Executive Education: Rethinking Business: Leadership Perspective through Mythology
March 11-13, 2013,
Hyderabad
Executive Education: Business In India: Get it Right and Grow
March 12-14, 2013,
Hyderabad
ISB-TIE Workshop on Automation and Robotics
March 15, 2013,
Mohali
As Women’s Day approaches, we reflect on the past year and salute
some of the courageous women who have graced the pages of ISB Canvas.
They do not fit a mould and do not speak in a single voice, yet their
belief in themselves and the courage to follow their dream shines
through.
Harita Vinnakota, Director of Operations and Sustainability Council (OSC)
from the PGP Class of 2013 re-energised the campus into reducing,
reusing and recycling. Among the
environment-friendly initiatives that she and her team have spearheaded
are: introduction of cycles in the campus, creating awareness on water
conservation, an e-board for visitors to add their suggestions on
preventing waste, and several interesting speakers who educated the
community on practical solutions to preserving the environment.
Galit Shmueli, the SRITNE Chaired Professor of Data Analytics and
Associate Professor of Statistics and Information Systems at the Indian
School of Business (ISB) has been lauded for creating an interest in
statistics among non-statisticians. In addition to teaching at ISB,
Professor Shmueli also co-directs the Rigsum Research Lab in Thimpu,
Bhutan, where she trains faculty, implements technological projects for
education institutions and teaches courses on technology and decision
making for the government and the private sector.
Anuradha Kedia from the PGP Class of 2007 bucked the trend of joining
a multinational for a fat pay upon graduation. Instead she, along with
Dhimant Parekh (also from PGP Class of 2007), co-founded “The Better
India,” a website that offers small doses of optimism – stories where
industrious people and communities bring about change. Kedia hopes that
the ripple effect of affirmative stories will motivate more people to
make impact through their actions.
Teach for India fellow Archana Rao, who teaches in a municipal
school, visited ISB last year with seven curious third graders from
Pune’s poor neighbourhoods. The campus visit was a reward for the
students’ class performance. Rao’s commitment was evident from how she
spoke about her experience: “Teaching these kids, I noticed that there
was a little spark in everyone. But then, it had to be constantly
fuelled to set the world on fire.”
Exchange student Zaheera Soomar transplanted her family from South
Africa to India for two terms. She wanted to study in a family-friendly
environment, where her two children and her husband were also
comfortable. She juggles her course commitments and family-related
affairs and still manages to make it appear easy.
Goldman Sachs launched 10000 Women Programme to help under-served women gain
business knowledge and ISB is their academic partner for their
initiative in India. This programme has built the confidence of over 500
women entrepreneurs from Jharkhand to Chennai. These entrepreneurs have
in turn excelled inventures that vary from engineering firms to retail
stores. Divya Kashiv is one such recipient of this programme who
went on to be chosen by Newsweek as one of 150 women who “shook
the world.” Kashiv recounted how this programme helped her nearly double
her sales in the period from January 2009 to March 2011.