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CEE-Goldman Sachs Global Programme for Women
Entrepreneurs
The first batch of the 12-week CEE-Goldman Sachs
'10,000 Women Initiative' programme commences on
October 30, 2008, at ISB. Through partnerships
between universities in the US and Europe, and
business schools in emerging and developing
countries, '10,000 Women' will provide 10,000
underserved women, predominantly in developing
and emerging markets, with a business and
management education. The programme contents
include entrepreneurship, understanding trends
in economic and competitive environment,
establishing business network, basics of accounting
and capital management, and people management.
The programme aims to help participants
understand trends in economic and competitive
environment, managing finance and accounting,
overcoming gender specific challenges, acquiring
and retaining customers, balancing family and
business lives etc.
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India-centric Modules in ISB-UCLA Financial
Engineering
The ISB and the University of California,
Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management, (UCLA
Anderson), have partnered to launch a six-week
programme in Financial
Engineering at ISB. The
programme which started in July 2008 will continue
till December 2008. It comprises four teaching
modules of one week each, one module per month.
Module one was based on understanding the core
principles of Financial Engineering. The second
module on Financial Asset Management, was mentored
by renowned Professor of Finance Richard Roll, who
also holds the Japan Alumni Chair at UCLA.
The second module was especially relevant to
practitioners in India for two reasons. First, the
analysis and quantitative modelling component of the
financial services industry in developed markets is
increasingly moving offshore to centres such as
India. Second, quantitative fund management in India
is still very much in its infancy. This module,
taught by Professor Roll, provided a timely and
rigorous introduction into this exciting zone. The
second module dealt with themes like - Behavioural
Finance and Momentum, Global Investment Strategies,
Models of Expected Returns, Quantifying and
Measuring Risk, Markowitz Portfolio Analysis, and
Performance and Style Analysis.
The last two months will require participants to do
project work supervised by the ISB and UCLA faculty
members. The special feature of the programme is
that the participants get alumni status of both the
ISB and UCLA Anderson.
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CEE Programme on Leadership in Family Business
The CEE recently conducted a
programme on Leadership in Family Business designed
exclusively for leaders who are likely to head a
family business. The programme addressed softer but
very important issues that help families become
successful not only in their businesses but also in
maintaining inter-personal relationships.
The programme focused on themes like co-leadership
(the ability to lead other leaders and not
followers), on concepts of Karta
leadership
(similar to servant leadership and collective
leadership variation) etc. Participants went away
with clarity on what they could do to work with
their parents, siblings and other family members.
The programme was mentored by Professor Kavil
Ramachandran and Professor Prasad Kaipa, both from
the ISB
“Most family business related challenges can be
traced to lack of awareness as well as poor
capabilities of leadership. The programme was
meant to fill this void,” said Professor Ramachandran.
“This is the first programme of this kind offered at
ISB and working with Professor Kavil was a real
pleasure. Between the two of us, we brought in family
business cases and helped participants see how
leadership issues like conflict resolution,
negotiation, governance, communication and personal
leadership can be addressed through role plays,
case studies, stories, movies and interactive
dialogue sessions,” added Professor Kaipa.
N R Narayana
Murthy Visits ISB
N R Narayana Murthy, Chairman and
Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies Limited , was at
the ISB to deliver a talk on ‘Institution Building’,
and to interact with students. Narayana Murthy emphasised
on the importance of
corporations in creating social impact. The key to
successful corporations, according to him, was
generating respect among all its stakeholders. “If
you want longevity for a corporation, then a good
value system is paramount. Don’t create an unfair
advantage for yourself,” he said.
“Don’t set easily achievable objectives,” was the
leader’s advice to future generation business
decision makers at ISB. “Lead by example; Hire the
best quality people if you want to grow from
strength to strength; In order to attract quality
human resources, create a high level and quality of
professionalism within the organisation; Follow the
finest principles of corporate governance; It is
important to maximise shareholder value on a
sustainable basis while ensuring fairness to all
employees; Fairness, responsibility and
accountability are the corner stones; Focus on
speed, imagination, excellence in execution, and
meritocracy; Create an environment where everyone is
open to ideas”- these were the other leadership
guidelines from the visionary leader.
Narayana Murthy is one of the founding members of
the Executive Board of the ISB. He has made an
immense contribution in education, infrastructure,
and policy matters in the formative years of the
ISB.
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