Time To Give Back

Alumni engagement is increasing in leading B-schools, at times going beyond financial help.

- E. Kumar Sharma

The Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad added a major research centre last year – the Misra Centre for Financial Markets and Economy, a Centre of Excellence. It aims to provide impetus to focussed research and teaching related to financial markets within the overall economic framework. The Centre came up thanks to a grant of around $1 million by Peeyush Misra, former partner at Goldman Sachs and at present starting his own business. He is from the institutes’s 1997-99 batch.

“What sets IIM-A apart is really the rigorousness of the faculty, and supporting them in their research endeavours was in my mind. Research is close to my heart... so I felt we should support more research in economics and have Indian institutions focussed on Indian problems,” says Misra. The choice of IIM-A was easy. “I felt there is need for an institute to focus on the market, economy and policy environment in India and there was no better place than my alma mater.”