Ahmedabad, 7 July, 2014

IIMA Executive Education has tied up with Harvard Business School Executive Education to offer a four-week course to senior leaders in the Department of Income Tax (DIT).

The program is structured as an integrated four week experience in which senior leaders in DIT will spend two weeks at the IIMA campus and two weeks at HBS campus. The objective of the program is to provide DIT leaders with perspective, skills, and insights related to the leadership of a public enterprise, change management in a large organization, and becoming more citizen-centric.

“HBS Executive Education is delighted to have the opportunity to partner with IIMA, a leading Indian business school, to serve the leadership development needs of the Department of Income Tax, an esteemed Indian Government organization,” noted Das Narayandas, Senior Associate Dean of Publishing and Executive Education and James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

“We look forward to hosting senior leaders from the Department of Income Tax on our campus in the coming months,” he added.

“One of our key strategic priorities is to connect – with the private sector, but also with public sector institutions, and with internationally renowned business schools,” observed IIMA director Professor Ashish Nanda.

“As a Management Institution, we are committed to working with, and learning from, practitioners in a range of sectors, including the public sector. In fact, the public sector might be one area where we can have the most impact at present. Our senior government officials are confronted with gargantuan challenges of implementation that require the best of leadership and change management skills. We hope that this engagement – working with Harvard Business School to design and deliver an outstanding program to senior leaders in the Department of Income Tax tailored to their needs and circumstances – is the harbinger of many more similar projects with public sector organizations,” he further said.

“Public sector leaders seek to find the right balance between responsiveness and policy enforcement in terms of engaging with the public. In this program, we will explore the appropriate balance between service orientation and policy implementation, and discuss ways to achieve that balance,” said Professor Ajay Pandey, Dean (Programs), IIMA.

“We have been making a conscious effort to widen the horizons of our Executive Education Programs and particularly reach out to the public sector,” noted Professor Abraham Koshy, Chair (Executive Education) at IIMA. “This new initiative is a step in that direction.”