Interview place: Ishwar’s House, New Delhi
Interview Date: 7th September 2011
Table of contents:
• Educational and family background
• Berkeley, Columbia and New York University; and entry into Clinical Psychology
• Clinical Psychology research in India
• Return to India; becoming General Manager of import-export company
• Foray into market research; working at Phillips and Metalbox
• Context of joining IIM Calcutta; the Srinagar Programme
• Beginnings as a professor; the faculty at IIM Calcutta; the campus
• The first few days at IIM-C; writing a book with Kamini; Evolution of Organizational Behaviour as a discipline in IIM-C and outside
• Contribution of MIT to IIM-C’s institutional development; independent from other IIMs teaching structures
• Interactions with MIT faculty; colleagueship
• Indian business environment; promoting the Institute amongst industry colleagues
• Collegiality; lack of groupism; differences between the IIMs
• Freedom and people development at IIM Calcutta
2011-09-07
IIM Calcutta
