But Harvard has plans to go much beyond mining entrepreneurship lessons from India with its sweeping South Asia plan.
Star Indian profs at Harvard back the univ to expand scholarships for S Asian students
NEW YORK: America’s oldest institution of higher learning never misses a beat. The Harvard Business School’s Mumbai Research Center is already engaged with many of India’s leading companies and is producing a series of case studies on their successes.
But Harvard has plans to go much beyond mining entrepreneurship lessons from India with its sweeping South Asia plan.
“We are embarking on a multi-year undertaking to increase Harvard’s research and learning related to South Asia,” said Professor Jorge I Dominguez, Vice Provost for International Affairs and one of the architects of the South Asia project unveiled on Wednesday. “Harvard has much to learn from South Asia and we hope we can reciprocate.”
As a part of the initiative, Harvard plans to increase the number of professors whose focus includes research related to South Asia.
It will also expand financial support and scholarships for students from South Asia accepted at Harvard. It will also increase the number of researchers, scholars, and students from South Asia who come to study, teach, and learn at the institution.
“India may well be seen, in today’s public discussion, merely as China’s alter-ego, but South Asia’s long history and rich traditions deserve serious study, for which Harvard can be a wonderful base,” said Nobel laureate Amartya Sen who is part of the steering committee which will guide Harvard’s South Asia plans.
A group of star Indian professors, many of them celebrated authors and management gurus, have worked with Harvard president Drew Faust, to get the South Asia initiative off the ground. The eight-member steering committee includes Sugata Bose from Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor Homi K Bhabha, Professor Tarun Khanna and Krishna G Palepu from the Harvard Business School and Rohini Pande from the Kennedy School of Government.
Fuelled by India and China, foreign student enrollment in US higher education institutions is on the up-tick for the first time since the September 11, 2001 attacks which led to tighter visa controls.
For the sixth year in a row, India sent the most students to the US in 2006-2007 with a 10% increase to 83,833, according to the new ‘Open Doors’ report.
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