IMD Lausanne ex President Peter Lorange, Dr J Sheth to address BIMTECH-MBAUniverse.com meet today

Prof Peter Lorange, the president of the Lorange Institute of Business and former President of President of IMD Lausanne, one of Europes leading business schools, will be joining well known management guru Dr Jagdish Sheth to address BIMTECH-MBAUniverse.com MBA Edu in 21st Century Meet on January 8 in New Delhi.

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 and Prof Peter Lorange, president of the Lorange Institute of Businesswill be debating this topic on January 8 at a forum organized byBIMTECH, MBAUniverse.com &Cambridge University Pressin New Delhi.
Prof Peter Lorange is the President of the Lorange Institute of Business and one of the worlds foremost business school academics. For 15 years, he was the President of IMD, Lausanne, one of Europes leading business schools. He will address the meet in capital from Switzerland via a video link.

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.

Prof Peter Lorange is the owner and the president of the Lorange Institute of Business and one of the worlds foremost business school academics. For 15 years, he was the President of IMD, Lausanne, one of Europes leading business schools. Mr. Lorange is Professor of Strategy at IMD and holds the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Chair of International Shipping. In addition to his academic background, Mr. Lorange has gained extensive shipping know-how as director on several shipping company boards. Moreover, he has written or edited twenty books and some 120 article. His area of special interest is global strategic management, strategic planning and entrepreneurship for growth.

The meet, organized byBIMTECH, 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 more updates from this meet.