Emerging Trends and Transformational Changes in Management Education - 18 February 2021

EMERGING TRENDS AND TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION Distinguished Guests of Honour: Prof Harbir Singh Director, Huntsman Program International Studies and Business The Wharton School, USA

6:00 PM

Welcome & Introductory Remarks Mr L Ramkumar

Chairman, Shanthi Gears Ltd & Past President, Madras Management Association

Distinguished Guests of Honour

Prof Dr G Raghuram Former Director and Professor IIM Bangalore

Prof Harbir Singh Director, Huntsman Program for International Studies and Business The Wharton School, USA

Dr L S Ganesh Professor, Dept. of Management Studies Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Prof Dr G Raghuram Former Director and Professor IIM Bangalore

In conversation with Dr L S Ganesh

THURSDAY

Professor, Department of Management Studies

FEB 18, 2021 | 6.00 PM

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Q&A Session 7:45 PM

Vote of Thanks Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association

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SYNOPSIS Management Education has developed steadily, worldwide and in India, over the last few decades, especially since the early-90s in India.

The number and variety of UG and PG programmes has grown by leaps and bounds along with the

number of Institutions offering them.

Yet, there is an Institutional chasm that separates the top programmes from the

average and mediocre. The crisis-driven opportunity that has arisen makes it possible for Institutions to reset their strategies,

policies,

programmes

and

practices

through

which

a

new,

robust,

adaptive

and

vibrant

management

education environment can be realized by India’s Institutions collectively. So, what are the challenges and opportunities that present themselves?

In what ways can Institutional leaders manage all their resources while boldly attempting to

effect the desired changes in the prevailing challenging environment? What should be the significant changes in the mindsets, and consequently the practices, of Institutional leaders and the faculty members in their initiatives and efforts to offer top-quality and perfect-value management education to their students, many of whom get exposed for the first time in their education to the management body of knowledge?

These questions, and related others that you may wish

to pose at the Panel Discussion, will be addressed by the Distinguished Experts, Dr. Harbir Singh of Wharton and Dr. Raghuram ex-IIM Ahmedabad and Bangalore along with inputs from Mr. L. Ramkumar, past-President of MMA and Professor L. S. Ganesh of IIT Madras, who will serve as the Moderator.

MMA looks forward to active participation by you

and your colleagues in the Panel Discussion to be conducted in a hybrid format from 06:00 to 07:45 p.m., on Thursday, 18th February, both at the MMA Auditorium and virtually.

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS OF HONOUR

PROF HARBIR SINGH Harbir Singh is the William and Phyllis Mack Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is Co-Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, an interdisciplinary institute fostering thought leadership in the study of innovation.

He also directs the Huntsman Program in Business and International Studies, a dual degree program in arts and sciences and business.

In the Huntsman Program, as well as in a prior Vice Dean role, he has catalyzed the development of new pedagogical content and coursework to prepare students for an increasingly interconnected global economy.

In addition, in the Mack Institute, he has focused on research programs on

strategic partnerships and external modes of firm growth in technology-intensive industries.

He

teaches courses in global strategic management and in his cross-disciplinary areas of research interest, strategic acquisitions and alliances.

He is Academic Director for three Wharton Executive

Education programs in leadership and strategic management at Wharton.

Harbir received the Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award in memory of C.K Prahalad from the Strategic Management Society for the year 2020.

He has also received Distinguished Alumni

Awards from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he earned his doctorate, and from the Indian Institute of Technology, where he earned his undergraduate degree.

He has served as Dean of the Fellows of the Strategic Management Society.

His academic expertise covers domains such as global strategic leadership, corporate governance, cross-border

strategic

alliance

and

network

formation,

and

corporate

acquisitions.

He

has

cademy of Management Journal, Strategic Management

published in journals such as the A

Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Harvard Business Review.

He has published

several books on strategic leadership, one each with a focus on leaders from India and from China.

He has been a Visiting Professor at the London Business School and Bocconi University, Italy. also a founding faculty member and area leader at the Indian School of Business.

