'You let the school down': Kumar Mangalam shares childhood incident of being scolded by school principal for ignoring chief guestKumar Mangalam Birla reminisced about a childhood incident of being scolded for not acknowledging a chief guest after winning a prize. At t...
08 Mar, 2025, 11.16 PM IST
BITS Pilani launches design schoolThe school will introduce a four-year, residential Bachelor of Design (Honours) programme in the academic year 2024-25, followed by a maste...
15 Feb, 2024, 04.44 PM IST
BITSoM to collaborate with London Business School for global immersions, executive educationSpeaking on the collaboration, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chancellor, BITS Pilani and Chairman, Governing Council, BITSoM, said: “With this part...
19 May, 2021, 05.08 PM IST
IIM Ahmedabad launches endowment fund with initial commitment of Rs 100 croreKumar Mangalam Birla, Chairperson, IIMA Board of Governors said in a statement: “Endowment funds help ensure financial health of any instit...
23 Jun, 2020, 03.17 PM IST
London Business School gets a 15 million pound endowed scholarship gift from KM Birla to honour BK Birla's legacyThe scholarship programme is the largest endowed scholarship gift to a European business school.
11 Jul, 2019, 08.26 PM IST
OBIT: Birla patriarch Basant Kumar started earning at 13, refused Rs 50K suitsThe 98-yr-old, who it was said, could confound the best of McKinseys, was a believer in hard work and a frugal way of life.
04 Jul, 2019, 04.12 PM IST
Kumar Mangalam Birla’s success mantra: Failure is not fatal, it’s inevitableBirla says, the key is to not be oblivious to the mistake.
29 May, 2019, 08.35 AM IST
IIM Ahmedabad appoints professor Errol D’Souza as Director-in-charge30 Aug, 2017, 05.32 PM IST
IIMA director Ashish Nanda resigns one year before his tenure endsIn the institute's 52-year history, Nanda was the first director to be hired from an overseas institute, and he came in with a mandate to t...
28 Apr, 2017, 12.52 AM IST
Idea Cellular offers flexi hours, face masks to employees battling Delhi pollutionSpecial buses will be plied to pick and drop employees from key locations and car pools are being planned so that vehicular movement is red...
07 Nov, 2016, 06.59 PM IST
Inking a legacy! Kumar Mangalam Birla’s daughter turning entrepreneur at 17 comes as no surpriseAnanyashree had decided on becoming a social entrepreneur since school, which led to Svatantra Micro finance.
21 Jul, 2016, 12.50 PM IST
Kumar Mangalam Birla's daughter Ananya's brush with the world of microfinanceAnanya started Svatantra about one-and-a-half years ago and now boasts of 18 branches in seven districts across two states with about 100 e...
24 Dec, 2014, 10.13 AM IST
Reliance Industries may be game changer for telecom: Kumar Mangalam BirlaBirla already faces competition from Reliance in the retail sector, a money losing business where he said he was willing to bring in a fore...
06 Dec, 2013, 06.46 AM IST
Firms need to remove barriers to collaboration: Lynda Gratton, Professor, London Business SchoolET caught up with Lynda Gratton, Professor, London Business School, during the India leg of institute's 100mn pound fund-raising campaign.
18 Oct, 2013, 04.03 AM IST
- I want to have more than 50% stake in group cos: B K Birla, chairman, B K Birla Group
Basant Kumar Birla says he wants close to 50% stake in all the group companies so that his daughters and grandchildren never face any probl...
09 Oct, 2010, 11.35 AM IST
- Now, IIM-A's Confluence also attracts big bucks
While salaries at IIMs have already crossed the crore mark, the annual business event at the IIM-A, Confluence, too might cross Rs 1 crore ...
26 Nov, 2007, 12.23 AM IST
- Kumar Birla on bits board
Gen-Next’s successors have started moving into the saddle of the Krishna Kumar Birla group. Grand-nephew Kumar Mangalam Birla has been offi...
31 Aug, 2006, 12.37 AM IST