The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad invites nominations for its highest alumni honour: the IIM Ahmedabad Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA). Since our founding, IIMA graduates have fundamentally shaped global corporate landscapes, catalysed…
By Dr. Kailash Gupta | PGP 1971 I have not studied biology after eighth class. Even then, being curious, a risk-taker, and adaptable, I am pursuing research related to the medical sciences.…
By Radha Chadha | PGP 1981 (As told to Avantika Sukhia) When I graduated from IIMA in 1981, I could not have imagined that I would one day call myself an author. …
By V Sanjay Kumar | PGP 1982 Irrational The Eighties and Nineties were foundational years for labor arbitrage in the software business. It was an era of easy money. I acquired a…
By T. Sreeram | PGP 1987 A candid look at my career, with all its ups and downs First, the Scripted part After campus, I joined an MNC, Castrol, in Bombay, as…
By Soma Biswas Vajpayee | PGP 1999 There are journeys that follow a map, and then there are those that unfold like a painting—layer by layer, uncertain at first, but slowly revealing…
By Calvin John | MDP 2010 Careers are often described as ladders. Neat, straight, purposeful ladders. You place your foot carefully on one rung, then the next, and one day you look…
By Manish Advani | MDP 2011 Careers are often described as carefully designed journeys, mapped out with clarity, purpose, and predictability. However, in my case, it was shaped by curiosity, forced by…
By Nalini Bikkina | FDP 2012 The trajectory of a professional life is rarely a straight line. Often, it is a mosaic of intent, abrupt redirection, and the stubborn persistence of purpose.…
By Zahid Hussain | PGP 2012 I’ve always liked the idea of living many lives in one. At one point, I genuinely imagined having 40 different careers, a year each, as a…
By Chiranjibi Panda | FDP 2014 When I am introduced today as the lead of the Forensic Data Analytics unit at a Big 4 consulting firm, the reaction is almost always the…
By Prasad Ashok Thakur | PGP 2016 During placements season, most of MBA graduates aim for corner offices in the corporate world. I chose four million bosses — and looking back, it…
