Global Business in the Age of Transformation

Mahesh Joshi, Managing Director, MAN Energy Solutions USA Inc.,James R. Klein, Principal, J.R. Global, LLC

Mahesh Joshi is a Global Business Executive with three decades of global business experience in senior management roles, including as Managing Director at MAN Energy Solutions USA, Chief Executive at Larsen & Toubro Valves, President of Centrifugal Compression at Cameron, Group President, Energy at
Circor, and General Manager for Heavy Industrial Products at Ingersoll Rand. He has a Master's in International Strategy and Diplomacy from London School of Economics, an MBA from Murray State University, and a Mechanical Engineering Degree from Delhi Technological University. He has also attended
the Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Program, Harvard business school for Advanced Management Program, and Nirma Institute of Management MBA programme. Mahesh is the host of the radio show Global Business with Mahesh Joshi on VoiceAmerica.com.


J.R. Klein has been active in social impact finance for more than 40 years. He is an author, thinker, and artist with expertise in organizational structure, cultural sensitivity, pragmatic leadership, planning, and social impact. He has an MBA and has continued his post-graduate education at Harvard
Business School and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He has been awarded three master level qualification - post graduate awards in Performance Measurement (HBS), Strategic Perspectives (HBS), and Advanced Management and Leadership (Oxford).

I. Structural Transformation
1. The Global Phenomenon
2. Economic Clusters and Emerging Players
3. Rising Stars, Hot Markets, and Brave New Worlds
4. Regulating Global Commerce
II. Barriers to Interconnectivity
5. Ideology versus Ideology
6. Old Beneficiaries are New Critics
7. Geopolitical Fractures
III. Impact of Technology on Global Businesses
8. Technology as the Driver and Consumer
9. Digitize or Disappear
10. Smart Selling on the E Platform: The Amazing World of Amazon
11. Sector Impact
IV. Leadership Challenge in a Transformational World
12. Taking a New Shape
13. Trust in a Splintered World
14. Tool Box for Change
15. Being Introspective in an Expanding World