Henry S Bienen, President, Northwestern University, addressing the gathering. Also seen are Prof Bala V Balachandran and Mohan Sreenivas (Class of ’78).
K M Mammen, Bala Balachandran, N Kumar and Vinod Dasari (Class of ’92) sharing a lighter moment.
N Sankar, Chairman, the Sanmar Group, recently hosted a dinner for Henry S Bienen, President of Northwestern University and other distinguished visitors from that reputed institution, including
Dipak Jain, the Dean ofthe Kellogg School of Management, Sanjay Shroff, President, Kellogg Alumni Club of India, Prof Bala V Balachandran and Mohan Sreenivas.
The group’s association with Northwestern, especially the Kellogg School of Management, is well known.
The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, founded in 1908, is widely recognized as a global leader in graduate business education. The school is home to a renowned, research-based faculty and MBA students from more than 50 countries and six continents.
In July 2001, Dipak C Jain began his responsibilities as dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Since assuming this role, Jain has travelled extensively throughout the world to reconnect with Kellogg alumni, recruiters, and corporate leaders to discuss how the Kellogg School’s graduating students fit into today’s business world.
Sanmar has close ties with the Kellogg School of Management. Vijay Sankar graduated from there and a number of batches of Sanmar officials have attended the short term executive education program there.
Early this year, the Sanmar Corporate headquarters building was the venue of a dinner in honour of Richard C Levin, President, Yale University, and his wife on a visit to Chennai.
Ms Linda Koch Lorimer, Charles Ellis, T N Srinivasan, Michael Merson, Shyam Sunder, Ms Kathleen Sikkema, Ms Nalini Tarakeshwar, George Joseph and Ms Sheila Kirk were the other visitors from Yale.
According to a Columbia University press encyclopaedia, Elihu Yale (1649–1721), was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and moved to England with his family c.1652. Educated in London, he became a merchant, and came to Madras in the service of the British East India Company c.1670. Rising in the ranks of the company, Yale was appointed governor of Madras in 1687, ensconced inside Fort St. George. Scandals concerning his administration forced his removal in 1692 and he returned to London in 1699. While in the East he had amassed a large fortune through private trade. In 1718, Cotton Mather wrote Yale suggesting that the Collegiate School at Saybrook, Conn., might be named for him in return for financial support. Yale donated a parcel of goods, which when sold brought £562—the largest single gift to the college before 1837. The college, which had moved to New Haven, with the generous gift by Elihu Yale of nine bales of goods, 417 books, and a portrait and arms of King George I, was renamed Yale College in 1718.