The Hindu Business Line : Glee at GLIM

Expanding its global reach, the Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM) will be signing memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with two institutes abroad in the following year, according to Dr Bala V. Balachandran, Founder and Honorary Dean, GLIM. "We will be signing with an institute in Shanghai, China, adding to existing Asian tie-ups in the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore," he said after the convocation function held for the 2006 batch of the institute's students. The second tie-up would be with an institute in Europe. In the following year, the institute will appoint two more chairpersons, which includes Mr K. B. Chandra Sekar, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jam Cracker Inc. USA, in a bid to establish the institute's core competency in marketing and sales. "Every institute has its core competency, and this will be ours," said Dr Balachandran. The institute has been awaiting allotment of land on Old Mahabalipuram Road on the outskirts of Chennai city. He said that he expects the land to be allotted in June, and the institute will be operational there a year after the land allotment date. The average salary offered to the 2006 batch of GLIM is Rs 7.2 lakh per annum, in sectors such as automobiles, FMCG, peripherals and software companies.

New Deal

Centre for Developmental Education (CDE), Bangalore, and AUT University, New Zealand will jointly offer an MBA programme in the country. The full-time and flexible 18-month programme is open to both working executives and fresh graduates. Faculty from AUT and IFIM, a CDE-managed institution will teach the course. CDE has been promoting management programmes in the country and has incubated the Institute of Finance and International Management, Bangalore. CDE plans to leverage the infrastructure and knowledge base that it has created over the past ten years in promoting management education to offer this program from AUT. The fee for the course, scheduled to begin in August 28 this year, is NZ$20,000 (Rs 6,00,000) and is payable in four instalments.

Designs on Italy

National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad and Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, in partnership with Altagamma, is offering a programme on `Managing Fashion and Design Companies Successfully.'

This course is aimed at preparing young talent for strategic managerial positions in industries such as retail, design and fashion industries. The programme will be conducted by faculty from NID and Bocconi University comprising academicians and industry experts. The 13-week certificate programme will commence on Sept 18 this year.

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