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Chairperson Dr. Pragyan Rath's Message for MBAEx 
Batch 19 (Class of 2026).
There are two contrasting images.
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Just before or after the PEAK around the HOOP

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Law of Averages

The paradox of MBAEx batch 19, class of 2026 is that it loves International Economics (tariffs), Statistics (AI) and Management Games (real time simulations), but it’s working patterns are high on emotional intensity. And that is perhaps the new EDGE.

AY 2025-26 has gone beyond the statistical law of averages to the psychology of PEAKS – and all this between DRONE WARS, TARIFF WARS, AI-HUMAN WARS…..between #Operation Sindoor and #Burj Khalifa…. between MARKET and NON-MARKET wars, Batch 19 has PEAKED with multiple pre-and post-HOOP moments.

  • 90 students
  • Peak number sitting for placements
  • 62+ industry experts’ interaction
  • 8+ new electives
  • 20+ new initiatives
  • 2 new additions in modules in International Immersions on Live Project and Entrepreneurship
  • 2 Start-Up Hackathons, one as the inaugural Startup Garage, and one as the closing the loop Esade Hackathon in the International Immersion module
  • 1st International hackathon
  • 2 pan-India inter-IIM initiatives
  • 3 Pan IIMC events
  • 8 Career Development Skill Workshops with 20+ industry-cum-alumni trainers
  • 25+ alumni role-playing mock interview for placement prep with CDPO in real-time scenarios
  • 2 Industry Insight Series panel-discussions with 9+ industry experts
  • 4 industry panel discussions on GCC, Post-Diversity Fatigue, AI Shift and HR conclave
  • 3 dedicated alumni events
  • 1 dedicated induction event of the in-coming batch with peak participation
  • 6+ industry sponsorships
  • 28 core courses
  • 50 electives
  • 2 inter-disciplinary courses
  • Space-Tech live projects for the first time
  • 2 GMAC admissions-based webinars with 500+ global views
  • Peak in recruitment help with official alumni outreach event – 1000+ alumni networked effects generated
  • 6 CEO-co-founders as Start-Up mentors and inaugural keynotes
    • Prateek Madhav: Co-Founder and CEO at AssisTech Foundation (ATF)
    • Prasanna N Muley: Founder, SmartCounsel.AI
    • Amal Sivaji: Co-Founder, Cap91 Platform
    • Ambuj Verma: Founder, Unnmukt
    • Abhijit Roy: Co-Founder and CEO, GoldenPi Technologies
    • Prakhar Kaushik, Associate Director, Product, Solv
  • 10 faculty groups showcasing electives from day 1
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  • Peak in Student Initiatives – the year of re-discovering SOPs
Student Team PEAK
SOCIAL NETWORKING STUDENT TEAM
#Celebrating our Star Shoutout to Alumni achievements
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#Thank You Prof Display of gratitude towards faculty who have taught them.
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#MBAEx Diaries Brief profile of each member of the batch presenting their scholastic and non- scholastic potentials
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#Meet our (POR) Team Introduction to student driven teams
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Market each and every event (Guest Speakers, Leadership Talks, Industry Insight Series Panels, Skill Workshops, Live Projects, Sport & Culture, B-CEO, Campus Life, Webinars, Magazine, Lattice, Confluence, Home-Coming), and others Publicizing MBAEx Events - pre and post the event and generating information to the outside world
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ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT STUDENT TEAM
Creation of Alumni Newsletters There have been series of News-Letters that share information of the current MBAEx and events with the Alumni spanning 19 years – to keep them abreast with MBAEx events.
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#Podcasts on Air Interviewing our distinguished MBAEx alumni
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Alumni Outreach Have formally developed a recruitment outreach mapping model and network event, generating leads and referrals for helping Placement Representatives
Scaling Homecoming Have developed the biggest scale of the MBAEx alumni get-together, so far.
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STUDENT ADMISSIONS TEAM (SAC)
Re-innovated Admission Brochure Look and concept renovated
Info-Session Organized with programme admissions a live INFO-SESSION with Professors, Alumni and prospective students in Mumbai for prospective applicants.
Webinar with GMAC Among 6 webinars, 2 major admissions webinars for prospective students conducted with GMAC that garnered 500+ views globally
Scaling Confluence Peak turn-around from the next batch with the on-going admissions in campus, to enjoy a day in IIMC
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LATTICE TEAM – LATTICE IS THE FLAGSHIP MBAEx BUSINESS CONCLAVE
Industry Panel 2 industry panels, instead of 1
Scaled Lattice 8+ Industry speakers / panelists in 1 day
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PLACEMENT PREP TEAM
Scaled Mock Interviews 50+ real-time simulated mock interviews with 25+ alumni brought to IIM Camous for the purpose, in co-ordination with CDPO and Alumni engagement team
CLASS REPRESENTATIVE (CR) TEAM
Review Sessions

