Archive for May, 2011

Story and photos by Samantha M. Novick

Significant financial reforms in the 1990s set India on a course toward a freer, more open economy ripe for entrepreneurship. I traveled to five cities in India to meet Thunderbirds who have ditched the corporate world to strike out on their own. All across the country, Thunderbirds are leveraging their global mindset and corporate business acumen to take advantage of the booming environment. Here is the story of how 1988 Thunderbird graduate Vijay Anand Jangiti found success in Mumbai. | Video: India catches its stride: Vijay Anand Jangiti (2:57)
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Story and photos by Samantha M. Novick

Significant financial reforms in the 1990s set India on a course toward a freer, more open economy ripe for entrepreneurship. I traveled to five cities in India to meet Thunderbirds who have ditched the corporate world to strike out on their own. All across the country, Thunderbirds are leveraging their global mindset and corporate business acumen to take advantage of the booming environment. Here is the story of how 1997 Thunderbird graduate Harsha Moily found success in Bengaluru. | Video: India catches its stride: Harsha Moily (2:51)
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Finance and accounting professionals have a language of their own that sometimes leaves laymen dazed and confused. Michael Petersen, Ph.D., a clinical professor of accounting at Thunderbird School of Global Management, understands your pain. He was part of the faculty that led Project Artemis Pakistan, a program for nine Pakistani businesswomen that Thunderbird ran May 2-15, 2011, in partnership with the U.S. State Department and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women. Petersen shared with the Project Artemis fellows “10 terms to help you look smarter when talking to people about money and accounting.”
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How do you deal with an employee who is competent but doesn’t match the values of your business? Nine businesswomen from Pakistan who traveled to Thunderbird School of Global Management for two weeks in May to receive entrepreneurship training will carry home with them the answer to this question, as well as other expert tips on workplace communication, how to give and receive feedback, and how to coach the behavior of their employees. The business communication course, taught by Thunderbird Professor Christine Pearson, Ph.D., is just one piece of Project Artemis Pakistan, a new partnership between the U.S. State Department and the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women program. | Video: Project Artemis participant Maria Umar (2:29) | Video: Project Artemis participant Shah Rukh (1:50) | Video: Project Artemis participant Syeda Shafi (1:44)
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Story and photos by Samantha M. Novick

Significant financial reforms in the 1990s set India on a course toward a freer, more open economy ripe for entrepreneurship. I traveled to five cities in India to meet Thunderbirds who have ditched the corporate world to strike out on their own. All across the country, Thunderbirds are leveraging their global mindset and corporate business acumen to take advantage of the booming environment. Here is the story of how 1994 Thunderbird graduate Kimiko Thakur Menzies found success in Bengaluru. | Video: India catches its stride: Kimiko Thakur Menzies (2:51)
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Ettore Rossetti, director of Internet communications and marketing at Save the Children, views his job as a personal mission. The social sector organization works to inspire breakthroughs for disadvantaged children around the world, and Rossetti thinks about his own family when he goes to work. “I have children,” says the father from Westport, Connecticut. “They are symbolic of the children around the world who might not have the chance to thrive and survive.” Rossetti was among 27 emerging social sector leaders who participated May 2-6, 2011, in the American Express Leadership Academy at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona. The academy, developed at Thunderbird in partnership with American Express, included high-potential social sector managers from 10 organizations. Meet 10 of these participants in the videos below:
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Great leaders earn their reputations in times of crisis, not calm, American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault told a group of 75 emerging social sector leaders May 5, 2011, at the American Express Leadership Academy in New York and Arizona. “The key is to balance decisiveness with compassion,” he said. “You cannot be afraid to make the tough choices, but you have to do it in a compassionate way.” Chenault spoke at American Express headquarters to 50 academy participants in New York, while others in a companion program at Thunderbird School of Global Management participated via live, interactive satellite in Glendale, Arizona.
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Story and photos by Samantha M. Novick

Significant financial reforms in the 1990s set India on a course toward a freer, more open economy ripe for entrepreneurship. I traveled to five cities in India to meet Thunderbirds who have ditched the corporate world to strike out on their own. All across the country, Thunderbirds are leveraging their global mindset and corporate business acumen to take advantage of the booming environment. Here is the story of how 1992 Thunderbird graduate Andy Khandwala found success in Bengaluru. | Video: India catches its stride: Andy Khandwala (2:57)
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Nonprofit organizations looking for innovation to tackle poverty and other global challenges soon will have a new design resource. Consulting firm IDEO will launch IDEO.org in fall 2011 to spread human-centered design through the social sector and improve the lives of people in low-income communities around the world. Jocelyn Wyatt, a 2006 Thunderbird graduate who leads IDEO’s social innovation domain, visited the American Express Leadership Academy at Thunderbird School of Global Management on May 2, 2011. She discussed the IDEO.org initiative and shared six human-centered design guidelines for the program participants from 10 social sector organizations.
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Emerging nonprofit leaders from 10 global organizations rattled off a long list of social sector challenges May 2, 2011, on the opening day of the first-ever American Express Leadership Academy at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona. Talent retention, fund-raising, increased competition, pressure to scale up quickly and the speed of change in the post-recession economy all keep social sector leaders awake at night. But Thunderbird Professor Michael Finney, Ph.D., identified a different issue as the most significant social sector trend in 2011. “Sector boundaries are blurring,” he told the group of 28 high-potential leaders from nine countries.
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