Interview place: Glen’s Office, Cambridge, MIT
Interview Date: 18th May 2011
Table of contents:
• Years spent in IIM-C; permission.
• Context of joining IIM-C as a young professor.
• First impressions of India; classrooms; students.
• Views of Calcutta; Family Planning and the Nirodh Project; Teaching comparisons between MIT and IIM-C; Indian business environment; State-of-the-art.
• Faculty conflicts; political instability; safety.
• Encountering “millions of people” at Sealdah.
• Impact of teaching in India on research interests.
• Effects of teaching at IIM-C on tenure.
• Balancing research interests and methods with Indian context and needs; expectations of a tenure-track junior professor.
• Enduring images of IIM-C and Calcutta; Classroom milieu; nature of Sloan’s contribution to IIM-C.
• ParatoshSen’s family portrait of Glen Urban’s family; hartals.
2011-05-18
IIM Calcutta
