The 26th annual convocation of the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIM-K) was held at the IIM-K campus on Saturday. The convocation, conducted in two sessions, conferred titles and degrees to a total of 1,196 students. As many as 401 female students make for 33% of the graduating batch from eight different programmes.
The morning session witnessed students from IIM-K’s Doctoral Programme in Management for Working Executives (PhD – Practise Track), Executive Postgraduate Programme – Interactive Leaning Mode (Kozhikode Campus), and Executive Postgraduate Programme (Kochi Campus) being conferred with their degrees. Hari Menon, co-founder and CEO of BigBasket, was the chief guest on the occasion, while Debashis Chatterjee, CEO and managing director, LTIMindtree, was the guest of honour.
Mr. Menon said creativity, innovation, and and team work were crucial to achieving success. He encouraged the graduates to strive for excellence while also maintaining work-life balance and nurturing hobbies. Mr. Chatterjee said continuous innovations held the key to shape the business of the future.
