Rajeev Gowda
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Rajeev Gowda: Professor, IIM, Bangalore
Usually to be found
Either on the IIM-B campus or at his personal office on Church Street.
Mantra for change
“Be alert, be alive.We should also keep learning forever.”
Loves
Quizzing.He was the runner-up in the BBC Mastermind contest in 2002.
He’s the cool professor in touch with the times. He tells his students they can stage a play, or submit a handycam movie, instead of writing a 2,000-word project. Gowda, who teaches various aspects of public policy and management, has a keen interest in politics and a vision for transforming Bangalore.
After a teaching stint at the University of Oklahoma, the John M. Olin Post-doctoral Fellow in Law & Economics, University of California, Berkeley, came to India with a dream.
“My exposure to American education opened my eyes. It makes you do things you weren’t sure you were capable of,” he says. He wants to replicate that in Indian management education.
-by Swagata Sen
