Shri P.C. Sharma, IAS
Chief Secretary to the Government of Assam &
Chairman, Assam Institute of Management
cordially invites you to attend the Institute's
FOUNDATION LECTURE, 2010
by
Prof. Dipak C. Jain
Sandy & Morton Goldman Professor of Marketing
& ex-Dean, Kellogg School of Management, USA
on
"Management Education and Leadership: The Journey Ahead"
at 3:00 p.m., on Tuesday, January 5, 2010
at Rabindra Bhawan, Guwahati - 781001
The Assam Institute
of Management has been organizing Foundation Lectures in which
distinguished personalities are invited to deliver the Lecture.
This year Prof. Dipak C. Jain, Sandy & Morton Goldman Professor
of Marketing & ex-Dean, Kellogg School of Management, USA,
would deliver the Foundation Lecture.
A distinguished teacher and scholar, Prof.
Dipak C. Jain has just stepped down as Dean of the Kellogg School
of Management, North Western University, USA, after an eight
year stint. Dean of Kellogg is one of the most prestigious positions
in the field of management education in the world. Prof. Jain
is a member of the faculty of the institute since 1987. Earlier,
he served as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for five
years.
Prof. Jain's areas of research include the
marketing of high-tech products; market segmentation and competitive
market structure analysis; cross-cultural issues in global product
diffusion; new product diffusion; and forecasting models. He
has had more than 50 articles published in leading academic
journals.
He is also a Visiting Professor to Otto Bescheim
Graduate School of Management, WHU Koblenz, Netherlands Business
School, Nijenrode University, Sasin Graduate School of Business
Administration, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Indian School
of Business, Hyderabad etc. In 2003, he was appointed as foreign
affairs adviser for the Prime Minister of Thailand. He has served
as a Consultant to Microsoft, Novartis, American Express, Sony,
Nissan, Motorola, Eli Lilly, Phillips and Hyatt International.
He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Hartmarx
Corporation, Deere & Company, Northern Trust Corporation
and Reliance Industries (India). He is also a former Director
at United Airlines and Peoples Energy. He is also in the Editorial
Boards of some of the leading journals in Management.
What always finds a pride of place in
Prof. Jain's rich CV is that he is a Graduate of Darrang College,
Tezpur and did his post Graduation from Gauhati University in
1978. He never forgets to refer to the numerous awards he won
in academic field in Assam prior to his going to Texas University
for his MS and PhD in 1983. Although he is one of the most illustrious
management educator in the world, Prof. Jain credits his attainments
to the rich foundations laid by the Indian education system
and the dedicated teachers he had in Tezpur and Guwahati. It
is indeed a matter of pride for all of us in Assam that Prof.
Jain, after attaining such high accolades in his field abroad,
remembers his place of origin so deeply.
Previous Foundation Lectures
Keeping in tune with its past tradition, AIM
organized a highly informative session of Foundation Lecture
on the 13th of Feb'08 at the Vivekananda Kendra Institute of
Culture Auditorium, Uzan bazaar, Guwahati. Dr. Ifzal Ali, Chief
Economist, Asian Development Bank delivered the Lecture on "Inequality
and Prescriptions for Inclusive Growth in Asia". Shri Jatin
Hazarika, IAS(Retd.) presided over the session.
Prof. Ali joined ADB 1984. Prior to ADB, he
was Professor in the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.
Prof. Ali holds a Ph.D. in Economics from John Hopkins University
(1976), and a Master's degree in Economics from Delhi School
of Economics (1970). Prof. Ali's current research interests
include the role of macro and microeconomic policy reforms in
the context of globalization and competitiveness for the developing
countries of Asia.
