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India Business Initiative

Welcome to the India Business Initiative, a platform for Columbia Business School faculty and alumni to connect with each other and with industry leaders and policy makers on all things India-related.

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Research

The India Business Initiative draws on the expertise of world-class faculty members and business leaders to help shape the thinking and discourse on major global business issues.

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Events

The India Business Initiative organizes and sponsors numerous opportunities for Columbia Business School, faculty, and alumni to connect with each other and with industry leaders and policy makers on all things India-related.

India Business Initiative

Welcome to the India Business Initiative (IBI). I invite you to browse through our website, which contains our mission statement, information about faculty and industry advisory board members, faculty research interests pertaining to India, student activities, and events that we have planned for the near future.

Please don’t hesitate to offer me suggestions and comments for making IBI better so that we can engage the Columbia community more actively with India in future.

Suresh Sundaresan
Chase Manhattan Bank Professor of Economics and Finance
Columbia Business School

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