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<div><i>Dear MIT-Postdocs, </i></div>
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<div>The following event should be of interest to anyone interested in academic jobs or the higher education sector in India. We will appreciate if you help us distribute it to your friends in Cambridge, Boston area. </div>
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<div><b>Monday, Sept. 16th</b></div>
<div><b>5:30-7pm</b></div>
<div><b>Room E62-250</b></div>
<div><b>Sloan School of Management, MIT</b></div>
<div><b>Map: </b><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E62">http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E62</a></div>
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<div><b><i>Light indian Refreshments</i></b></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Adventure of Institution Building - IIMA & AU</b></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Mr. Prafull Anubhai, </b>Chairman, Board of Management, Ahmedabad University</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Institution building is an act of faith. The outcome often is uncertain. However, the journey is very exciting, an "adventure". In the education sector, i</span>nstitutions
pass through various phases of entrepreneurship and maturity - founding phase, start up phase, development phase, consolidation and perpetual rejuvenation. Mr. Anubhai will share his experience of witnessing and building two such adventures -- Indian Institute
of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), and Ahmedabad University (AU).</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">In India, this discussion is taking place against the backdrop of a tectonic </span>shift from public to private education. The challenge here is, how could we provide global
education at local cost, context, and ethos? As an educator with deep interest in answering this question, Mr. Anubhai has participated in journey of building <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">IIMA, one of India's leading public institutions,
for more than 45 years. He leads the second adventure of building AU, a private institution. He will discuss how the lessons learnt in the first journey are relevant to the second.</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">This talk will also be an opportunity to understand the leadership, context and resourcefulness of AU as an institution, and discuss any interests in participating as research collaborators, part-, full-faculty in the various disciplines
at AU.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><b>Speaker Bio:</b></span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Mr. Prafull Anubhai Shah is an accomplished leader and management consultant in business and education.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">He was associated
with Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) for over 40 years as Visiting Faculty and as Member of their Board of Governors till he retired from there in 2011.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Mr.
Anubhai is currently the Chairman of the Board of Management of the Ahmedabad University.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">In the field of education, apart from Ahmedabad University, he is Member of the Governing
Boards of Ahmedabad Education Society (AES), Centre for Science Technology and Policy (CSTEP), CEPT University and the Ahmedabad Textile Industry Research Association (ATIRA).</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">In
business, Mr Anubhai has over 30 years of experience as a Chief Executive of a Textile Manufacturing Company.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">He is presently the Chairman of Vardhman Special Steels Ltd.,
and a Director in several companies including Unichem Laboratories Ltd., Vardhman Textiles Ltd., Birla Sun Life Trustee Co. Pvt. Ltd., GRUH Finance Ltd. (a subsidiary of HDFC Ltd.), Torrent Cables Ltd. and the Emerging Market South Asia Fund (EMSAF).</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Mr
Anubhai is the author of “History of IIMA” which is an excellent record of how IIM Ahmedabad has evolved over the past 50+ years.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">He has a deep interest in Indian Classical
Music and is the Honorary Director of Saptak Archives, an institution dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of Indian Classical Music.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Mr Anubhai received his B.Sc.
(Econ.) from the London School of Economics and attended PMD at Harvard Business School.</span></div>
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