not-for-profit amenities store, which specializes in retailing all the basic necessities of students at IIMB. MARS is one of the most vibrant, efficient and active clubs on campus, with plenty of activities all round the year. MARS is a unique in that we open our store on all days of the academic year. The club (store) constantly endeavors to provide the student community with their day to day needs.
MARS focuses on simplifying life of students on campus by facilitating the purchase of daily requirements, providing easier access and cashless (on credit) transactions. MARS sells essentials like hygiene products, stationary, medicines, bean bags, deodorants, curtains etc. at discounted prices as it is a not-for-profit store. In addition, MARS also caters to the merchandise requirements of the students by selling T-shirts, mugs and other memorabilia. Requirements for placement process like photos, business suits, and folders are sourced through the shop, making the club the backbone of the student community. The club also coordinates with the cultural committee to source the amenities for the various festivals organized in the campus. It also organizes some contests and competitions.
The shop is run entirely by students with the club members involved in all the operations of the shop, right from sourcing, purchasing to day-to-day billing, monitoring of finances, maintaining the shop, and also improving the shop activities with a robust technical support.
MASH
The MArketing SHrine of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore is a student run club with a focus on marketing and related disciplines.
Our main emphasis is on trying to give all those interested in marketing, actual industry exposure by organizing talks, panels, workshops, case competitions etc.
The club is mainly involved in hosting marketing related activities, which supplement the academic courses.
Since the club is student driven the initiatives that are taken are tailored to the specific needs and interests of students.
We organize workshops on Brand management, Sales and Distribution, etc., which are conducted by executives from FMCG's. Case competitions, which are conducted by companies.
These activities are interspersed with events like Ad Mad, Treasure hunt etc. We also host a number of marketing related activities in the annual cultural festival.
NETWORTH (The Finance Club)
Networth, the finance club at IIM Bangalore functions as the interface between the student community and the financial world viz. financial institutions, regulatory bodies and the academia. It enables synergistic interactions among a strong student-member community, coupled with valuable input from the faculty, the academia and representatives from the industry.
Activities that Networth is involved in
- Industry sponsored workshops relating to contemporary issues. Noteworthy among those organized in the post, was a detailed workshop on Structured Finance organized by the ICIC Structured Products Group.
- Case competitions organized amongst members of the student community, on behalf of the industry. Brainstorming sessions on and solutions to these case studies (sometimes pertaining to problems firms face in the real world) have proved to be of immense value to the firms that participated in the program in the past.
- Conduct simulation games that are a proxy for investor behavior in the real world. We strive for constant innovation as in this lies the key to active participation and value addition among member participants. Games conducted last year were,
- Index-a real time simulation of the stock markets wherein, contestants begin with and manage a fictitious fund over a horizon period of 8 weeks. Plans are afoot, to take this game national very shortly, to include student participants across all the IIMs.
- Tycoon-a production & operations and working capital management game.
- Arbitrage-an intense, exciting and mentally stimulating interbank forex trending game that simulates forex-trading floors.
- The list of invitee speakers in the past, at the weekly invitation lectures is a veritable who's who of the financial world.
- We support an e-groups bulletin board and discussion forum fintalk@egroups.com whereby a community of members that exchange finance related ideas and issues has developed and are growing rapidly.
- We help forge relationships with the industry whereby industry representatives hold round table interactive discussions with the student community.
- In addition to all of the above, we organize quizzes and short duration courses that supplement the existing rigorous curriculum at IIMB.
PLACEMENT COMMITTE E
Each year eight students are elected to the Placement Committee. They are actively involved in all placement-related activities in IIMB and coordinate with the Placement Office as well as the various organizations that recruit at IIMB.
