THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Honesty

“No legacy is so rich as honesty” - William Shakespeare

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Sumantra Ghoshal

Sumantra Ghoshal (1948-2004) was the founding Dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, which is jointly sponsored by the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and the London Business School. Ghoshal co-authored Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution, with Christopher Bartlett, which has been listed in the Financial Times as one of the 50 most influential management books and has been translated into nine languages.

Ghoshal graduated from Delhi University with Physics major and at the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management[1] and worked for Indian Oil Corporation, rising through the management ranks before moving to the United States on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1981. Ghoshal was awarded an S.M. and a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1983 and 1985 respectively, and was also awarded a D.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School in 1986. In 1985, he joined INSEAD Business School in France and wrote a stream of influential articles and books. In 1994, he joined the London Business School. Ghoshal was a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) in the U.K and a Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. He served as a member of The Committee of Overseers of the Harvard Business School.

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