Yale School of Management - Alumni Leaders

"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 Yale 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 is president (HR, After-Market & Corporate Services) & member of the Group Management Board Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. His key focus areas are HR/IR initiatives for the group, the after market business whose three CEO’s report to him, corporate communications 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, Mahindra Retail, and is 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 obtained first rank in the country in the science stream of the Indian School Certificate Examination from St. Columba’s High School, New Delhi. He then 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, USA as a J N Tata scholar, and was selected as a Distinguished Alumnus of the School.

He is president of the Mumbai Chapter of the National HRD Network., and serves on the CII National Committee of Indian MNCs, the CII Apex Council on Affirmative Action and the CII Western Regional Council.

On a personal note, Rajeev Dubey was intensely involved in theatre, having acted in TV / Radio plays and professional theatre in Delhi and Kolkata. He was secretary of the Dramatic Society, St. Stephen’s College and a founder-member of Theatre Action Group (TAG). He is deeply interested in human potential development, and the socio-cultural & economic evolution of societies. Rajeev practices yoga and reiki regularly, and his interests include past-life experiences and fire-walking. He is an avid lover of books & nature, especially the mountains.