Chicago GSB delegation to visit India

Maybe of some interest to folks applying to Chicago GSB. This piece appeared in todays ET.


THE University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (GSB) on Monday announced that it is leading a delegation of alumni and faculty on an entrepreneurial trip to India. The programme conducted first time in the country is designed to educate participants about the Indian market place and form partnerships with the local business community. This includes visits to New Delhi, Mumbai and the team will be in Bangalore on October 22 and 23, said a statement.

In Bangalore, participants will participate in a forum on venture capital with a panel of GSB alumni including Sarath Naru, managing partner of Ventureast and Apidc Venture Capital and engage with a panel of GSB alumni entrepreneurs including Prabhakar Tadepalli, managing director of Tyfone, and Dhiraj Rajaram, founder and CEO of Mu Sigma. Participants will also explore social entrepreneurship and explore IT with alumnus Jeby Cherian, head of the Global Business Solution Centre at IBM.

The trip will engage more than 100 Indiabased GSB alumni as well as others in the local business community. “This trip is providing valuable experiential education and networking opportunities for our participants. It is bringing together alumni from India and other parts of the world with the larger business community to facilitate meaningful partnerships,” the statement quoted GSB’s director of entrepreneurship programmes Linda Darragh.