Yale School of Management - Rajeev Dubey '82

"Yale SOM was a deep and intense experience in viewing and understanding management issues — and life itself — through a multidisciplinary, holistic and interactive lens which emphasized teamwork. It taught me how to appreciate both fundamental and subtle forces at work in any situation, and developed in me the ability to ask discerning (and hopefully relevant!) questions without necessarily expecting any one 'correct' answer.

In the final analysis, what I took away from SOM was not a ready-reckoner or tool-kit, but something much more valuable — a way of thinking — of identifying and acknowledging forces of conflict, factors of uncertainty, and the primal role of values and ethics in decision-making. My two years at Yale SOM gave me enormous self-confidence at an intellectual, emotional and spiritual level, and this in turn has created in me the space to listen with an open mind and an open heart (at least I try very hard to do so!) to widely differing expert views on the same subject, acknowledge the co-existence of polarities in any situation, and then proceed to create synergistic solutions through teamwork."

Rajeev Dubey is the president (group HR & after-market) & member of the group executive board, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. His key focus areas are HR/IR initiatives for the group, the after market sector whose three CEO’s report to him, corporate communications, government relations and Infrastructure. In addition, he is on the boards of several group companies including Mahindra China Tractor, Mahindra Intertrade, Mahindra First Choice Wheels, Mahindra Insurance Brokers and Mahindra Retail, and is the chairman of Mahindra First Choice Services. He also serves as chairman of the sustainability and CSR councils of the group, and is a member of the governing council of the Mahindra Institute of Quality and the corporate governance cell.

He joined Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. in January 2004 after a career spanning 29 years in the Tata Group, which he joined in 1975 as a member of the TAS, the central managerial cadre of the Tata Group. He spent 21 years with Tata Steel, and the next 7 years as managing director and CEO first of Tata Metaliks and then of Rallis India.

Rajeev studied economics at St. Stephens College, Delhi University, where he was ranked first in the university, and at the Delhi School of Economics, where he received a National Scholarship. He went on to do his MBA from the Yale School of Management, as a J N Tata scholar, and was selected as a distinguished alumnus of the School.

He serves on the CII National Committee on Leadership & HR, CII National Committee of Leadership and HR, the CII Apex Council on Affirmative Action and the CII Western Regional Council. Rajeev is a member of the national board of NHRDN, the chairperson of the Employer’s Federation of India (EFI) Western Region, and a member of the Executive Committee of TERI – Business Council for Sustainable Development. He serves on the boards of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management and Technology (LBSIMT), Magic Bus – an NGO that works with youth as well as children and the School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL).