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Prof. Bala on Management Education Challenges

20:27 | Kiruba Shankar | Aug 30th, 2007 3:27pm |

Professor Bala Balachandran is considered one of the top 10 management gurus of Indian origin in the United States. He represents the first wave of Indian scholars who moved to top U.S.-based business schools and have since contributed to the growing recognition of India as a resource for ideas and academic talent.

Twenty-six years ago, Bala V Balachandran was the only Indian professor at the prestigious Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Chicago, where he has specialized in accounting information systems and decision sciences. He has been with Kellogg for the past 34 years and has contributed richly.

He played an important part in the formation of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and in the internationalization of MDI Gurgaon. Three years back he decided to set up his own B-school — the Great Lakes Institute of Management, in Chennai.

He has worked with previous governments in various capacities and is an advisor on the present planning commission. He is on the board of directors of the Credit Rating Information Services of India and is working with people like Sam Pitroda to integrate information technology in states like Gujarat, Maharashta, Punjab and Rajasthan.

He is also a consultant to the governments ...

Sameer, Co-founder of Zook, on Challenges of Mobile Search

10:59 | Kiruba Shankar | Aug 9th, 2007 |

Sameer Sisodia is a cofounder of Ziva Software, the makers of Zook, a mobile search service. Its an interesting company that is incubated at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Ziva Software has built the world’s first Mobile Social Answer Engine. The mobile answer engine delivers precise answers ...
Managing India's Biggest CyberCafe Chain Portals

15:09 | Kiruba Shankar | Aug 3rd, 2007 |

Listen to the man who heads Sify.com, one of India’s biggest portals and also heads marketing for Sify Iways, one of Asia’s biggest cybercafe chains with over 3300 cafes in more than 150 cities in India. Sivaramakrishnan talks about his experience and challenges in both these businesses.

Sify ...
McKinsey's Rajat Gupta on India

13:05 | Kamla Bhatt | Jul 20th, 2007 |

I caught up with Rajat Gupta at the Pan IIT 2007 conference in Silicon Valley last week. Mr. Gupta is deeply passionate about health and education and those were the twin topics of this conversation.

In this interview, he talks about the connection between healthcare and the ...
Ravi Swaminathan, President of HP India's Personal Systems Group

12:43 | Kiruba Shankar | Jul 2nd, 2007 |

Ravi Swaminathan is president of Hewlett Packard’s Personal Systems Group for India. He has countrywide responsibility for the entire range of consumer and commercial PCs, laptops, workstations and the emerging range of personal access devices including handhelds.

Ravi joined Compaq in 1995 and started the consumer PC business in India. ...
Ravi Kumar on Campus Incubation at IIM Bangalore

10:18 | Kiruba Shankar | Apr 6th, 2007 |

Ravi Kumar is a veteran entrepreneur and currently a consultant with The Nadathur S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning. NSRCEL was set up in March 2002 at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) to synergise with the institute’s focus on entrepreneurial studies. The Centre defines the opportunities perceived by aspiring entrepreneurs, evaluates their strengths/weaknesses and helps them with resources to translate their concepts into profitable business ventures.
MingleBox CEO Kavita Iyer on the Future of Social Networking Platforms

17:59 | Kamla Bhatt | Oct 23rd, 2006 |

Kavita Iyer is CEO of MingleBox, a new Web 2.0 start-up in the social networking space. MingleBox allows members to have personalized Web pages that include their interests, blogs and photos.