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When he was five the family moved to Delhi, where his father went to start the newspaper Hindustan Standard. His father died when he was sixteen and his mother died when he was eighteen. He was an outstanding student at Modern School (New Delhi),IIT Delhi & Harvard Business School. The first time he ever flew on an airplane was to attend Harvard Business School. He joined McKinsey & Company in 1973 as one of the first Indian-American consultants at the firm. He was initially rejected because of inadequate work experience, a decision that was overturned after his Harvard Business School professor Walter J. Salmon called then head of the New York office on his behalf. Who ?

A-Rajat Gupta