Case study: how IIM Jodhpur runs knowledge donation at scale
A look inside how one of India's top business schools turned ad-hoc guest sessions into a structured donor pipeline serving 1,200 students a year.
In 2024, the placements team at IIM Jodhpur was spending forty-plus hours a month on guest speaker logistics. The team is now down to four hours a month — and the number of sessions is up.
The before
Every batch coordinator was independently emailing alums, founders and faculty friends. There was no central calendar. No shared list of "donors who already said yes once." Half the time, two committees double-booked the same Friday.
The shift
The team moved everything onto Mindonor in February 2024. Three changes did most of the work:
- Wishlist over outreach. Instead of begging individually, they post a public wishlist of topics each term. Donors come to them.
- Logistics surfaced upfront. Every in-person request now declares transport and accommodation in the post. Acceptance rates jumped from 22% to 61%.
- Preferred donors. For three or four flagship sessions per term, they tag specific donors. 78% of personally-invited donors say yes.
The numbers, 18 months in
From January 2024 to June 2025: 247 completed donor sessions, an average rating of 4.7, and a 39× reduction in coordinator hours per session.
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