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September 2010 / Times of India / Mumbai Edition |
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 Indian-American Jain named dean of Insead
B-School Looks To Expand Ops In Chindia
Boston: Noted Indian-American academician Dipak Jain has been named dean of Insead a leading international business school which aims to expand operations in developing countries like India and China.
Jain, a Dean Emeritus at Northwestern University’s prestigious Kellogg School of Management, will succeed J Frank Brown, who will step down in 2011.
Among Jain’s responsibilities would be to look for opportunities to build Insead programmes in China and India as the business school focuses on growing its global presence and attracting more students from the developing countries.
I am pleased that someone of Dipak Jain’s calibre and values will continue to develop the school. The board chose Dipak Jain to lead Insead into what is fast becoming a new global economic climate one in which emerging markets are growing at a faster rate than the industrialized mature economies of Europe and North America.
In this environment, we need to teach solid business and management skills while being innovative, entrepreneurial and instilling a culture of true sustainability, Insead board chairman Franz Humer said.
A native of Assam, Jain will be introduced at Inseads Leadership Summit Asia 2010 to be held on November 12 in Singapore and will assume his duties as Dean in March 2011.
Jain, who was Kellogg’s Dean from 2001-2009, is part of a growing list of Indian-origin academicians assuming leading roles at foreign universities Harvard Business School got its first Indian-origin Dean Nitin Nohria this year, while University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business named Stanford University professor Sunil Kumar as its new Dean in July this year.
At Kellogg, Jain was the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor in Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Marketing, a Chair he held since 1994.He stepped down from his Kellogg post last summer but remained a professor. A graduate of Guwahati University, he received a Masters in management science and a PhD in marketing from the University of Texas at Dallas.
What attracts me to Insead is that it is a true global brand in management education, one with enduring passion and inspired vision.
The values that drive Insead, including a deep respect for the power of diversity; a desire to link theory and practice to address important managerial issues; and an entrepreneurial approach to teaching and research are ideal to meet the opportunities and challenges facing organizations in the coming years, Jain said.
TOI, in its edition dated July 24, 2010, had reported about Jain being tipped to become Insead dean. In a recent interview with TOI, Jain had said that India was the talent hub.
According to Jain, an international curriculum, research-oriented programmes and active participation of foreign faculty were needed to take the Indian education system to the next level. AGENCIES
Class Act
Dipak Jain is a graduate in statistics and a postgraduate in mathematical statistics from Guwahati University He did masters in operations research,and then followed it with a PhD in marketing from the University of Texas Jain was the dean at Kellogg School from 2001 to 2009;has been teaching at Kellogg since 1986 At Kellogg,Jain was the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor in Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Marketing
Indians Don The Mantle
Harvard Business School got its first Indian-origin Dean Nitin Nohria this year University of Chicagos Booth School of Business named Stanford University professor Sunil Kumar as its new dean in July this year. |
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