Invitation for Coffee and in discussion with Gurcharan Das>Lecture on 16th September 2009, at IIM Bangalore, Bannerghatta Road- 5pm

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Just a reminder for the Gurcharan Das lecture on 16^th September 2009 at the Auditorium- 5 pm

 

                                                                                                   

 

 

                                                                                    

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It gives us great pleasure to invite you to a lecture by  Gurcharan Das, management guru and author, where he will be talking about his new book " The Difficulty of Being Good : On the subtle art of Dharma".

·       Date – 16^th September 2009

·       Time – 5 pm

·       Venue – IIMB auditorium

·       Programme – Coffee and interaction with the author

         Lecture – on his new book- "The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of Dharma"

         Q n A by the audience

         Moderated by Professor Gita Sen.

Gurcharan Das is an author, management guru and public intellectual. He is a regular speaker to the managements of the world's largest corporations. He was Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning). Prior to P&G, he was Chairman and Managing Director of Richardson Hindustan Limited.

Gurcharan Das graduated from Harvard University and later attended Harvard Business School (AMP), where he is featured in three case studies. He is on a number of boards, including Gillette, Citibank, Chrys Capital, Birla Sunlife, and SKS Microfinance. He has been on the juries of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article and the $500,000 Milton Friedman award.

In 1995, after a 30-year career in 6 countries, he took early retirement to become an author. He is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma (Penguin 2009) which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, 'why be good?' His international bestseller, India Unbound, is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global information age and has been published in 17 languages and filmed by BBC.

This is lecture/discussion where your presence would create value, as the subject is indeed a contemporary one.

R.S.V.P on 080-26993465/e-mail : centrecgc@iimb.ernet.in  would be greatly appreciated.

      

Manoj Chakravarti
Chief Operations Officer,
Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship,
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Bannerghatta Road,Bangalore-560076-India
Phone : 080-26993274 Mobile:+91 9845650144