IIM-C Director, Prof. Shekhar Chaudhuri, Receives 'Bharat Asmita Acharya Shrestha Award 2009'

IIM-C Director, Prof. Shekhar Chaudhuri, Receives 'Bharat Asmita Acharya Shrestha Award 2009'

Prof. Chaudhuri has published a number of research papers in national and international journals, and has presented his research in several national and international conferences. He has also co-authored a book titled "Entry Strategies & Growth in

Foreign Markets" published by Oxford. In 1988, he was awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship at U.C., Berkeley, and has also been a Visiting Scholar at Twente University of Technology, Enschede, The Netherlands, in the Technology and Development Group.

In the early 1980s, he pioneered work in the field of Management of Technology and organized several MDPs at IIM Ahmedabad on the basis of his research. In the nineties, he organized MDPs on Acquisition & Assimilation of Foreign Technology in collaboration with the DSIR, GOI; Japanese Management and International Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances. At IIM-A, he directed several important MDPs offered by the institute like the Management Education Programme (4½ months), Middle Management Programme (1 month) and Senior Management Programme (3 weeks), as well as customised programmes at senior and top levels for a number of companies in India and the Royal Danish Embassy, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The members of selection committee of the award include Shri. T. N. Seshan, Chairman & former Chief Election Commissioner of India, Prof. Dr. Vishwanath D. Karad, Executive Chairman, a visionary academician & founder of MAEER's MIT Group of Instititutions, Adv. Bhaskarrao E. Avhad, a renowned advocate, legal luminary & the President of MAEER, Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, eminent scientist & President, Indian Science Congress, DG of CSIR & a Fellow of the Royal Society Londan ISE, Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar, a World renowned computer scientist & father of the Indian Supercomputer PARAM 10000. He is the Founder & former Executive Director of C-DAC, Dr. Yashpal, a renowned astro-physicist of India, responsible for setting up the first satellite education system in the country and a former Chairman of UGC, Smt. Ritu Nanda, a renowned social worker & entrepreneur, and Shri. Rahul V. Karad, Convener, Founder & Dean of MIT School of Government, Pune.

Concluded.

Contributed by -
Aloke Guin,
PRO,
IIM Calcutta.

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