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Rajinder Gupta
Rajinder Gupta

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS & MARKETS
Lecturer of International Business & Markets
Executive Director of The CEO Perspective Program

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Professor Gupta is an adjunct professor at the Kellogg School of Management and the Executive Director of The CEO Perspective, an exclusive senior leadership program for operating committee members of multi-billion dollar corporations which was launched very successfully in 2005. The CEO Perspective is the highest level program at the Kellogg School offered in partnership with Corporate Leadership Center.

Professor Gupta has been associated with the Kellogg School of Management for the past several years teaching and working on special projects with the Dean on various marketing and leadership initiatives. His courses have focused on strategic use of information technology, advertising policies and management and global initiatives for developing countries.

He is a senior business executive with proven leadership and a unique 30+ year record in creating value for businesses worldwide. After getting his Ph.D. from Duke University, he worked for Leo Burnett Advertising for 20 years as a Group Research Director, Account Director and Senior Vice President, Head of Information Management with global responsibilities. After Leo Burnett, Dr. Gupta was a senior partner and director for Heidrick & Struggles where he was the Chief information & Productivity Officer. He also worked extensively with senior management and boards of companies ranging from Fortune 100 to start-ups helping them with talent acquisition, assessment and development.

Dr. Gupta consults with CEO’s and senior management for Fortune 500 companies and smaller companies in a number of industries on improving business strategy, sales, marketing, customer focus, leadership development and technology integration. He also coaches senior executives to be more effective as they prepare to take on even bigger challenges. Clients include McDonald’s, Walgreens, LaSalle Bank(Part of BOA), W.W. Grainger, AAR, Caterpillar, Hewitt Associates and Access Health Services. Dr. Gupta has published in a number of journals and serves on the boards of companies and not-for-profit organizations.
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Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Global Initiatives in Management (GIM) (INTL-473-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Biotechnology Management, International Business

This course offers students an opportunity to learn about non-U.S. business environments within an innovative and flexible framework that combines traditional classroom-based learning with structured in-country field research. From its inception in 1989 as one class of 34 students covering the Soviet Union, the program has grown to become a cornerstone of the Kellogg experience for many students. The school currently sponsors 13 GIM courses composed of approximately 400 students traveling to 15 countries. Evanston full-time students gain admission to GIM classes through the bidding process in the fall quarter. Classroom instruction is held during the winter quarter, followed by two weeks of field research abroad and seminar presentations of written student reports during the spring quarter. (TMP and EMP GIM classes sometimes follow different schedules.) GIM courses are organized by student leaders under the guidance of a faculty adviser. If you would like to become a GIM student leader, please contact the IBMP office for more information.