Harvard Guru McFarlan to visit Mumbai

Harvard Business School guru Warren McFarlan will be in Mumbai on March 30, 2004 to deliver a lecture on "Does IT Work? - Managing business success in the 21st Century" at a meeting of the HBS alumni.

Warren McFarlan is the best known thought leader in the area of business transformation through IT strategy and strategic outsourcing.

He has played a significant role in introducing management information systems (MIS) concepts into all major programs at the Harvard Business School since the first course on the subject was offered in 1962.

McFarlan also founded the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School, and has been for long a teacher in the 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 himself. I am confident his talk will help us clear our minds to find answers to our own business problems", LC Singh, CEO of Nihilent Technology "" a Harvard alumnus and organiser of McFarlan's lecture in Mumbai""said.