He is

He has worked

with companies such as Glaxo Smithkline, Verizon, Daimler, and the Aditya Birla Group on issues relating to strategic leadership, global strategy, corporate governance and growth via alliances and acquisitions.

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PROF DR G RAGHURAM Raghuram is a Distinguished Visiting Faculty and Principal Academic Advisor of the National Rail and Transportation Institute of the Ministry of Railways.

He is Professor (Emeritus) at the Gujarat

Maritime University.

He has been Director, IIM Bangalore, from February 2017 to July 2020.

Prior to that, he was

Professor and Chairperson of the Public Systems Group at IIM Ahmedabad.

He has been Dean

(Faculty) of IIMA, Vice-Chancellor of the Indian Maritime University, and Indian Railways Chair Professor at IIMA.

He specializes in infrastructure and transport systems, and logistics and supply chain management.

He conducts research on the railways, ports, shipping, aviation and road sectors.

He has been a

part of various government policy making and advisory committees.

Raghuram

has

a

BTech

from

IIT,

Madras,

a

Post

Graduate

Diploma

in

Management

from

IIM

Ahmedabad, and a PhD from Northwestern University, USA.

DR L S GANESH Dr. L. S. Ganesh (LSG) has a BE (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering of BITS Pilani, an MTech in Applied Mechanics and a Merit Prize, and a PhD from IIT Madras having completed his doctoral thesis in the Industrial Engineering and Management faculty of the Institute.

He worked as an Associate Fellow at NIEPA New Delhi during 1984-86, and then as an Assistant Professor at IIM Bangalore during 1986-87, before commencing his tenure at IIT Madras, first in the Industrial

Engineering

and

Management

faculty

of

the

Department

of

Humanities

and

Social

Sciences, and then in the Department of Management Studies from which he retired in July 2020.

He had served as the Head of the Department during 2004-08, and as the Dean (Students) of the Institute during 2011-2014 in addition to fulfilling several other official Institutional responsibilities.

He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Passau in Germany, the Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore and Kozhikode, the Indian School of Business at Hyderabad, the National Institute of Technology at Trichy, and other national-level and sub-regional Institutions.

LSG has been conferred the Distinguished Fellow award of the Project Management Institute (India) and the Distinguished Professor award of the Computer Society of India (Mumbai).

He has also

been conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the BITS Pilani Alumni Association (New Delhi) and the IIT Madras Alumni Association Award for distinguished services.

He serves as a member of the Board of Governors at IIM Trichy and IIT Palakkad, and offers his advisory services to the Governing and Academic Bodies of several other Institutions.

He strongly believes that India and Indians have exceptional capabilities that require well directed and intensely focused organizational efforts to enable them to fully flow and result in inspiring, peerless and timeless achievements.

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SPECIAL INVITEE

L RAMKUMAR Shri. L. Ramkumar is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad with four decades of experience in diverse industries such as Bicycles, Automotive, Engineering, Telecom and Polymer products.

He has held

key leadership positions, successfully guiding the businesses to growth and profitability.

Managing Director of Tube Investments of India Ltd between 2008 and 2018.

He was the

His earlier positions

include President & Director, Fenner India Ltd., CEO Sterlite Optical Technologies, President TI Cycles and CFO Tube Investments of India Ltd.

He is currently Chairman of Shanthi Gears Limited,

a listed entity.

Ramkumar

has

vast

experience

in

the

areas

of

long

term

and

strategic

planning,

setting

up

greenfield projects, working on Mergers and Acquisitions of companies in India and overseas, fund raising in the overseas markets, and building a strong market share in the domestic market for various products as well as planning export growth. He is credited with building strong teams and a leadership pipeline in organisations to manage a customer centric culture.

Awards & Recognitions:

President, Madras Management Association (2018-19); Member, Board of

Governors of IIM Bodhgaya, “Business Leader of the Year Award 2018” conferred by Loyola Alumni.

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