Tuesday, August 09, 2005
[IWS] INDIA Changing Face of AMERICAN BUSINESS (Conference Board)
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
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Conference Board
Across the Board® Article
The Indians Are Coming
How management thinkers from India are changing the face of American business.
By Des Dearlove , Stuart Crainer
http://www.conference-board.org/articles/atb_article.cfm?id=313
or
http://www.conference-board.org/articles/articlepdf.cfm?ID=313
[full-text, 5 pages]
[excerpt]
"The thinkers are often first-generation immigrants to the West. Almost all have had firsthand experience working in typically chaotic Indian businesses," says Gita Piramal, founder and managing editor of the Indian management magazine The Smart Manager. "Some, like Sumantra Ghoshal, worked in the public sector. C.K.'s first job was at Union Carbide's battery factory in Chennai, and he also worked in a company making pistons. Ram Charan was born and brought up as part of an extended family of thirteen that ran a shoe shop. All pulled themselves out of India, and many have a Harvard link."
Just below the established luminaries is a group of up-and-coming stars. The faculty rolls of the world's most prestigious B-schools contain an increasing number of academics with Indian roots. They include Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria, and Krishna Palepu at Harvard Business School; Jagdish Bhagwati at Columbia; Deepak Jain and Mohanbir Sawhney at Northwestern's Kellogg School; and Raj Reddy at Carnegie Mellon.
Considering the rising Indian enrollment in the world's MBA programs, more will undoubtedly follow. And this is not just an American phenomenon: This year, for the first time, INSEAD's biggest national contingent is Indian, and the Swiss school IMD has seen the number of Indian MBA students more than double since 2001. At the Barcelona B-school ESADE, Indian enrollment has quadrupled in the last four years.
AND MUCH MORE....
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
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Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
Conference Board
Across the Board® Article
The Indians Are Coming
How management thinkers from India are changing the face of American business.
By Des Dearlove , Stuart Crainer
http://www.conference-board.org/articles/atb_article.cfm?id=313
or
http://www.conference-board.org/articles/articlepdf.cfm?ID=313
[full-text, 5 pages]
[excerpt]
"The thinkers are often first-generation immigrants to the West. Almost all have had firsthand experience working in typically chaotic Indian businesses," says Gita Piramal, founder and managing editor of the Indian management magazine The Smart Manager. "Some, like Sumantra Ghoshal, worked in the public sector. C.K.'s first job was at Union Carbide's battery factory in Chennai, and he also worked in a company making pistons. Ram Charan was born and brought up as part of an extended family of thirteen that ran a shoe shop. All pulled themselves out of India, and many have a Harvard link."
Just below the established luminaries is a group of up-and-coming stars. The faculty rolls of the world's most prestigious B-schools contain an increasing number of academics with Indian roots. They include Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria, and Krishna Palepu at Harvard Business School; Jagdish Bhagwati at Columbia; Deepak Jain and Mohanbir Sawhney at Northwestern's Kellogg School; and Raj Reddy at Carnegie Mellon.
Considering the rising Indian enrollment in the world's MBA programs, more will undoubtedly follow. And this is not just an American phenomenon: This year, for the first time, INSEAD's biggest national contingent is Indian, and the Swiss school IMD has seen the number of Indian MBA students more than double since 2001. At the Barcelona B-school ESADE, Indian enrollment has quadrupled in the last four years.
AND MUCH MORE....
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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