Fulbright-Nehru-CII Fellowships for Leadership in Management
The United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) announce the Fulbright-Nehru-CII Fellowships for Leadership in Management for the academic year 2009-2010. Indian business managers, whose employers would be willing to bear 80% (USD 25,280) of the total cost (USD 31,600), may compete to attend a specially designed 10-week management program at the Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business (TSB),located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, from May 26 to August 3, 2009. TSB is one of the world's premier centers for teaching and research in business management. TSB faculty members have won wide acclaim, including six Nobel Prizes in economics.
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP EXECUTIVE SUMMER FORUM
The program consists of the following:
Participation in the four-week Global Leadership Executive Summer Forum (GLESF), an outstanding general management program offered by TSB's Carnegie Bosch Institute.The flagship program by which Carnegie Bosch Institute is known worldwide, the GLESF presents, synthesizes, and applies knowledge about the multi-cultural professional environment in an intensive format. World-class faculty from Asia, Europe, and the U.S. address key management issues of strategy and leadership while touching upon topics of broad economic and international scope.
Classes with Carnegie Mellon faculty, site visits to U.S. manufacturing and industrial organizations and opportunities to network with business leaders. Participants may also audit selected MBA and executive courses in such subjects as Marketing Management, Operations Research, Managerial Economics, and Corporate Finance.
Work under the direction of a faculty advisor on an independent project that can be implemented in their home organizations at the end of their stay in the United States. The project gives additional focus to class work and independent study while fostering application of learning when participants arrive back home.
The opportunity to experience American culture by attending social, cultural, and sporting events in the Pittsburgh area, dining in a Pittsburgh home, and experiencing life in a unique American city. In addition, the experience gives participants membership in the prestigious global Fulbright community, which has spread in 155 countries around the world.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES AND OUTLINE
The anchor of the Fulbright scholars' ten-week experience at Carnegie Mellon is their participation in the GLESF. The GLESF is an intensive, diverse and selective four-week program for upper-level managers that broadens their overall perspectives and strengthens their strategic functional and leadership ties.
The GLESF covers a spectrum of topics from leadership in multicultural settings to achieving customer-driven value and managing organizational change.The program is specifically designed to help participants:
Develop and understand their personal leadership styles;
Build a framework for efficient decision-making in teams;
Develop strategic thinking, planning and action;
Apply knowledge and skills to cross-functional integration and coordination of products and services in overall support of strategy;
Understand the border-less global marketplace;
Create effective networks;
Create strategies that facilitate consideration of values and services as a process rather than a function;
Explore current thinking and research about how the Internet and electronic commerce continue to change the business landscape;
Develop and deliver a strong message about their organization and its issues to a variety of audiences under many different circumstances.
Foremost, the GLESF will put its participants in touch with the latest, research-based thinking relative to these skills and disciplines and measures that research against real-world issues. Courses are taught by distinguished faculty from Carnegie Mellon and other leading U.S. and international graduate schools of business. The program offers a combination of lectures, experiential learning, informal networking, and the opportunity to attend a series of social, cultural and sporting events within Carnegie Mellon and in the Pittsburgh area.
SELECTED TOPICAL AREAS OF GLESF INCLUDE:
Global Vision and Strategy
Strategy as changing the rules of the global game
Managing discontinuous change
Rapid business model decay
Sources of market disruption
Competition for the present vs. competition for the future
Long-term competitiveness
Mission statement vs. strategic intent
Core competencies
Prioritizing new business opportunities
Organizational DNA of rule changers
Concept of business model innovation
Developing a Leadership Point of View
Participants learn how to develop an individual business-oriented leadership point of view and how to communicate this leadership point of view to their stakeholders.
Leadership and Followership
The changing economic landscape : Factors that create wealth
The economic impact of intellectual capital
The effect of the intellectual capital economy on the rules and tools for managing a business successfully
