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| Prof. Keyoor Purani |
By Prof. Keyoor Purani
As the large corporations, the
world over, jostle to find a place in various sustainability rankings having
realized that the stakeholders are getting more and more inclined to ‘clean &
green’ capitalism, sustainability is on the top agenda for most companies. Business
performance measured by triple bottom-line demand complete paradigm shift in
how an organization functions asking for a new mind-set and newer models of
doing business.
Are business schools in India
preparing their young MBAs for these changes in the business world? Are Indian
b-schools aligning their curricula to the changing demands of the employers who
hire their graduates? If we have to evaluate leading Indian business schools on
their ‘compliance’ to provide sustainability-sensitive graduates, what kind of
picture is likely to emerge? Our recent research (with Daragh O’reilly and
Sunil Sahadev) attempt to explore these questions as we prepare a roadmap for
business schools to bring sustainability in their curricula as part of a
project funded by the British Council.
