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Amar Gupta(b. 1953) was born in Nadiad, India. Gupta was admitted to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology, Kanpur to study electrical engineering, graduating in 1974. Gupta started his career working making 8 dollars a week working for IBM, and then served in various technical advisory roles for the Government of India.He received the Rotary Fellowship for International Understanding. This allowed Gupta to pursuit his graduate studies with the MIT Sloan School of Management. This was the start of a 25 year relationship (1979-2004), where he was first person to have attained the rank of Senior Research Scientist at the Sloan School of Management. In this position, he launched the United States’ first course on international outsourcing [1] with the help of Professor Lester Thurow, eminent economist and former Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management. Gupta has provided his expertise to several UN organizations including WHO, UNDP, and UNIDO for various works in Latin America and the World Bank as an advisor on a Distance education endeavor in Mozambique. Amar Gupta’s current appointment is at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona as the Professor of Entrepreneurship and MIS; and Senior Director for Research and Business Development. Amar Gupta has developed pateneted technology and has made innovations in several areas including databases, imaging, healthcare, education, and outsourcing.

Contributions and Innovations

Amar Gupta has contributed to the following areas through mentoring of students, personal research, scientific discoveries resulting in patents[2] , and contributing ideas that have influenced research in these disciplines.

Imaging

Gupta served as chief scientist and vice president for the development of VCN ExecuVision, the first presentation graphics program. This program changed the manner that presentations were given, first in the academic community before making its way to the business community. The company, Visual Communications Network also pioneered the development of clip art for the IBM personal computer.


At MIT, Gupta led a team of researchers to develop technology to automatically read handwritten information on check and proposed a nationwide check clearance system, allowing the electronic clearance of printed, typed, and handwritten checks possible[3] This innovation is manifested in the Check 21 in the U.S. and in similar approaches in Singapore, and Brazil. Gupta and his colleagues also developed the first microcomputer-based image database management system.

Education

Amar Gupta, created the first course on outsourcing of professional services, with Lester Thurow, and taught it at MIT in 2004[4]. The aim of the course neither to praise the benefits nor discuss the horror stories of outsourcing. The course discussed both the reasons outsourcing in more common in the business place and bring in CEO’s and economic leaders to discuss their experiences with this movement[5] This pioneer course has been replicated at several other leading universities in the U.S. and abroad.

Gupta launched the first academic program that leads to two graduate degrees and a certificate in entrepreneurship. This involves a management degree from the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management, and a second graduate degree in optics science, engineering, agriculture, or medicine.

Outsourcing

The concept of the 24-hour knowledge factory was developed by Amar Gupta. This concept allows for multiple professionals to work together, in different geographical locations (anywhere in the world) to perform a single task or project. Research is being conducted to utilize this model in a variety of industries. In 2007, Gupta was awarded an IBM faculty award for this vision.

In early 1980, Amar Gupta proposed to Citibank to do software development work in India. This idea turned into Citibank overseas Software Limited, the pioneer example of a large multinational bank doing such work in India.

References

  1. ^ "New MBA course: Outsourcing ", http://money.cnn.com/ article cites course URL retrieved on March 04, 2007.
  2. ^ "United States Patent",URL retrieved on March 04, 2007.
  3. ^ "Gupta eyes paperless check clearance ", MIT Sloan Newsroom URL retrieved on March 04, 2007.
  4. ^ "Course description", MIT URL retrieved on March 06, 2007.
  5. ^ "India the big topic in B-schools abroad", The Economic Times URL retrieved on March 04, 2007.
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