Overview
The United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) announce the Fulbright-Nehru-CII Fellowships for Leadership in Management for the academic year 2011-2012. Indian business managers, whose employers would be willing to bear 50% (USD 17,750) of the total cost (USD 35,500), may compete to attend a specially designed 10-week management program at the Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, from May 27-August 8, 2011. The Tepper School of Business is one of the world's premier centers for teaching and research in business management. The Tepper School of Business faculty members have won wide acclaim, including six Nobel Prizes in economics.
THE TEN WEEK PROGRAM CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING COMPONENTS:
- Participation in the four-week Global Leadership Executive Forum (GLEF), an outstanding general management program offered by the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Bosch Institute. The flagship program by which the Carnegie Bosch Institute is known worldwide, presents, synthesizes, and applies knowledge about the multi-cultural professional environment in an intensive format. World-class faculty from Asia, Europe, and the U.S. address key management issues of strategy and leadership while touching upon topics of broad economic and international scope (see complete details in next section).
- Guided research on the growth of your organization under the supervision of a Professor - executives conduct study and produce an independent research paper that identifies challenge areas and growth prospects of their parent organizations that can be implemented in their home organizations at the end of their stay in the United States. This project gives additional focus to class work and independent study while fostering the application of learning when participants arrive back home.
- Technology Workshops: An opportunity to interact with some of Carnegie Mellon's many research centers to learn about such topics as robotics, computer-aided design, wearable computers, the environmentally sustainable workplace, and others.
- Meetings with U.S. manufacturing and industrial organizations and opportunities to network with business leaders.
- Interaction and forums with Carnegie Mellon Faculty.
- Participants are offered other executive education opportunities such as Post Merger Integration, Marketing, Operations or Economics.
- The opportunity to explore American culture by attending social, cultural, and sporting events in the Pittsburgh area, and experiencing life in a unique metropolitan city. In addition, the experience gives participants membership in the prestigious global Fulbright community, which has spread in 155 countries around the world.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
The applicant should:
- Be a responsible Indian citizen who can contribute to a full and fair picture of the culture and civilization of India, and thereby help to promote understanding and friendship between the peoples of the United States of America and India;
- Have a graduate degree;
- Have at least five years of managerial experience in an industry;
- Preferably be 45 years of age or under;
- Be in good health;
- Be present in India at the time of submitting the application and for the interview;
- Not residing in the United States;
- Not be applying for or holding permanent residence (green card) in the United States;
- Not have been in the U.S. during the past three years on a teaching, research, study or professional assignment for a continuous period of three months or more, at the time of submitting the application; and
- Give an undertaking to return to India on the completion of the fellowship;
- Produce an undertaking from the employer that it would be willing to bear 50% of the total cost. (Applications without this undertaking will not be considered).
FELLOWSHIP BENEFITS
Direct
J-1 visa support;
Economy class air tickets from the executive's home town/city of work in India to Pittsburgh and back;
Tuition fees;
Maintenance allowance in the U.S.;
Settling-in allowance; and
Accident and sickness coverage per U.S. Government guidelines.
Indirect
To be a part of the prestigious global Fulbright Program that operates in more than 155 countries and awards over 7,000 grants to U.S. and foreign nationals annually.
Application form: http://www.usief.org.in/Scripts/ForIndianNationalsForProfessionalsFulbright-Nehru-CIIFellowshipsinManagement.aspx
You can contact Dr. Sudarsan Dash, Senior Program Manager, Indian Program, United States-India Educational Foundation, Fulbright Commission in India, 12 Hailey Road, New Delhi 110 001, Phone: 011 42090945, e-mail: sudarsan@usief.org.in or Ms. Amarpreet Kaur, Executive, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), 249-F, Udyog Vihar Phase IV, Gurgaon 122 015, Haryana, Phone: 0124 4014060-67, Fax: 0124 4014538, e-mail: amarpreet.kaur@cii.in for any additional information on this fellowship program. Applications, along with your curriculum vitae, photocopies of certificates/mark-sheets must be submitted to Dr. Sudarsan Dash or to Ms. Amarpreet Kaur at the above address by November 30, 2010.
