Like education, healthcare also needs to be given importance.Collection: Education
The younger you are, the more courage and audacity you will have to set long-term goals and be there to personally work towards your vision. You will have the confidence to take risks because you have time by your side. You can bring innovation into everything you do and constantly reinvent yourself.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Computers
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.Collection: Education
Research is creation of knowledge which leads to new and efficient solutions for the society. Shiv Nadar University, therefore, believes in being at the forefront of research. To create new knowledge, one needs to solve open-ended problems, which basically make one think on one's own.Collection: Society
You have to be very skilled in this industry. I grew in this industry; we created the very beginnings of this industry. We made the first PCs (personal computers) in the world.Collection: Computers
Any institutions' alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students.Collection: Experience
Shiv Nadar University has five schools with 16 departments offering 14 undergraduate, 10 master's and 13 doctoral programmes. The demand for engineering courses - computer science, engineering, electronics, communication engineering, mechanical engineering - is slightly on the higher side compared to other engineering courses.Collection: Communication
After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the first time capital gains tax was introduced? It was 1992 March. Till then, everything was taxed one way.Collection: Independence
It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.
All businessmen - how do they communicate? God knows. Sign language, probably.
Our belief is that aspirations, meritocracy, and a world class institution are the three ingredients our country needs.
If you look at the leading Indian IT companies, Cognizant is not active in business process outsourcing, and neither is Satyam.
Globally, as work is re-distributed to various countries, infrastructure will have to be managed remotely.
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.
Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.
The FM proposed to set up a Credit Guarantee Fund to ensure better flow of funds to students.
Union Budget 2012 has supported industry's long time demand to improve the provision and standards of education in the country.
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.
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.
When you are running a business, there is a constant need to reinvent oneself. One should have the foresight to stay ahead in times of rapid change and rid ourselves of stickiness in any form in the business.
My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.
The anti-Hindi agitation changed the entire face of Tamil Nadu with a local party emerging on the top, relegating the Congress.
Supposing I write out a cheque for a billion dollars to the foundation, does it mean anything? There must be evidence of philanthropy. Otherwise, I'm sitting with that money, earning interest exactly the way in my holding company.
I never second-judged my mother.
In South, getting admission in SSN is not possible just because someone is my relative. One of the ministers said SSN is the only institution where I can't get a seat for anyone. That's true of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi governments, too.
I firmly believe that philanthropy is most effective and outcome-oriented when you ensure that your pledge actually gets spent.
Education is a very large area, and we have our hands full. For example, SSN has to become a university; we have to keep adding departments like it is with universities in the U.S.
The IP is a completely different side of the IT, and that is what we want Vijayawada for.
An 18-year-old is good enough for our business, and we can teach them engineering in two years.
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.
The Bharat Ram family was into philanthropy a way earlier. They build institutes such as Shri Ram College of Commerce, Lady Shri Ram College, and Shri Ram Schools. They are very inspiring.
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 SSN Institute will be expanded in areas such as liberal arts, social sciences, natural sciences, communications.
The U.S. healthcare industry is undergoing radical transformation with the Affordable Care Act. Evolving thought and business models have little semblance to present mechanisms.
The need is schools dedicated exclusively to the rural segment. If we have a child from a village and a city studying in the same class room, the former is bound to lag behind because children from the urban areas have a better start.
We need a world class institution which will create leaders out of the children who have not had a good start in life.
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.
Any school which wants to create an impact on the society should work on creating leaders.
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.
We need schools like Doon and Mayo for the poor.
If you are calm about your ambitions, you become confident of achieving what you set out to do.
I would like to share something that is being done extremely well by Bill Gates through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation is only going to address areas which are seen by Bill or Melinda as ills of the world. The foundation has no perpetuity.
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.
I believe good corporate governance is critical in enhancing competitiveness and creating industry - leading profitable growth and superior returns for every stakeholder of the institution.
Adaptability and constant innovation is key to the survival of any company operating in a competitive market.
If you get to think of sharing wealth with people who need it and the purposes that need it, it gives a very different sense of satisfaction. I think I can build an institution which is very unlike the Gates' foundation. Gates' foundation is totally project-driven, that will serve a specific purpose and then self-destruct.
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.
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 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.