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St udy rural tourism and sustainable livelihoods in Pochampally

The Net impact club organised an engaging and thought provoking discussion on Corporate Social Responsibility, the need for CSR ,different models and issues with getting share holder buy-in, trends in India and finally questioning whether it truly  is  one of ‘most responsible ‘ of actions.            Mr Siva Kumar , from ITC talked about 4 levels/ladders of social responsibility ranging from a Purist approach of  being solely profit oriented  , progressing to compliance , transparency and to finally proactively creating business models that are socially responsible.          Mr P.S Narayan from Wipro shed light into why Wipro adopts the ‘sustainability ‘ approach and not CSR  approach. He spoke about various social initiatives by Wipro especially in the education sector. Wipro did not prefer a  check-book approach to CSR but rather preferred a well thought out execution for its sustainability ...

Its been quite sometime since I wrote a post. I have been occupied with doing things for the most of the time .Here are some of the things we at Net Impact@ISB did ..Net  Impact Probono Consulting was launched with15+ projects.We organised BANDHAN-Grandest ever with the highest collections. We launched Idiya -Som Mittal NASSCOM came over for the launch it is indeed Bigger and better then before.We had a host of speaker sesions.Manoj kumar  from Naandi foundation on Social entrepreneurship,Bradley Googins on Social responsibility, Ramji ragahavan on Education,Dave Haliday on Solar lighting, Shreya sharan on Joy of Giving and lastly Venkat from Give India. We are working on the careers front too.Lot of students interested in Development  careers, and we are following with Careers department for tangible results. Meanwhile we hosted a delegation from Kwangong University, South Korea to understand Social entrepreneurship in India, exchanges such as these pr...