Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development

About

Overview

The Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development at Great Lakes, Gurgaon has been set up in alignment with the Institute’s Vision and Mission of contributing to creation of a sustainable society. The Centre endeavors to create a collaborative environment to embark upon cutting-edge research, its dissemination and outreach, course curriculum and content development to support teaching aspirations, and community engagement within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals, with specific focus on selected few SDGs. The Centre leverages the inherent expertise available with Great Lakes, Gurgaon for data driven decision making for stakeholders. The activities undertaken by the Centre have internal as well as external channels of engagement through thought as well as action-based outcomes.

Set up in April 2023, the Centre is currently headed by Dr. Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, Professor, at Great Lakes, Gurgaon.

Objectives

The list of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their sub-goals formulated in 2015 together provide nearly 200 actionable goals to be achieved by 2030. The CoE for Sustainability of Great Lakes, Gurgaon aims to address some selected SDGs, through training, consultancy, workshops, conferences and research. The list of SDGs that the Centre intends on focus on are merely indicative at this stage.

Overall, the objectives of the CoE are:

  • to contribute to creating environmentally and socially responsible business managers
  • to emerge as a credible thought-leader with intellectual contributions that can make businesses and societies sustainable
  • to help support the implementation of best practices in businesses, organizations and communities to create a more sustainable society

Activities

Since its inception in April 2023, the Centre has engaged in a wide range of activities:

  • Multiple op-eds and articles in business press have been published, relating to various aspects of SDGs and India’s progress on the same.
  • Original research articles on sustainability are regularly published in peer reviewed journals.
  • A quarterly newsletter – SASHWAT (Shaping Actions for a Sustainable and Humanitarian World Through Advocacy and Transformation) is published, with compilation of various aspects of sustainability, both in India and globally.
  • A first-of-its-kind SCORE (Sustainability Content Occurrence and Relevance Evaluation) Index has been developed by the Centre, in collaboration with IndiaDataHub, to be launched soon, which will capture the extent to which the business media is expending efforts, through their publications, to disseminate sustainability related content and raise awareness among citizens.
  • Construction of a Monthly Prosperity Index using satellite data is underway.
  • A tool for measuring individual’s Environmental Quotient – EvQ (similar to IQ and EQ) is currently under development by Great Lakes Gurgaon faculty.
  • The annual international conference of Great Lakes Gurgaon – the Winter Conference for Sustainable Business – is held every December, under the aegis of the Centre, at the Gurgaon campus. The first conference was held on 19th and 20th Dec 2022, with the theme of “International Perspectives in Economics & Management for Sustainability”. On 20th and 21st December 2023, the 2nd Conference was held with the theme of “Managing Businesses for a Sustainable Future: G-20 and beyond". On 19th and 20th Dec 2024, the 3rd edition of the Conference is scheduled to be conducted. The conference, attended by delegates from India and abroad, serves as a platform for academicians and industry practitioners to explore innovative theories and applications of ‘sustainability’ in various domains of management practice. The conference also hosts panel discussions with reputed speakers from business organizations, policy makers and think tanks, and academia, from India and abroad.
  • The Centre is also a member of the IUSDRP (Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme) of the University of Hamburg.
  • The Centre is working with various think tanks and NGO partners for implementing sustainability related projects on the ground.

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SCORE Index

Data

The SCORE (Sustainability Content Occurrence and Relevance Evaluation) Index is a weekly index that tracks public discourse on SDGs and sustainability - related topics in business dailies.

View SCORE Data

Insight

For every week, we explain the SCOREs by decomposing the news into three distinct categories which are News expected and seen, News expected but not seen and News not expected but seen.

July Fourth Week September First Week November Third Week

Documents

The methodology document describes how the key terms were extracted from the UN SDG document, how were they assigned weights and how the SCORE Index was constructed.

