UCLA PGP PRO Workshop: Leadership, Decision Making and Macroeconomics
This workshop builds on the learning journey from the online courses and classroom sessions from UCLA. We will cover basic concepts in economics, mainly macroeconomics, to navigate through the pink papers easily. The key issues that will be covered are national accounting – income, consumption, and savings; fiscal policy – taxes, expenditure, deficits and borrowings; monetary policy – interest rates and inflation; financial sector – financial stability, banking, and non-banking institutions; and the external sector – exchange rates, imports, exports and foreign exchange reserves. In addition, contemporary issues like cryptocurrency, economic implications of Russia-Ukraine war, role of the international monetary fund and world bank. We also want to focus on some of the management essentials such as leadership, strategic mindset, decision making and solving case studies. We will work on a simulation where you as an individual must think of strategic decision making and need to create positive outcomes for yourself in the real world.
Faculty
Dr. Tejpavan Singh Gandhok
Leadership, UCLA PGP PRO
Dr. Pavan Gandhok has an eclectic and international background as an entrepreneur and “pracademic”. He is a popular speaker and thought leader, making regular appearances in popular business media and in various CXO/ Investor forums and corporate leadership retreats. He is a Practice track faculty of Strategy & Entrepreneurship Indian School of Business and Visiting faculty at University of Melbourne and the Anderson School at UCLA. His research interests are mainly in Adaptive Strategy under highly dynamic and uncertain conditions.
Pavan is a serial entrepreneur with a strong track-record of high investor returns and successful exits. He actively collaborates with several leading investor funds and start-ups as venture advisor/ angel investor. His track-record covers a range of situations including start ups, high growth as well as turn-arounds; with both Consumer & Retail themes as well as knowledge/ technology intensive businesses. Prior to his entrepreneurial stints, Pavan has more than 15 years of international Senior Partner level corporate advisory experience in Country & Regional Head roles across Australia, USA, South East Asia and India with Strategy consulting & Private Equity firms such as Halcyon Partners, AT Kearney, Stern Stewart & co. and the Boston Consulting Group. In earlier career roles he worked in corporate strategy; technology management and incubation, and as an engineer and research scientist.
He is an Indian born, US educated, Australian citizen, former Permanent Resident of Singapore and currently an Overseas citizen of India.
Dr. Charan Singh
Dr. Charan Singh earned his doctorate in Economics from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He was a visiting scholar for more than a year each at Department of Economics, Harvard University and the Stanford Center for International Development, Stanford University. Earlier, he had studied from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar; and Delhi University.
Dr. Charan Singh is currently serving as the Non-Executive Chairman of Punjab & Sind Bank. He was full time visiting faculty and former RBI Chair Professor (Dec 2012 to Dec 2016) at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India where he taught comparative monetary policy and policy issues in Indian economy.
Earlier, he was a Senior Economist at the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC from August 2009 to November 2012 and Research Director (Departments: Economic Policy, Debt Management) at the Reserve Bank of India (1997–2009).
He is now serving as Director on the Board of National Housing Bank, Delhi and NABARD Financial Services Ltd, Bangalore. He is also Member, Governing Board at Policy Foundation, New Delhi; Member of Research Advisory Committee, BIRD, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development; Honorary Fellow, SKOCH Development Foundation; and Member of the Informal Advisory Group on Housing Sector Issues, IMF, Washington DC.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, you should be able to
- Gain familiarity with the basics of economics, majorly the fundamentals of macroeconomics to conduct business in a more informed way.
- Understand and appreciate the various aspects of leadership, being authentic and having a strategic mindset.
Workshop Methods & Schedule
The sessions will be interactive and participants will be encouraged to ask questions. Hands-on exercises, examples and case studies will be used from a wide range of industries and markets. Extensive lecture slides will be provided for all topics in addition to the readings and case studies assigned. Participants must carry a laptop to the sessions.
The Suryaa
Hall – Platinum II
New Friends Colony
New Delhi – 110025
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09:00 am – 10:30am |
Macroeconomics |
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10:30 am – 11:00 am |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 am – 12:30 pm |
Macroeconomics |
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12:30 pm – 13:30 pm |
Lunch |
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13:30 pm – 15:00 pm |
Decision Making – Simulation |
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15:00 pm – 15:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
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15:30 pm – 17:00 pm |
Decision Making |
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09:00 am – 10:30am |
Macroeconomics |
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10:30 am – 11:00 am |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 am – 12:30 pm |
Macroeconomics |
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12:30 pm – 13:30 pm |
Lunch |
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13:30 pm – 15:00 pm |
Leadership |
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15:00 pm – 15:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
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15:30 pm – 17:00 pm |
Leadership |
Support
Please email [email protected] for any support required with respect to the program, course or platform.