Harvard alumni meet on March 30

For the first time, two senior professors from the Harvard Business School (HBS) will visit Mumbai to address the alumni in India from the same platform.

The Harvard Alumni Meet, to be held at the Leela Kempinski in Mumbai on March 30, will be addressed by Warren McFarlan and Richard Vietor, both currently senior associate deans at the HBS.

Richard Vietor will be speaking on the "US Economic Strategy and its effect on Globalization".

He is the Senator John Heinz Professor of the Environmental Management School and Senior Associate Dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration where he takes courses on the regulation of business and the international political economy.

He received a BA in economics from Union College (1967), an MA in history from Hofstra University (1971), and a Ph.D in history from the University of Pittsburgh (1975).

He was appointed HBS professor in 1984. Warren McFarlan, a thought leader in the area of business transformation through IT strategy and strategic outsourcing, will speak on "Does IT Work? - Managing business success in 21st Century".

He has played a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at the Harvard Business School since the first course on the subject was offered in 1962.

He has been a long-time teacher in the Advanced Management Program; International Senior Managers Program, Delivering Information Services Program and several Social Sector Programs. Presently, besides being Senior Associate Dean, he is also Director of Harvard Business School's Asia Pacific Initiative.

"As Indian businesses go global and business process outsourcing faces a few more road blocks in the US, it is time to listen to the master. I am confident, the talk by these two great minds will help us clear our minds to find answers to our own business problems," said L C Singh, CEO of Nihilent Technology - a Harvard alumni organizing the talks in Mumbai.