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We are pleased to share with you the inaugural issue of “Viewpoint”, a newsletter that seeks to capture IIM Calcutta’s deepening engagement in the Social Entrepreneurship Sector.
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SocEnt in India: Opportunities and Challenges
By P.R. Ganapathy, COO of Villgro
Our society has many, deep-rooted problems such as lack of livelihood opportunities, inadequate
sanitation facilities, lack of clean drinking water, low health outcomes because of an
The Revolutionary Optimists
By Prashant Singh, Jimit Patel, Codanda Appachu Appanna , and Gurpreet Singh Seehra, Second Year PGP, IIM Calcutta
On the evening of 5th July, we were honored to have a team from NGO Prayasam join us for a screening of the film “Revolutionary optimists”. Filmed over the course of several years
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Anshu Gupta Wins 2015 Ramon Magsaysay Award
By K.V. Gopakumar, Doctoral Student, IIM Bangalore
Anshu Gupta, founder of NGO Goonj in India, has been chosen for the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for the year 2015. He has been recognized for
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Forthcoming Events
The fourth edition of Tata Social Enterprise Challenge kicks-off
The most awaited and one of the biggest social entrepreneurship events of India, Tata Social Enterprise Challenge (TSEC)
Reverse Engineering Capitalism
By Abhishek Sundar, Investment Banking Analyst, Credit Suisse, IIMC Alumnus
When the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Unionstarted disintegrating in the late 1980s, Francis Fukuyama famously declared that we were witnessing the beginning of
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Edwell Solutions Pvt Ltd
By Ram Kumar, Founder and CEO of Edwell Solutions Pvt Ltd
Edwell Solutions provides multimedia-based learning via low cost android-based multimedia screens, teaching/learning techniques and learning assessment assistance.
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Why exposure to social entrepreneurship is critical in business schools
By Rakesh Mishra, Senior Associate, Boston Consulting Group and IIMC Alumnus
In 2012, when I first got a chance to be a part of the Tata Social Enterprise Challenge (TSEC), I must confess, I knew little of what social entrepreneurship meant and lesser still of why IIM
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