10 Mini-review sessions with focus groups for MBAEx review for enabling improvements for Batch 20 curricula – Batch 20, they enable the improvements for you

The Toughest Partition ever – the Esade and the SDA cohortization

Maximum Inter-Face between Class, Office, and Academia

Hosted Being a CEO
MAGAZINE TEAM
PGPEX Business Review Largest number of student-written articles
International authorship First time collaboration between Alumni and International Immersion SDA Bocconi Programme Director’s article on AI
Social Media Endeavour Cover Feature Story per term as new initiative on social media
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International and Industry Network Distribution of magazine as batch’s intellectual capital and brand-building item for all guests to the programme
SHEASCENDS (LEADERSHIP SPEAKER-SERIES TEAM)
First-Time Panels & Speakers

Developed 2 panel discussions under the aegis of the Industry Insight Series – GCC – first time topic Post-Fatigue Diversity – all women panel for the first time

Co-ordinated with Placement Representatives for engaging leadership of firms with batch on leadership talks

The official engagement management team on diversity leadership and network leadership talks
SPORTS & CULTURAL TEAM
Sports & Cultural Team

Got the batch to participate in every category of the inter-sectional wars – inter-programme events

Runner-Up in Ekatva – pan India one year MBA event organized by IIMA
INTERNATIONAL IMMERSION TEAM
Immersion based merchandise

Developed brand building initiatives with merchandise for the cohort and the international faculty

First time ESADE and SDA hoodies for all
PLACEMENT REPRESENTATIVES
Placement Peak in the history of MBAEx for the biggest population of students opting for placements ever
LIVE PROJECT TEAM
Space-Tech, GCC and Millets – the best whitespace for the first ever Live Projects truly being diverse
STUDENT COUNCIL TEAM – STUD-C
Festivals were back in vogue – the WALL STREET of MBAEx
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HOSTEL REPRESENTATIVE
‘I have a dream’ may now be patented by Batch 19 for hostel improvement pitches: brand tag line patented by Manoj
MESS REPRESENTATIVE
Glocal variety at MBAEx mess and also in-between classes: All Profs want to THANK YOU!
INTERNET REPRESENTATIVE
All Cloud Services in managing 50 class groups across 50 electives
ELECTION TEAM
Motherboard of 40+ PoRs – How did you even manage!!!
INTERIM CLASS REPRESENTATIVES and SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM
Lifesaver in the pre-election inaugural session – a batch that promoted itself on its own inauguration
SKILL WORKSHOP COORDINATORS
Ran the vital weekend life line
POSH REPRESENTATIVE
High Time….
VOLUNTEERS
Lifeline of MBAEx 19
DESIGNERS
Peak in hoodies and shirts and goodies
  • Peak in total number of new electives offered: 8
    • Applied Value Investing – Finance & Control Group
    • Coopetition – Strategic Management Group
    • Econometric Tools to analyses data for Business Managers – Economics Group
    • Managing Technology and Information Systems for Industry 4.0 – Management of Information Systems Group
    • AI in HR – Human Resource Management Group
    • Agile, DevOps, and Hyper-Tech in Project Management Practices – Operations Management Group cross-listed with Management of Information Systems Group
    • Topics in Financial Services – Finance & Control Group
    • Urban Economy, Management and Entrepreneurship – Public Policy and Management Group
  • Peak in Alumni engagement in Skill Workshops & Placement Mocks: special mention in the AMBA – accreditation report as a plus-point for MBAEx and its efforts to create Industry-Academic synergies.
    • Preparing for Product Roles in the era of AI by MBAEx alumni, Umang Mathur, Intuit
    • Consulting Readiness Bootcamp, Padamdeep Singh, Accenture.
    • Becoming an AI-First Product Leader: Product Thinking, Career Design, & Strategic transitions for Mid- Career Professionals, Vijay Vaidyanathan AskMia.
    • Pitch to Partnership Consulting & Presales Bootcamp, Sandeepan Dasgupta, Strada
    • Mock Interviews – 1:
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    • Mock Interviews – 2:
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  • Peak in Placement / Live Project recruiters as Pre-Placement Skill Workshops
    • System Integration and Consulting, Saikat Dutt, Professor of Practice in Operations Management at IIMC, Mr. Samrat Basu (VP and SAP Practice Head, Cognizant) and Mr. Abhijit Pal (Executive Director and Board Member Alphaxine)
    • Transformation using AI for Tech, Data & Business, Rahul Sudame – Associate Vice President – Engineering (Persistent) with his team of engineers from Persistent.
  • Peak in record number of Industry Panels

GCC SUMMIT

  • Arvind Rathore (GCC Customer Success – Partner, ANSR)
  • Mr. Sandeep Sharma (Founder & CEO, Summit Consulting Services)
  • Shri Jayachandran K (BSI PMO Director, Novartis)
  • Ms. Sumreni Lala (MD, Accenture – Technology Strategy)
  • Mr. Rajesh Ray (Senior Managing Director, Innoverv)
  • Mr. Ashish Banka (Head – Human Capital & Talent Strategy – Cradlewise)
  • Prof. Rohit Negi – moderator and professor from Public Policy & Management Group from IIM Calcutta
  • Mr. Daarayus Mehta – co-moderator and the Founder-Director of VCNow.

