Office of International affairs, Amity University Gurugram organized a webinar on Cultivating Trust Can Unlock India’s Potential by Dr. Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School, Director, Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University, USA
Vice-President- RBEF and Director- International Affairs, Prof. (Dr.) Gunjan M Sanjeev welcomed the guest speaker Prof. (Dr) Tarun khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School, Director, Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University, USA who is also a Nominee of a Young Global Leader (under 40) in the past by the World Economic Forum and other senior officials of Amity University and all the participants.
While delivering his welcome address Vice Chancellor of AUH, Prof P B Sharma emphasized the need for creating a scientific mindset embedded with enterprising spirit to unleash enormous potential of mass-entrepreneurship in India. Prof Sharma also added that Technology, Transparency and Trust are the three Ts that go together in the present age of digital transformation and hence to cultivate trust increasing use of technology would be highly beneficial. He proudly mentioned that how founders of Amity University have cultivated trust in our organization that is consistently driving us towards excellence.
Prof (Dr) Tarun Khanna expressed his gratitude for such honour . In his keynote presentation Prof. Tarun Khanna described in great details about how investing in trust is beneficial and the four important points for the entrepreneurship i.e Food, Dignity, Talent and Ideas.
Entrepreneurs with great ideas in developing countries need to evolve frameworks of trust which would create positive societal impacts and bring commercial benefits as well. He cited case studies of “Wondermilk” in China, “BRAC” in Bangladesh and elaborated how startups got successful by developing an ecosystem of trust around their commercial operations. He also talked about how start-up firms like Aspiring Minds harvested the need of sound trustworthy ecosystem as a business opportunity which worked creatively to match talent with job requirements using most modern tech and AI tools.
Professor Khanna also touched upon the need to eliminate mistrust between scientists and entrepreneurs so that a free flowing collaboration could happen to bring societal benefits. We should work on unlocking scientific potential to allow free flow of ideas to generate creative solutions to the societal problems,” added Prof Khanna
The occasion also celebrated the publication of the book “Trust” authored by Prof. Tarun Khanna in which budding entrepreneurs from different emerging economies- Bhutan , India , Nepal , Sierra Leone amongst others shared their stories on how this book helped them in their entrepreneurial journey and improved their business prospects and how this book is a must for all entrepreneurs.
The Amity University fraternity and other participants across were presented with an opportunity to interact with a distinguished academician from one of the top business schools across the globe (Harvard Business School, USA). Total 1500 participants attended the session.