Pepsi CEO D Shivakumar, Dr Jagdish Sheth to address BIMTECH-MBAUniverse.com meet on Jan 8

How can Business Schools regain their relevance in fast changing business world of 21stCentury? How can they reinvent themselves to reclaim their status, identity and legitimacy? Well known management guru Dr Jagdish Sheth andMr D Shivakumar, the recently appointed chairman & CEO of Pepsico India will be debating this topic on January 8 at a forum organized by BIMTECH, MBAUniverse.com &Cambridge University Pressin New Delhi.

The discussion is set in the backdrop of the recentlypublished book by Dr Jagdish Sheth titled The Business School in the Twenty-First Century. The book is published by Cambridge University Press in 2013, with two co-authors Prof. Peter Lorange, founding Dean of IMD Switzerland and presently the President of Lorange Institute and Prof. Howard Thomas, Dean of SMU Singapore. The book addresses questions on the Status, Identity and Legitimacy of Business Schools in modern University System and the three world experts share their critical insights on management education and new business school models in the US, Europe and Asia on designing the business school of the future and how to make it work.

IIM Calcutta alumnus and recently appointedChairman & CEO of Pepsico Indiais well known in the management circles as a CEO who has a great passion for the development of Indian Management Education.

The meet, organized by BIMTECH, MBAUniverse.com and Cambridge University Press, at the India International Center (IIC), New Delhi will alsosee other noted management educationists likeDr Raj Dhankar, Dean, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), New Delhi; Dr D K Bandopadhyay, Ex VC Indraprastha University; Dr H Chaturvedi, Director BIMTECH and Amit Agnihotri, Chairman, MBAUniverse.com discuss the theme.

Chairmen, Directors and Deans from more than 50 leading B-schools shall be attending this program.

Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for highlights from this meet.