Setting a
benchmark
DEEPTHI GOVINDARAJAN
| Business schools doing very well in India
|
In the highly globalised and ever-evolving
world of management standards, the two-day conference held at Xavier
Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (XIME), was packed with
presentations and seminars encompassing a wide range of issues and
trends related to the management industry.
The penultimate session of the Conference on Management
Education: ‘Country perspectives in a globalising world’, was the
BRICS conclave, which saw eminent speakers from Brazil, Russia,
India, China and South Africa. From international speakers from some
of the leading B-schools in the world to Pankaj Chandra, Director of
Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, the conference played host
to several prominent speakers and presentations.
Crash course
From debates on the evolution of management education in the
East, in comparison to the market for it in the West, to dialogues
on management ethics and diversification, management students were
subjected to a crash course in global trends and given a peek into
the exponentially growing market for management graduates.
Expert panels held discussions on the need to look beyond the
spectre of the globalised economy, with Tony Koo, Asst. Dean,
University of Shanghai Business School, Shanghai, China, coining the
word “CHINDIA” to emphasise on the need for India and China to work
together.
Speaking at the conference, J. Philip, President and Director
Emeritus of XIME, Bangalore, said, “The Indian management education
system is the second largest in the world today, next only to that
of the U.S. But, in terms of business schools, it has already caught
up with America and overtaken Europe. Its growth has been phenomenal
in the last 40 years.”
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