Obituary

Professor C.K. Prahalad

Globally renowned management Professor CK Prahalad passed away on 17th April 2010 after a brief illness at a San Diego hospital. He was a Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and was well known for writing best-sellers on management subjects, including ‘The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profit’.

Among Prahalad's popular management and business books was ‘The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Value with Customers’ and ‘The Multinational Mission, Balancing Global Integration with Local Responsiveness’. His book on the Bottom of the Pyramid, however, remains the most talked about and is considered relevant for developing economies like India, where businesses have a long way to go before they touch people at the lower end of the economic and social strata. Condoling his death, Indian industry as well as academia paid rich tributes to the decorated management professor.

Professor C.S. Venkata Ratnam

Professor C. S. Venkata Ratnam, the Director of the International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi passed away in the early morning of April 16, 2010 after a prolonged illness. He had joined IMI as Professor in 1986 and became the Director in January 2005. An eminent scholar in the area of Industrial Relations & Human Resource IMI, Delhi and under his able leadership, IMI grew significantly in terms of faculty size, academic programs, intellectual capital and many new industry facing activities. Our deepest condolences to the family and his loved ones during this difficult time.

Professor Udai Pareek

Professor Udai Pareek was a great researcher, consultant, philosopher and teacher in Psychology. He was the past Editor of the Journal of Health Management, Indian Psychological Abstracts, Vikalpa and consulting Editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. He had authored and edited around 60 books and more than 350 papers in his lifetime and received many national and international awards in the field of human resource development.

He focused research on different psychological issues (training and development, role stress, organizational design, transformational leadership) in both unorganized (agricultural, small scale industries) and organized sectors. Our deep condolences to the family and his loved ones during this difficult time.