GLOBAL CEO’S ON INDIA STUDY TOUR

Wharton Executive Education Collaborates with  the Indian School of Business (ISB) to Explore Indian Market and Sourcing Opportunities for Global Senior Executives

February 24, 2005 - The Aresty Institute of Executive Education (http://execed.wharton.upenn.edu) at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Centre for Executive Education of the Indian School of Business (ISB) (http://www.isb.edu/execed) today jointly announced that they will be hosting the Wharton Fellows, a high profile group of global executives, for the India Master Class programme. This programme is part of Wharton’s top executive lifelong-learning network, Wharton Fellows.

“Wharton is pleased to partner with the ISB on this high profile executive education endeavour,” says Jon Spector, Vice Dean for Executive Education at Wharton. “ Combining both of the Schools’ networks and knowledge is a win-win proposition for both the Schools as well as the Wharton Fellows.”

The Wharton Fellows, will be visiting India from March 6-9. The Wharton Fellows India programme is being jointly designed and implemented by Wharton and the ISB to provide maximum learning impact for the Fellows.

“ The India Master Class will help participants gain deep knowledge on India as an important emerging market and sourcing destination. The ISB is proud to partner with Wharton for this programme,” said Shyam Viswanathan, Associate Dean of Executive Education at the ISB. 

 “India is running neck and  neck with China in market size and growth potential, yet many of these opportunities will not be realized by using the traditional market strategies of the developed world,” says Wharton Professor Jerry Wind, Founder of the Fellows Programme.. “The Fellows programme will arm senior executives who have or are considering investments in India with new tools and mental models to enter and grow in that market.” 

The programme will open on March 6 with a high-level overview of the Indian cultural, political and industrial scenario. Speakers such as Gurcharan Das, N Srinivasan - Director General of the CII , K V Kamath of  ICICI Bank, Kiran Karnik of NASSCOM, Prabhu Chawla of the India Today Group and others will give the participants a bird’s eye view of India and her changing business scenario. The ‘Fellows’ will also visit companies who are known models of excellence, both in Mumbai and in Bangalore, to learn firsthand about market dynamics and new ways of looking at the Indian consumer and business.

“Participating in the culture first-hand during corporate visits to locations is worth much more than just reading or hearing about it,” says a current Wharton Fellow Gary Chau, who leads the Bombay Sapphire brand for Bacardi. “And quite intuitively, the programme designs the overall learning plan into quick, actionable opportunities in parallel with how our business functions today — small steps for fast, positive results.”

About The Wharton School:

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized around the world for its academic strengths across every major discipline and at every level of business education. The Wharton Fellows , designed by and for senior leaders , is a part of the Wharton Executive Education Programme . It goes beyond traditional executive development , offering relevancy, networking and exclusivity. Future 2005 programs locations include Washington DC, Copenhagen/Milan and Miami.  The Wharton School was founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the United States, Wharton has approximately 4,600 undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral students, more than 8,000 participants in its executive education programs annually, and an alumni network of more than 80,000 worldwide.

About the ISB:
 

The Indian School of Business is a research-oriented independent management institution that grooms future leaders for India and the world. The Centre for Executive Education (CEE) at the ISB offers executive programmes ( Customised , General management and Open ) that focus on global best practices and at the same time have relevance to the Asian and Indian Business context. Since its launch in November 2001, the ISB has conducted 212 programmes with more than 3000 participants from nearly 600 corporations in India and abroad. The ISB’s partnership with the Kellogg School of Management, The Wharton School, and London Business School make it one of its kind in Asia. The School offers a one-year Post Graduate Programme; short-duration, high-powered Executive Education programmes for CEOs and senior executives; and a two-year Research Fellowship Programme.

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