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Section B •August 6, 2010
Sunil Kumar to Head Chicago’s B-School
By RICHARD SPRINGER
India-West Staff Reporter
S
tanford University
professor and operations management expert Sunil Kumar Jan.
1 will join the ranks of Indian
Americans heading top-tier graduate business schools in the United
States.
Currently Fred H. Merrill Professor of Operations, Information
and Technology at the Stanford
University Graduate School of
Business, Kumar July 28 was
announced as the next dean of
the University of Chicago Booth
School of Business.
Nitin Nohria, a leadership and
ethics expert, took over as the
10th dean of the Harvard Business School July 1 (I-W, May 14).
Dipak Jain, now believed to be
the leading candidate to become
the next dean at the prestigious
Insead graduate business school
(I-W, July 30), was until September dean at the Kellogg Graduate
School of Management at Northwestern University.
Chicago Booth, Kellogg and
Harvard’s Business School regularly head the rankings of U.S.
business schools.
The Bangalore-born Kumar,
currently the Stanford business
school’s senior associate dean for
academic affairs, succeeds Edward A. Snyder, who completed
nine years as Chicago Booth’s
dean June 30. Kumar’s five-year
term as dean at Chicago Booth
begins Jan. 1.
“I am excited to become dean
of Chicago Booth,” Kumar said in
a statement. “I share the school’s
passion for the pursuit of ideas
that hold up under careful scrutiny. I look forward to helping
strengthen and enhance Booth’s
outstanding research environment and its rigorous disciplinebased approach to business education.”
A spokesperson for the Booth
School told India-West that Kumar’s busy schedule last week did
not allow time for interviews.
Kumar received a master’s in
engineering in computer science
and automation from the Indian
Institute of Science in Bangalore
and a bachelor’s in engineering
from Mangalore University in
Surathkal.
He joined the Stanford faculty
in 1996, after receiving a Ph.D. in
electrical engineering from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign.
At Stanford he has taught courses in operations management,
technology, critical analytical
thinking and revenue management. His research areas include
performance evaluation and control of manufacturing systems,
service operations and communications networks.
Kumar co-developed a widely-used factory simulator for
teaching operations management. The simulator, “Littlefield
Technologies,” has been used in
over 50 business and engineering
schools. He has published dozens
of research articles and served as
editor of the stochastic models
area at the journal Operations
Research.
At Stanford, Kumar won a
Finmeccanica faculty scholarship and was named a Spence
Faculty Scholar. He also was
named professor of the year at
the Indian School of Business in
Hyderabad.
University of Chicago president Robert Zimmer and provost
Thomas Rosenbaum said in a
joint statement July 28 that Kumar
“brings the right blend of vision,
entrepreneurial energy and aca[Cont. on page B4]
Sunil Kumar will begin a five-year term as dean of the University of Chicago
Booth School of Business Jan. 1.
India Trade Conference Discusses ‘New India Markets’
By PARIMAL M. ROHIT
Special to India-West
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The 3rd Annual India Trade Conference focused on new Indian markets, particularly green and social entrepreneurship,
being addressed by R. Sampath, director of India Strategy for Quanta Consulting, Inc. (Parimal Rohit photo)
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RWINDALE, Calif. — About
200 key corporate executives gathered at the Edison
Conference Center here July 29
to discuss the future of doing
business in India during the 3rd
Annual India Trade Conference
hosted by the Port of Los Angeles,
Southern California Edison, Network of Indian Professionals and
Quanta Consulting, Inc.
The all-day conference, “Destination India 2010: Green and
Social Entrepreneurship,” which
focused on accessing “New India
Markets,” addressed several issues facing today’s executives
seeking to do large-scale business
in the South Asian region.
Among the topics discussed
included the keys to doing successful business in India, green
and social entrepreneurship opportunities in the region, trends
affecting the “New India Environment,” risk mitigation and funding
for business growth.
“One big thing is opportunities
in these areas,” R. Sampath, director of India Strategy for Quanta
Consulting, Inc., told India-West,
referring to the prospects of doing
business in South Asia’s largest
country and the conference he
helped organize.
“For example, in the green
space, there is a lot of opportunity
for companies within India and
abroad. The Government of India
has deployed huge amounts of
money to development of green
programs.”
In addition to a series of panels,
the conference included opening
remarks from top-level executives
and officials from Southern Cali[Cont. on page B2]
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fornia Edison, Qualcomm, and the
U.S. Department of Commerce.
The speakers then spoke about
India’s growth opportunities in
electricity, communications and
investments.
India “will jump into these
(mobile) devices, which will be
standard issue. It will be the mobile Internet that will be the first
connection with the Internet in India,” Peggy Johnson, Qualcomm’s
executive vice president of Americas and India, said in regard to the
rapid expansion of cell phones
and mobile devices in India, which
is making personal computers
irrelevant in the country. “It’s
transforming lives.”
Looking forward, Johnson
added that she expects India’s
mobile data traffic to grow 346fold between 2009 and 2014.
Speaking on behalf of the United States government, Holly Vineyard, in her capacity as the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of South Asia
for the Department of Commerce,
spoke of investment opportunities
in India.
Claiming that India is the most
emerging market in her jurisdiction, Vineyard talked about her
department’s Growth Initiative,
which promotes foreign investors
doing business in metro areas
beyond Mumbai and Delhi.
Since India is on the verge of
having as many as 68 cities with
one million or more residents,
Vineyard said there are many
opportunities to invest in various local markets throughout
India.
She also stated there were
pitfalls to investing in India,
such as weak protection of intellectual property, high tariffs,
and difficulty of land acquisition, among other issues.
Providing a keynote address
as well was John Fielder, president of Southern California
Edison, who spoke about optimization of electricity usage
in India.
The India Trade Conference also featured four topicspecific panels and a special
session on fashion and entertainment in India. The panel
sessions focused on logistics
and operations of India’s international trading industry, financial
investments and risks, and social
entrepreneurship and green opportunities.
Among the featured panelists
for each breakout session were
key figures from WindStream
Technologies, Comerica Bank,
EXIM Bank, Greenwala, Inc.,
the U.S. Commercial Service
and the University of Southern
California’s Marshall School of
Business, who provided valuable
insight on the prospects of doing
business in India.
Sampath said the overall value
One of the booths at the India Trade Conference. (Parimal Rohit photo)
Keynote speakers and R. Sampath (right) at the conference.
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for solutions to problems through
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“One big thing is basic level
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told India-West, adding that
while the India Trade Conference
will remain an annual event, he
plans eventually to organize a series of monthly business-themed
events focusing on investment
opportunities in India.
“People come in and learn
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