The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), along with the Consulate General of the State of Israel in Bengaluru, recently launched the Israel Centre at IIMB. The launch, by the Chief Guest Daniel Carmon, Ambassador of Israel to India, marks 25 years of India Israel partnership and boosts the development of business and academic ties between the two countries. “The goal of Israel Centre at IIMB is to forge academic relationships between IIMB and institutions in Israel so that there is mutual learning for impact on Indo-Israeli business relationships in the domains of innovation, technology, start-ups and scaling up of organisations,” Prof G Raghuram, director, IIM Bangalore, said.
Expressing his thoughts about the upcoming Israel centre at IIMB, Carmon said: “The vision of the agreements between our academic institutions materialising into real centres of learning and rapprochement is a big part of the fruition of our growing partnership. Real learning takes place everywhere. It is therefore important to venture out to centres of learning, wherever they may be, to behold the future of our relations taking root and branching out in new directions,” he added.
“The centre will be a leading research and networking place that will provide students, researchers and business managers and firms with deep understanding of Israeli and Indian business, supporting and promoting diversified body of research and teaching related to Indo-Israeli business,” Prof Abhoy K Ojha, chairperson of the Centre and senior faculty from the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management (OBHRM) at IIMB, said.