Prof. Bala Balachandran, emeritus professor of Kellogg School plans University of Corporate Excellence in Bhubaneswar
December 12th, 2010
Following is an excerpt from a report in pagalguy.com.
Great Lakes business School, Chennai is all set to open a university in Orissa, besides another b-school in Delhi. This is after taking Mumbai Business School, Mumbai under its wings a few months ago. Disclosing this, Founder and Dean of Great Lakes, Dr Bala V. Balachandran told Pagalguy that the university in Bhubhaneshwar, Orissa will be modelled differnetly and not like the usual universities.
“This university will cater to different subjects like engineering, law, schools of art, science, economics, math,” said Dr Balachandran. This university may not be called Great Lakes but could be called the University of Corporate Excellence. When asked why, Dr Balachandran replied that Great Lakes already has an identity of a b-school. “Would be confusing to name the university with the same name.”
With regards to the b-school in Delhi, it would be called Great Lakes, like the one in Chennai. While the Great Lakes in Delhi is expected to come up in the next six months, the university is Bhubhaneshwar will come up in a year’s time.
Prof. Balachandran has already created the top notch business school, Great Lakes, in Chennai. Following is an excerpt from the page http://greatlakes.edu.in/Dr–Bala-V-Balachandran.html about his current and past associations.
Founder and Dean, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, India J L Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Information Management (Emeritus in Service), Northwestern University, Illinois, USA Executive Professor & Strategy Advisor to the Dean, Bauer College, University of Houston, Texas, USA
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1. stingidea | December 12th, 2010 at 4:20 am
Way to go. The education scene in the state is definitely a bright spot when you consider the fate of new industries. Now one really wishes that the Congress government does not put a spanner in the works of such initiatives.
The prince of the party has a history of stopping by the state, whipping up some dormant group specific feeling and then leaving the people of the state high and dry. His father did the same many decades back in Kalahandi and the development of the people of the area or the total lack of it is there for for all to see.
2. Abhishek | December 12th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Mr. Rahul Gandhi has a myopic vision to resurrect his parties dwindling fortunes in the state. How can he claim to hold the sway over the youth in Odisha and many yound Odias world over with his backward looking game-plan of hindering Odisha’s many upcoming big ticket projects? He really thinks this is going to help him in the state? There is a reason why Mr. Patnaik has been at the helm for the past two terms and the third one running. He needs to do his homework well and draw up a different strategy. Most people in the state and outside realise that Odisha’s is a story waiting to happen. Look at Bhubaneswar today, look at the statistics forecast for the next 4-5 years, its about Odisha and its stupendous growth. There are many Odias in my generation who plan to come back the state, start working here, open start-ups, set up institutions and be a part of the success story. Such has been the effect of BJD and Mr. Patnaik’s pro-development policy. Does Mr. Gandhi harbour ambitions of having a cake walk by simply talking tall to the college students here and stalling our state’s development elsewhere?