FORE School of Management is a private business school located in South Delhi. The B-School is ranked 43 among Top Management Colleges in India by NIRF in 2021. The mission of the FORE School of Management is to achieve and sustain Leadership in Management Education, Research, Consultancy and Development. Read more about the latest events and happenings of the college-

Dr. Rajesh Sikka joins FORE School of Management’s OT & OM Area

Dr. Rajesh Sikka joins FORE School of Management

Date: May 16, 2022

India, 16th May 2022: Dr. Rajesh Sikka joins the FORE School of Management as a Professor of Practice in the OT & OM Area. He is a seasoned professional and management expert with over 30 years of industry experience in multiple domains managing complex operations.

A highly accomplished Head of Operations, Dr. Rajesh Sikka has expertise in setting up, optimizing, and managing Operations and Supply Chain efficiently and smoothly. He has worked in multiple industries spanning ICT, Hi-Tech, IT Services, Offshoring, and Automobile industries managing their Operations and Supply Chain Management. His expertise includes providing strategic advice on Business Development, Customer Relationship Management, consulting services for Digital Transformation, and optimizing Operations and Supply Chain Management to increase profitability, including cost management and efficiency improvement.

Dr. Rajesh has helped multinational IT services companies establish their operations in India. Along with diverse industry experience in senior management roles, his academic qualifications include a Ph.D. in Management from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, Bachelor of Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi, and Executive Masters in International Business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT). He is also a Cost and Management Accountant (CMA). 

After his industry experience, he has been a visiting Faculty with Management Institutes bringing his wide industry experience into academia. He has been teaching Operations Management and Supply Chain Management. He has also conducted several MDPs in Supply Chain Management. He is also associated with mentoring and coaching start-ups, hand-holding throughout their initial phase of customer discovery, and enabling them to grow and scale-up operations. His areas of interest are Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, and Entrepreneurship.

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Prof. Antarpreet Singh joins FORE School of Management’s Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources area

Date: April 27, 2022

Prof. Antarpreet Singh has joined the FORE School of Management as a Professor of Practice in the Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources area. He brings to the institute 37 years of experience as a techno-business strategist cum academician.

Prof. Antarpreet Singh has held senior leadership roles with large technology MNCs and Indian conglomerates which include Alcatel Lucent, Lucent- AT&T, Fujitsu, Tellabs, Reliance Jio and Flipkart. Prof. Antarpreet Singh was Asia Pacific head of Alcatel Lucent University which had 24 campuses in the region and was part of the global Alcatel Lucent University - ranked as a top corporate university, globally. He also spearheaded the setting up of countrywide Jio University as its first Chief Learning Officer. Later he set up India’s first point of sales payments academy for Pine Labs. He was also Dean of the e-commerce academy with Flipkart. 

Prof. Singh started his career in management education in 2018 with the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad as Director-Digital Learning and set up the ISB Digital campus. Prof. Antarpreet Singh is an adjunct/ guest faculty in Strategic HRM, Digital HR, Future Skills, and Strategic Human Capital development areas with premier B-schools and universities in the country. He also advises several companies in India and overseas in digital transformation, online education, upskilling models, and designing and building corporate academies. 

Prof. Antarpreet Singh completed his BE (Hons) in 1983 and MBA in 1985 (university gold medalist) and is currently pursuing PhD from IIM-Indore. His research areas include Digital HR, AI adoption in HR, Human-Machine collaboration, Strategic HRM, Organizational Resilience, etc. 

Dr. Amitendu Palit discusses the drivers of India’s trade strategy at FORE School of Management’s Global Leadership Lecture Series 

Date: April 19, 2022

The International Business Area of FORE School of Management hosted the fourth seminar under its Global Leadership Lecture Series aimed at developing new dominance of managerial thoughts and education and contributing to building leaders in today’s global business environment. Dr. Amitendu Palit, Senior Research Fellow and Research Lead (Trade and Economics), Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, discussed the geo-economic and geopolitical drivers of India’s new trade strategy and FTA engagement.

Dr. Amitendu Palit specializes in international trade and investment policies in geoeconomics Asian connectivity, digital–political economy, and the Indian economy. In the seminar, Dr. Palit discussed the external and domestic factors and their impacts and implications on India’s trade strategy and FTA engagement, the transition in India’s trade engagement, new FTA strategies in place, COVID convictions, and future trade possibilities.  -India is largely a country that was hesitant as far as greater integration with the world economy through free trade. The situation has remarkably changed over the last 6 months to 1 year. Today India perhaps has the most FTAs in the world. -India has concluded FTAs with UAE and Australia. It is currently negotiating FTAs with the UK, Canada, and European Union. The initiative of forming free trade alliances with the UK and UAE is a fresh start. Additionally, India is also in talks with the Gulf Council Cooperation and Israel, even though formal negotiations haven’t started yet.

It has been two years since the pandemic hit and the outlook towards many things has changed and perhaps many of these changes are going to be very fundamental in deciding how individuals and organizations go ahead and try to live and work around what countries and the world views as a new normal. The idea of the new normal is very subjective but one thing has emerged very clearly out of the pandemic experience; the restrictions during COVID painted a rather grim picture for trade. On the contrary, today, there is a fair exchange, free exchange, and easy exchange of goods and services across the borders, of course under specific conditions, that is going to be of much bigger help to countries and to international communities in taking care of not just public health needs but also national economic needs.

The pandemic brought to our notice the fact that destruction in the supply chain is very commonplace and the countries need to safeguard it because supply chain vulnerability can cause strong economic distress for a large number of countries. The other external factors that affected trade are armed hostilities and conflicts in Myanmar, Afghanistan, Russia-Ukraine, and Indo-China. There is also reduced faith in global institutions like the UN and WHO because of the way they handled conflicts and the COVID crisis.

Dr. Palit discussed the goals that should be aligned to trade policy which include sustainable development, digital integration with the world economy, maturing start-ups to withstand the gap in eco-systems, and making efforts to lower the drive of external migration. These goals need to be aligned with the geo-economic and geo-political conditions.  -India withdrew from the RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) almost 16 months ago. Dr. Palit discussed the reasons behind the revival of interest in FTAs under three categories: Geoeconomics, Geopolitics, and Covid impulse.

India has formed trading partnerships with UAE, Australia, the UK, Germany, Belgium, Canada, and Japan. The FTAs are being negotiated with India’s largest investors. The main motive is to tie up with the world’s largest and most advanced high-income economies for greater market access to both goods and services.  -India’s current strategic thinking emphasizes deeper engagement with Western partners and allies – the UK, EU, Canada, UAE, and the Gulf countries. There is also close engagement with ASEAN countries, Japan, Australia, and Korea. The multipolar strategic thinking is being reflected through closer security and economic partnerships with the Eastern and Western Quad.

COVID-19 posed an economic security threat to India due to vulnerabilities in the supply chain. India has to work with partners to build resilience in the supply chain and these consultations can be facilitated by FTAs.

Even 2 years ago India looked at FTAs from an economic perspective but it is not like that anymore. India has begun taking serious note of its national interest particularly the security and strategic economic interest. Dr. Palit concluded the seminar with an interactive QnA session with the management students at FORE School.