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Welcome & Introduction Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association
Introductory Remarks Mr V Balaraman Past President, MMA &
Prof Gautam Ahuja
Former MD, Pond’s India Ltd
Nandu Nandkishore
Opening Remarks by the Moderator Prof Gautam Ahuja Professor of Management and Organizations Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, USA
Presentation by Mr Nandu Nandkishore
Y V L Pandit
V Balaraman
Professor, Indian School of Business Guest Lecturer, London Business School Former EVP & Head of Asia, Africa, Oceania Nestlé S.A, Switzerland
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Mr Y V Lakshminarayan Pandit
MAR 6, 2021 | 6.00 PM
Founder and Chief Executive Pinnacle Leadership Consulting & Former Managing Director, SHL India
Q&A Session Concluding Remarks Mr V Balaraman
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GAUTAM AHUJA Gautam Ahuja is a Professor of Management and Organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of
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Management at Cornell University and as Visiting Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Ahuja teaches strategy and competitive analysis. In 2016, Ahuja received the BPS Wiley Outstanding Educator Award for his lifetime teaching contributions. This award is given to one faculty member across the world every year by the Strategy Division of the Academy of Management. Ahuja has been selected as the Best Professor by student vote 20 times across the MBA, EMBA, and PhD programs. At Cornell, he has received the Cornell-Tech Best Professor Award as well as the Johnson Graduate School of Management’s Apple Award given by the graduating class at Johnson each year to the faculty member who has had the most impact on them in the classroom. Ahuja's research interests include competitive analysis, technology and innovation, globalization, and the use of interorganizational arrangements such as mergers, acquisitions, and alliances in these contexts. His research on these issues has received several global awards, including TIM Distinguished Scholar for lifetime achievement, the highest award given by the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management (2019), Other honors include Lectio Magistralis, Luiss University, Rome; the Il Sigillum Magnum Medal from the University of Bologna in Italy, the world's oldest continuously functioning university; the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2008 from the Ross School; and the Senior Faculty Research Award for sustained "path-breaking research as a thought-leader in the field of strategy" in 2010, also from the Ross School. Ahuja's research has been citied more than 23,000 times by other scholars and various federal and international bodies such as the EPA, OECD and UNEP. As a doctoral advisor, he has trained many students who are now faculty at some of the best institutions across the world.
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