SUNDAY HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI JANUARY 29, 2012 | 13 think! VARIETY STORIES FROM A CHANGING WORLD SUNIL KUMAR (43) BHASKAR POSITION: Dean, CHAKRAVORTI (52) University of Chicago POSITION:Senior Booth School of Associate Dean, Business. GETTYIMAGES International Business & BACKGROUND: Born in Finance; Institute for Bangalore, He was on the faculty of Business in the Global Context and Center Stanford University’s School of Business for Emerging Market Enterprises;The for 14 years. He says, “I was admitted to Fletcher School, Tufts University. the Indian Institute of Science and went BACKGROUND:A former partner at there because I didn’t want a job. In time, I McKinsey, and former member at the fell in love with academia.” Harvard Business School. His journey start- PLANS: “My most important objective ed at the Delhi School of Economics. now is to enhance and broaden the impact PLANS: To develop the next generation of and reputation of the school.” global leaders with ‘contextual intelligence. ON INDIA: “Indians in the US clearly bring ON INDIANS: “The ability to speak English a strong global perspective. The strength and the willingness to travel/work in any of the Indian education system creates part of the world is an enormous asset and advantages.” THTHINKINGINKING is key to India’s ‘soft power’.” VIJAY SOUMITRA DUTTA LORD KUMAR GOVINDARAJAN (48) BHATTACHARYA (71) (62) POSITION: Dean of the POSITION: Chairman, POSITION: Earl C Daum Samuel Curtis Johnson Warwick Manufacturing 1924 Professor of Graduate School of Group, Warwick International Business at Management at Cornell University the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth BACKGROUND: After a computer science BACKGROUND: After IIT Kharagpur, he College. HEADS left for Britain as he says, “the day I fin- degree from IIT Delhi, a place he says, BACKGROUND: “Deeply influenced” by “Everyone in my class was a topper from ished my graduation”. Became UK’s first his formative years in India (including win- their school.” He headed for Berkeley, professor of manufacturing. ning the President’s Gold Medal for stand- GURU COOL With his appointment as dean of an where he moved to business management. PLANS: With Britain re-balancing its ing first in Chartered Accountancy exam). PLANS: To focus on emerging markets — to economy, WMG has been asked to play a PLANS: “I want to continue my work on bring more faculty and students from as central role in industrial development reverse innovation — any innovation that Ivy League college, Soumitra Dutta is only the latest Brazil India, China and Indonesia. strategy. starts in poor countries and then moves to ON INDIA: “India needs more internal ON INDIA: “There’s no shortage of top rich countries.” to join the burgeoning club of Indian-origin reforms: clean leadership, collective ambi- quality Indians in America. In science and ON INDIA: “Companies have plenty of tion and the courage to make bold deci- technology, to be a leader the competition ideas but the real problem is translating intellectuals heading global academic institutes sions. The Indian leadership needs to do is fierce. Indians do brilliantly but they ideas into action.” more to ensure the economy doesn’t stall.” need more confidence.” NIRMALYA ACHARYA RAGHURAM RAJAN he appointment of in a day,” says Director of Centre for ARVIND PANAGARIYA JAGDISH BHAGWATI (51) (43) Soumitra Dutta as the head Theoretical Physics in Jamia Millia (59) (77) POSITION: Professor of POSITION: Eric J. of the Ivy League business Islamia, M Sami, who rose to promi- POSITION: Professor of POSITION: Professor at Marketing and co-direc- Gleacher Distinguished school of Cornell University nence after his paper on ‘Dynamics of Indian Political Economy, Columbia University and tor of Aditya Birla India Service Professor of is one more addition to elite Dark Energy’ was included in the Nobel International and Public Senior Fellow in Centre at London Finance and the Charles T club of Indian-origin intel- Prize committee document in 2011. Affairs and Economics, International Economics at Business School. M. Harper Faculty Fellow; served as the lectuals and thinkers occupying posi- Many believe that while there is School of International and Public Affairs, the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. BACKGROUND: Accepted in the youngest, first non-western chief econo- tions of importance in international much focus on Indians in the West, Columbia University, New York. BACKGROUND: Among the most celebrat- Northwestern PhD program by Philip mist at the International Monetary Fund. institutions in the US and UK. intellectuals based in India are large- BACKGROUND: Completed his Master’s in ed economists globally not to have won the Kotler and then moved to IMD BACKGROUND: Way back in 2005, he Madeleine Sumption, policy analyst ly neglected. “The cumulative impact Economics from University of Rajasthan in Nobel Prize in that field. He continues to be Switzerland. forecast the current recession at a gather- at