After MIT and Harvard, ex-McKinsey consultant Partha Ghosh to offer leadership lessons at VGSOM

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MBAUniverse.com News Desk |
July 28, 2016
Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM) students will be taking leadership lessons from Mr. Partha S. Ghosh, a renowned strategist, consultant, author.

Mr. Ghosh, ex-partner of McKinsey & Co., will be delivering a lecture series at VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur from 14 to 17 February. He has also conducted the same lecture series at Harvard University and MIT on the issues of strategic problem solving, leadership and globalization. 

Mr. Partha Ghosh, based in Boston is known as an innovator of Business and Economic Models. He is currently in an advisory role with multiple organizations world wide and the Chairman & Chief Mentor of Boston Analytics, a firm specializing in providing precision analytical services/financial modeling tools to corporate and government agencies. Earlier Mr. Ghosh was a partner at McKinsey & Company and is the founder/Managing director of Strategy/Policy advisory firm Partha S Ghosh & Associates.  

Says VGSOM, "We are all set to roll out the red carpet for Mr. Ghosh who is seen by the CEOs from around the globe as a leader who "inspires leaders to build lasting legacies." 

Mr. Ghosh has two advanced degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts where he studied from 1975 to 1977. He holds Master's Degrees in Chemical Engineering with emphasis on New Energy Systems & Biotechnologies, and Business Administration with concentrations in Finance, Information Technology, and International Business. He obtained his honors, Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering, at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur, in 1971. 

IIT Kharagpur was the first of the IITs and is the largest and most diversified. The Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM) at IIT, Kharagpur was initiated by a distinguished Institute alumnus and Life Time Fellow of the institute, Mr. Vinod Gupta, whose endowment was matched by support from the Government of India. The foundation stone of the School was laid by the then President of India, late Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma in July 1994. 

The main programme currently offered by the School leads to the degree of Master of Business Administration from IIT Kharagpur. This is a full-time four-semester (2 year) residential programme. The School offers an advanced programme in management leading to the award of the Ph.D. degree of IIT, Kharagpur, and MDP programmes.