Past Event

Leaderspeak dialogue- Panel Discussion On Sustainability Accounting – A paradigm shift in management thought – 23rd August 2017

The Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship (CCGC) at IIMB, as part of its Leaderspeak Dialogue Series, hosted a panel discussion on ‘Sustainability Accounting – A Paradigm Shift in Management Thought’ on 23rd August, 2017, at the IIMB auditorium.

The panel discussion was moderated by IIMB faculty members Professor Vasanthi Srinivasan from the Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management area and Professor P D Jose from the Strategy area. The panel of experts included Jeremy Nicholls, CEO, Social Value UK and Social Value International; Santhosh Jayaram, Partner & Head – Sustainability and CSR Advisory, KPMG; Sandeep Shrivastava, Head – Environment & Sustainability, Ambuja Cement, and P.S. Narayan, Vice President and Head – Sustainability and Social Initiatives, Wipro Ltd.

The panel discussion covered critical areas in the discipline- Sustainability Accounting and Social Value. This discussion addressed a question relevant to those interested in the achievement of greater sustainability and also focused on the different ways that major societal transformations will bring about.  Value creation becomes central in decision making, whether it is for Corporate Strategy or Policy Intervention by the Government, and the dovetailing of Sustainability Accounting in this process.

(From l-r: Prof. P D Jose, IIMB faculty, Strategy area; Sandeep Shrivastava, Head – Environment & Sustainability, Ambuja Cement; Santhosh Jayaram, Partner & Head – Sustainability and CSR Advisory, KPMG; Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan, OBHRM Area, IIMB; Jeremy Nicholls, CEO, Social Value UK and Social Value International, and P.S. Narayan, Vice President and Head – Sustainability and Social Initiatives, Wipro Ltd., Manoj Chakravarti, COO, CCGC,IIMB, welcomes participants and audience to a discussion on ‘Sustainability Accounting – A Paradigm Shift in Management Thought’, Jeremy Nicholls says that “Sustainability Accounting is all about becoming more accountable to each other in everything we do”., Prof. P D Jose, Strategy area, IIMB, says that “not just corporates, but society too needs to keep pace, when it comes to Sustainability Accounting”)