Collaborations

The Indian School of Business (ISB)
The Indian School of Business (ISB) is a premier management institution established in 2001. In a short span of seven years, the ISB has successfully pioneered several new trends in management education in India and has established itself as a leading business school across the world. The ISB has a strong pool of research oriented resident faculty and invites high calibre international faculty from reputed business schools to teach in its Post Graduate Program in Management/Executive Education Programs as well as to participate in collaborative research with the resident faculty. The ISB has academic associations with the Kellogg School of Management, The Wharton School and the London Business School.
Website: www.isb.edu

Centre for Emerging Markets Solutions (CEMS)
The Centre for Emerging Markets Solutions (CEMS), at the Indian School of Business, has the vision to focus on the issues of large, rapidly evolving economies like India, China and others, and to generate market driven solutions that create an impact on these emerging markets. The CEMS propose investigating issues of inclusive growth looking at India as a blueprint of emerging economies and believe that any issues in other emerging markets will find a mirror in India. The department also believes that market-based solutions exist for a majority of the developing world's problems and that the "next 4 billion" are not a burden but the next great opportunity. The CEMS at the Indian School of Business will therefore act as a laboratory where solutions to emerging market problems can be devised and aiming at bringing the results from India to be replicated elsewhere.

The CEMS focuses on areas considered crucial for inclusive economic growth. Urbanization provides the scale and the unit economics necessary to make all other services commercially sustainable. Education and health care are absolutely vital to ramp up productivity. As productivity increases, the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector creates large-scale employment opportunities. Rapid growth is correlated to reliable energy and technology, which in its transaction cost reducing role, is the prime enabler. None of this is possible without regulatory and Public policy support and explicit cooperation from policy makers. The practice hitherto has been to look at these areas individually. But in reality these areas are all interlinked, hence a cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary approach is the only one which will create sustainable solutions. The Centre for Emerging Markets Solutions proposes to do just that.

Another key focus area, for research and knowledge dissemination is Philanthropy and effective giving. The Centre for Emerging Markets Solutions realizes that donor education is crucial to any efforts in this direction and has a team which concentrates on this space. In addition, the CEMS has a tie-up with the TED Conferences and hosts TEDx Salons at the Indian School of Business.
Website: www.isb.edu/cems

Support

William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and Arts
Lind Family Trust
Rockefeller Foundation
Results for Development
MacArthur Foundation