Inaugural Mahavir Nirvan Lecture. Dipak Jain is one of the world’s leading figures in business, entrepreneurship, marketing and management. He is dean of INSEAD-Paris, the top business school in Europe, and was formerly dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is also courtesy professor of Jain Studies at FIU and was honored with an honorary doctorate at FIU’s spring commencement. He has taught courses and published extensively on marketing research, new products and services, and statistcal models in marketing.