FIIB Named PRME Champion 2026–27: Strengthening the Commitment to Responsible Management Education

Recognition matters! Not as a badge, but as validation of a direction pursued with intent and consistency. Fortune Institute of International Business (FIIB), New Delhi, has been named a PRME Champion for 2026–27, placing it within an exclusive global cohort of 50 business schools and universities committed to advancing responsible management education aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

For FIIB, this recognition is not a beginning. It is a milestone along a journey that has long shaped how the institution defines management education.

Beyond Employability: Educating Leaders Who Matter

Globally, business education is undergoing a fundamental shift. The question is no longer only how to produce employable graduates, but how to prepare leaders capable of navigating complex social, environmental, and economic realities.

At FIIB, this shift is embedded in practice—not rhetoric. Sustainability, responsibility, and social relevance are integrated across teaching, research, and institutional culture rather than treated as peripheral themes.

• 72% of PGDM courses aligned with UNSDGs
• 65% of PGDM–FM coursework aligned with UNSDGs
• Curriculum emphasis on ethical decision-making, responsible leadership, and sustainability
• Faculty research engaging with social impact, inclusion, and sustainable business models
• Industry dialogues focused on aligning profit with purpose

Students are encouraged to ask not only “What career will I build?” but also “What impact will my work create?”

Impact That Extends Beyond the Campus

FIIB’s commitment to responsibility goes beyond classrooms. A defining expression of this philosophy is the Social Internship Program (SIP)—a 15-day, credit-based immersion where students work with social sector organisations (SSOs) on real community challenges.

Over the years, 1,654+ social internships have been completed with measurable outcomes, addressing issues such as education access, gender inclusion, livelihoods, and community empowerment. The emphasis is on creating usable solutions and knowledge outputs, not just volunteer hours.

Students return with insights textbooks cannot offer an understanding how policy meets practice and how management tools can serve social good.

Key Engagement Platforms

Social Internship Program (SIP)
Credit-based immersion with SSOs to co-create solutions, building social sensitivity, problem-solving ability, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA)
Academic–community collaboration supporting sustainable rural development across five adopted villages, including initiatives such as digital literacy campaigns.

Jaagriti Club
Student-led advocacy for gender equality and leadership through campaigns, dialogues, and mentorship.

FIIB–UN Girl Up Club
Empowering youth leadership and gender equity through awareness, action, and global engagement.

Measuring Commitment, Not Just Claiming It

FIIB has strengthened how it tracks and communicates impact through its SDG Dashboard and responsibility reporting framework, monitoring contributions across teaching, research, partnerships, dialogues, and organisational practices.

This ensures sustainability is not symbolic but institutional.

• 50% female representation in student governance
• 52+ partnerships with social sector organisations
• 08+ years of sustained contribution to societal development

Global Engagement and Student Leadership

In 2025, FIIB’s global engagement took a significant step forward when Mansi Kaushik (PGDM 2024–26), Regional Leader for South & Central Asia, represented the region at UNGA Week 2025 in New York as part of the PRME Global Student Delegation.

She engaged with global policymakers as a Youth Speaker and participated in key platforms including GABI – Unstoppable Africa and UN Global Compact sessions, reinforcing FIIB’s presence in global responsibility dialogues.

A Community Shaping Responsible Futures

FIIB’s impact is also reflected in alumni journeys. Graduates today work across ESG strategy, corporate sustainability, social enterprises, renewable energy, grassroots development, and community empowerment. Many consciously move from corporate success toward social leadership, carrying forward FIIB’s ethos in diverse contexts.

Platforms such as TEDxFIIB, Meraki (Annual B-Plan Competition), and dialogue forums like Manthan further connect industry, academia, and young leaders to debate the future of business, technology, and society.

What PRME Champion Status Means

The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) supported by the United Nations Global Compact is the world’s largest initiative linking business schools committed to responsible management education.

PRME Champions are institutions that actively lead collaboration, experimentation, and thought leadership in sustainability-driven management education.

For FIIB, this status affirms work already underway and brings responsibility to deepen innovation in curriculum, research, partnerships, and community engagement, while collaborating globally with like-minded institutions.

The Road Ahead

Management education stands at an inflection point. Climate change, technological disruption, inequality, and evolving workforce expectations demand leaders who can balance performance with purpose.

FIIB’s inclusion in the PRME Champions cohort reinforces a core belief: business schools must do more than prepare graduates for jobs; they must prepare them to solve problems that matter.

As FIIB steps into this next phase alongside global peers, the focus remains unchanged nurturing leaders who build organisations that are successful, responsible, inclusive, and sustainable.

Because the future of business leadership will be defined not merely by growth, but by the impact it leaves behind.

Explore how FIIB’s Center for Responsible Management are advancing responsible management through research, innovation, and community engagement.