i CAnvas: From IIM Indore to Wharton School !

Thursday was a very important day for all of us at IIM Indore. Our B school magazine "i CANVas" entered into a partnership with the online business magazine from the Wharton SChool of the University of Pennslvyania titled indiaknowledge@Wharton. "i Canvas" will initially carry article excerpts from the online magazine and a link will be provided at the end of the excerpts, which will direct the user to the actual article on the Wharton portal. It would have been great , had we got the rights to publish the articles in full, but due to an earlier agreement of Wharton School with Economic Times in India, we will not be able to publish the entire article in print. However, we can publish complete articles on the student portal of IIM Indore under the name of i CAnvas, as there is no such restriction on publishing articles online. I believe this is really a very big achievement for our magazine, our batch and also our institute, considering the fact that we are hardly few months old! I think what clinched the deal was the way i Canvas is designed and presented. Its a unique concept in itself, and I think the editor of ik@Wharton was really impressed by our concept and the way we are progressing on the magazine front! I think all Big things take shape this way.The best part of the agreement is that ik@Wharton will mentor us for our future magazine initiative.This agreement would not have been possible without the active help and support of Divya Nagar of Gutenberg, who is also the representative of ik@Wharton.Many thanks to her for making this possible.We look forward to her continuing support in all our future initiative and our relationship with ik@Wharton.

As we start collecting articles for the 3rd issue and seek sponsors, my mind has started thinking about the future of i CAnvas, what happens once we are gone from the campus. There are many options to that, but i think we really need to start thinking on those lines. Its high time, because time has really flown by and will flow even faster in the coming future.Whatever we decide, but one thing is paramount, we need to have a framework in place which will ensure that i CANvas story goes on and on irrespective of the batches passing out of IIM Indore and independent of the individuals!I think it will need a collaborative effort from the EPGP, PGP student fraternity and the faculty, who are sort of permanent to IIM Indore!As we move on to global scene with i CAnvas, our resolution to succeed and excel in whatever we do has grown many folds! We have seen and observed that how an idea can shape up and grow, with sheer dint of smart work and will power! The learning that we have from the i CAnavs inititave is no less then what we are learning from our course at IIM Indore.