Richard D'Aveni is Professor of Strategic Management, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College , USA and a keen observer of paradigm shifts taking place in management and management education in the USA and in the developing countries. Apart from his eagerness in international strategic relations, Prof D'Aveni is a recipient of many awards, a few of which are Forum Fellow, World Economic Forum; A.T. Kearney Award; Richard D. Irwin Foundation Fellowship; Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Center Fellow, Wharton School; Runner-up for Outstanding Teaching Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Honorable Mention for number of articles published in academic journals, Academy of Management Hall of Fame; nominee, SMS McKinsey Best Paper Award, Strategic Management Society, 2004. Author of various "Working Papers" like 'With L.G. Thomas, "The Rise of Hypercompetition in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector, 1950 to 2002: Evidence of Increasing Temporary Advantage and Industry Structural Destabilization"; "Dynamic Differentiation: Price and Quality Competition", Richard is also holding editorial positions in Hypercompetition, The Free Press, 1994; Hypercompetitive Rivalries, The Free Press, 1995; "New Organizational Forms and Strategies for Managing in Hypercompetitive Environments," Organization Science, 1999; Strategic Supremacy, The Free Press, 2001; "The Empire Strikes Back: Counter- Revolutionary Strategies for Industry Leaders," Harvard Business Review , November 2002; "Corporate Spheres of Influence," MIT Sloan Management Review, 45(4), 2004; "The Balance of Power," MIT Sloan Management Review, 45(4), 2004; with D. Ravenscraft and P. Anderson, "From Corporate Strategy to Business-Level Advantage: Relatedness as Resource Congruence," Managerial and Decision Economics, 25(6-7), 2004. His professional activities include Board memberships to various academic positions as Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986-88 and Tuck School of Business, 1988-present. The non-academic positions held by Richard are Legislative staff, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1975-77; Project Manager, Governor's staff, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1977-78; Lawyer/CPA, Coopers & Lybrand, 1979-82; Special Consultant to the FTC, 1991-present . Prof Richard is also holding Board memberships of the Board of Governors, IILM (Usha Ltd.), India ; Board of Scholars, Chief Executive Leadership Institute at Yale University and Advisory Governing Council, Rai University . His present Research Papers are on Strategies for dealing with rapid change and aggressive competition and offshoring and industrialization of service industries

Tuck School of Business , Dartmouth College

The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration was founded in 1900 at Dartmouth College , in Hanover, New Hampshire and is the oldest graduate school of business in the world.

Tuck offers only one degree program - Masters of Business Administration , alongside shorter programmes for executives and recent college graduates. It co-operates with Masters in Engineering Management, offered by Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering and also offers a number of dual degrees, including a joint MD/MBA in conjunction with Dartmouth Medical School , an MSEL/MBA with Vermont Law School and an MALD/MBA with Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy .

Tuck School of Business was established by Edward Tuck , and was originally named the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance (in memory of his father). In 1941 , the official name was changed to the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration.

The MBA program at the Tuck School has been ranked first for several years by the Wall Street Journal and The Economist , and is currently ranked first by the Journal and Forbes . Tuck has consistently been ranked among the top ten business schools in the world by Business Week , US News & World Report , and the Financial Times as well. Tuck, along with Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Business School , is among the few US business schools currently ranked in the top ten of each of these six major publications. Many leading business schools in other countries have exchange programs with Tuck, including the Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL) , the École des Hautes Études Commerciales , IESE and London Business School .

Talk - "Indo-US Strategic Relationships - A New Global Perspective," by Prof. Richard D' Aveni
Date - 9 th May 2006
Venue Satya Sai International center, New Delhi

Prof. Richard D' Aveni, Prof of Strategic Management, Tuck Business School, Dartmouth College, USA, while addressing a seminar on Indo-US Strategic Relationships - A New Global Perspective along with fellow doyens and dais-holders Mr. Anand Sharma, the chief guest and Hon'ble Minister of State for External Affairs, Mr. Robert Blake, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of USA, Dr. Abid Hussain, former Ambassador to the United States and Mr. Vinay Rai, Chairman, Rai Foundation, said "The US-India nuclear pack is just the beginning of a shift that will shake the world. The global geopolitical balance of power is shifting, and trade patterns are being altered significantly. Geopolitical shifts have created a confluence of changes that separate the US from Europe, bringing India and America together against common enemies, and pit China against the World."

The seminar was a part of Rai Foundation's "Global Spark initiative" where leaders, opinion holders and doyens in the field of various subjects interact with an open and a mix-bag audience sharing the news, views and opinions of the current methodologies in their respective field of expertise.

Disseminating his views and analysis of India as a new age and upbeat rising economy, Prof . Richard D' Aveni added that "India will be the "New Europe" for America, as it is pivotal to continuing American strategic supremacy and will be developed the way Europe was developed after WW-II by American business interests. It is a time of change and a time of excitement for both countries. But each has a limited window to act before China becomes so powerful that we all fall within its sphere of global hegemony." He also went on to say that India needs to find allies and muster its economy in the same pace that is being done by China so as to sustain in the rapidly growing economy-paced world, hence not only giving a challenge to China but the Europeans too and viewing the current potential in the Indian economy, this may not be a far-fledged dream but a reality in the coming times.

With one of the best leaders and incumbent of an important post holding the dais with Richard, he added that there is a need to change the leadership thought in India, which may be a restricting factor, as his views on Indian leadership are not so healthy, but would like the leadership to change and play such a role that was absent in the era of change in the American history. He also gave emphasis's on the personal growth of an average Indian, which according to Richard is instilled with talent but is not guided towards that right direction, and here is the requirement of a faithful, honest and spearheading leadership.