Kellogg-IMT project team at IMT

Experience of Kellogg students on the joint research programme in India

IMT recently tied-up with Centre for Research and Technology Innovation (CRTI) at the Kellogg School of Management, North Western University, to offer a unique internship opportunity to students of both colleges.

Under this collaboration this year, six students each from IMT and Kellogg will jointly work on independent projects with social enterprises helping them improve their penetration in rural India.

We caught up with three Kellogg students while they were at our campus on their project experiences so far:

Benjamin Nuewirth (Kellogg MBA, 2012) spoke fondly of his very first experience of being in India and at IMT Ghaziabad. Paired with Rohit Laumas of the PGDM 2012 batch at IMT, Benjamin said he had some amazing learnings on culture, in general, work-cultures across economies and had enjoyed the team work. Infact, one of the biggest challenges he faced so far was to learn how to work within the Indian work culture as he came from the Technology sector in the US which is very informal and very individualistic. He found the work structure In India to be better planned with a lot of hierarchies.

He further spoke of his visit to Amritsar and Chandigarh which he found very exciting.

When asked about the best thing at IMT, Benjamin said that the students are really nice. He thought they were very open and helpful and they knew their subjects very well. He appreciates the IMT system for being less rigid and thus giving an opportunity for an individual to develop analytical capabilities.

Jennifer Helms (Kellog MBA 2012) spoke of India as a completely new experience- almost an adventure. Amazed and Impressed by her team mate Hemant’s IT knowledge , she is left wondering on how hardworking he is and how little he sleeps. Jennifer has found the IMT culture true to its promise “IMT never sleeps”.

On a lighter note she shared with us that Adjusting to the traffic and negotiating the auto fares have been pretty challenging. Travelling to Amritsar and seeing the Golden Temple was highly enriching.

Sara Lo (Kellogg MBA, 2012) shared that her entire Indian experience and being at IMT was simply great. She was interested in doing a summer internship in Emerging Markets so it was exciting to be a part of this project. Having been from a background of Mergers and Acquisition, micro financing had always been intriguing her as a management domain and she was happy to be able to do it finally.

Her team mate at IMT is Rishabh and she is very much in love with the variety and diversity that the Indian food offers.