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7th annual silk road conference

intlalliances — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:12:02 PDT

Harry Lepinske, of the Central Asian Productivity Research Center, hosted the 7th annual Silk Road Conference earlier this week at various locations in Chicago. I was only able to attend the 1st day & moderated the panel discussion on Corporate Governance. The focus of the morning’s presentations was on global entrepreneurship, a topic dear to [...]

panel discussion on India’s federal budget

intlalliances — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:16:43 PDT

I attended this panel discussion Budget Talk: Post Budget Panel discussion, organized by the GITAM Institute of Management & sponsored by Indian Bank & moderated by The Hindu newspaper. The panelists consisted of Satya Kumar of the Visakhapatnam Port Trust, Hari Naryan of GITAM, T.K. Chand of the Confederation of Indian Industry, Naresh Kumar of [...]

pre-summit BRICS conference in India

intlalliances — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:09:19 PDT

Last week I attended this international seminar on BRICS & the New World Order organized by the GITAM School of International Business (GSIB) here in Visakhapatnam, India. The conference featured diplomats from 3 of the BRICS countries in addition to India & academicians from China & India who have written papers on relationships between the [...]

Dipak Jain, Dean of Insead on Metrics for measuring marketing effectiveness

intlalliances — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:01:32 PST

1st a few stories from Dipak: His father was a founder of India Airlines. He was told by his doctoral advisor that there was no future in math, so he arranged by professional courtesy, a few interviews @ Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. When asked in these interviews why they should hire a math [...]

ICT for inclusive growth

intlalliances — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:49:05 PST

I caught a presentation by the Chief Innovation Officer of The Ink Group, Ivaturi Vijaya Kumar, on ICT for Inclusive Growth @ the International Conference on Information Systems Design & Intelligent Applications. He defined his topic as a focus on the social impact of information & communications technologies. 1 problem with ICT is it’s fixed [...]

Making marketing accountable panel discussion

intlalliances — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:24:58 PST

A stellar group of panelists gathered for this panel discussion. Vispy Doctor of Ormax Consultants, Ambi Parameswaran of DraftFCB Ulka, Punit Misra of Unilever, & Atish Chattopadhyay of SPJIMR all contributed to the discussion, while Dipak Jain, Dean of Insead chaired the session. The Marketing Impact Awards competition was completed & awards were presented as [...]

how safe is your data?

intlalliances — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:33:42 PST

I stopped in on this presentation by cyber-crime expert U Rama Mohan @ the International Conference on Information Systems Design & Intelligent Applications, who was quite a hoot. He was very skeptical about the state of cyber-security, & he’s 1 who should know. Law enforcement gets phobias-some don’t even know what a gigabyte is. Don’t [...]

Are Indian companies ready to go global?-a panel discussion

intlalliances — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:12:06 PST

Ashutosh Sinha of NDTV Profit television network moderated a panel discussion on the above-mentioned topic. The panel consisted of Tomas Hult of Michigan State University, Dev Bhattacharya of Aditya Birla Group, Pradeep Parameswaran of McKinsey, Prem Chandrani of SP Jain, Shashank Tripathi of PWC India, Sunny Banerjea of KPMG, & Kannan Chakravarthy of Mahindra & [...]

Human resources management innovation

intlalliances — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:31:05 PST

I attended an HR symposium which featured a number of well-qualified speakers, such as Dr. T.V. Rao, the founder of the National HRD Network, Rahul Amin CEO of Jyoti, Imon Ghosh, Director of the Academy of HRD, & David Wittenberg of the Innovation Workgroup. Dr. Anil Khandelwal also talked about how he transformed the Bank [...]