Migration Policy Institute (MPI), of the over focus on foreign institutions Jaipur, followed by a PhD programme in a thought leader. PLANS: “The issue I am currently con- ing of economists. Washington, attributes this growing is to ignore people working wonder- economics at Princeton University. PLANS:“I am finishing a provocative book templating is how MNCs have to trans- PLANS: To try and understand our world number of Indian intellectuals to the fully in different circumstances in PLANS: “I plan to turn the Columbia on Indian reforms with Professor Aravind form to meet the challenge of emerging better. And hopefully use that understand- growth of the Indian economy and its India,” says Pratap Bhanu Mehta, head Program on Indian Economic Policies into a Panagariya that shatters a lot of nonsensi- markets.” ing to change it a little for the good. gradual opening up that has provided of Centre for Policy Research, a Delhi- permanent Center on Indian Economy at cal myths that afflict our reforms. ON INDIA: “Indians who have lived in ON INDIA: If India can pull off the ongoing opportunities to Indian immigrants. based think-tank. “There is also a dis- Columbia University.” ON INDIA: “Indian economists, and politi- multiple countries demonstrate a flexibili- experiment in democratic growth, it will be “It’s part of a broader success story of proportionate focus on business ON INDIA: “Indians are a talented people cians, have long been interested in issues ty to adapt across cultures which is seen as one of the signal events of the 21st Indian immigrants,” she says. schools; the real Indian contribution and they compete well with the talented relating to human well-being something essential for MNC talent.” century. The Indian success story of aca- is now in fields like mathematics, etc.” people world over including the US.” that the UNDP thinks it invented.” demics is long, but now thanks to Ashis Nandy, Senior Fellow at the globalisation, there has been a huge Centre for the Study of Developing NITIN NOHRIA (49) LORD BHIKHU influx of CEOs and IT experts from Societies, who was chosen among PRABHAT JHA (46) PRADEEP KHOSLA POSITION: Dean, Harvard PAREKH (76) India. The phenomenon has helped 100 public intellectuals of the world POSITION: University of (54) Business School (HBS). POSITION: Emeritus India endorse itself as a brand. A MPI by Foreign Policy magazine in 2008, Toronto Director, Centre POSITION: Dean of the BACKGROUND: Born in Professor of political phi- study further says the recent trend says Indians go overboard in cele- for Global Health College of Engineering Mumbai and an IIT gradu- losophy, Centre for the has branded India as a source of well- brating the success of Indian-ori- Research, St Michael's and the Philip and Marsha ate. He joined HBS in 1988 Study of Democracy, educated and hard working profes- gin emigrants. “Have you ever seen Hospital, Toronto Dowd University and became HBS’s 10th Dean in July 2010. Westminster University. sionals, rather than a poverty ridden the French, German or Irish taking BACKGROUND: Jha is among the leading Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, He is the second dean, of the possibly the BACKGROUND: Born in rural Gujarat. He country of “snake charmers”. Also, so much pride in their second and scientists in the world who’ve had an BACKGROUND: An IIT Kharagpur alumni. most prestigious business college, in the went on to teach at LSE and chaired the besides the higher level of education, third generation migrants as we impact on global health policy. Among his He has been Program Manager at Defense world born outside the United States. Runnymede Trust on the Future of the study says, proficiency in English do?” major research efforts has been the Indian Advanced Research Projects Agency PLANS: “To give MBA students a dose of Multiethnic Britain has helped in better integration with Rather, the obvious observation, Million Death Study (one of the world’s (DARPA). real-world experience, HBS is introducing PLANS: Currently finishing a book, titled foreign societies. experts suggest, is that proud largest studies of premature mortality). PLANS: Have combined the two issues: its biggest curriculum change in nearly 90 ‘Understanding India’ — a collection of Though, the number of Indians Indians have come a long way now PLANS: Jha wants to concentrate on increasing cost of education and interna- years.” essays dealing with “questions no one is who had moved to the US between to achieve international acclaim. extending the MDS to other nations and tionalisation. and build a strategy helped in ON INDIA: "When I started teaching at talking about”. 1820 and 1900 was no more than 700, Many constructive policies which accelerating tobacco control globally. Portugal, Rwanda, and China.” HBS, it was difficult to find Indian or ON INDIA: “We are a society that is rest- according to MPI, presently the coun- are now seeing light in other parts ON INDIA: “India’s open and argumenta- ON INDIANS: “One of the advantages that Chinese case studies.