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Business Schools through the Years – Prof. Bala Writes for Business India Magazine

January 16, 2016 | Posted by Great Lakes << back to blog

Few people have the education, experience and perspectives in place to have a bird’s eye view of how management education has evolved over the years. Well, for Professor Bala V Balachandran – it’s not that big a deal.

In his article titled “Business Schools through the Years”, which he wrote for the guest column of popular Indian magazine Business India, the distinguished Kellogg Professor Emeritus has adeptly highlighted the important landmarks in the transformation of business schools as well as the MBA programme. From the plain vanilla flavors – MBA and executive MBA which were existent before the 1990s, the post 1991 liberalization era has seen a spurt in management courses, with most of them today being designed to fill specific skill gaps in different kind of aspirants wanting to get a management degree. “Policy changes, corporate social responsibility, cyber regulations, new businesses, services and products have all together governed the way that management education has evolved over the years”, he writes. He also makes an interesting perceptive distinction between the two categories of customers of a B-school – both of which are at different ends of the continuum; something that has invariably bred the new generation of business schools offering a mix of hard and soft skills. Read the full article below

Business India Magazine Article

Business India Magazine Article Business School through the year

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