Academic Council
The Academic Council at IIM, Visakhapatnam is a four-member elected body. It comprises three senior members (one of whom is a representative of the body in the Students Affairs Council), assisted by a junior member from the first year batch. The Council is responsible for coordinating the electives selection process for the students right from their 3rd term. This includes identifying courses that are relevant and valuable to the students in the contemporary context and conducting the selection process. Further, it creates an enabling ecosystem to facilitate the students' learning process through the aid of a pool of Subject Representatives. The Council also organises regular interaction sessions for the students with eminent academicians and industry stalwarts, to ensure that the students develop an understanding of how the concepts taught can be applied in practice and to keep them abreast of emerging trends in the research space as well.
ANK – IT & Analytics Club
ANK, The IT & Analytics Club of IIM Visakhapatnam aims at inculcating technological excellence in future managers. The objective of ANK is exposing budding managers to emerging technologies to empower them to stay ahead in transforming business domains. Technology won't replace the managers but managers who use technology replace the managers who don't. As managers, it is unequivocally important to be aware of the newest technology and to understand its benefits and limitations. Failing to do this, managers risk can get run over by technology advances. IT & Analytics Club aims to make future managers aware of the current scenario in order to help them make informed professional decisions. The Club activities involve conducting guest lectures, workshops, and events that can help provide students a platform to enhance their learnings and skillsets in the analytics field.
ARTQUAKE – Cultural Club
ARTQuake is the creativity and art club of IIM Visakhapatnam. It provides opportunities to students, busy with academics and responsibilities, to get involved in art, music, and dance and bring out the best blend of talent- academia out of them. The events of the club include Cerebro Games, Vkend Nirvana, Lec Dem, Cultural Nights, various online events and much more. The club comes under the Cultural Cluster and hence, is also responsible for Samaarambh - the annual cultural festival of IIM Visakhapatnam. It is also responsible for celebrating festivals and promoting the rich diversity of India and binding the students into a family.
Consulting Club
The Consulting Club of IIM Visakhapatnam aims to provide an insight into the world of consulting and strategy. The Club enables students to gain first-hand experience in different forms of consulting and strategy by inviting various guests, conducting workshops, quizzes, case study competitions, and simulation games. The Club also provides a bi-monthly industry snapshot in the form of its newsletter: VISION and collaborates with industry experts and leaders to share their strategies and give students an idea of what goes into running a business.
E.P.I.C – Entrepreneurship Club
Entrepreneurial Passion and Innovation Club of IIM Visakhapatnam is a torchbearer for all the passionate students who want to be aspiring entrepreneurs. The main objective of the club is to impart the spirit of entrepreneurship among the students and encourage them to transform the world with their innovative, versatile and thought-provoking ideas. The club also intends to provide opportunities for networking with successful entrepreneurs and experienced professionals, thereby inculcating knowledge about the business ecosystem and their experience. We aim to achieve the objectives by organizing diverse speaker series, workshops, business talks, industrial visits, live projects, experiential learnings and conducting business events involving the networking, pitching-competitions, panel discussions, B-Plan competitions, and many more activities and events. We promote and encourage peer to peer development, learning opportunities and provide an informal and open platform to discuss ideas with mentors.
Finance and Economics Club
The Finance and Economics Club of IIM Visakhapatnam is dedicated to providing a vibrant platform to students to test their competencies in the domains of finance and economics, to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from industry stalwarts to students, to improve financial literacy and to ensure meaningful application of economics and finance in real-world scenarios. We do this via debates, simulations, guest lectures, workshops, and various other competitions and by creating knowledge repositories. The club also aims to start a student-run virtual investment fund “The Sunrise Investment Fund” to yield returns above the market benchmarks.
Manthan- HR Club
Manthan, The HR Club of IIM Visakhapatnam aims to enhance the current method of domain knowledge and industry connect specific to HR. The Club’s objective is to continuously develop and enhance the HR knowledge of the students by providing a platform for knowledge sharing and connect to industry for which HR Club organizes HRidaya – an annual HR Conclave, case competitions, guest lectures and quizzes. HR Club creates awareness through imparting knowledge related to different aspects of human resource management, trends, recent issues and developments. This Club also supplements the theoretical knowledge imparted in classroom by ensuring that students get opportunity to practice theoretical knowledge in real life context.
MarkAdz- Marketing Club
MarkAdz - The Marketing Club of IIM Visakhapatnam, aims to provide the students an opportunity to delve into the depth of marketing. The club helps the students to understand real-world marketing by bringing in industry leaders as guest speakers and by conducting various competitions, quizzes, and other games. By giving students the right experience, the Club enhances the problem solving and analytical skills of the students enabling them to think out of the box and making them industry ready for the corporate world.
Prakriya
Prakriya is the Operations Club of IIM Visakhapatnam. It serves as a platform for operation management enthusiasts to interact and learn. Operations management is the administration of business practices to create the highest level of efficiency possible within an organization. It serves as a key element in any business enterprise and remains crucial for overall organizational growth and development. We aim at sharing knowledge via guest lectures, peer-to-peer learning sessions, activities, and workshops, thus moving and learning from the industry as we steer through Industry 1.0 to 4.0 and beyond. We at Prakriya, try to impart as much interaction of the student community with the leaders in this vertical, so they can be industry ready for the future.
Sports Club
Sports Club of IIM Visakhapatnam inspires students towards health consciousness and fitness activities. It motivates students to involve themselves in sports and encourages maximum participation in sports events. Sports club organizes different sports events every year and participates in grand Inter-IIM sports tournament SANGRAM in which four of the southern IIMs (IIM B, IIM T, IIM V, and IIM K) compete in different sports. Apart from this, it also organizes fitness related activity on National Sports day and recreation activities. The sports club intends to empower the students with time management and social skills, leadership and teamwork qualities, and improving mental and physical fitness. The strength of the Sports Club is its students and it endeavours to invigorate them by boosting their confidence level, helping and guiding their way to success.
Student Media Cell
Student Media Cell
The student media cell has been formed to liaise with and facilitate interaction with both digital and physical media and to ensure publicity for the institute at various events. Through the endeavour of the media cell, IIM Visakhapatnam has garnered a strong media presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pagalguy, LinkedIn. There is a student blog dedicated to IIMV. Apart from these, the student media cell ensured coverage in the press for Exordia and Life at IIMV video. The Cell also coordinates with other colleges for student participation in management fests.
Vatsalya
Vatsalya is the social activities club of the IIIM Visakhapatnam. Our vision is to be a helping hand to the needy to our possible extent and bring a visible change in the society around us. We aim to bring awareness to the existing issues and encourage people to work for the upliftment of the nation. We hold various events such as Dan Utsav, Donation Camps and provide our help to different schools, orphanages and old age homes. With the support of the IIM V family, we collect and send relief funds whenever needed. We work with other non-profit organizations based on the need or issue and extend our support in all possible ways. With a firm dedication, Vatsalya is determined to work for the betterment of society and bring a positive change.
Zorba Club
Organizing events bearing the interest of the batch in mind, Zorba fosters an ecosystem wherein individual talents and interests get various chances to develop and flourish. At IIMV, we believe in the all-round development of every individual for enabling them to reach their fullest potential. Given the diversity of every batch, with students bringing in the culture from all around the country, we conduct a variety of fun-filled events, be it in the field of gaming, such as LAN events, sports events indoors as well as outdoors such as Tug of War, helping them rejuvenate through Yoga, allowing people to use their creativity in events such as painting on T-shirts, photography contests.