Mrs. Khaire, an alumnus of the institute, did her Masters of Management at SJMSOM and then continued to receive her PhD in Management from Columbia Business School. Presently she is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. She teaches the first-year MBA course, “The Entrepreneurial Manager.” She also teaches in the HBS Executive Education programs, including custom executive education offerings.

During the interactive session that lasted for about one and half hour students were able to gain immensely from her rich experience in academics and industry.
She gave an insight into the management programs and the pedagogy at Harvard.
She remarked that management doctoral programs have very little in common with MBA program resulting in immense value addition. Mrs. Khaire advised students with an academic bent of mind to pursue doctoral programs and went on to explain the opportunities available and the intricacies involved.

She emphasized on the creation of a communication plus application model, which would link the enormous research work done at Technology and Management Institutions in India, and create a platform that will take these ideas to completion. This was followed by a rigorous session of Question and Answers discussing the economic, political and social feasibility of the model. She also applauded the magnitude of work done by the E-cell and SINE in the last year and appreciated the success of the International Seminar on Entrepreneurship and Navonmesh conducted last year.

Finally she encouraged students to continue with the rich tradition of SJMSOM and come out as all round personalities ready to meet corporate challenges.

The visit by Mrs. Khaire is a precursor to the Mumbai Alumni Meet to be held on the August 26th, 2006.