Utkarsh Majmudar is a professional with over two decades of experience encompassing teaching, research and administration at premier business schools in India (IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow, IIM Udaipur etc.) and working with large corporations in India at GE Capital, iGATE and HSBC. He teaches finance at leading management institutions. Utkarsh is also a member of the Board of Governors at IIM Raipur.
Apart from finance, he has done significant work in the area of sustainability–conducting an annual study of the performance of companies on corporate responsibility, working with large companies, publishing cases on sustainability, and writing extensively on the theme. He has co-authored two books. His second book, Shift: Decisions for a Net Zero World has been released recently.
After a warm welcome from the anchor, Mr Utkarsh Majmudar and Mr Kartik Borikar start their conversation on a much-awaited topic by the audience. Mr Borikar starts the conversation by requesting Mr Majmudar to give the audience an insight into his journey which led him to environmental conservation. Mr Majmudar tells the audience how he ended up in environmental conservation from working in the private sector. As per Mr Utkarsh, it’s high time that we start implementing groundbreaking methods to conserve the environment. He talks about how corporations have incredibly massive carbon footprints and how he along with his compatriots calculates these footprints and helps these organisations take actions with a lasting impact. Mr Majmudar talks about why corporates need to be pushed onto a path that eventually leads them to a net-zero carbon footprint to save the planet. And that’s what his new book is about, in which Mr Majmudar talks about net-zero as a concept and its practical implementation in the coming years. With a few more questions on the book, the session comes to a close.