Shapers of Business Institutions - 16 Mar 2021

DISCUSSION ON THE THEME OF THE BOOK

SHAPERS OF

BUSINESS INSTITUTIONS 6:00 PM

Welcome Address Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association

E-Launch of the Book and Address by the Author Mr R Gopalakrishnan

Author: Mr R Gopalakrishnan Former Executive Director, Tata Sons Ltd

Former Executive Director Tata Sons Ltd

Discussion and Q&A with Special Invitees

TUESDAY MAR 16, 2021 | 6.00 PM

Dr Vidyut Lata Dhir Behavioural Scientist and Professor in Leadership, Organizational Behaviour and Design Thinking, SPJIMR

Prof M Suresh Rao Former Chairperson, Centre for

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Entrepreneurship, SPJIMR

Dr Tulsi Jayakumar Professor of Economics and Chairperson, Family Managed Business, SPJIMR

7:45 PM

Vote of Thanks

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AUTHOR

R GOPALAKRISHNAN R. GOPALAKRISHNAN is an author, speaker and a corporate advisor. His career spans over 50 years: 31 in Unilever where he rose to be vice chairman, HUL, and later 19 years in Tata Sons as a director. He now serves as non-executive chairman of Castrol India, an independent director of Hemas plc, Sri Lanka, Executive-inResidence

at

Distinguished

S.P.

Jain

Professor

Institute of

IIT,

of

Management

Kharagpur.

He

has

and

Research,

authored

nine

Mumbai books

so

and far,

notably A Comma in a Sentence, Six Lenses and Doodles on Leadership.

SPECIAL INVITEES

VIDYUT LATA DHIR VIDYUT LATA DHIR (PhD) is a Behavioural Scientist and Professor in Leadership, Organizational Behaviour and Design Thinking at S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR). She is a recipient of the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship by the EU and designs management development programmes across industries. She has initiated Vishwas for nurturing emotional well-being at work. Her research interest lies in exploring human factors in cyberspace, decoding life journeys and curating experiential innovative pedagogy.

M SURESH RAO M SURESH RAO is alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad. He was Chairperson, Centre for Entrepreneurship at SPJIMR, following a career in corporate entrepreneurship. He completed a stint as CEO of a start-up telecom company before he took to academics. Professor Rao has participated in global programmes conducted by Harvard Business School and Babson for Entrepreneurship faculty and is among the pioneering

faculty

for

Entrepreneurship

in

B-Schools

in

India.

The

Centre

for

Entrepreneurship at SPJIMR conducts the first-of-its-kind Start Your Business and Grow

Your

Business

Programmes

for

aspiring

and

early

growth

stage

entrepreneurs.

TULSI JAYAKUMAR TULSI JAYAKUMAR, an alumnus of the prestigious Delhi School of Economics is a Professor of Economics and Chairperson, Family Managed Business at SPJIMR, Mumbai. She has to her credit globally acclaimed cases published in international academic

journals,

besides

contributing

thought-provoking

business papers and magazines.

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in

national