Stanford Graduate School of Business comes to India

Company release, January 3, 2005

New Delhi

The Stanford Graduate School of Business will host its first ever Executive Forums in India, offering one-day management seminars and executive networking events in three cities: New Delhi on Jan. 6, Bangalore on Jan. 10, and Mumbai on Jan. 12, 2005.

Corporate executives, other distinguished guests, and alumni of Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business have been invited to hear two of the Business School?s most prominent faculty members lecture on their award-winning research on management topics.

Robert Burgelman, the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management and director of the Stanford Executive Program, is an expert on corporate entrepreneurship, strategic business exit, and the role of strategy in firm evolution. His lecture is titled ?Strategy Is Destiny: A Perspective on Strategic Leadership.?

V. ?Seenu? Srinivasan, the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management and director of the Strategic Marketing Management Executive Program, is an internationally known specialist in marketing and one of the few professionals who has revolutionized academic and applied thinking in this area. His lecture will focus on ?Brand Equity: Measuring, Analyzing, and Predicting.?

?The Forums will offer wonderful learning and networking opportunities to both Stanford graduates and non-graduates alike,? said Daniel N. Rudolph, senior associate dean for operations and chief operating officer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, who will preface the faculty lectures with an overview of the School. ?More important, the Forums will introduce many influential Indian executives to the unique and entrepreneurial culture that is a hallmark of Stanford Business School,? he said.

For anyone who wishes to attend, cost and registration details are available online: https://alumni.gsb.stanford.edu/events/execforums.

The Stanford Graduate School of Business has built an international reputation based on its two-year MBA program designed to educate business leaders, a one-year Stanford Sloan Master?s Program for mid-career executives, a doctoral program, executive education programs for experienced managers, and a vigorous faculty research program. It is located in Silicon Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, one of the most beautiful and dynamic economic environments in the world.

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