World MBA Tour in London on October 13, 2007

The London leg of the World MBA tour is scheduled for October 13, 2007. Savita Mahajan, Associate Dean ISB, will be attending on the ISB’s behalf. 

Date: Saturday, October 13, 2007
Venue: Hilton London Metropole, Edgware Road
Timing: 1400 – 1800 hrs

Volunteers to help with the ISB stall are welcome. If you can make it for a few hours on the afternoon of October 13,
please email Indira_Vemuru@isb.edu

India Infoline interview with Professor Chandrasekhar V, Executive Director, WCED

“An idea translated innovatively into an application with the business model that is appropriate makes all the di­fference,” says Professor Chandrasekhar, in conversation with Anil Mascarenhas from India Infoline, about the challenges involved in getting a business plan to work. He also spoke about the opportunities provided by TiE- ISB Connect to growing entrepreneurs.

Read the interview at http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/showleader.asp?storyId=574&lmn=1

ISB Class of 2008 Accomplishments

Partha Chakrabarti’s paper has been published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, the HBR of medicine.

Srinivas Chilukuri’s latest patent has been filed with the World Intellectual Property Organisation. The patent is filed under the title “Automated Application Server (as) permissions provisioning”. Srinivas is one of the inventors and the patent has been filed by his previous employer Hewlett-Packard Development Company.

Nitin Khanna recently had one of his papers published in Minerals and Metallurgical Processing Journal, a peer reviewed journal. The paper was co-authored with Prof M K Mohanty when Nitin did research with him at the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.






Abhinav Manchanda participated in the National Half Marathon (21.1 km) organised by the Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh on August 20, 2007. He competed with 372 participants, with the majority of them being national level long distance runners who came from all parts of the country. He received a certificate given to participants who finished the race in less than 1 hr 45 minutes. What is more commendable is that he got the 48th rank, finishing the race in 1 hr 41 minutes!






Two of Himanshu Saraf’s research papers, based on work done at The Johns Hopkins University for his MS, have been published this year.  

•  "Mechanical Properties of Soft Human Tissues under Dynamic Loading”, Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 40, 
     Issue 9, January 2007   (First Author)
•  "Measurement of the Dynamic Bulk and Shear Response of Soft Human Tissues", Experimental Mechanics, 
     Vol. 47, Number 3, June 2007 (First Author)

These are prestigious international journals, particularly the Journal of Biomechanics, with an impact factor of 2.5 (which is very high for a mechanical engineering publication). This work was done in collaboration with the Applied Physics Lab at JHU.