Advisors
John Kotter, Professor, Harvard Business School, is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on leadership and change. His has been the premier voice on how the best organizations actually "do" change.
John Kotter's international bestseller Leading Change, which outlined an actionable, 8- step process for implementing successful transformations became the change bible for managers around the world. In October 2001, Business Week magazine rated Kotter the #1 "leadership guru" in America based on a survey they conducted of 504 enterprises. John Kotter's articles in The Harvard Business Review over the past twenty years have sold more reprints than any of the hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that publication during the same time period. His books are in the top 1% of sales from Amazon.com.
He is a graduate of MIT and Harvard. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1972. In 1980, at the age of 33, he was given tenure and a full professorship.
Professor Donaldson is the The Mark O. Winkelman Professor Director, PhD Program in Ethics and Law Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He writes, teaches, and consults in the areas of business ethics, values, and leadership.
His book, The Ethics of International Business, was the winner of the 1998 SIM Academy of Management Best Book Award. He is President-elect of the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management, and was a founding member and past president of the Society for Business Ethics. He is currently the Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review, and a member of the editorial boards of a number of journals, including the Business Ethics Quarterly and Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. At Wharton he has received many teaching awards, including the Outstanding Teacher of the Year award; the Excellence in Teaching Award; the Miller- Sherrerd MBA Teaching Award; the David W. Hauck Award for Outstanding Teaching, The MBA "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty" Award and the Marc and Sheri Rapaport Undergraduate Core Teaching Award.
Narayanan Vaghul, Chairman ICICI Bank, Director Arcelor Mittal. has 48 years of experience in the financial sector and has been the Chairman of Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India Limited for 16 years and of ICICI Bank for the last two years. Prior to this, he was Chairman of the Bank of India and Executive Director of the Central Bank of India In 2006 he was conferred the Economic Times Lifetime Achievement Award for his exceptional service to the banking industry and his vision and foresight that enabled the transformation of a stodgy bank into one of the country's most successful enterprises. He was chosen as the Businessman of the Year in 1992 by Business India, a leading Indian publication, and has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation and the Asian Development Bank. He was also a visiting Professor at the Stern Business School at New York University. Mr. Vaghul is Chairman of the Indian Institute of Finance Management & Research and is also a board member of various other companies, including Wipro Limited, Mahindra & Mahindra, Nicholas Piramal India Limited and Apollo Hospitals.
Prakash G Apte, ex-Director IIM Bangalore and Professor in Economics and Social Sciences Area. His special areas of interest are International Finance, Exchange Rate Behaviour, Financial Derivatives and Risk Management. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT, Bombay, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, New York, USA. He taught at the Vassar College and Columbia University, before joining the Institute. He has had industrial and consulting experience before and during his doctoral studies. He holds the UTI Chair in Finance at the Institute and has been a Visiting Faculty at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He has served on expert committees appointed by NSE and SEBI. Thomas Kirchmaier, Professor, LSE
Dr. Tom Kirchmier, a strategy expert, is a Lecturer in Management at the London School of Economics. His research interests include Negotiation Analysis, Corporate Governance, Corporate Restructuring and Corporate Performance. He has been with the LSE for the last eight years and has strong links with the Financial Markets Group. He has co-authored a book on Corporate Governance with Sir Geoffrey Owen, published by Palgrave. His work has been published in the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, and has appeared several times on Bloomberg Television. He has extensive consulting experience in the IT and Automotive industry, and advises the Volkswagen Group and DaimlerChrysler on issues of Bargaining & Negotiation and Corporate Restructuring. Prior to this he has worked for Oracle Business Consulting and a Deutsche Bank owned consulting firm.
He holds a Ph.D. and an MSc in Management from the London School of Economics, and a Masters in Economics from the University of Regensburg, Germany.