IIMB in Spotlight
IIMB receives ELCITA Gold Award and three Excellence Awards for sustainability
IIM Bangalore has received the ELCITA Gold Award, the highest honour at the ELCITA Sustainability Awards 2025–26, along with three Awards for Excellence in Water, Biodiversity, and Social Welfare and Community Services.
The recognition reflects IIMB’s continued efforts towards environmental sustainability and community engagement, and marks an improvement from the silver awards received by the Institute in the previous year.
Instituted by the Electronics City Industrial Township Authority (ELCITA), the awards recognise organisations for initiatives across areas including water conservation, wastewater management, rainwater harvesting, waste management, renewable energy, green infrastructure, biodiversity and sustainability reporting.
Prof. Haritha Saranga, Chairperson, IIMB Sustainability Taskforce, acknowledged the contribution of staff members to the Institute’s sustainability journey. The recognition reflects the collective efforts of the Sustainability Taskforce, Hostel, Horticulture and Estate departments, staff, workers and the wider IIMB community.
The awards reaffirm IIMB’s continued commitment to building a greener and more inclusive campus.
Prof. Gopal Das appointed Associate Editor of the International Journal of Consumer Studies
Prof. Gopal Das, faculty in the Marketing Area at IIM Bangalore, has been appointed Associate Editor of the International Journal of Consumer Studies (IJCS), a Wiley journal focused on consumer behaviour, consumption and marketplace dynamics.
In his new role, Prof. Das will contribute to the journal’s editorial process, including the review and development of research in the field of consumer studies.
The appointment adds to his growing editorial responsibilities across leading academic journals. He currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Research, the European Journal of Marketing and Psychology & Marketing. He was also recently appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.
Through these editorial roles, Prof. Das continues to contribute to the development and dissemination of research across marketing, consumer behaviour and related fields.
EPGP ’27 takes learning beyond the classroom across Berlin, Madrid and Paris
The EPGP ’27 cohort embarked on a two-week International Immersion from 17 to 28 August 2026, travelling across Berlin, Madrid and Paris and experiencing three distinct business, cultural and social environments.
With academic engagements at ESCP Business School and ESSEC Business School, the 74-member cohort explored a wide range of themes through classroom sessions, industry visits, conversations with business leaders and entrepreneurs, and cultural experiences. Accompanied by faculty from IIM Bangalore across the three legs, students examined everything from intercultural management and sports policy to tourism, sustainability, entrepreneurship, geopolitics and strategy.
In Berlin, the cohort explored Germany’s business landscape through academic sessions and company visits, alongside experiences that offered insights into the city’s history and culture.
The Madrid leg brought perspectives on Spanish culture, football, sports policy, tourism and hospitality. Visits to Spain’s National Sports Agency, the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and the Marriott Auditorium & Conference Center complemented sessions on tourism, ESG and technology.
In Paris, students engaged with ESSEC Business School, entrepreneurs and business leaders, exploring culture and leadership, geopolitics, entrepreneurship, strategy and the business of Champagne.
Across the three cities, the immersion offered the cohort an opportunity to take concepts from the classroom into very different contexts, while experiencing how business, culture, policy and society intersect across markets.
From Geneva to the National Green Tribunal: Prof. Rusha Das’s research on power and policy
Prof. Rusha Das of IIM Bangalore’s Public Policy area researches the intersection of environmental politics, policymaking and governance, with a focus on regulatory politics in fragmented governance contexts.
Her work spans environmental regulation, infrastructure governance and Frugal AI for sustainability transitions. Her doctoral research examined changes in India’s Environmental Impact Assessment regulations through a neo-Gramscian perspective and received the Academy of Management’s Critical Management Division Best Dissertation Award (Highly Commended, 2024).
Her academic journey has included a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship at the Graduate Institute Geneva, followed by research roles at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and the University of Exeter. She is also a recipient of the Young Women Researcher Award in Public Policy (2025).
Beyond research, Prof. Das contributes to policy and executive education, including training IRS Commissioners on the National Green Tribunal and leading IIMB’s inaugural Switzerland module for the Business Planning for International Markets programme.
