Harvard University- and MIT-founded edX will provide 2,300 courses that will be co-hosted on India’s Massive Open Online Course platform, SWAYAM. Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX, sealed the deal with Prakash Javadekar, head of the federal Human Resource Development ministry. edX counts the world’s leading universities, nonprofits, and institutions as...
Gravitational-Wave Observatory to Be Set Up in India
A month after the discovery of gravitational waves, a memorandum of understanding for building a state-of-the-art LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) project in the country, was signed between the National Science Foundation U.S.A. and India's Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology. LIGO-India will collaborate with the...
My undergraduate reunion in Kanpur, India
I just returned from re-union of my undergraduate class in Kanpur, India. Over twenty of us from both the USA and India showed up, several with familes. A photo of a local newspaper article about the re-union is at the bottom of this article. As a college, my trans-formative years...
International Job Opportunities
Many American Business School graduate, especially MBA's are starting to think about careers and international job opportunities in India or with Indian companies in the USA. The Booth school at the University of Chicago asked me to speak on this subject during a vibrant panel discussion at their India Leadership...