MSU prof on total global strategy

intlalliances — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:08:20 PST

While in Mumbai for a week, I saw a presentation given by Tomas Hult, the director of the International Business Center @ Michigan State University’s Broad School of Business on how to devise a total global strategy. He also happens to have authored a book by the same title. He spoke @ the consulting session [...]

managing diversity panel discussion @ the National Institute for Personnel Management of India conference

intlalliances — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:53:16 PST

I was invited to moderate a panel discussion on Managing Diversity @ the National Institute of Personnel Management conference in Visakhapatnam, India. I would have liked to have summarized it, but I was too busy moderating to take any notes. So instead, here are 3 of the 4 presentations that were given: mine, to introduce [...]

managing diversity in Germany & India

intlalliances — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:28:19 PST

I was recently invited by the National HRD (Human Resource Development) Network on the occasion of their Silver Jubilee celebrations to speak, & chose to talk about Managing Diversity-a cross cultural comparison between Germany & India. I would report on it, but I was too busy talking to take notes. Here’s the presentation, if you [...]

the challenge of gaining world class university status

intlalliances — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:01:01 PST

A Professor V.S. Prasad visited GITAM (where I teach) to discuss the Challenge of gaining world class university status. There’s been a fair amount of discussion of this topic in the press lately. For a country with the resources the size of India, 1 would think that India would have more universities recognized as world [...]

Indian ministry of defence R&D opportunities

intlalliances — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:31:36 PST

Dr. S Sundaresh of the Indian Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) gave a talk @ GITAM (where I teach) on opportunities in research & development with DRDO. He talked about 3 things: national r&d services an overview of DRDO academic interactions with DRDO 1. India’s growth trajectory is 9%, fueled by the IT industry [...]

m2′s monsoon wedding

intlalliances — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:24:49 PST

No, no, it wasn’t my monsoon wedding, but I did attend a wedding here in India & I thought you might like to read about it. I was invited by a faculty member whose daughter was getting married. Interestingly, both the bride & groom are doctors. In the Indian tradition, it was an arranged marriage, [...]

Indian Director of housing finance on global economic crisis & it’s impact on India’s economy

intlalliances — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:23:38 PST

Shri. K. Narasimha Murthy, an Independent Non-Executive Director of LIC Housing Finance Limited, (who looks like an accountant by trade), stopped by the GITAM campus to talk with our Institute of Management students on the global financial crisis & it’s impact on the Indian economy. He opened by noting that most Indians don’t know academics [...]

warnings for Indians studying in America

intlalliances — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:18:36 PDT

Prasad Thotakora, President of the Telegu (the local dialect spoken in the part of India where I’m teaching) Association of North America & COO of ekNazar.com, was invited to GITAM, the school where I teach, to speak about “Education & social entrepreneurship-a comparison between India & the USA. He’s lived in the US for the [...]

local techies woo government officials

intlalliances — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:48:51 PDT

The Confederation of Indian Industry & Vizag Information Technology Association hosted an event entitled IT Industry in tier II cities: Prospects & Challenges, which featured many of the local resident politicians who have a say over what local resources can be dedicated to entrepreneurship, technology etc. The purpose of the event was ultimately to lobby [...]

Indian Institute of Management Prof on Indian innovation

intlalliances — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:00:22 PDT

The Indian Society for Training & Development hosted Abraham Koshy, a professor @ India’s top-rated business school, the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedebad who essentially talked about people development. As a pure thoroughbred marketing person, Koshy co-authored a marketing book with noted Kellogg marketing guru Philip Kotler. Additionally he noted that great organizations require solid foundations [...]

India’s fed chief on the financial crisis

intlalliances — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:49:24 PDT

Dr. D Subbarao, the governor of Reserve Bank of India, i.e. India’s Ben Bernanke, came to the school where I teach the GITAM Institute of Management to talk about “India & the Global Financial Crisis: What have we learnt?” He opened by summarizing India’s recent economic history like so: India embarked on economic reform in [...]

northern German green technologies

intlalliances — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:19:19 PDT

It’s appropriate that the last international event I attended in Chicago before I left for India was with the Krauts, the 1′s who got me started in all this international stuff. They hosted this event: GREEN TECHNOLOGY: COOPERATION PERSPECTIVES FOR THE US MIDWEST REGION AND NORTHERN GERMANY Part of the visiting delegation was stuck in [...]

