Tuesday, September 15, 2009

gurcharan das at iim bangalore

sep 15th, 2009

for fans of gurcharan. i think you can attend even if you are not attached to iim bangalore.

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It gives us great pleasure to invite you to a lecture by  Gurcharan Das, management guru and author, where he will be talking about his new book " The Difficulty of Being Good : On the subtle art of Dharma".
·       Date – 16th September 2009
·       Time – 5 pm
·       Venue – IIMB auditorium
·       Programme – Coffee and interaction with the author
         Lecture – on his new book- "The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of Dharma"
         Q n A by the audience
         Moderated by Professor Gita Sen.
Gurcharan Das is an author, management guru and public intellectual. He is a regular speaker to the managements of the world's largest corporations. He was Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning). Prior to P&G, he was Chairman and Managing Director of Richardson Hindustan Limited.
Gurcharan Das graduated from Harvard University and later attended Harvard Business School (AMP), where he is featured in three case studies. He is on a number of boards, including Gillette, Citibank, Chrys Capital, Birla Sunlife, and SKS Microfinance. He has been on the juries of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article and the $500,000 Milton Friedman award.
In 1995, after a 30-year career in 6 countries, he took early retirement to become an author. He is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma (Penguin 2009) which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, 'why be good?' His international bestseller, India Unbound, is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global information age and has been published in 17 languages and filmed by BBC.
This is lecture/discussion where your presence would create value, as the subject is indeed a contemporary one.
R.S.V.P on 080-26993465/e-mail : centrecgc@iimb.ernet.in  would be greatly appreciated.
      

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