AICTE Chairman, top MBA educators @ MBAUniverse.com Western India meet at Tata Center Pune on March 28

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MBAUniverse.com News Desk |
March 18, 2014
AICTE Chairman Dr SS Mantha, top MBA Educators, Dr Peter Lorange, former President of IMD Lausanne, and CXOs from global knowledge organizations like Harvard Business Publishing & Emerald Insights will be addressing the MBAUniverse.com Western Region Roun
How do Indian B-schools meet the perplexing regulatory challenges, and also cope-up with the rapid changes in student and recruiter’s expectations? How do they survive and thrive in this era of uncertainly and chaos? MBAUniverse.com is bringing ten of India’s most influential voices in management education at one stage – at the MBAUniverse.com Western Region RoundTable, to be held in Pune on March 28.
 

The speakers for MBAUniverse.com Western Region RoundTable include AICTE Chairman Dr SS Mantha, top Indian MBA educators, Dr Peter Lorange, former President at IMD Lausanne, and CXOs from global knowledge organizations like Harvard Business Publishing & Emerald Insights, who shall advice Chairmen & Directors from leading 100 management Institutions in Pune & Mumbai. The venue for MBAUniverse.com Western Region RoundTable is the iconic Tata Management Training Center (TMTC), Pune.

 

Accepting the invitation from MBAUniverse.com to address this meet, Dr SS Mantha, AICTE Chairman, said, “I am happy to confirm that I will be addressing this MBAUniverse.com Program. I look forward to sharing my views on Management Education in my Keynote Address. I will also be interacting with B-school Directors and representatives to understand their concerns.”

 

The key topics for discussion at the MBAUniverse.com Round Table are:

 

-Sustaining Pune as the Hub of Management Education

 

-Innovative Delivery Models in MBA Education

 

-Reinvigorating PGDM: The way forward

 

One of the key speakers at the meet is Dr Peter Lorange, the Founder & President of Lorange Institute of Business, Zurich who is a well known expert in Developing Innovative Models in Management Education. Dr Lorange was formerly the President of IMD for 15 years, one of Europe’s leading business schools. Before joining IMD, Peter Lorange was President of the Norwegian School of Management (BI). Earlier, he was a professor at the Wharton School, the Sloan School, IMD and IMEDE, Lausanne. He will be addressing the MBAUniverse.com Round Table Pune via a video conference link from Zurich.

 

Many leading management academics from Western Region including Dr Rajni Gupte, VC, Symbiosis International University, Pune; Dr Ashok Joshi, Director, Indian Institute of cost and Management Studies & Research (INDSEARCH), Pune and Dr Indira Parikh, former Dean of IIM A and President of FLAME Pune will be addressing the meet.

 

Other key speakers for the program include Dr Shubro Sen, noted management thought-leader & co-founder of 'Conscious Capitalism Institute USA'; Mr. Michael J Cruz, Vice-President & Managing Director, Emerald Group Publishing (India) and Mr Vinay Hebbar, Managing Director, Asia Pacific of the Harvard Business Publishing.

 

Vice Chancellors and Directors from leading Universities and B-schools in Pune, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and other major MBA centers in Western Region will be speaking and participating in this program.

 

Program venue Tata Management Training Centre or TMTC is the learning and development arm of the Tata Group's Human Resources organization. TMTC was founded in 1959 by Mr JRD Tata, the fourth chairman of the Tata Group. The Centre is housed in a heritage structure, designed by renowned architect George Wittet, architect of famous structures like Gateway of India.

 

Being held in all major centers of management education in India like Bangalore, Chennai, Pune and Mumbai, MBAUniverse.com Roundtable Conference has been attracting top notch speakers. Past speakers include Ms Vinita Bali, former MD, Britannia Industries; Mr Subrato Bagchi, Co-founder, MindTree; Mr D Shivakumar, CEO, Nokia; Mr Ravi Venkatesan, Director on the Boards of Infosys and AB Volvo; Dr. Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Ranked #11 on the Thinker’s 50 World’s Top Business Thinkers; Mr Manish Sabharwal, Chairman, TeamLease Services and Mr Abhijit Bhaduri, CLO, WIPRO Group.

 

The MBAUniverse.com Western India RoundTable presents a big opportunity for the Chairmen, Trustees, Directors and Deans of the leading B Schools of West India to discuss about the ongoing challenges being faced by the management education in India. The meet will also aims at generating viable solutions to the burning issues. Registrations are open for Chancellors, Vice Chancellors, Trustees, Directors, Deans & senior MBA educators till March 22.