IIM-B launches website for teaching CSR

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) recently launched a website dedicated to teaching of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

The 'Teach CSR website', part of the India-UK CSR Education and Research project, offers free online basic course, "responsible business", which provides guidance to key issues, teaching methodologies, suggested readings and links to other relevant online education in CSR resources.

The initiatives have been taken up following a shortage of available material and teaching resources on the subject, Professor N Balasubramanian said at a workshop in Bnagalore.

Under the project, the website runs small sets of lecture slides which business school teachers can use as a basic teaching tool and supplement and adapt for their own teaching needs.

Links are also provided to other CSR teaching resources such as films, practitioner sites and relevant case studies and research papers.

The initiative aims at strengthening research in this field and building up case studies on the subject, he said, adding the website is intended to be a live resource with a discussion forum and with continuing updates and additions of new CSR teaching and research resources.

The IIM-B also rolled out a model CSR curriculum that could be "adopted and adapted" by business schools. — PTI