POST-DIVERSITY FATIGUE: ALL WOMEN PANEL

  • Kalpana Jain, Partner at Deloitte
  • Dr. Ashwini Rakhame, Director at PwC
  • Janet Nair, Consumer Insights Leader, Ex. Netflix
  • Iti Malik, Manager at Google
  • Dr. Nandita Roy, Professor at IIM Calcutta, Moderator

AI SHIFT PANEL

  • Mr. Sameer Bendre, Executive Director, Hyzero
  • Mr. Puneet Sakhuja, VP of Business Solutions, Hoonartek
  • Mr. Ashish Pathak, Global Offer Director, BCG
  • Dr. Rahul Kumar, Professor, MIS group, IIM Calcutta – moderator.

SKILLS 2030—HR PANEL

  • Dr. Dharma Raju Bathini, Professor, HRM Group, IIM Calcutta, moderator
  • Mr. Amit Deo, Head of Executive Recruitment, BNY
  • Mr. Abraham KP, Analytics and AI Leader, Adani Enterprises
  • Mr. Vishwanadh Raji, CEO and Co-Founder, PlugScale Innovation Labs.
  • Peak in admissions webinar with GMAC – 500+ global views
  • Peak in Live Projects in whitespaces
    • First time Space Tech with BioSky and Satsure in any IIM.
    • Sayaji Group doubled the student-remuneration because of exceptional LPs.
    • Helping a Millets based Farmer’s Company in Madhya Pradesh find profitable local and national markets for Reliance Foundation.
    • Summit Consulting has hired one student through LP over campus placement on GCC.
  • Peak in Alumni Homecoming with what has been fondly ‘named’ as Big-4 panel:
    • Prof. Anirvan Pant – Strategy Professor, IIMC
    • Prof. Mritiunjoy Mohanty – Economics Professor, IIMC
    • Prof. Debashis Saha – Strategy Professor, IIMC
    • Prof. Biswatosh Saha – Strategy Professor, IIMC
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  • Peak in Pan India alumni meet in the 4 cities – Bangalore, New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, latter for the first time
  • Peak in Intersection Wars: 100% participation rate across all sports and cultural events – 27 sports events and 5 cultural events.
  • Peak in Ekatva 2026– the Pan-India Win – Runner-Up position. Hosted by IIM Ahmedabad. Ekatva brings together the one-year full time MBA programs of IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore, and Kozhikode.
  • Peak in Business Review Magazine – Featuring International collaboration with Professor Olga Annushkina, SDA Bocconi Business School

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    Magazine Team celebrating the official unveiling of the same with the Director, the Faculty, the Batch and the Office executives.

MBAEx Batch 19 is the #Peak scaler of a lifetime of MBAEx memory – it has a bit of every batch in disproportionate proportions. And it has none of the others in proportionate disproportions. So, the law of average is not the conventional statistical destiny of this batch – it surprises by designing around its intense moments to maximize outcome – case in point, how a SPORTS TEAM can become GLUE EMPLOYEES for a diverse batch:

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The Sports team gave a shout-out to women in the batch who helped win Ekatva, celebrating with the first ever all-women panel.

Thank you batch 19– it is a steep learning curve for all of us before and after the goal – the task is how fast we may hold on to the HOOP for positive outcomes.

------------Dr. Pragyan Rath (MBAEx Chairperson, 2025-26)

MBAEx Batch 18 with Chairperson, Dr. Pragyan Rath
MBAEx Batch 18 with Chairperson, Dr. Pragyan Rath

#MBAEx Batch 18 FIRST

AY 2024-25 has been a year of new initiatives, sponsorships and industry connect. With 80 students, 105+ industry experts interaction, 5 new electives, 20+ new initiatives, 2 new additions in modules in International Immersions on Live Project and Entrepreneurship, 1 Start-Up Hackathon, 2 pan-India inter-IIM initiatives, 3 Pan IIMC events, 3 dedicated alumni events, 1 dedicated induction event of the in-coming batch, 7+ sponsorship supports from industry, 23 core courses, 44 electives, 4 inter-disciplinary courses, 4 academic workshops and 2 industry-career development workshops, 100% growth in Live Project firms, MBAEx batch 18 (Class of 2025) has been a pioneer in re-shaping MBAEx as an immersive experience of industry-academia synergy, future of work agility and institutional building responsibilities.

