Three student teams from the Goa Institute of Management (GIM) have been shortlisted for the 2020 Flourish Prizes, a global recognition programme celebrating business innovations aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The GIM teams were selected from 824 student-written innovation stories submitted from across the world. The 2020 Flourish Prizes featured 76 finalists from 35 universities across 17 countries, with the shortlisted stories developed under the guidance of 42 professors.
GIM has collaborated with AIM2Flourish, a higher-education initiative of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. As part of GIM’s Social Responsibility and Action (SRA) course, students research business innovations, interview business leaders and map their findings against the UN SDGs.
Three GIM Stories Shortlisted
The shortlisted GIM projects focused on healthcare, accessibility and digital transformation.
Protecting Motherhood was developed by students Vishal Sharma, Tanushka Malhotra, Arushi Bansal, Sakshi Ajmera, Pruthvi Sainath and Yeshitesh Shirodkar. The story focused on Maatritva, an app developed to support maternal health and promote safer pregnancies and deliveries. The project was aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being.
The second story, On My Own, was submitted by Nitin Singh Bundela, Aatish Agrawal, Kaiwal Shah, Nikunj Agarwal, Aakansha and Megha Goel. The project examined a business model designed to help people with disabilities learn to drive independently, with the broader objective of improving mobility, reducing inequalities and supporting greater economic participation.
The third shortlisted story, Digitisation of Healthcare, was developed by Arushi Kapila, Parth Ajmera, Sourabh Kale, Ashi Garg and Abhishek Kumar. The students examined the work of Stetho Healthcare Systems, focusing on how digital access to healthcare information can improve data availability for doctors and patients while reducing dependence on paper-based records.
Professor Divya Singhal, Associate Professor at GIM, who guided the student teams, said the selection of all three stories as Flourish Prize finalists was a significant achievement for the institute and thanked the business representatives who supported the students during the research process.
