Undergrad Alma Mater

Lately I am getting a bunch of emails from my undergrad alma mater – all congratulatory emails from classmates and batch mates I have long forgotten. It seems that our undergraduate school has very slim presence in the top business schools in US. So, the pressure on me has doubled, as I will be representing my university in the business school circles in US. Now when I look back I realize how naïve I was then – probably due to lack of any alumni to idolize; lack of a mentor. I hope that I can provide that role model to any future potential candidates from my alma mater.

Management Gurus

In some recent conversations the following names were frequented whenever I talked about Michigan – Dave Ulrich, Noel Tichy and C.K. Prahalad. They are listed as the Top 10 Management Gurus in a recent BusinessWeek Survey. I was amazed when I came across the name Prahalad while I was reading a recent address by the SBI Chairman to the Board of Directors (as if the name Prahalad has intersected every boardroom in India). I am fortunate to get an opportunity to be amidst such top class management gurus for the next 2 years of my life. Needless to say, I am excited.

Here is a List of Top 10 Management Gurus as cited by BusinessWeek:

1. Dave Ulrich : Human Resources -- Michigan
2. Ram Charan : Independent adviser -- Various companies and schools
3. John P. Kotter : Leadership -- Harvard Business School
4. Gary Hamel : Strategy International Management -- London Business School/Strategos
5. Jay Conger : Leadership -- London Business School
6.* Peter F. Drucker : Strategy,Business Policy -- Various companies and schools
6.* Michael E. Porter : Strategy -- Harvard Business School
7. Peter M. Senge : Organizational learning, organizational change -- MIT (Sloan)
8. Stephen R. Covey : Author The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
9. Noel Tichy : Leadership -- Michigan
10.* C.K. Prahalad : Strategy, International Business -- Michigan/PRAJA
10.* Tom Peters : Leadership -- tompeterscompany.






Survey

I have updated the survey with the latest entries - now we have almost 35-40
entries but we need more to have a solid quantitative and qualitative base.
I am extremely sorry that i didn't update the entries for a long time. Anyway, Keep them coming..

Bloggers Strike Again

Before I forget - 2 more from the blogger community have got admitted into the schools of their choice. First is FutureMBAGirl at Wharton and Second is ChunkyPitBull at UC Berkeley HAAS Program. My heartiest congratulations to both of you. We have 2 more to go - poweryogi and trip - and the circle of "blogger community" will be complete. Yogi and Trip - keep your hopes alive unless and untill the last candle is burnt out.