ILL export conference

intlalliances — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:59:53 PDT

My last week in Chicago, I checked out the ILLINOIS EXPORT CONFERENCE which was part of Illinois Export Week. Warren Ribley, Director of IL Dept. of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, led off by saying Illinois leads the midwest with an increase in exports of 20% from 2009 to 2010. Like Obama’s National Export Initiative, he [...]

democracy vs. corruption in India

intlalliances — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:59:31 PDT

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs hosted Kiran Bedi, the 1st & highest ranking female officer in the Indian Police Service & founder of the Navjyoti & India Vision Foundation who talked about RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN A DEMOCRATIC INDIA. Bedi’s life’s mission is to fight corruption & she’s tried to use visual depictions rather [...]

US manufacturing revival?

intlalliances — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:09:34 PDT

A full house attended MADE IN AMERICA: A REVIVAL IN U.S. MANUFACTURING? by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The event was moderated by 1 of my favorite economists Diane Swonk, & featured Chad Moutray of the National Association of Manufacturers, Bill Strauss of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, & David Beebe of Navistar. [...]

latin america rising

intlalliances — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:11:44 PDT

Fellow Thunderbird alumnus Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), was a guest of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs to talk about The New World Rediscovered: The Rise of Latin America Based in Washington, D.C., the IADB has 26 member countries, & is the oldest & largest source of multilateral assistance [...]

human rights vs. rights of foreign investors

intlalliances — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:07:42 PDT

I had lunch & learned with Prof. Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte Fragmentation of International Law: The Case of International Finance & Investment Law vs. Human Rights Law when she talked about which essentially pits the rights of foreign investors against the human rights of people in the host country receiving that investment. Cases in Germany & Argentina [...]

thru hong kong to china

intlalliances — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:44:04 PDT

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council put on another even bigger event china” href=”http://edm.tdctrade.com/intimate/viewMessage/content_path/messageId_131028644/logEnabled_true/ctEnabled_false/trackerType_3″>HONG KONG: YOUR PARTNER FOR SUCCESS IN CHINA to promote approaching China through this SAR Special Administrative Area. Mary Roberts of the Illinois Trade & Investment office said Illinois exports through Hong Kong were up 23% in 2010. Rita Athas of World [...]

naked vs. undercover economist

intlalliances — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:19:46 PDT

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs Young Professionals hosted another hip function THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST MEETS THE NAKED ECONOMIST Alas no bodies were bared. Charles Wheelan was back at it again, while Tim Harford was plugging his new book on how complex problems are solved. His toaster project, to build a toaster from scratch in [...]

revolutionizing development economics

intlalliances — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:30:01 PDT

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs hosted a lunch for Esther Duflo of MIT who is Revolutionizing Development Economics. She’s written a book about how she’s seeking to understand how the poor function & how to design effective policy to help alleviate poverty & check it’s effectiveness. The debate on aid & poverty is how [...]

bye Chicago-hi India, EU & Baker McKenzie on China, invest in Bulgaria, BRIC middle classes, enter India

intlalliances — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:41:54 PDT

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goodbye Chicago…hello India

intlalliances — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:33:09 PDT

It’s with a tinge of regret that I let all of my faithful readers (& anyone else who’ll read this) know that I’m leaving Chicago to teach @ the Ghandi Institute of Technology & Management in Visakhapatnam, India. I expect I’ll be teaching international business, marketing, management, etc. The hook for me was the opportunity [...]

The Economist & Baker-McKenzie on China

intlalliances — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:12:03 PDT

The good folks @ Baker & McKenzie were kind enough to extend an invitation to an update on China: China Update Roadshow 2011-Structuring for Growth in a Changing China. Mike Morkin, Managing Partner of BM’s Chicago office, Jia Zhao, the 1st Chinese woman to earn a western law degree & pass the bar, & Tom [...]