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| KNOWN AS CANADA’S GLOBAL BUSINESS SCHOOLTM, THE SCHULICH SCHOOL of Business is the most internationally diverse business school in North America, according to the 2006 Financial Times of London MBA survey of the world’s Top 100 MBA programs.Schulich’s undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students come from 92 countries around the world, and 70 per cent of Schulich’s MBA full-time students hold a passport from a country other than Canada. The map on these pages shows the full extent of Schulich’s international linkages – more than 70 academic exchange partner schools, some 150 corporate placement and internship partners, 18,000 alumni living and working in more than 80 countries worldwide and 44 geographic alumni chapters in 27 countries.
Schulich’s global satellite centres
The Schulich School of Business is extending its global footprint by opening satellite facilities in some of the world’s fastest-growing markets. Over the past year and a half, Schulich has opened satellite centres in Beijing, China; Mumbai, India; and Seoul, South Korea. The School expects to open additional centres in other regions of the world within the next year. The satellite centres serve a number of functions in each country:
• Recruiting talented students to the School’s undergraduate (BBA) and graduate (MBA) programs.
• Assisting Schulich students and alumni with career planning and career opportunities.
• Providing executive and leadership development programming for executives.
• Supporting Schulich’s international alumni chapters.
by Micheal Rowe
GLOBAL BUSINESSES THAT SET UP operations in rapidly growing emerging markets such as China and India are creating new demand for locally based executives well versed in international management precepts. To respond to this need, leading European and North American business schools are creating teaching centres in these countries.
Grenoble École de Management in France is establishing a teaching centre in Bangalore, India, in co-operation with local partners. The Schulich School of Business in Toronto is opening an executive education and recruiting centre in Mumbai, India. In another example, the British-based Manchester Business School runs entres in Hong Kong and Singapore through MBA Worldwide, the school’s distancelearning arm.
Grenoble’s Bangalore centre is scheduled to start operating in October [2005]. Bangalore university and a local centre for executive education have formed a consortium company, Bangalore Alliance, that will be Grenoble’s partner in the venture. The consortium arrangement allows co-operation between the blicsector university and the private-sector executive centre.
“We believe that Bangalore is a good place to establish this new outlet,” says Thierry Grange, Dean of Grenoble École de Management, “since IT activities and e-business are well represented locally and big Western companies are outsourcing production, processing and research and development there.” The initiative also allows the school to play to its main strengths, since it is particularly well known for management education linked to technology and e-business.
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Dezsö J. Horváth, Dean of the Schulich School of Business at Toronto’s York University, points out that because of its rapidly developing economy, India has a huge need for both business graduates and executive education. “There are some very good management centres in India, but more are needed to cater to the massive demand,” he says.
Against this background, Schulich’s Mumbai Centre will provide executive and leadership development programming for Indian executives, recruit students for the School’s programs in Canada, help Schulich students and graduates find career opportunities in India and support the School’s Indian alumni chapters. The creation of the centre follows Schulich’s establishment of similar units in Beijing, China, and Moscow, Russia.
The HEC Paris business school runs several programs involving India without having a permanent establishment in the country. Says Jean-Paul Larçon, Associate Dean for International Development at HEC Paris, “We are currently running a senior managers’ program for the International Union of Railways in Vadora, India.”
Next year, an executive MBA program called the Global EMBA Trium, which involves HEC Paris and partner schools in London and New York, will include a session in Bangalore in co-operation with the Indian Institute of Management.
Farther east, the E. M. Lyon business school has been running a part-time MBA program in China since 1997, operated in partnership with the University of Lyon and Zhongshan University’s Lingnan College in the southern Chinese city of Guanzhou. Says Yves-Henri Robillard, chief representative of E. M. Lyon’s Shanghai office: “The program, which is taught in French, was originally designed to train young Chinese managers of French companies. It attracts around 50 students a year, and we now accept French students in the program as well.”
Says Horváth of the Schulich School: “In the case of China, the main demand is for graduates who will work in China with multinational companies. In India, on the other hand, we are finding that one major focus is on recruitment of executives by Indian and foreign multinationals who can work for the companies concerned in other countries, including China.” He adds that in many cases, it is preferable for the school to establish a partnership with a local institution rather than going it alone.
Reprinted from the International Herald Tribune, May 10, 2005. |
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