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Date:
Sunday March 16, 2008
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Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163 |
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THE PANELISTS
The following speakers and panelists have confirmed their attendance for the conference.
V. Kasturi Rangan | LN Balaji | Michael Chu | Pradeep Kashyap | Ravi Venkatesan
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V. Kasturi Rangan
Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing
Director of Research – Moderator
Kash Rangan is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at the Harvard Business School. Until recently the chairman of the Marketing Department (1998-2002), he is now the co-chairman of the school's Social Enterprise Initiative. He has taught in a wide variety of MBA courses, including the core First-Year Marketing course (was its head across multiple sections from 1993-1996), and the second-year electives, Business Marketing and Channels-to-Market. He has also taught marketing in the Advanced Management Program for senior managers. Currently Rangan teaches the elective courses, Customers, Commerce and Society: Business Approaches to Private Creation of Social Value, and Business Approaches and Solutions for Base-of-the-Pyramid. In addition, he teaches in a number of focused executive education programs: Business-to-Business Marketing Strategy, Strategic Perspectives on Nonprofit Management, and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Professor Rangan's business marketing and channels research has appeared in management journals such as Journal of Marketing, Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Retailing, Management Science, Marketing Science and Organization Science. Rangan has authored several books, which include: 1) Going to Market, which deals with distribution systems for industrial products (co-authored with E. Raymond Corey and Frank V. Cespedes), and 2) Business Marketing Strategy, which presents approaches for managing industrial products and markets over their life cycle (co-authored with Benson P. Shapiro and Rowland T. Moriarty). Rangan's latest book, Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy, presents a unique framework on how to evolve a firm's go-to-market strategy with the changing needs of customers, and other opportunities in the environment. Rangan currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Retailing and Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing. He has also served on the editorial board of Journal of Marketing.
In addition to his interest in business marketing, Professor Rangan is actively involved in studying the role of marketing in nonprofit organizations, and specifically how it influences the adoption of social products and ideas. He has written a number of case studies and articles on the topic. He served as one of the founding co-chairs of the Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard, whose faculty study and teach the challenges of nonprofit management. He also founded and chaired the executive program, Strategic Perspectives on Nonprofit Management, from 1994 until 1998. His research on this topic has appeared in journals that include Nonprofit Management and Leadership and Harvard Business Review. His current research is focused on understanding the needs and wants of the global poor, those living on less than $5/day. The aim of the research is to capture the lessons of successful models of businesses, nonprofits and governments serving that segment.
Rangan has a Bachelor of Technology from I.I.T. (Madras), 1971; an MBA from I.I.M. (Ahmedabad), 1973; and a Ph.D. in marketing from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), 1983. From 1973 to 1979, Rangan held several sales and marketing positions for a large multinational company in India. Rangan has engaged in a variety of executive education programs, consultancies, and advisory activities for numerous commercial and nonprofit enterprises.
Rangan has been on the faculty of the Harvard Business School since 1983.
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LN Balaji
ITC Infotech (US)
LN Balaji heads the US operations of ITC Infotech. He has been with ITC since 1985 and has held diverse responsibilities across different businesses of the company. His assignments include managing the company’s indirect taxation, coordinating and consolidating an integrated plan for the company, managing investor relations and serving in the office of the Chairman, ITC. He was responsible for strategizing and implementing growth through mergers and acquisitions prior to his current assignment with ITC Infotech.
A Bachelor of Commerce form the Madras University, Balaji is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
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Michael Chu
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
Michael Chu was appointed a Senior Lecturer in the Initiative on Social Enterprise of the General Management Group of the Harvard Business School in July 2003. He is also Managing Director of the IGNIA Fund, an investment firm based in Monterrey, Mexico, dedicated to investing in commercial enterprises serving low-income populations in developing countries, which he co-founded in 2007. He continues to serve as Senior Advisor and a founding partner of Pegasus Capital, a firm in Buenos Aires dedicated to deploying equity capital in Latin America, with a portfolio which includes major companies in Argentina.
Chu teaches the second year elective course Business and Base of the Pyramid Markets, the latter a new offering developed and taught together with Professor V. Kasturi Rangan. He is Faculty Co-Chair of the Executive Education program Strategic Leadership for Microfinance. In the past, he has taught the course Investing and Managing in Emerging Markets. and Effective Leadership of Social Enterprises. Chu is co-head of Project Antares, a collaboration between HBS and the Harvard School of Public Health focusing on commercial approaches to delivering high-impact primary health care to low-income populations in developing nations.
