Anil Kumar Gupta is an Indian scholar in the area of grassroots

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. He is the founder of the Honey Bee Network. He retired as a full-time professor at the

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad) is the world's number 1 business school, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The school has been accorded the status of an Institute of National Importance by Ministry of Human Resourc ...

in 2017, where he served for about 36 years. He held an executive vice-chair at the National Innovation Foundation. He is also a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He was awarded the

Padma Shri Padma Shri ( IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conf ...

in 2004 for his contributions to management education. Gupta has developed courses for students at the

. One of his most popular courses included S''hodh Yatra,'' (meaning 'research walk'), under which he took management students to different parts of the country to learn from local communities and study their knowledge systems. This course was derived from his larger concept of walking through the length and breadth of the country, interacting with farmers,

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holders, grassroots innovators, innovative students, etc. It started in May 1998 in the western Indian province of

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Education

Upon finishing his bachelor's degree (Hons) in

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, he went on to complete his Masters in Sciences (Biochemical Genetics) from

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in 1974. In 1986, he earned a Ph.D. in Management from the Kurukshetra University.

Research

He is a Co-Ordinator of SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiative for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions). He was a speaker at TED India in November 2009. Since 2011, he is an advisor on issues pertaining to innovation, environment, and sustainability to Fair Observer, an online magazine covering global issues.

Awards and honours

References

External links

IIM Ahmedabad

Prof. Anil K. Gupta

Presentation page on Indian Institute of Management
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