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- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
We invited HP executives to participate in the management and in the board. HCL had this concept of corporate officers since inception in 1999. We had a remuneration committee. Now everyone is talking about nomination and remuneration committee. We had this from 1999.
- Hesitant
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government of India is consistently very advanced. When the world was hesitant on UNIX, we were the first to move in; the RBI said that all banks will implement on UNIX. It worked!
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got started in my own engineering course, my interest in physics and maths was very high. After all, engineering is all about applied maths and physics. If I were to learn anything further in physics or mathematics, it simply was not there.
- Customers
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- Nov 07, 2020
HCL is a corporation. It is for profits. A corporation stands for its shareholders, its profits, its employees, its discoveries, and its customers.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one entity which I built, which is HCL. And the legacy which I want to leave behind that is in my name. There is only one thing which bears my name in the doorsteps - that is only the University and the foundation. And that legacy will not have a price tag.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government, in its ultimate form, is the biggest philanthropher based in the world. And Bill Gates also said that he could do a small part of what the government can do, which is business philanthropy, equalling people and making sure there is inclusiveness.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.
- Confident
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are calm about your ambitions, you become confident of achieving what you set out to do.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
At what age did Warren Buffett come into philanthropy? At 76. He gave a very good reason. He said his wife was considerably younger than him. And all Americans believe they would live till 80, and they do live till 80. He told his wife that when he is gone, she should take care of whatever they need to do.
- Good Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buffett gave significant portions of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett made money for 50 years before he donated.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go to Wall Street, there is someone from Harvard, Stanford, etc, who relate to each other by the batch they studied in, the dorm they lived in, and so on.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any institutions' alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a disconnect in education and work. And corporates don't do a great job of skilling. In future, corporates and educational institutions will work closely.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
Re-skilling has to be much wider with a strong foundation.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you live away from your family, your friends and faculty become your family.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am good at conceptualizing and building institutions.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
My role in the business is to use my judgment. All these years of experience have given me a clear head, and I can give a nonpartisan view with a sense of distance.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very good student. But I didn't have the latitude to study more. I was never allowed to do anything cross-disciplinary. Why can't an engineering student learn physics?
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
My colleagues and I were engineers who worked for DCM's calculator division. These electronic calculators used digital integrated circuits, and then they started using chips. The advanced versions of those chips were used for programmable calculators, which were the forerunners of PCs.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each quarter, Indian IT firms publish their results, and these are broadcast on CNBC. From the comfort of their boardrooms, executives say how many new employees have been added, how many more Fortune 500 companies have been signed up as clients, how many million-dollar companies were added, and so on.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 1980s were fantastic. This was a time when we were at the peak of our creative work. The question of whether we would exist or not - something which everybody used to ask, including ourselves - stopped. Profits kept pace with growth requirements. HCL had credibility - that was the biggest barrier we had to break.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be very skilled in this industry. I grew in this industry; we created the very beginnings of this industry. We made the first PCs (personal computers) in the world.
- Components
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the future, there are going to be various components of doing business that have to be looked at.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was with top CEOs in 2009, and they were clearly shaken. Top leaders of Wall Street and elsewhere, shaken. The ones at the top did get by because if they are seeing a decline somewhere, there is also growth elsewhere, like in emerging economies.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happens to a private company that comes out with a quarterly report and an annual report? It gives transparency. It talks of basic issues of governance and transactions with related parties.
- Disclose
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- Nov 07, 2020
To us, the definition of philanthropy is what we spend. A P&L account means expenditure, lines of revenue. There is a surplus; it goes to the balance sheet. A transparent foundation should disclose this.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
A press statement may be given with a very good intention, but it says nothing beyond it. If it comes from corporations they run, then it is corporate social responsibility (CSR). That's different from philanthropy. CSR is a lot of shareholders, including me.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working with Roshni gives me lot of confidence. When I started SSN - in 1994, after a windfall gain from HCL-HP then - I was OK to do it alone. My brother, who was supposed to head it, passed away. We had a governing council to run it. That was a leap of faith, and we didn't know where we will get.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
A 5-acre school each in Noida and Gurgaon is what we have; it costs Rs. 50 crore to buy the land and another Rs. 50 crore to build the property. That's the capital cost alone.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you take the best of universities in the world, all of them have research and education contiguous; the person who teaches you could be a Nobel laureate. Some subjects are at the tri-junction of many subjects put together.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future consists of cross specialisation; that is how university systems abroad have evolved.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That's how an institution becomes one.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter has no interest in succeeding me in the business. She is going towards social entrepreneurship, an area she is interested in.
- Being Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to share something that is being done extremely well by Bill Gates through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation is only going to address areas which are seen by Bill or Melinda as ills of the world. The foundation has no perpetuity.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Research is creation of knowledge which leads to new and efficient solutions for the society. Shiv Nadar University, therefore, believes in being at the forefront of research. To create new knowledge, one needs to solve open-ended problems, which basically make one think on one's own.
- Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the undergraduate level, SNU has a unique 'Opportunities for Undergraduate Research' programme. Students are encouraged to undertake research programmes at the undergraduate level and get trained in the interdisciplinary research.
- Departments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shiv Nadar University has five schools with 16 departments offering 14 undergraduate, 10 master's and 13 doctoral programmes. The demand for engineering courses - computer science, engineering, electronics, communication engineering, mechanical engineering - is slightly on the higher side compared to other engineering courses.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shiv Nadar University was established in 2011, and our first batch graduated in 2015. The first batch mostly had engineering courses and a B.Sc. programme in Mathematics.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is good to start as young as you can. What is more important is to carve out your vision and assess your readiness to start giving. Commitment and purpose are core to giving.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly brought us up.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a product of education, I have always believed in the power of education as the most powerful, high-impact catalyst for transformation. Look at the impact that the Indian Institutes of Technology have had globally.
- Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020