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Face to Face

Showcases interviews with prominent business leaders, management experts and key policy makers from around the world.
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Fly, Nation’s Citizen

Jayant Sinha, Honourable Minister of State for Civil Aviation, visited the Indian School of Business, Mohali campus, as part of the ISB Leadership Summit in September 2017. Professor Siddharth Shekhar Singh, Associate Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean, Research Centres and Institutes Outreach and Engagement at the ISB, caught up with Mr Sinha during his visit to learn more about the government’s exciting vision for the aviation sector. Edited excerpts from the conversation are below.

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The Banking Canvas
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The Banking Canvas

Viral V Acharya, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, visited the Indian School of Business to deliver the keynote address at the Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) annual Summer Research Conference in July 2017. Dr Acharya, who was also the CAF Academic Fellow for 2017, has had an illustrious academic career and is also C. V. Starr Professor of Economics in the Finance department at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Here he speaks to Prachi Deuskar, Assistant Professor of Finance at ISB about central banking as a canvas for research impact and the policy-research interface.

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Journey from Technology to Policy

V K Saraswat, Member of the NITI Aayog, was the Dean’s Speaker at the Indian School of Business in September 2017. Dr Saraswat is a Padma Bhushan awardee and Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University. In a career spanning over four decades, Dr Saraswat helped develop the country’s first liquid propulsion engine, Devil, as well as rocket engines such as Prithvi, Dhanush and Prahaar. He has been Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister, and (Research and Development) Secretary to the Department of Defence.

In his speech at ISB, Dr Saraswat addressed the question of inclusion in economic growth. After his talk, Reema Gupta, Head of the Centre for Learning and Management Practice and Corporate Relations at the ISB, spoke to him about his journey from science to policy-making, about building the right ecosystem for entrepreneurs and the NITI Aayog’s ongoing initiatives.

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Failure is a Necessary Part of Innovation

Sanjay Subhedar, founding Managing Director of Storm Ventures, and member of the Governing Board, ISB was at the Indian School of Business, and during his conversation with C Chitti Pantulu, former Director – Marketing and Communications, talked about the start-up environment in India, innovation landscape and the e-commerce space.

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Coping with the Effects of Climate Change

Arun Agrawal is the Samuel Trask Dana Professor of Governance and Sustainability, at the University of Michigan, USA. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the renowned journal World Development, and is considered an authority on environmental governance as well as social dimensions of climate change. He has published two books and dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles, including several in Science, Nature, and PNAS. Arun is also the Coordinator of IFRI, the international research network on people and forests, and a founding member of ICARUS, the global initiative on social science research on adaptation to climate change.

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“Any time an economist writes down a model, it is wrong”

Lars Peter Hansen, the recipient of the 2013 Noble Prize in Economics, was at the Indian School of Business (ISB) recently to address the Summer Research Conference in Finance. The David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, is a leading expert in economic dynamics who works at the boundaries of macroeconomics, fi nance, and econometrics. Best known for his work on the Generalized Method of Moments, he is also a distinguished macroeconomist, focusing on the linkages between the financial sector and the macro economy. His current collaborative research develops and applies methods for pricing the exposure to macroeconomic shocks over alternative investment horizons and investigates the implications of the pricing of long-term uncertainty.

Ahead of the event at its Hyderabad campus, ISB hosted Professor Hansen in Mumbai for interaction with senior financial sector representatives and ISB alumni. Bhagwan Chowdhry, Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management engaged the Nobel Laureate in a conversation bringing deep insights into the latter’s work and views on world issues. Edited excerpts from the interview are produced below.

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Be a Capitalist with a Simple Heart

Earlier this year the Indian School of Business (ISB) conferred the Honorary Distinguished Fellowship on N R Narayana Murthy, Founder, Infosys and Catamaran Ventures, making him the first recipient of the Fellowship. The ISB Honorary Distinguished Fellowship is designed to honour personalities of national and international eminence, who have contributed to the society through their thought leadership and success, are respected by the industry and the academia alike, and have inspired generations of people to achieve excellence in their respective fields of activity.

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Have Brand Power, Write the Rules

Apart from product quality, brand power is everything for success in the retail business says Ajay Arora, Managing Director, D’Decor, the world’s largest maker of home furnishings and fabrics. The firm that holds the brand power practically writes the rules of the game, he adds explaining how the US $250 million company is now making a major play for the Indian retail market for home furnishings. Excerpts from the conversation.

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