Wharton alumni event in Mumbai from today

A cocktail of wit and wisdom"� that's what a Wharton alumni event hopes to usher in for the corporate denizens of Mumbai.

For the first time, Wharton School, an Ivy League business school in the US, is hosting its 125th alumni event in Mumbai. The two-day event will begin tomorrow.

Apart from corporate bosses such as Anil Ambani, who is a Wharton alumni, the event will also see participation from some of the global thought-leaders and a part of Wharton's renowned faculty rostrum such as Jeremy Siegel, the Russell E Palmer professor of Finance, Michael Useem, Anjani Jain, a global manufacturing expert, among others.

Going down memory lane with reminiscences of the good old past, is just half of the event's much-touted itinerary.

In fact, the faculties and the alumnus (most of them being the movers and shakers of corporate world in their own right) will devote their entire two days by locking themselves in fierce debate on some of the live wire business realities, a talk termed "The future for investors" to be rendered by Jeremy Siegel, and a panel discussion on "Offshoring to India", being some of them.

But Why India and more so, why Mumbai?

"We host such forums in some of the top business cities in the world and Mumbai is one among them," says Michael Baltes, director, Wharton Communications.

Baltes also said that India was now an economically progressive nation and this event would be an occasion for the faculties to learn more about India, meet people from Indian businesses and do "some more win-win work."

For all the business academicians and corporate practitioners, its that time of the new year, when they can fasten their seat belts and gain from the global views that will be spouted closer home.

Time to take off in the universe of business brainstorming?