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University President Lawrence H. Summers and Director of the South Asia Initiative (SAI) Sugata Bose spoke on the rise of India and U.S.-India relations at a South Asian Association event last night. Summers discussed the ways India and the U.S. have developed closer ties in recent years, citing President George W. Bush’s work with the Indo-U.S. Treaty. The treaty, which will likely be ratified by Congress, will legitimize India’s nuclear possessions and allow India to increase its supply. “India has first rate scholars, it has the English language...
...within a year, the South Asia Initiative (SAI), which is affiliated with the Asia Center, will establish its international presence in Mumbai, India with an office physically adjacent to—but substantively separate from—the HBS center...
...offices of the President and Provost have been very supportive in providing initial-phase operational funding for the SAI,” writes SAI Assistant Director Rena Fonseca in an e-mail. She adds that they have also been supportive in “providing thoughtful perspective, space in the new building, and many other kinds of support, both tangible and intangible...
Assistant Provost Buffington says Summers and Hyman also encouraged collaboration and support between HBS and SAI. Summers told HBS Dean Kim B. Clark to look at the new Mumbai Center as a “modular system,” according to Buffington. The modular model, Buffington says, recommends that schools or centers looking to expand abroad should seek partnerships with other sectors of Harvard in the area. When convenient, as in the case of the HBS and SAI centers in Mumbai, they should share office space and administrative support with other Harvard groups...
...Dominguez task force is open to adopting this “modular system” and more integrative approach in setting up these international centers, according to Buffington. While he acknowledges that HBS and SAI agreed last-minute to partner their offices in Mumbai, he says that future centers will have greater “modular” integration and will seek to unite Harvard’s presence abroad...