The inclusion of those who were reportedly responsible for the stampede that killed 36 people at Allahabad station during the Kumbh Mela, in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's entourage to Harvard has raised eyebrows. Sharat Pradhan reports
Tata recalled his first weeks on the Harvard campus as he attended a dedication ceremony of Tata Hall at Harvard Business School in Boston earlier this week.
There are two major impact of a "transfer raj". First, criteria other than merit often determine the assignments of bureaucrats to specific positions. So the most important positions may not always go to the most qualified or competent bureaucrats. This naturally means that there are inefficiencies in policy formulation and implementation, Harvard Business School's Lakshmi Iyer tells Faisal Kidwai
'Suddenly you become part of a very large humanity.' Bathing in the Ganga at the Maha Kumbh Mela left a lasting impression on Harvard investigators, finds Arthur J Pais.
Among the top realty fund managers in India; has also ventured into retail, credit among various other sectors and is investing in dozens of firms
India and the US also agreed to support the efforts of the Harvard Business School and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad to develop a cluster map.
Naina Lal Kidwai, Country Head, HSBC India and the first Indian woman to have graduated from the Harvard Business School, in 1982 speaks about the importance of hard work, women in IIM classrooms and more.
According to the recently released global MBA rankings of Financial Times, the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad at number 11 and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad at number 20 are the only two schools that find a place in the top 100.
'You're going to need talent, skill, and imagination and vision, but more than anything else, you're going to need the ability to communicate authentically, to speak so that you inspire the people around you and to listen, so that you continue to learn each and every day on the job.' Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, one of Silicon Valley's inspiring figures, delivered this inspiring speech at her alma mater, the Harvard Business School, last week.
According to the City Competitiveness report by the Institute for Competitiveness, Delhi is the most competitive.
Top industrialists have expressed concern over the impact that worsening corruption has on their businesses and said there is no short-cut to becoming a billion-dollar company other than doing things the right way.
Anxiety is possibly the single largest inhibitor of growth both for an individual and for a corporation, says Thomas J DeLong, Philip J Stomberg Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School.
The method relies on investors - voting with their wallets - to identify the companies they expect to be innovative today and in the future.
The ambitious ones stretch themselves to understand the challenges and deliver good results.
Blake Kernen has already co-authored a book with her father and delivers guest lectures at the Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management.
India should focus on how many are living below the poverty line, says Professor of Global Strategy Pankaj Ghemawat.
The heroic response by employees of Mumbai's landmark Taj Hotel during the 26/11 terror attacks is now a case study at Harvard Business School that focusses on the staff's selfless service for its customers and how they went beyond their call of duty to save lives.
In October, the chairman of Tata Sons, Ratan Tata, gifted $50 million to his alma mater, the Harvard Business School, to give back to the school - in his words - a little bit of what it had given him.
After a stint in Crisil as chairman, Mohan joined the Mukesh Ambani-led company as executive director in August this year, RIL spokesperson said.
Harvard Business School's Indian-origin dean Nitin Nohria has said he is keen on changing the perception that business schools are "about credentials and connections" at a time when "trust in business leaders is close to an all-time low".
Akshaya Patra, the largest non-governmental organisation of its kind in the world whose motto is 'No child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger', runs on subsidies by state governments and donations generated by thousands in India and America.
From speed dating to listening to thought provoking talks by professor Tarun Khanna of the Harvard Business School, over 800 members of the Network of Indian Professionals recently spent three days in Boston.
The Harvard Business School students will soon learn case studies based on success stories from India Inc.
The sense of pride and utter joy by some high profile Indian American alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, that one of their own Nitin Nohria, had been appointed the new dean of the Harvard Business School was palpable.
For several decades Nitin Nohria, the newly appointed dean of Harvard Business School, has known that without generosity life is greatly diminished. "If you are generous life gives you more than you can imagine," he tells rediff.com as he discusses some of the values that have made him a renowned academic and much loved business teacher.
An MBA from Harvard Business School, Rishad, 32, joined the company almost two years ago as a business manager in the Banking and Finance division, which was then headed by Girish Paranjpe, the present joint CEO of the company's IT business. During his stint with GE Capital, Rishad was working in the treasury. Industry analysts say that Wipro is adhering to corporate standards, by treating the chairman's son at par with other employees.
Das had been with SAP for over eight years.
A day after Indian-American Nitin Nohria was named the 10th Dean of Harvard Business School (HBS), the 48-year-old professor said he was indebted to his alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay.
'The Indian media has largely ignored my efforts.'
"We are delighted to have Anjali Raina take on this important leadership role at our India Research Center," said Krishna Palepu, Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. "She will focus on building and maintaining relationships with senior business leaders in the region to facilitate the expanding work of the Center in research, educational programs, and alumni endeavors."
The Indian School of Business (ISB) is the only one in the country to find a place in the list of top 20 B-schools in the world, published by the Financial Times.
The "pyramid" component stems from the idea that there should be a main governing thought for the communication.
Pankaj Ghemawat is dismissive of the obsession with growth and scale economies -- he calls them 'dinosaur economics.' He would be much happier if companies considered all components of economic value while assessing cross-border alternatives.
After Harvard Business School and Tuck School of Business, India's developing corporate scenario has now attracted France-based ESCP-EAP European School of Management to hold executive education programmes for corporates in India.
A new law and a new study refuel the H-1B debate.
An alumnus of IIM-A from the 1983 batch, Nanda was a Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School and later a Harvard Business School faculty member, before he took charge on September 2, 2013.
What is the solution to problems like this? It is probably not more intrusive government regulation. Despite the noises being made in America blaming all finance-sector problems on a lax regulatory environment, it is not clear that more paperwork is the answer.
The education programme, to be organised at Hyderabad on June 17 to 20, 2008 in association with HBS India Research Center, would be addressed by HBS faculty and it is designed for senior executives of the real estate industry. During the programme, participants would examine critical issues important to leadership in South Asia's rapidly changing real estate environment. Topics, including project and corporate finance, development and leadership, would be explored.
A Chennai-based software development company Arrowpoint Technologies Pvt Ltd has developed Enterprise Strategy Ware, a balanced scorecard product, which is a Harvard business school concept that provides complete business solutions to improve operati
Transcript of the chat with ICICI Bank ED V Vaidyanathan.
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