What’s in a name? Plenty, when you’re an entrepreneur starting up a new business, says Tayeb Kamali, who recalls the struggle to convince others in the early days of Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in the 1980s that the United Arab Emirates’ new government-sponsored university needed a name that would be associated with leading-edge education in the Arab region. However, as HCT’s Abu Dhabi-based vice chancellor explains in an interview with Knowledge at Wharton, that particular challenge was short-lived given the rapid recognition — in academia and industry — of the growing importance that the Internet and other technologies have in developing future generations of business leaders. Now fresh challenges await. Growth is imperative for the institution that started with just 239 students and four campuses and now has more than 16,500 students — both male and female — at 18 campuses across the country.…