…says Dr M A Khan, Director, Sydenham Institute of Management Studies Research and Entrepreneurship Education (SIMSREE), Mumbai having completed 26 years imparting business education.

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Bhavan's Centre for Inter-Disciplinary Studies (BCIDS), established under the academic guidance of S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), on the Bhavan's Campus, Mumbai, is a 64-acre oasis of academic excellence. In this exclusive interview, Professor Shrilekha Parikh, Head- Academics, BCIDS, gives a brief overview of the academic structure in BCIDS, and the benefits of Advanced Professional Program in Management.

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... says Dr Terry Boulter, Director MBA, Deakin University Business School. Dr Boulter is the MBA Director and a senior lecturer in Finance with Deakin Business School Australia. The Deakin MBA has been awarded a five-star rating from the Graduate Management Association of Australia.

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... says Dr Sanal Kumar Velayudhan, Professor & Chairman International Exchange Program - Faculty of Marketing, Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode (IIM-K). He has designed and directed training programmes in General Management and in the area of Marketing, besides teaching in the post graduate programmes of XLRI. A visiting professor at IIM-A, MDI and BITS Pilani, Dr Velayudhan has handled consultancy assignments in marketing for Central- and State-level Public Sector Units, public sector banks as well as in the cooperative sector. In this exclusive interview, Dr Velayudhan outlines the process of revamping the curriculum at IIM-K for its two-year flagship post graduate programme (PGP). Excerpts...

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A dedicated academician, pilot and an entrepreneur, Prof  Saveeta Mohanty is not new to the trends that set the tone for management education and also the corporate world .Prof Saveeta is  the Placement coordinator  and also the coordinator for Management Development  Programmes  at the Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneshwar (XIMB). She serves as the member of the Local board, Orissa region of the State bank of India, and is an executive committee member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Prof Mohanty has also served as a member of the National Advisory committee of the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). She is an alumnus of the prestigious XLRI.

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An accomplished teacher, trainer and consultant, Dr. Anup K. Singh is Professor of Human Resource and Organization Development at the International Management Institute, Delhi and also Dean of Corporate Relations at the Institute.

Dr. Singh has a long association with MBA education – he has been a Director at the Institute of Management, Nirma University and a professor at the MDI, Gurgaon. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Business Administration, Northwestern University. In a brief chat with Advanc’edge MBA, Dr. Singh shares his views on MBA education and placements in India.

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An engineer by education, a management professor by occupation and a writer by passion, Kunal Basu is as multi-dimensional as they come. Currently a faculty member at Templeton College, Oxford University, UK, he has had a long innings in management education that includes being the Director of Centre for International Management Studies at the McGill University, Montreal, Canada. A PhD from the University of Florida, most recently, he has launched the International Masters Programme in Practising Management, a joint venture between institutions in the UK, France, India, Japan and Canada.

Apart from publishing academic papers on international branding, marketing in developing countries, consumer decision making and advertising, he has also published several works of fiction; ‘The Opium Clerk’, ‘The Miniaturist,’ ‘Racists’ and the much celebrated “The Japanese Wife and Other Stories.”

In an email interview with Advanc’edge MBA, he shared his views on management education and how he strikes a balance between his passion and his occupation.

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