LALU BECOMES PROF

Apart from meeting students from top business schools like Harvard and Wharton, Lalu Yadav is now getting ready to act Professor. Perhaps this goes to show that at least one of the parliamentarians is busy.

A group of four deans from the INSEAD Business School, Singapore are interested in the now famous turnaround handshake of the minister and the King of Turnaround himself is more than delighted to obliged.

“They expressed a desire to meet me and my officials. I welcome them,” said the affable Indian Railway Minister Lalu Yadav.

These kind words brought Lalu more than just the usual praise from the visiting business gurus. This time he was offered a chance to lecture at the business school itself.

Dean of INSEAD Business School Frank Brown said, “We would love to have the minister come to our campus and talk to our MBAs.”

The minister could not be more pleased for the offer will see him lecturing in Singapore within the next six months. Indian Railways and its turnaround will also be a case study in the business school's curriculum.

“One of the things that we want to do at INSEAD is turn it [Indian Railways’ success] into an INSEAD case study because it is such a terrific story. It’s a case study for us because it is a unique turnaround seen anywhere in the world,'' said Brown.

This is not the first time that business schools have come seeking advice from the Indian Railway Minister, specially focussing on the turnaround of the Indian Railways