Before Pegasus, as President & CEO of ACCION International, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to microfinance, Chu worked to develop financial services for the working poor as a new segment of banking capable of outstanding returns. He participated in the founding of several microcredit financial institutions and regulated banks throughout Latin America, including Banco Solidario, one of the premier microlending institutions in the world, which under his chairmanship has been the most profitable bank in Bolivia.
From 1989 to 1993, as an executive and limited partner in the New York office of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, Chu was one of sixteen professionals deploying KKR’s $5.7 billion private equity fund and managing an investment portfolio with aggregate annual revenues in excess of $60 billion. He joined the private equity firm from PACE Industries, a KKR-sponsored leveraged buyout, where he served as Senior Vice President & CFO. Previously, he held senior management positions in U.S. corporations and was a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. Chu currently serves on the boards of Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE), ACCION International, BoardSource and is a Trustee of Dartmouth College.
Chu graduated with an A.B.(Honors) from Dartmouth College and received a M.B.A. with highest distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School.
Chu was born in Kunming, China and grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. He and his wife Victoria Cowling Chu reside in West Newton, MA.
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Pradeep Kashyap
Executive Director of AIF
Pradeep Kashyap joined the American India Foundation as its full time Executive Director in May 2001. His specific responsibilities include the consolidation of the Foundation with respect to governance, legal, operations/ book keeping, fund raising, partnerships/alliances, Trustee management and corporate communications.
Prior to joining AIF, Mr. Kashyap was a senior Citibank official. He worked with Citigroup/Citibank for 29 years, in various locations throughout the world. He started his career in 1972 as a Trainee in Citibank Beirut, Lebanon and went on to serve in the UAE as a Lending Officer and Treasurer. He then worked in New York as Treasurer/Transactor in the Capital Markets Group of the Western Hemisphere. He returned to the Middle East (Bahrain) as Regional Treasurer/Investment Bank Head for the Middle East and Africa. He was then transferred to New York in 1986 where he was Treasurer of Citibank North America, served as Deputy to the CFO of Citicorp and founded the Bank's Market Risk Policy Committee. From 1994-96 Mr. Kashyap worked in Toronto, as Co-head of Citibank Canada during 1994-96. He returned again to New York in the summer of 1996 and served in a number of senior positions in Risk Management till early 2001.
Born in Allahabad, India, Mr. Kashyap did most of his schooling in New Delhi and went on to receive a Bachelor's degree from Bangalore University and a MMs from the Indian Institute of Management,Calcutta. Mr. Kashyap and his wife Reena, live in Rye, New York.
Mr. Kashyap was seconded by Citigroup to AIF from May 2001 to May 2003. Since June 2003, Mr. Kashyap has been providing his services to AIF pro bono
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Ravi Venkatesan
Chairman, Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft India is responsible for Microsoft’s marketing, operational and business development efforts in the country. In partnership with the leaders of Microsoft’s other business units, Venkatesan provides a single point of leadership for the company, playing an integral role in defining Microsoft’s relationship with policy makers, customers and business partners across Microsoft’s six distinct business units in India namely: Microsoft Corporation India (Private) Ltd, the Marketing Subsidiary, Microsoft India Development Center, Microsoft Global Technical Support Centre, Microsoft Global Development Center India, Microsoft Global Services India and Microsoft Research India.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Venkatesan worked for over seventeen years with Cummins Inc, a US-based designer, manufacturer and distributor of engines and related technologies. He served in various leadership capacities at Cummins including Chairman of Cummins India Limited and Managing Director of Tata Cummins Limited, a joint venture between Cummins Inc. and Tata Motors. Under his leadership, Cummins became the leading provider of power solutions and the largest manufacturer of automotive engines in the country.
Venkatesan has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1985), an MS in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University (1986) and a MBA from Harvard University (1992) where he was a Baker Scholar. Ravi was awarded Purdue University's Outstanding Industrial Engineer award for the year 2000 and the Distinguished Alumnus award by the Indian Institute of Technology in 2003.
Venkatesan is a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), a Director on the Board of Thermax Ltd., a member of the Advisory Boards of Harvard Business School and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and the Chairman of Junior Achievement India. He has contributed frequently to the Harvard Business Review and some of his articles include, "Strategic Sourcing - to Make or Not to Make" and "The Strategy that Wouldn't Travel."
His interests include reading, classical music and social entrepreneurship.
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