Leadership's loss; Sumantra Ghoshal.(Management education and Sumantra Ghoshal)

Economist (US), The, March, 2004

Alas for the next book

Management literature has lost a prolific and creative writer

IT WAS, says Laura Tyson, the dynamic American dean of the London Business School, typical of Sumantra Ghoshal that his advice on how to run an away day for the senior academic staff was the most helpful and constructive she received. Mr Ghoshal, a management guru who died suddenly at the age of 55 last week, was not just a man of boundless energy and inventiveness; he also married the theoretical and the pragmatic in a way that is rare in the world of management literature.

His background was unusual. A physicist from Calcutta, he was also a student journalist with a passion for theatre. He began his career at Indian Oil, and so came to management studies...

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