After Harvard, Stanford comes to India; to hold executive education programme in December 2008

After Harvard Business School, which conducted its executive programme in Hyderabad, another prestigious B-school -- The Stanford Graduate School of Business is coming to India with its offerings. Stanford GSB will be holding a programme named Creating Emotional Engagement with Customers and Employees in New Delhi and Mumbai in December 2008. The programme will be lead by two Indian faculty members at Stanford.

Mumbais Taj Mahal Palace & Tower will host the first of the programme on December 17, 2008, while New Delhis Taj Mahal Hotel will host the programme on December 22, 2008.

According to Stanford, the faculty will include Dr Hayagreeva Rao, Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at Stanford GSB and Dr Baba Shiv, Professor of Marketing at Stanford GSB.

Professor Rao has published widely in the fields of management and sociology and studies the social and cultural causes of organizational change. In his research, he studies three sub-processes of organizational change: a) creation of new social structures, b) the transformation of existing social structures, and c) the dissolution of existing social structures.

Baba Shivs research is in the area of consumer decision making and decision neuroscience with specific emphasis on the role of emotion in decision making, the neurological bases of emotion, and nonconscious mental processes in decision making.
Stanford University and its Graduate School of Business are leading institutions with long history of innovation and thought-leadership. For over 110 years, Stanford has produced many of the worlds greatest business innovators. The founders of Google, Nike, Charles Schwab, Sun Microsystems, Robert Mondavi, Hewlett-Packard, Victorias Secret, Yahoo!, Capital One, Gap and Cisco went to Stanford.

Since its creation in 1925, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, with a faculty that includes three Nobel laureates, has established itself as a global leader in management education and has built an international reputation.