The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B), in its efforts to reach greater heights in the domain of education and research, has entered a partnership with Wipro Limited. Wipro will partner and support the Wipro Sustainability Fellowship and the Wipro Sustainability Grant, for doctoral students of IIM-B.
This is as part of their overarching charter on sustainability in education – the Wipro-earthian programme. The fellowship and grant will commence during the academic year 2015-16.
PS Narayan, Vice-President and Head of Sustainability, Wipro Limited, said, “We are delighted to partner with IIM-B in a joint effort to foster doctoral research on areas that lie at the intersection of business and sustainability. The business sector has a critical role to play in facing the manifold challenges of sustainability. Therefore, embedding sustainability in management education has become a critical imperative.”
The fellow programme in management (FPM) is the globally ranked doctoral programme of IIMB. Prof Shashidhar Murthy, IIM-B’s FPM Chairperson, said, “We at IIM-B are glad that Wipro values our students and the nurturing provided by our faculty. This will provide an impetus to students’ research in the area of sustainability.”
The FPM at IIMB is a source of rigorous and inter-disciplinary research in all areas of business management and public policy, including corporate strategy and policy, economics and social sciences, finance and control, marketing, organisational behaviour and human resource management, production and operations management, quantitative methods and information systems, and public policy.
The Wipro Sustainability Fellowship and the Wipro Sustainability Grant each allow up to two FPM students to be funded, and to support research interests that fall in the broad area of sustainability.