The Indian school of business in Hyderabad opened its doors in 2001 with a class of 128 students.
Gupta was credited with being instrumental in the founding of the Indian School of Business (ISB) and was a frequent speaker there for the students.
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At 20, the second new entrant comes from Asia's other mega-economy in the making, with the Indian School of Business, based in the southern city of Hyderabad.
Some of these programs are small, but when the Indian School of Business reaches a planned enrollment of 560, it will be fifth largest in the world.
Yet the benefits of improving data to make it more effective can be staggering, according to a new study from the University of Texas, Austin, and the Indian School of Business.
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To have effective data means focusing on the quality (accuracy, scope, timeliness and recency), usability (ease of use, concise presentation, etc.), accessibility, sales mobility (ability to transact with customers regardless of location), and intelligence (trends, recommendations, profile matching, etc.), according to Deepa Mani of the Indian School of Business, a member of the research team.
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Also just announced is a new professorship of Indian business and enterprise to be established at Judge Business School, part of Cambridge University.
"In the 1970s, the odds were against them, " says Bakul Dholakia, director of Asia's premier business school, the Indian Institute of Management, in Ahmedabad.
Shocked, he asked a finance professor at the premier business school in Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Management, to double-check him.
"Endowed with significant creative capacity and a large consumer base, India and China are rapidly reshaping the global knowledge economy of tomorrow, " Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at the school, said in a statement announcing the event.
K. Prahalad, the Indian-born professor of corporate strategy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.
K. Prahalad, an Indian-born author and professor of strategy at the University of Michigan's business school.
In the past 10 years, research at the six international research centers of the Harvard Business School have grown ten-fold, and the new dean, Indian-born Nitin Nohria, intends to increase the number of international research centers in the years to come.
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