The world-class Business, Management, Economics, Finance and Accounting curriculum taught at ISBF provides fertile ground for the germination of entrepreneurial ambitions and ventures. The result is a rich extant entrepreneurial tradition, which boasts of ventures like OYO Rooms, Pizza On My Plate (POMP), Emacity and many others.
iVenture, ISBF’s Incubation Centre, was set up in 2020 to support and further this tradition. Its vision is “to nurture viable ideas of ISBF’s new-age entrepreneurs into ventures that add value to society”.
iVenture strives towards its vision by providing incubatee ventures with physical infrastructure and support services, soft skills training, mentorship by business/industry veterans and domain experts, scaled support as the venture progresses through incubation stages, and networking opportunities with angel investors or venture capitalists.
Click here to read the iVenture prospectus.
The budding ISBF entrepreneur typically has strong curricular foundations, thanks to the Global Top 10 LSE curriculum that she/he pursues, supplemented by broad extra-curricular exposure and training which hones their analytical and interpersonal skills. All this makes them ideally suited to entrepreneurial pursuits.
Student Societies | ||
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Core Council | Career Placement Cell | The ISBF Media Hub |
GD Council | Events Society | Sports Society |
Akademos | Girl Up, Zia | The Entrepreneurship Cell |
Artefactory | Investment Cell | T.R.I.N |
Blaize | MUN & Debating Cell | Zariyaa – Community Service Division |
Professional & Soft Skills Training | ||
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Interpersonal Skills | Management | Innovation |
Productivity Tools for Work | Work Ethic | Leadership |
Strategy and Decision-Making | Adaptability | Networking |
Analytical Skills | Teamwork | |
Communication Skills | Problem-solving |
Guest Lectures & Talks | ||
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Dr Arun Kumar
Malcolm Adiseshiah Chair Professor at Institute of Social Sciences |
Mark Runacres
Former Deputy High Commissioner of British High Commission, New Delhi |
Mr. Deep Kalra
Founder & CEO, MakeMyTrip |
Dr. Ashok Lahiri
Former Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India and Member, Fifteenth Finance Commission |
Mr. Richard McCallum
Vice Chairman of UK India Business Council (UKIBC) India |
Joy Bhattacharjya
Former Team Director of Kolkata Knight Riders |
Dr. Pronab Sen
Former Chief Statistician of India |
Dr. Ajit Mishra
Director at Institute of Economic Growth |
Mr. Nikhil Arora
Managing Director and Vice President, GoDaddy |
Dr. Chetan Ghate
Professor of Economics at Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi |
Dr. James Abdey
Lecturer of Statistics and Associate Academic Director – UOL Programmes at LSE |
Mr. Vikas Newatia
CEO of Royal & Sun Alliance India |
Saigeeta Bhargava
Director and Lead Actuary at PricewaterhouseCoopers |
Dr. Rajat Kathuria
Director and Chief Executive, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) |
Nishant Rao
Founding Partner of Avataar Ventures |
Puneet Singh
Chief Operating Officer – Banking & Capital Markets, Genpact |
Pallavi Malani
Managing Director & Partner at Boston Consulting Group |
Anil Chopra,
Director of Bajaj Capital Group of Companies |
Dr. Shreekant Gupta
Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi |
Mr. Gaurav Vohra
Head Financial Advisory Services, CFO Advisory, KPMG India |
Mr. Sameer Pathak
General Manager – Activation, Marketing, The Coca-Cola Company |
Dr. Ravi Srivastava
Director, Centre for Employment Studies, Institute for Human Development |
Suneet Kumar
Founder of Dignify Labs |
Ms. Ritika Sakhuja
Director – Talent Acquisition, Nielsen |
iVenture seeks to forge a mutually productive association with a partner who shares its vision of nurturing young entrepreneurial talent, who will help further this vision through reasonable access to its human resource network and who will act with utmost integrity and professionalism at all times.
Click here to view some Partnership Proposals in the iVenture prospectus.
For more details, contact us at iventure@isbf.edu.in