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We need schools like Doon and Mayo for the poor.
Re-skilling has to be much wider with a strong foundation.
In large companies, the CEO is very distant from operations.
Like education, healthcare also needs to be given importance.
The moment I write out a cheque, it's an asset I have written off.
We didn't create an institution to increase land value or asset value.
My daughter is very happy doing philanthropy, especially in the schools.
All businessmen - how do they communicate? God knows. Sign language, probably.
When you live away from your family, your friends and faculty become your family.
Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.
The IP is a completely different side of the IT, and that is what we want Vijayawada for.
The FM proposed to set up a Credit Guarantee Fund to ensure better flow of funds to students.
If you are calm about your ambitions, you become confident of achieving what you set out to do.
An 18-year-old is good enough for our business, and we can teach them engineering in two years.
The future consists of cross specialisation; that is how university systems abroad have evolved.
In the future, there are going to be various components of doing business that have to be looked at.
Globally, as work is re-distributed to various countries, infrastructure will have to be managed remotely.
Any institutions' alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students.
Adaptability and constant innovation is key to the survival of any company operating in a competitive market.
My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.
The SSN Institute will be expanded in areas such as liberal arts, social sciences, natural sciences, communications.
We need a world class institution which will create leaders out of the children who have not had a good start in life.
Our belief is that aspirations, meritocracy, and a world class institution are the three ingredients our country needs.
We got our land at the right time, but when we go for additional land for our schools or the museum, there will be extra cost.
The anti-Hindi agitation changed the entire face of Tamil Nadu with a local party emerging on the top, relegating the Congress.
If you look at the leading Indian IT companies, Cognizant is not active in business process outsourcing, and neither is Satyam.
Union Budget 2012 has supported industry's long time demand to improve the provision and standards of education in the country.
I firmly believe that philanthropy is most effective and outcome-oriented when you ensure that your pledge actually gets spent.
Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.
Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.
In philanthropy, you have to take the attitude of a mother... You have to be patient, and we have been very patient for a long time.
A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That's how an institution becomes one.
My daughter has no interest in succeeding me in the business. She is going towards social entrepreneurship, an area she is interested in.
On Sundays, we would travel to the town and watch English movies. This way, we must have ended up watching some 1,000 movies during college.
Buffett gave significant portions of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett made money for 50 years before he donated.
Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way we perceive the world.
I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly brought us up.
I was born in Tamil Nadu. I built HCL in UP. The first computers of the world were built in UP, and the UP government has supported us all through.
HCL is a corporation. It is for profits. A corporation stands for its shareholders, its profits, its employees, its discoveries, and its customers.
Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.
Even before the world had any cognizance of India as an economy, HCL had made a mark with its microprocessor in the '80s. HCL pioneered modern computing.
India's connection with philanthropy didn't begin with western influences. The connection with philanthropy is age-old and ingrained in our value systems.
A residential school also takes cares of the problem of malnourishment and interaction with their peers, and their teachers help build the qualities of a leader.
If you go to Wall Street, there is someone from Harvard, Stanford, etc, who relate to each other by the batch they studied in, the dorm they lived in, and so on.
There is a disconnect in education and work. And corporates don't do a great job of skilling. In future, corporates and educational institutions will work closely.
My role in the business is to use my judgment. All these years of experience have given me a clear head, and I can give a nonpartisan view with a sense of distance.
Shiv Nadar University was established in 2011, and our first batch graduated in 2015. The first batch mostly had engineering courses and a B.Sc. programme in Mathematics.
Since its inception, HCL's core focus area has been technology and product development, and hence, we continued to remain in the high end of technology throughout the '90s.
I was a very good student. But I didn't have the latitude to study more. I was never allowed to do anything cross-disciplinary. Why can't an engineering student learn physics?
A 5-acre school each in Noida and Gurgaon is what we have; it costs Rs. 50 crore to buy the land and another Rs. 50 crore to build the property. That's the capital cost alone.