I will proudly call MBAEx batch 18 as a batch of the FIRSTS

#Induction FIRST
  • MBAEx Batch 4 alumnus – Ramaswamy says: “From Job Seekers to Job Creators: Reimagining MBA in Contemporary India.” And for the first time, the MBAEx inauguration had a line-up of 6 industry CEO-co-founders, whose work exemplifies the India growth story.
#Startup Garage Hackathon FIRST
  • The “Startup Garage hackathon” had Batch 18 actively participating in a simulated lock-down mode to live through the entrepreneurship immersion.
#New Position of Responsibilities (PoRs) FIRST
  • Alumni team was rechristened as the Alumni Engagement Team, and added for the first time 5 members, and the rest is history
  • We initiated a Cultural team for the first time. Long Due.
  • International Immersion Team is now the International Immersion Prep team with 4 members
  • We created a new Election Team, which was responsible for smooth elections of all PoR teams.
#5 New Electives FIRST
  • Managing Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations – OB Group
  • Auction and Business Applications - Economics Group
  • Economics of Climate Change: Implications for Financial Sector – Economics Group and Finance Group (cross listed)
  • Statistics for Data Science and Business Analytics – OM Group
  • Responsible AI and Future Tech Strategies – MIS Group
#Live Streaming FIRST
  • All Industry Speaker Series were live streamed with MBAEX Alumni
#Leadership Workshop FIRST
  • Workshop on Building Leadership Potential with Professor Abhishek Goel, where MBAEx students find their own leadership pathways for future.
#Poetry FIRST
  • Lattice hosted Nayab Midha's poetry session as part of the cultural night
  • Homecoming had poetry recital session with Professor Vidyanand Jha
#Industry Insight Series FIRST
  • InsurTech Panel
  • EnergyTech Panel
  • SpaceTech Panel
#Lifestyle Cultural Event Homecoming FIRST
  • Tarot Readings
  • Live Sketching
  • Live Perfume Making
  • Live Photo Printing
  • Turkish Ice-Cream
#NextGen Forums Series Workshop FIRST
  • Career development initiative with simulated pre-placement experiences hyper-personalized for each student over 2 + 2 days, in a workshop mode – a joint venture by the student placement prep team from the Career Development and Placement Office (CDPO) in collaboration with the Alumni Engagement Team from MBAEx programme vertical.
#BluSmart CEO presenting MBAEx Business Review Magazine FIRST
  • The 6th edition of the MBAEx online business magazine, MBAEx Business Review, themed "Horizons of Change”, was inaugurated digitally by Mr. Punit K Goyal – Co-founder, BluSmart
#Live Projects (new firms) FIRST
  • Takshashila Consulting
  • HPCL
  • SavvyParent
  • Central Cargo Movers
  • DGliger Consulting
  • Goldratt Consulting
  • HML Industries Pvt Ltd
  • MountTech Growth Fund
  • Sterling & Wilson
  • Summit Consulting
  • Vow Cabs
#International Immersion FIRST
  • ESADE Business School, Spain
    • Entrepreneurial finance and corporate venturing
    • Creating high growth ventures
  • SDA Bocconi, Italy
    • Hydrogen in Europe Challenge: Action plan for ISPT (Institute for Sustainable Process Technology)
#Admissions Webinars FIRST
  • Webinar Title: Networking – Power of connections in Career advancement
#Responsible Management FIRST
  • Installation of Sanitary Napkin Vending Machines in NAB with Rotary Club in collaboration with MBAEx batch 16 (2023)
#Ekatva FIRST
  • MBA cohorts across IIMs in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode were part of the inaugural edition f EKATVA (एकत्व), the 2-day cultural-sports festival exclusively for one-year cohorts of the six institutes initiated by IIM Ahmedabad
#Confluence FIRST
  • Welcomed the forthcoming MBAEx batch 19 on campus
  • Attended a live session of Machine Learning in Action with Prof. Soumyakanti Chakraborty
  • Participated in Being A CEO session with the session guest speaker – Mr. Dhaval Jain,
  • Transferred a structured knowledge transfer (KT) session
#Sponsorships FIRST
  • Lattice: SBI, PNB, HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd), VCNow, The Times of India & The Economic Times (Print and media partner)
  • Industry Insight Series: SBI
  • Home Coming: National Insurance Company, Eastern Coalfields Ltd.
  • Confluence: SBI, SafeExpress
#JBS-BARO-C Live Band FIRST
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#Social Media Initiatives FIRST

  • Alumni in spotlight series

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  • Footprints in the sand

    Footprints

  • ThankYouProf

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#Lifestyle Cultural MBAEx Farewell Event FIRST
  • Mentalist
  • JBS Baro-C
  • Photo Booth
  • Writing Wall for Faculty, Admin, and students

Dear Batch 18, looking forward to many FIRSTs as Alumni