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
The United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) announce the Fulbright-Nehru-CII Fellowships for Leadership in Management for the academic year 2011-2012. Indian business managers, whose employers would be willing to bear 50% (USD 17,750) of the total cost (USD 35,500), may compete to attend a specially designed 10-week management program at the Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, from May 27-August 8, 2011. The Tepper School of Business is one of the world's premier centers for teaching and research in business management. The Tepper School of Business faculty members have won wide acclaim, including six Nobel Prizes in economics.
THE TEN WEEK PROGRAM CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING COMPONENTS:
- Participation in the four-week Global Leadership Executive Forum (GLEF), an outstanding general management program offered by the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Bosch Institute. The flagship program by which the Carnegie Bosch Institute is known worldwide, presents, synthesizes, and applies knowledge about the multi-cultural professional environment in an intensive format. World-class faculty from Asia, Europe, and the U.S. address key management issues of strategy and leadership while touching upon topics of broad economic and international scope (see complete details in next section).
- Guided research on the growth of your organization under the supervision of a Professor - executives conduct study and produce an independent research paper that identifies challenge areas and growth prospects of their parent organizations that can be implemented in their home organizations at the end of their stay in the United States. This project gives additional focus to class work and independent study while fostering the application of learning when participants arrive back home.
- Technology Workshops: An opportunity to interact with some of Carnegie Mellon's many research centers to learn about such topics as robotics, computer-aided design, wearable computers, the environmentally sustainable workplace, and others.
- Meetings with U.S. manufacturing and industrial organizations and opportunities to network with business leaders.
- Interaction and forums with Carnegie Mellon Faculty.
- Participants are offered other executive education opportunities such as Post Merger Integration, Marketing, Operations or Economics.
- The opportunity to explore American culture by attending social, cultural, and sporting events in the Pittsburgh area, and experiencing life in a unique metropolitan city. In addition, the experience gives participants membership in the prestigious global Fulbright community, which has spread in 155 countries around the world.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
The applicant should:
- Be a responsible Indian citizen who can contribute to a full and fair picture of the culture and civilization of India, and thereby help to promote understanding and friendship between the peoples of the United States of America and India;
- Have a graduate degree;
- Have at least five years of managerial experience in an industry;
- Preferably be 45 years of age or under;
- Be in good health;
- Be present in India at the time of submitting the application and for the interview;
- Not residing in the United States;
- Not be applying for or holding permanent residence (green card) in the United States;
- Not have been in the U.S. during the past three years on a teaching, research, study or professional assignment for a continuous period of three months or more, at the time of submitting the application; and
- Give an undertaking to return to India on the completion of the fellowship;
- Produce an undertaking from the employer that it would be willing to bear 50% of the total cost. (Applications without this undertaking will not be considered).
FELLOWSHIP BENEFITS
Direct
J-1 visa support;
Economy class air tickets from the executive's home town/city of work in India to Pittsburgh and back;
Tuition fees;
Maintenance allowance in the U.S.;
Settling-in allowance; and
Accident and sickness coverage per U.S. Government guidelines.
Indirect
To be a part of the prestigious global Fulbright Program that operates in more than 155 countries and awards over 7,000 grants to U.S. and foreign nationals annually.
Application form: http://www.usief.org.in/Scripts/ForIndianNationalsForProfessionalsFulbright-Nehru-CIIFellowshipsinManagement.aspx
You can contact Dr. Sudarsan Dash, Senior Program Manager, Indian Program, United States-India Educational Foundation, Fulbright Commission in India, 12 Hailey Road, New Delhi 110 001, Phone: 011 42090945, e-mail: sudarsan@usief.org.in or Ms. Amarpreet Kaur, Executive, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), 249-F, Udyog Vihar Phase IV, Gurgaon 122 015, Haryana, Phone: 0124 4014060-67, Fax: 0124 4014538, e-mail: amarpreet.kaur@cii.in for any additional information on this fellowship program. Applications, along with your curriculum vitae, photocopies of certificates/mark-sheets must be submitted to Dr. Sudarsan Dash or to Ms. Amarpreet Kaur at the above address by November 30, 2010.
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
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