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Consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world, ISB was founded in 1996 as a unique project-led by McKinsey in collaboration with Kellogg, Wharton, and London Business School-to bring premier management education to India. Today, it is a training ground for world-class talent and boasts a vibrant student body synonymous with leadership, innovation, and sustainable growth. The school continues to play a catalytic role in nation-building, for everything from nurturing and grooming future-ready leaders from diverse backgrounds to producing cutting-edge research.

Generation India Foundation (GIF), an affiliate of Generation You Employed, is an independent non-profit founded by McKinsey & Company. It has become the world’s largest demand-driven skilling initiative, with more than 40,000 graduates spread across 14 countries. Generation India is live in 41 cities, with more than 300 employer partners, and more than 10,000 students enrolled, with over 80 percent receiving job offers. In 2020, Generation formed a coalition to help upskill more than 120,000 healthcare workers in India to help meet the expanding healthcare needs driven by COVID-19. GIF is tying up with the government to significantly scale-up operations and train 30,000 workers, co-funded with public and private funding through 2023.

For over a decade, PHFI has been an instrumental force in strengthening India’s public health system by adopting broader and more integrative approaches that examine the country’s healthcare concerns from both a scientific as well as a social point-of-view. McKinsey has helped catalyze the need for such an effort by facilitating the conceptualization of the foundation, engaging different stakeholders within India and around the world, leading private fundraising, and providing project management and execution support. The foundation was developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare

In 2006, McKinsey launched a 12-week study to determine the feasibility of adapting the Teach for America model to India. This led to the birth of the groundbreaking Teach For India, an organization that has dedicated itself to battling education inequity in the country. The Firm continues to support TFI on its long-term strategy of improving infrastructure and quality of education at under-resourced government schools. Most recently, our pro bono teams helped TFI identify disruptive educational trends to address challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.