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Ms. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, LIVE at The Leaders In India 2009 On Her Entrepreneurial Journey

So, we have Ms. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw post lunch at The Leaders In India 2009. I have always admired Kiran as a woman entrepreneur. She has proven words with actions! My respects Mam Talkign about the Global Biotech sector Kiran says that it is a business size of over 90 billion dollars globally. Each [...]

Day Two of Leaders In India with Steve Tappin and Mr. Adi Godrej

So here I am Live blogging the Day two of Leaders In India 2009, with the first keynote being delivered by Mr. Adi Godrej. I am sure this is going to be a great learning session with immense value for all present. Our group has a fairly long history, we are 112 years old, Our sales turnover [...]

Innovation & Entrepreneurship - Identifying New Business Opportunities (Panel Discussion at PanIIT 2009)

Moderator: Desh Deshpande Chairman of Sycamore Networks, Tejas Networks, A123 Systems, Sandstone Capital and HiveFire Panelists: Prof. Scott Meadow Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, Chicago Booth School of Business Ali Shadman Partner, JK&B Capital PM Pai Venture Partner, NEA Prabha Sinha Founder & Co-Chairman, ZS Associates One of the many panel discussions running parallely, this one focuses on “Identifying new business opportunities”. This discussion [...]

Social Networking for Success at PanIIT 2009

Christopher S. Rollyson (Consultant and Marketing Executive), the moderator of this very interesting and relevant session welcomed the audience. He started his talk by saying that Social Networks are causing disruption in the way the business is done today. The key reason behind this disruption is the fundamental nature of Social Networks - “relationship” [...]

Invention is the key to Jump the Queue in a Competitive World - Keynote by Nathan Myhrvold (CEO, Intellectual Ventures & Founder of Microsoft Research)

The opening of PAN IIT 2009 had set the theme up for coming three days and clearly the focus is on Education, Invention and Innovation. Following the opening ceremony, the conference moves on to the second keynote speaker Dr. Nathan Myhrvold, introduced by Mr. Umang Gupta, a leading entrepreneur. “Invention-road to prosperity” is what Dr. [...]

PanIIT 2009 is Open - Over 2500 IITians from across the World!

The weather might not be warm in Chicago but the PanIIT 2009 conference opened with a warm welcome by none other than the conference chair Ray Mehra. On behalf of over 175,000 IIT Alumni worldwide, Ray welcomed more than 2500 delegates comprising of industry thought leaders, academicians, entrepreneurs and students. Ray welcomed distinguished guests including [...]

Post Recession Strategies and Tactics a Panel Discussion at The Leaders In India 2009

So now we have a power panel talking about recession and the current scenario and the road ahead being moderated by Steve Tappin, chair, LII 2009. What’s happening at the Global credit Markets? Theres’ no doubt that the US and UK are going to see slow growth and hence if you look at where the growth would [...]

Panel Discussion on Mergers and Acquisition at The Leaders In India 2009

So here we are with the second session of Day 1 of The Leaders In India 2009. This is a panel discussion with a very impressive moderated panel, and the discussion will revolve around Mergers and Acquisitions which surely is an interesting discussion to be in. We have the resident editor from Mumbai for Outlook magazine [...]

Tom Peters the Management Guru at The Leaders In India 2009

Here I am, LIVE blogging Mr. To Peters, Management Guru and Author at The Leaders In India 2009. We said somethings 25 years ago about basics and we are in this mess today. I said to a MIT graduate, that shut down MIT and we can go a long way in bettering. Since 1996 of my [...]

The Leaders In India 2009 Opening Ceremony

Listening to Steve Tappin from Yorkshire, and he pushes the ambitions of CEO’s to be the best and be more inspirational which is his day job and his night job is the book he is writing, which is secrets of CEO’s. Interestingly, Steve says that two thirds of Global leaders that we have at the moment [...]