Events

Current Events

7 October 2008   Mike Jatania, CEO Lornamead Group
Lornamead - The Story of Adding Value to Brands
Further details forthcoming

Past Events

Speaker Series

Through our speaker series, the Centre aims to support Indian companies, academics and public-policy makers in their pursuit of global business capabilities, as well as to help global corporations and governments understand business in India. The Speaker Series seeks to enable interaction between leaders of emerging and established businesses in India, and the wider global business community.

• 27 May 2008
  S Ramadorai, CEO and MD Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
  
  
• 28 June 2007
  P Chidambaram, Minister of Finance

• 27 February 2007
  Lord Karan Bilimoria CBE DL, CEO Cobra Beer

• 2 February 2007 (co-sponsored with the Indian Business Forum)
  Kamal Nath, Minister of Trade & Commerce

• 3 October 2006
  Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro Ltd

Seminar Series

23 April 2008
Dr Sanker De, Indian School of Business
Do Business Networks Benefit Member Firms?

15 May 2008   Integrating Global Expertise (a seminar in association with Aditya Birla Minacs)

While much is made of the cost savings and political issues that business process offshoring entails, relatively little attention is paid to the fact that the successful offshoring of services also represents a breakthrough in organizational models for integrating globally dispersed expertise. The skills that both client and vendor companies are developing at capturing and transferring knowledge as well as achieving coordination across locations and their relevance in a globalizing economy, where value chains are often distributed across ownership and geographic boundaries were discussed at the seminar. The event included speakers from Deutsche Bank, Nissan Motors, McKinsey and London Business School.

31 October 2007 Made in India Multinationals: Strategies and Challenges

A special dinner, panel discussion and art event, co-hosted by the Aditya Birla India Centre and Harvard Business Review, was held at London Business School on 31 October 2007. The evening was opened by The Hon Apurv Bagri who welcomed guests and introduced the panellists. Followed by Anand Raman (Senior Editor of Harvard Business Review) who presented his survey of "New Champions, Global Challenges".

The high profile panel consisted of Aditya Mittal (Chief Financial Officer of ArcelorMittal), Rajesh Hukku (Chairman & Managing Director, i-flex solutions) and Nirmalya Kumar (Co-Director of the Aditya Birla India Centre), and was moderated by Tom Stewart (Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Business Review). The evening closed with talks by Richard Blurton and Sona Datta from the British Museum on Jamini Roy, the father of modern Indian painting, a selection of whose paintings were exhibited. The exceptional dinner was catered for by the Cinnamon Club.