Harvard Guru McFarlan to visit Mumbai

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| Warren McFarlan is the best known thought leader in the area of business transformation through IT strategy and strategic outsourcing. |
| He has played a significant role in introducing management information systems (MIS) concepts into all major programs at the Harvard Business School since the first course on the subject was offered in 1962. |
| McFarlan also founded the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School, and has been for long a teacher in the International Senior Managers Program, Delivering Information Services Program and several Social Sector Programs. |
| Presently, besides being Senior Associate Dean, he is also Director of Harvard Business School's Asia Pacific Initiative. |
| "As Indian businesses go global and business process outsourcing faces a few more road blocks in the US, it is time to listen to the master himself. I am confident his talk will help us clear our minds to find answers to our own business problems", LC Singh, CEO of Nihilent Technology "" a Harvard alumnus and organiser of McFarlan's lecture in Mumbai""said. |
First Published: Mar 18 2004 | 12:00 AM IST