IIM Kozhikode Alumni Association

Prof. Omkumar Krishnan is a Ph.D. & MPhil from IIT, Bombay. He specializes in the area of qualitative and quantitative marketing research. At IIMK, he takes courses on Consumer Behaviour, Marketing Research, Relationship Marketing, and Marketing of Services. He is currently the Area Chair of Marketing Management and is Chairperson Student Affairs. His social undertakings as Chairperson of Alumni received many accolades  

Prof. Omkumar is being interviewed by IIM Kozhikode alumna, Nisha, who has more than a decades  experience in providing IT solutions to clients from industries spanning from banks, medical devices, real estate, legal and retail.  After her Executive MBA from IIMK where she was also a gold medalist,  she started a management consulting firm, Consoul Associates.

You can watch the episode at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWlDaIVcPxQ

Prof. Pulapre Balakrishnan is one of India's leading economists and a founding faculty member of IIM Kozhikode, having taught the first eleven batchs from 1997 till 2007. He was educated at Moscow, Madras and New Delhi, and trained as an economist at Oxford and Cambridge. He left the World Bank in Washington DC, to join the newly founded IIM Kozhikode. He left a decade later, to similarly entrepreneurial academic pursuits, first as Director of the Centre for Development Studies at Thiruvananthapuram, where he launched the first MA program of JNU outside of JNU, and then in 2015 as faculty at Ashoka University, where he is currently teaching. He has for over two decades participated in the public discourse on India's economy via his popular writings, some of which can be found at https://www.pulaprebalakrishnan.in/  He is a recipient of the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contribution to Development Studies (2014).  

Prof. Balakrishnan was hosted on this episode of Roll Call by former student, Devroop Dhar of the IIM Kozhikode Class of 2006. Devroop Dhar is Co-founder and Managing Director at Primus Partners India, and a former Partner at KPMG India. The discussion will have two parts - a fireside chat between Prof. Balakrishnan and Devroop, followed by a Q&A with live audience questions. Prof. Balakrishnan will cover his suggested interventions for the Indian economy, his memories of the initial years of IIM Kozhikode and several other topics.

All of us make sense of the world around us through stories. However, today content saturation is rife: one story is not seen, another not heard, and yet another not shared.   

What is the art and science behind good storytelling so that you can create that personal connection and foster better relationships with your customers?  

Find out more in our Sambhashanam session with Mike Adams from Anecdote International in conversation with Vishwas Anand, Class of 2014 alumnus.

Join us on Roll Call S1E8 with Prof. Anupam Das, who has been teaching organizational communication at IIMK for 9 years and specializes in human interactions through tech-aided platforms for business. He will be interviewed by the Class of 2013 alumnus, Kamalika Gangoly, who is a Management Consultant at Deloitte.  

In this episode, Prof. Anupam Das takes us on a freewheeling discussion about a variety of communication new-normals such as; - his take on business communication in the COVID era as board meetings, client presentations and even chai breaks are taking place over Zoom - the importance of intrapersonal communication when people can no longer depend on family, friends, and acquaintances for social interaction - the judicious use of social media platforms and its impact on mental health given it has become our go-to medium to express ourselves - with all our interactions going virtual/online, how computer-mediated communications can become very highly personal and have advantages over traditional face to face communications - his recently published book on business communications following a problem-solving approach.

Here is the podcast version of the Masterclass from Aswath Damodaran on "A Crucible as Crisis: Lessons Learned, Unlearned & Related from the COVID Market". The podcast is divided into parts - Part 1 for the Master Class and Part 2 for the Q&A

Here is the podcast version of the Masterclass from Aswath Damodaran on "A Crucible as Crisis: Lessons Learned, Unlearned & Related from the COVID Market". The podcast is divided into parts - Part 1 for the Master Class and Part 2 for the Q&A

In the 7th edition of season 1 of Roll call with Prof. Anandakuttan Unnithan, host Vidya Panicker talks to him about his career choice, administrative responsibilities, and life as a Dean, and his unending passion for innovative teaching that endeared him to his students over years. 

He also shares his thoughts on the changing marketing landscape in the backdrop of the ongoing pandemic as well as the debates on advertising based on skin tone and other attributes.  

Tune in to listen to his personal mantra to stay motivated, and why two PGP batches remain special to him!

Wall Street. The Big Short. Boiler Room. Ever wondered why most of Hollywood's blockbusters on the financial services industry, are focused on traders?  Trading careers are high octane, highly analytical, and complex with live-action every day. And in volatile times like this, there is more at stake in the financial markets. It requires a cool head under pressure and the ability to work independently in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.  

We curated a stellar panel of senior alumni traders working in Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai and London working across market participants on the buy and sell sides - hedge fund, bank, sovereign wealth fund, and corporate treasury - who trade different assets - equity, fixed income and forex - in both flow and proprietary trading.  

Our alumni discussed practical steps to get into a trading career, how to excel, career paths, what they enjoy the most about their jobs, and field audience questions during this live webinar.  

Our panel includes 

- Abhishek Chaturvedi - 2007 - Vice President, ICICI Securities - Mumbai 

- Arijit Ganguly - 2009 - Director, Deutsche Bank - London 

- Atin Gupta - 2002 - Portfolio Manager, Crescent Asset Management - Singapore 

- Sourabh Shaha - 2003 - Managing Director - Head of Index Vol Trading, Societe Generale - Hong Kong 

- Manoj Sinha - 2007 - AVP, FX and Derivatives Trader, General Electric - Singapore  

Moderated by: 

- Ankur Pruthi - 2007 - Head of FX, Norges Bank Investment Management - London

We have a stellar panel lined up with senior alumni from Amazon, Asian Paints, Hindustan Unilever, IMG Reliance, ITC, and Pepsico! 

Our panel includes:

- Deepak Chowdhary - 2005 - Category Leader, Amazon

- Gagandeep Kalsi - 2006 - General Manager, Strategy and New Businesses, Asian Paints

- Jaspreet Chandok - 2006 - Head - Lifestyle Businesses at IMG Reliance Limited

- Mahendra Kumar Baid - 2005 - Region Head - West, FMCG, ITC #marketing #fmcg #sales 

- Sairam Subramanian - 2008 - General Manager, Lakme (Marketing / Business/ Category head) at Hindustan Unilever Ltd

Moderated by:

Dola Halder - 2012 - Brand Head - Doritos, PepsiCo India

In this episode entertaining episode with Prof. Deepak, our host Amartya Sen explores various interest areas including Sports Analytics,  using Poker as a tool in management education, and much more.