Two significant appointments

Indian School of Business (ISB), the first international business school in India, in line with its vision to groom future global business leaders, today announced its collaboration with the London Business School (LBS).

ISB already has collaborations with two of the world's most prestigious management institutions - Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Underlining the significance of this new collaboration with LBS, Mr Rajat Gupta, Chairman of ISB and Managing Director (Worldwide) at McKinsey & Co. Inc, said "ISB's collaboration with LBS complements our existing partnerships with Wharton and Kellogg. The School will benefit tremendously from LBS's distinguished faculty, vast knowledge and research pool. This will help us in our vision of creating truly global business leaders of tomorrow."

Dr Sumantra Ghoshal, the newly appointed Founding Dean of ISB who also holds the Robert P. Bauman chair at LBS and is a member of the Strategy and International Management faculty at LBS said, "ISB is a management institution that is based on the spirit of pluralism. The LBS collaboration is representative of ISB's commitment to this spirit. We will now be in a position to provide our students a combination of Asian, American and European management practices and thoughts."

Two significant appointments:
Mr. Gupta also announced the appointment of Ms Gabrielle (Gay) Haskins as the Dean for ISB's Executive Education Programme and Ms Gita Piramal as the Associate Dean for ISB's publishing arm - ISB Interactive.

Ms. Haskins is the Associate Dean of Education at LBS where she is responsible for the strategic direction and operations of the school's executive education programme. As Dean of Executive Education at ISB, Gay will oversee overall strategic development and implementation of the executive programme. She will work closely with ISB's partner schools to bring their programmes to India as well as develop ISB's own long-term advanced career programmes.
Ms Haskins said "Executive education is an integral and critical part of the school's management programmes. We will create short-term programmes of one to two weeks on specialized functional and management themes as well as two to three month programmes with a general management focus." 

Ms Gita Piramal as Associate Dean of ISB Interactive will take charge of ISB's publishing efforts in both traditional and new media. She will focus on sourcing and disseminating information on diverse management subjects and themes to practicing managers. Ms Piramal said, "My focus for ISB Interactive is to develop a premier management journal for the Asian region. I believe that this is a tremendous opportunity for ISB to create a forum that will be the base for management theory and thought in Asia."

The school's curriculum is designed to create business leaders, who will be equipped to apply cutting-edge management tools and techniques in global companies and markets undergoing rapid change. To maximize an environment of intellectual vibrancy and begin to meaningfully bridge East and West, ISB will have a unique mix of half permanent faculty and half visiting faculty. Nearly 90 percent of faculty members contacted at the top 20 US business schools, as well as the London Business School and INSEAD have agreed, to be visiting faculty at ISB. 
ISB's first academic year will begin July 2, 2001. Admissions for the first batch of the management programme are open up until March 15, 2001.
Based at Hyderabad, ISB is a unique institution supported by some of the world's most respected corporations. The campus in Hyderabad spread over 250-acres will be equipped with sophisticated educational infrastructure and world-class living and recreational facilities.

State-of-the-art infrastructure will enable distance learning. Robust video links will give students a truly international learning experience and allow ISB to simulcast lectures around the world.

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The Indian School of Business : An Overview

           -2nd January'2001

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