Laurus Institute, founded in 2009 has been set up with the objective of taking up primary research initiatives and developing substantive views on critical issues faced by workers in the informal sector, their vocational training needs, and the challenges faced by industries in finding employable talent with the right level of vocational skills.

The aim of Laurus Institute is to help business leaders, policy makers and other bodies focused on skills development in India understand the needs of the industry, undertake skill development initiatives across trades, improve effectiveness of vocational training and provide a factual basis for decision making and policy development. We serve as a repository of knowledge and exchange for information to support, enhance and influence policies on skill development for inclusive growth.

Consult and collaborate for inclusive growth through skill development and to make social, digital and financial inclusion a practice in India through holistic, technology enabled and market driven skill development.

Laurus Institute would like to collaborate to provide expertise to enable the Indian workforce to become competitive and productive by accelerating its journey through the 4 stages depicted below through holistic and modular lifelong skill development.

Laurus Institute Board of Directors

PROF. DIPAK JAIN,Dean of INSEAD, Formerly Dean at Kellogg

Dipak C. Jain was named Dean of INSEAD, the international business school with campuses in Fontainebleau, France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, in September 2010.

Prior to his INSEAD appointment, Dipak Jain had an enduring and illustrious career spanning nearly three decades both as an educator and as a business school administrator. He was Dean of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management from 2001-2009, and has been a member of the faculty since 1986, serving as the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor in Entrepreneurial Studies and a Professor of Marketing.

At Kellogg, Dipak Jain taught courses on marketing research, new products and services, and statistical models in marketing. Dipak Jain's areas of research include the marketing of high-technology products; market segmentation and competitive market structure analysis; cross-cultural issues and global product diffusion. He has published three books as well as more than 60 articles in leading academic journals.

His long career in education began as a student in Tezpur (Assam), India. He went on to earn his bachelor's degree in mathematics and statistics in 1976 and his master's degree in mathematical statistics in 1978 from Gauhati University in India. He taught at Gauhati for the next five years before going to the USA to pursue his PhD at the University of Texas in Dallas. In addition to his positions at the Kellogg School, Dean Jain has been a visiting professor of marketing since 1989 at the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

PROF. ROBERT (BOB) KENNEDY, Executive Director at William Davidson Institute (WDI), Author of successful books on technology and offshoring including “The Services Shift”

Robert (Bob) Kennedy is Executive Director of the William Davidson Institute (WDI), a non-profit research and educational institute that focuses on business and policy issues in emerging market economies.

He also serves as the Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration at Michigan’s Ross School of Business, where he teaches corporate strategy and international business courses in the MBA, EMBA, and Executive Education programs.

Kennedy is a well-known scholar, speaker, and educator. His research focuses on the opportunities and challenges facing businesses in developing countries and has been widely published in leading economics and strategy journals. He has authored more than 100 articles, chapters, notes, case studies, and computer exercises on emerging market issues. From 2002-2008, his teaching materials were used at every one of Business Week’s top 25 U.S. business schools.

Kennedy completed a managerial book on offshoring (The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity) for FT Press which was released in January 2009.

PROF. L.K.MAHESHWARI, Formerly Vice Chancellor, BITS Pilani

Born on July 5, 1945 at Kasganj (Etah) in India, Professor Maheshwari obtained his M.Sc. (Physics) degree from the University of Lucknow (India) in 1965, and M.Sc.(Tech.) Electronics and Ph.D. degrees from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (India) in the years 1967 and 1971 respectively. He has published several research papers in the areas of Semiconductor electronics, Instrumentation, Educational development and University-Industry linkages, etc. both in national and international journals.

Professor Maheshwari has served on the faculty of BITS since 1971 and has held offices of Chief, Instrumentation Centre; Dean, Research & Consultancy , Deputy Director , Director and Vice Chancellor. He is currently Professor - Emeritus & Advisor to Chancellor, BITS, Pilani.

He was invited by the Government of Mauritius for having discussions on establishing a BITS Campus in Mauritius. The ITESO University, Guadalajara, Mexico also invited him to address the plenary session during the International Conference on ‘School- Industry Partnership Asia- Jalisco 2005’.

He has visited a number of universities/institutions in USA and other countries and participated in establishing educational collaborations with many institutions. Dr. Maheshwari is also the recipient of the year 1995 ‘Scientists of the Year’ award established by the Gian Chand Jain Memorial Foundation, Ambala (India). He is a Fellow of Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (India), Member of IEEE, USA and WACE, USA..

He has received in 2008 ‘Science Councillor Award – 2007’ from Indian Society of Health, Environment, Education and Research (ISHEER), Jodhpur Centre, India.

Anurag Jain, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Laurus Edutech

Research Focus

In our research efforts, we endeavour to understand skills gap across industry sectors in relationship with public as well as private efforts underway to bridge the gap. We apply this approach to generate a real-world picture that goes beyond numbers and provides insights that can help make a difference. In short, we are focused on generating perspectives that help business leaders and policy makers alike in understanding the trends, and the role of Public-Private Partnership in creating the skills base that will shape the future of India.

Thought Leadership

Laurus Institute continues to research on and deliberate areas associated with skill development at various levels. We focus on generating perspectives that provide a comprehensive view of the forces shaping skills development in India- demographic, social, economic, cultural, technological and regulatory factors. Some of our thought leadership white papers are:

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