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That's one reason Drayton in 1980 founded Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (named for a benevolent Indian Emperor from the 3rd century B.C.). Its approach grew out of Drayton's background as a student activist at Harvard, traveler through India and consultant for nearly a decade for McKinsey & Co. Ashoka started by raising "seed capital" mostly from small donors, including three family foundations belonging to Bill Golden, Mark Lipkin and John Klingenstein. Drayton was named a MacArthur fellow from 1984 to 1989, which gave him more time and money to develop Ashoka. By 1991 its budget was $2.2 million...
...former director at McKinsey and Company, Daniel holds one of the most prestigious business jobs in the world and, according to Slichter, is incredibly intelligent and talented...
Indians are running FORTUNE 500 companies (Rono Dutta is president of United Airlines, and Rakesh Gangwal is president and CEO of U.S. Airways) or, as consultants and securities analysts, telling others how to do so. (Calcutta-born Rajat Gupta, managing director of consulting giant McKinsey & Co., does both.) But above all, they are bringing their own entrepreneurial stamp to America's high-tech frontiers. Venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's biggest VC firms, says 40% of its portfolio consists of companies founded or managed by people of Indian origin. Indians have...
...Mahoney '00, McLain's vice chair, will also be taking a two-year McKinsey post. As with his classmate, the decades of debate characterizing federal politics as corrupt, inefficient or just plain evil has taken its toll...
...students heading to Goldman, Sachs or McKinsey like to talk about the experience they will gain, the loans they have to repay, and the excitement of the job, but no one mentions the inflated salaries or the ease of the job search...