Business educator has a lesson for us all

Every once in a while doing the job that I do - and not as often as some might think - you get to meet someone truly inspirational.

This happened the other day when I interviewed Dipak Jain, one of the world's leading business educators, before he was due to speak at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Beijing.

The 61-year-old, who came from humble beginnings in Assam in northeast India to be dean of two of the world's leading business schools, the Kellogg School of Management and INSEAD, is the European president-designate of the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, better known as CEIBS. He took up the role in November but has been teaching at the school since September.