GIM Students Bring Home The Flourish Prize For the Second Consecutive Year
A team of five students
from the Goa Institute of Management (GIM) have brought home laurels on a
Global platform by winning the prestigious 2022 Flourish prize out of a total
of 685 entries from all over the world.
Explained Divya Singhal, Professor of
General Management and Economics at GIM. "AIM2Flourish is a project of the
Fowler Centre for Business as an Agent of Global Benefit at Case Western
Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. Students from GIM
conducted research, identified a business innovation, interviewed a business
leader, and then submitted their stories with the UN Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) mapping their path. The stories that have passed the review
process are then published on the AIM2Flourish platform."
A total of 17 winners are announced every
year pertaining to each of the 17 Global Goals set by the UN and students from
a plethora of institutions from various countries submit their stories to the
AIM2Flourish website.
This year, the winning story named “Every
Drop Counts” features ‘Absolute Water Pvt Limited’ which was counted
under the Global Goal #6: Clean Water and Sanitation. The students
Jatin Tripathi, Kushagra Bansal, Akash Ghosh, Srikaran Shenvi Sursure and
Anushkar Chauhan were the authors of this project who were guided and mentored
by Divya Singhal, Professor of General Management and Economics at GIM.
“As a facilitator myself, it is fulfilling
to come across such interesting innovations every year when we work on our
stories. To me, every story is a winning story but it is really great to see
our hard work pay off in such a way. AIM2Flourish publications also highlight
how businesses are slowly leaning towards environmental protection and
preservation and social upliftment which is undoubtedly the need of the hour.
The students and the faculty of GIM are proud and thrilled about the results of
the Flourish Prize.” expressed Divya Singhal.
The aim of this story was to bring to
light Indian business innovations which have contributed significantly towards
defeating the global issue of polluted water unfit for human consumption.
‘Absolute Water’ , spoken about in the winning story, is a green tech water
company based in Delhi. It has installed the country’s first 100% Green Water
Recovery plant. The company works towards converting sewage water into drinking
water with a quality approved by WHO. As of recent times, they have also used
Ozonation as an advanced disinfection treatment in their plants, which has been
proven worldwide to kill/remove viruses such as SARS.
When asked about his experience, Akash Ghond,
a student who worked on the project, said “Absolute Water is a company that
functions very differently from others. It was extremely interesting to take a
deep dive into how they are contributing to the environment through their water
management practices.. It was a truly enlightening process as a student,
especially under the guidance of Professor Singhal. The team and I are really glad that we
were given this opportunity by GIM and we hope our story helps contribute to
the betterment of the environment for the future generations.”
Added Ajit Parulekar, Director of GIM, “We
at GIM are overjoyed that our students bagged winning place in the prestigious
2022 Flourish Prizes once again. GIM has done a lot of work in the field of
sustainable development. We extensively encourage our students to learn more
about the environment and work hard to preserve it as well. At GIM, we aim to
create socially responsible business leaders of tomorrow. Our institutional
values have been built around ethics, values, and corporate governance."
A total of 4 teams from GIM were selected as
finalists out of 685 entries from across countries. Last year too, another team from the B-school worked on
“Jaipur Rugs”, a story regarding the artisans’ livelihood in Jaipur which won
the Flourish prize for SDG 8.
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