Score Index Methodology

SDGs

SDGs
 

Research and Publications

Research articles published in peer reviewed journals are given below:

  • Lund, I.H., Shaikh, F., Harijan, K. Kumar, L, Dagar, V (2024). Prospects of natural gas consumption in Pakistan: based on the LMDI-STIRPAT PLSR framework. Environmental Science Pollution Research, 31, 2090–2103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-31274-1
  • Agarwal, A., & Ojha, R. (2024). Prioritizing implications of Industry-4.0 on the sustainable development goals: A perspective from the analytic hierarchy process in manufacturing operations. Journal of Cleaner Production, 141189.
  • Chahal, J., Dagar, V. and Shoukat, M.H. (2024), "Sustainable entrepreneurship: examining stimulus-organism-response to the nexus of environment, education and motivation", Management Decision, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-04-2024-0845
  • Dagar, V., Dagher, L., Rao, A., Doytch, N., & Kagzi, M. (2024). Economic policy uncertainty: Global energy security with diversification. Economic Analysis and Policy, 82, 248-263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2024.03.008
  • Dagar, V., Rao, A., Dagher, L., & Doytch, N. (2024). Climate change dynamics for global energy security and equity: Evidence from policy stringency drivers. Journal of Environmental Management, 370, 122484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122484
  • Kagzi, M., Dagar, V., Doytch, N., Krishnan, D., & Raj, M. (2024). Curbing environmental degradation to balance sustainable development: Evidence from China. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 24, 100465. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.INDIC.2024.100465
  • Lund, I. H., Shaikh, F., Harijan, K., Kumar, L., & Dagar, V. (2023). Prospects of natural gas consumption in Pakistan: based on the LMDI-STIRPAT PLSR framework. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31(2), 2090–2103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-31274-1
  • Ojha, R., & Agarwal, A. (2023). Implications of circular production and consumption of electric vehicle batteries on resource sustainability: A system dynamics perspective. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-25.
  • Piwowar-Sulej, K., Iqbal, Q., Dagar, V., & Singh, S. (2024). Employees’ eco-friendly innovative behaviors: Examining the role of individual and situational factors. European Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.005
  • Raghavendra, C., Mahesh, R., Khan, M. K., Dagar, V., Singh, S., & Alvarado, R. (2024). Impact of carbon emissions, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on inbound cross-border mergers and acquisition’s investment inflow. Environment, Development and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-04511-x
  • Ullah, I., Dagar, V., Tanin, T. I., Rehman, A., & Zeeshan, M. (2024). Agricultural productivity and rural poverty in China: The impact of land reforms. Journal of Cleaner Production, 475, 143723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143723
  • Yadav, P., Agarwal, B. & Mathew, J. Indian voters’ attitude and behavior toward a political brand for producing green products: a mediation model. Futur Bus J 10, 41 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43093-024-00327-3

Business Press

 

Winter Business School Conference

1st International Winter Business School Conference (WBSC 2022)

On 19th and 20th December 2022, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon hosted their first international conference, titled “International Perspectives in Economics & Management for Sustainability”, participated by renowned international and national speakers, researchers, representatives from industry as well as government of India. With this conference, which saw participation from nearly 75 delegates, Great Lakes, Gurgaon signaled its intention to emerge as a leading academic and research institute in the sphere of “Sustainable business practices” and offer to industry not only competent and environmentally responsible management professionals but also intellectual capital in all spheres of sustainability. Details of WBSC 2022 can be found on here.

2nd International Winter Business School Conference (WBSC 2023)

On 20th and 21st December 2023, the 2nd Winter Business School Conference with the theme of “Managing Businesses for a Sustainable Future: G-20 and beyond" was held in the Great Lakes, Gurgaon campus, under the aegis of the Centre. The conference, attended by nearly 100 delegates from India and abroad, served as a platform for academicians and industry practitioners to explore innovative theories and applications of ‘sustainability’ in various domains of management practice. The conference also hosted panel discussions with reputed speakers from business organizations, policy makers and think tanks, and academia, from India and abroad. Details of WBSC 2022 can be found on here.

3rd International Winter Conference on Sustainable Business (WCSB 2024)

Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon, India is hosting its third International Research Conference ‘Winter Conference on Sustainable Business (WCSB),’ previously ‘Winter Business School Conference (WBSC), under the aegis of The Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development, at the Gurgaon campus on 19th & 20th December 2024. The theme for the conference is ‘Roadmap to Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for Business Models and Practices'. Details of WBSC 2024 can be found here.

 

Associations

  • IIT Stuart School of Business
  • BABSON
  • BAUER
  • University of Bordeaux
  • HKUST
  • UMKC
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