S A C. (Student Academic Council)
At IIMB, we tend to believe that the educational experience is very different from anything else that most of us have gone through before. This is primarily because for most of us, it happens to be the terminal point of education before we take on the rest of the world. For this very reason the focus in heavily on learning "skills"-something that can be done best in the flexible environment. That is exactly where the Academic Council (or Acad) comes into the picture. Since students are the stakeholders of education who are affected most by it, the Acad has the responsibility to present the students' point of view in all matters pertaining to academics. The idea is to form the link between the students and the faculty - a links that should be trusted by both. The end objective of course, is to foster a healthy academic atmosphere where the quality of education is always on the rise.
Some of the actual work we do involves working on new electives, scheduling of electives, bidding for electives (an online bidding mechanism is in place to help decide the students who take up any course that has limited availability), arranging for workshops, maintaining Quality Assurance Groups, arranging Guest Faculty, representing the students at appropriate forums etc.
The body consists of five members including one Academic Secretary, all of who are elected along with the other members of the Students Affairs Council. The committee currently comprises Anshuman Maheshwary (Acad Secy), Amit Bhargav, Krishna Rajaram, Manish Agarawal and Amitabh Mall, all the Class of 2001.
SIGMA (The Systems Club)
Sigma ensures Student-Industry interaction by arranging expert talks and trips to IT exhibitions and symposia; and provides systems support during various event.
In this changing scenario at IIMB and the world over. Sigma with its commitment to the management of Information Systems has a very important role to play. The role of SIGMA today is to ensure Student-industry interaction by arranging expert talks and trips to IT exhibitions and symposia; to provide systems support during Placements and to the other club, activities. For example, the SIGMA developed an on-line trading system for the finance club as part of the stock exchange game.
STARTUP (The Entrepreneurship and venture creation club)
Over the year, a number of IIMB-ians have setup ventures of their own. The aims of this club are to excite students with the option of striking out on their own, and providing the with adequate tools, skills and information in building their own ventures.
The StartUp Club's activies include
Dialogue - an informal industry forum.
E-connect - a forum among international institutes.
Solutions - consulting support to startups.
Entrepreneurship to Intrapreneurship - at Home: Interactive sessions with the industry.
BzzWings 2001 - the national Business Plan competition by NSRCEL and Chrysalis Capital.
Over the years, a number of IIMB-ians have setup ventures of their own. This has been the career path adopted by those for whom passions soared with the vary idea of carving a niche on their own. The aims of the this club are thus, dual. The first is to excite students with the option of striking out on their own. Equally important is the objective of providing adequate tools, skills and information to the institute's budding entrepreneurs to assist them in building their own ventures.
The StartUp Club has chalked out a challenging plan to achieve its goals, just as any startup venture would. Its activities have been clubbed into a number of categories:
Dialogue : connecting the IIMB student community to industry on an informal platform.
The club organizes talks with eminent entrepreneurs - some of the eminent personalities. Some of the eminent personalities in the past have been
Mr. Pradeep Kar [Microland],
Mr. Rajesh Jain [India World.com],
Mr. Puneet Dalmia [Zipahead.com]
and Mr. Raj Kondur [Chrysalis Capital].
E-connect :Building a common forum for budding entrepreneurs among premier institutes across the country and beyond.
Solutions : The Club provides consulting support & resources to technological startup ventures giving functionally useful inputs in a cross-functional perspective-Marketing, System, Operations, Human Resources, Finance, etc.
From Entrepreneurship to Intrapreneurship - at Home: The StartUp club is not a stand along entity. Rather, it aims to provide interactive sessions with the inputs form the industry, in conjunction with various other existing student clubs of IIMB.
The latest feather in the cap of the STARTUP Club is BzzWings 2001 - the national Business Plan competition being organized by NSRCEL and Chrysalis Capital. BzzWings 2001 aims to play a key role in identifying an nurturing entrepreneurial talent in India and to make Entrepreneurship a preferred career option.
VIKASANA ( Social Service Org.)
IIMBians recognize their social responsibility and are eager to contribute towards the betterment of the society. Vikasana, is a voluntary student body that tries to make a difference to society. It undertakes a host of social initiatives, which include organizing outings for spastic children, arranging blood donation camps and conducting fund raising activities.