Globsyn announces global Exec-PGDM with Evansville

Globsyn Business School, India’s first corporate B-School has announced its academic tie-up with University of Evansville (Indianapolis, USA). The academic collaboration is part of Globsyn Business School’s new strategic vision to create a truly globally networked Business School, under the aegis of its ‘Global Connect’ initiative.

Commenting on the tie-up, Bikram Dasgupta, Chairman and CEO, Globsyn Group, opined “The academic relationship with Evansville is one more step in our endeavour to create a globally networked B-School. our strategic ‘Global Connect’ initiative is a critical tool, which enmeshed with our ‘Corporate Connect’ program ensures that Indian students and executives are not only exposed to global business studies and environments but also have direct corporate interventions, from day one, to help them emerge as truly ‘Industry Ready Professionals’”.

Under the terms of the academic collaboration with the Schroeder Family School of Business Administration, University of Evansville (Indianapolis, USA), the institutions would jointly offer working professionals and executives a truly global Executive Post Graduate Management Program (Exec – PGDM), at both of Globsyn Business School’s campuses at Kolkata and Ahmedabad. A major part of the program would be conducted in India, participants would also be provided with an opportunity to pursue part of the program at the University of Evansville's British campus in Grantham, England. The program will be conducted by faculty from both the institutions, with faculty from the Schroeder Family School of Business Administration, travelling to Globsyn’s twin campuses to conduct special modules.

Globsyn hosts Tulane students

Globsyn Business School’s academic up with the prestigious AB Freeman School Business, Tulane University, USA which includes students exchange programs saw around 25 students of its ‘Executive MBA’ program flying down to Globsyn Business School’s Kolkata campus to complete the India based component of their ‘Global Module’ curriculum.

During their stay here, apart from an intensive academic regime they took time out to interact with the students and faculty team of Globsyn Business School. Mr. Bikram Dasgupta – Chairman & CEO, Globsyn Group shared his ‘Entrepreneurship’ experiences in a lively session that was highly interactive and exceptional. Prof. R. C. Bhattacharya – Director & Vice Chairman, Globsyn Business School gave an overview of Indian History and the current Indian economy.

The students and the faculty of ‘Tulane University’ whose finance program is ranked among the top ten finance programs of the world by the Financial Express, were extremely happy with GBS’ faculty team and infrastructure of Globsyn Business School and expressed a desire to visit again in the future.

Globsyn Inducts New Batch

Globsyn Business School proudly welcomed its 8th batch of PGPM and 3rd batch of PGPIB students at its campus on 16th & 17th June. Prof. R. C. Bhattacharya – Director, Globsyn Business School along with the chief guest of the program Prof. Robert Clark, Dean and Professor of Finance and International Business in the School of Business Administration at the University of Evansville, USA inaugurated the program with the lighting of lamps. Speaking in this occasion Prof. Bhattacharya welcomed the students and asked them to remain focused in these two years to shape their career, whereas Prof. Clark advised the students to ask questions in order to grow.

Mr. Bikram Dasgupta, Chairman & CEO, Globsyn Group while giving his inaugural speech said the student must not take these two years as the extension of their graduation or post graduation days because management education needs a total different approach where they won’t be taught rather they have to learn. He also informed the students that Globsyn’s unique Knowledge Finishing School TM system will create opportunities for them where they can learn and grow. He emphasized that life is not for existence rather it is for growth.

Prof. Subhendu Dey (Associate Dean – Academic Affairs), Prof. J. N. Mukhopadhyay (Dean – FD&R), Mr. Biswajit Bhattacharya (Registrar) along with other HODs, faculties, and officials were also present in the occasion.

Globsyn welcomes first International Finance batch

Globsyn Business School (GBS) since inception is committed to make the school a globally networked b school with a vision to provide Indian students quality foreign education at competitive price points. GBS, in keeping with this vision has entered into an academic collaboration with the AB Freeman School of Business, Tulane University to offer Indian students a world-class & benchmarked program on International Finance. The finance program of AB Freeman School of Business has been ranked among the top ten in the world by the Financial Times.

On 26th May 2009 the first batch of 23 handpicked students for this niche & prestigious program started their journey at Globsyn Business School with the induction program. Present in this program were Mr. Bikram Dasgupta (Chairman & CEO, Globsyn Group), Prof. R. C. Bhattacharya (Vice Chairman & Director, Globsyn Business School), Prof. Subhendu Dey (Associate Dean – Academic Affairs, Globsyn Business School), Prof. J. N. Mukhopadhyay (Dean – FD&R, Globsyn Business School) and other professors and officials.

In his speech Mr. Bikram Dasgupta gave a brief introduction about the 100 year old Tulane University and said that this program has an advanced curriculum and students would need to put in extra efforts to become successful in this high value program. He remarked that after successful completion of this program the students will have much better prospect in the job market than a normal PGPM student.

As a part of the innovative curriculum design top faculties from the Tulane University will come down to Globsyn Business School to teach different modules of this course and the students will also travel to New Orleans, USA to complete two advanced modules at the university campus, where they would be exposed to a ‘live’ trading floor for ‘real’ & hands on learning.

Globsyn CEO Chairs NASSCOM HRD Meet

Mr. Bikram Dasgupta, Chairman & CEO, Globsyn Group commented at the recently held NASSCOM HRD meet that in the present economic downturn there are less jobs but more work available in the market and that’s why he insisted that companies should focus to create more and more work opportunities for the competent people. He suggested that the educational institutes should focus on training students for work and make them industry ready which will help in removing the mismatch between education and work requirements and this is much more required because present companies are not able to focus in mentoring the fresh talents especially in the field of IT.

Apart from Mr. Dasgupta other panel members like – Ms. Anita Srivastava (Location head Kolkata & Bhubaneshwar, TED, Wipro Technologies), Mr. Joydeep Dattagupta (Executive Director, Delloite & Touche Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.), and Ms. Sagarika Bose (VP, NASSCOM Foundation) also suggested different approaches to counter the present situation from an HR perspective. Ms. Srivastava shared some of the innovative steps that Wipro has taken to help the company in reducing the manpower cost while maintaining the morale and confidence of the employees high. Mr. Joydeep replied to the issues raised by the audience and suggested that the companies instead becoming ‘hi-tech’ should focus on ‘hi-touch’ because – “Animals perform but human beings contribute”.

Globsyn Organizes Book Fair

Globsyn Business School organized the annual book fair on 11th & 12th May 2009 at its campus for its employees and students. Publishers like Oxford, Jaico, Prentice Hall India, Sage Publications, TMH, Wiley, Vrinda, Viva, Vikash, Cengage, Pearson, Excel etc. were present in this fair with their latest publications on subjects like management, finance, leadership, communication skill, motivational, self development, biographies, computers, popular fictions etc. Most of these latest books will be available at the library for the students very soon. With the inclusion of these books the library will become much more enriched with the books that the students will require during their studies in Globsyn Business School.

Bristol Business School visits Globsyn

May 6, 2009: In keeping with its ethos of providing its students with relevant international academic exposure Globsyn Business School (GBS) invited Dr. Richard O'Doherty, Associate Dean, Head of Planning and Resources – Bristol Business School, University of the West of England. Dr. O'Doherty had a meeting with the Director of GBS Prof. R. C. Bhattacharya and other faculty members where he gave a presentation on University of the West of England. Later he also met other Globsyn officials and discussed on various collaboration options including joint program, faculty & student exchange program etc. Dr. O'Doherty was very happy with Globsyn’s infrastructure and was keen to take forward this relationship.