Tupperware Brands Announces Arrival of Third Global Links Scholar, Dr. Rumpa Chakraborty
January 24 2017 - 9:01AM
Business Wire
With the support of U.S. Secretary of State’s
Office of Global Women’s Issues and co-founder Rollins College,
Tupperware Brands launches third successful program year
Tupperware Brands Corporation (NYSE:TUP) announced the Orlando
arrival of Dr. Rumpa Chakraborty, the third scholar selected to
participate in Global Links, a cross-cultural exchange program.
Developed with the support of U.S. Secretary of State’s Office of
Global Women’s Issues and co-founders Rollins College and
Tupperware Brands, Global Links expands women’s entrepreneurship
opportunities in developing and post-conflict countries. Dr. Rumpa
Chakraborty, a professor of finance and accounting at Shri
Shikshayatan College in Kolkata, is the second Global Links scholar
from India.
Global Links espouses the values of women’s economic empowerment
and social change held by Tupperware Brands. From January through
May, Dr. Chakraborty will spend five months in the United States.
She will receive ongoing academic and social-entrepreneurship
training and participate in business classes at the Rollins College
Social Entrepreneurship and Business Department and Crummer
Graduate School of Business, in addition to a hands-on externship
focused on business fundamentals at Tupperware Brands global
headquarters in Orlando. After this immersion experience, Dr.
Chakraborty will return to Kolkata to introduce social
entrepreneurship concepts to her students. She will also develop a
community service project for students that includes mentoring
women in the local community on various business skills needed to
maintain successful enterprises.
Dr. Chakraborty has been teaching at Shri Shikshayatan College,
a liberal arts women’s college, since 1999. She is the faculty
coordinator of the college’s entrepreneurship program, and mentors
students interested in pursuing entrepreneurship as a career. In
addition, Dr. Chakraborty teaches finance, business management and
accounting and offers career development workshops and seminars.
She completed her undergraduate, graduate and doctoral studies at
the University of Calcutta.
“I am thrilled to have been selected to participate in Global
Links,” said Dr. Chakraborty. “I am grateful for the opportunity to
enrich my knowledge of entrepreneurship and women’s economic
empowerment. Most of all, through Global Links, I look forward to
helping my students work with real-life entrepreneurs in India,
especially those from underprivileged communities and rural
areas.”
In 2015, Dr. Sharmistha Banerjee, a professor of Business
Management at the University of Calcutta, was selected as the first
Global Links scholar from India. Since her return to Kolkata,
Dr. Banerjee has held nine workshops where more than 400 students
and 50 faculty members have been engaged in social entrepreneurship
seminars. Global Links not only teaches these students business
fundamentals, it inspires them to work on business projects that
give back to their community. Dr. Chakraborty’s appointment as the
third Global Links scholar, through the “learn and return” model,
will help further entrepreneurial opportunities for women
in India.
After a successful 2012 pilot in Iraq, the program expanded
to India - a country with only 35% female participation
in the job market, despite it being the 10th largest economy with
respect to GDP. Women in India continue to face many cultural,
societal and educational barriers to labor force entry and economic
empowerment.
“Tupperware Brands has long believed in the business value of
empowering women,” said Rick Goings, Tupperware Brands Corporation
Chairman and CEO. “For more than 70 years, we have provided women
with opportunities to grow as entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Global Links takes this effort a step further, connecting scholars
across cultures to disseminate best practices in entrepreneurship
to communities in developing countries.”
Grant Cornwell, Rollins College President, says: “Each year, the
Global Links scholar brings a unique perspective to our classrooms,
strengthening our understanding of entrepreneurship around the
world today. Our faculty, staff and students look forward to
partnering with Dr. Chakraborty this semester, and we are grateful
for our partnership with Tupperware Brands on the Global Links
program as it reinforces our commitment to higher education and
life-long learning.”
About Tupperware Brands Corporation
Through an independent sales force of 3.1 million, Tupperware
Brands Corporation is the leading global marketer of innovative,
premium products across multiple brands utilizing social selling.
Product brands and categories include design-centric preparation,
storage and serving solutions for the kitchen and home through the
Tupperware brand and beauty and personal care products through the
Avroy Shlain, BeautiControl, Fuller, NaturCare, Nutrimetics, and
Nuvo brands.
About Rollins College
Located in Orlando in the community of Winter Park, Rollins
College is Florida’s oldest recognized college. For more than
20 years, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Rollins among the
top two regional universities in the South. As part of its
mission to educate students for global citizenship and responsible
leadership, Rollins offers full-time undergraduate programs,
undergraduate and graduate degree programs through its evening
program at the Hamilton Holt School and graduate business degree
programs through its Crummer Graduate School of Business, which has
been ranked a top MBA program by Forbes and Bloomberg
BusinessWeek. Rollins serves approximately 3,300 degree-seeking
students annually. For more information,
visit www.rollins.edu. “Like” Rollins
on Facebook and follow on Twitter @RollinsCollege.
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