Dr. Bala V. Balachandran (1937-2021), a legend in management education and a successful edupreneur, who founded the Great Lakes Institute of Management, will continue to make his presence felt through a memorial built in his memory and honor at Chennai campus. The memorial offers homage to Professor Balachandran, while serving as a space for visitors to sit and spend time highlighting …

Three key learnings from Gandhi’s life essential for aspiring managers are: authenticity, productivity, and connectivity   The inaugural batch of the Post Graduate Programme in Liberal Studies and Management (PGP-LSM) recently engaged in a workshop on ‘Gandhian Leadership’ at IIM Kozhikode. This is a compulsory course for the MBA LSM programme. Led by Prof Debashis Chatterjee, Director of IIM Kozhikode …

Audyogik Shikshan Mandal (ASM) Group of Institutes, Pune, has a tie-up with IIM Bangalore where students get an opportunity to do a 8-week digital course IIMBx where students pursuing PGDM / MBA at ASM with get access to IIM faculty, interactive webinars and class sessions. One such batch of of PGDM / MBA students recently completed this digital course with better …

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) which regulates technical education in India in all its sincerity wanted to help management institutes in the country and help develop their faculty members. For this two schemes were made. One was Margdarshan (Guidance) under which a good reputed institute in an area could handhold those desirous of expertise or mentor support. It …

Of the 3100 institutes offering management education in India, about 460 are standalone self-financing colleges meaning these only teach management discipline and can only award diplomas. Now with the draft National Education Policy being discussed for an eventual roll out soon, the standalone institutes have started worrying about their existence as the proposed new policy only provides for three type …

As compared to academic courses such as Masters in Social Work (MSW) or MA in Development etc being taught in academic institutions for a long time in the country, development management is a novel and innovative concept of recent years. In fact, the three-year old Indian School of Development Management (ISDM) based in Delhi is perhaps the only disruption that …