IEMR is now Great Lakes Institute of Energy Management and Research

The Institute of Energy Management and Research (IEMR), Gurgaon is entering into a strategic partnership with Great Lakes Institute of Management, one of India’s most reputed business schools. As part of this partnership, IEMR would henceforth be Great Lakes Institute of Energy Management and Research (GLIEMR).

Overview of Great Lakes Institute of Management
Great Lakes is a premier management school founded by Padma Shri Dr. Bala V. Balachandran, J. L. Kellogg Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Accounting, Information Systems and Decision Sciences at Kellogg School of Management and executive professor and strategy advisor to the Dean, C. T. Bauer College of Business, Houston, USA. Dr. Bala is one of the most reputed and recognized among the academics of Indian origin anywhere in the world. He was recently ranked 4th in the Economic Times “Top Ten Global Indian Thought Leaders” list. He was one of the main contributors to the setting up of the PGDM program at MDI, Gurgaon and the Indian School of Business (ISB), where Kellogg School of Management was one of the founding partners. He founded Great Lakes in Chennai in the year 2004. In a short period of time, Great Lakes has become one of the most reputed private business schools in India and has been ranked in the top 20 by Business World and Career 360 magazines.

Global Alliances
Great Lakes has an MoU with Yale University School of Management under which the Yale – Great Lakes Research Centre has been established at its Chennai campus with the objective of pursuing advanced research in management. Great Lakes also has an academic alliance with the well-known Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology for exchange of faculty and students and Stuart School also awards a certificate to Great Lakes students.

Great Lakes also has an MoU with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and with other international educational institutions like Universiti Tun Abdul Razak, Malaysia and C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston for promoting advanced research in management and for promoting faculty and student exchange programs.

Advised by the finest minds in Industry and Academia
The 40 plus member Business Advisory Council of Great Lakes is comprised of eminent business personalities such as Mr. Ratan N. Tata, Mr. Jamshyd N. Godrej, Mr. Madhur Bajaj, Mr. Kumarmangalam Birla, Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy, Mr. A. M. Naik, Ms. Indira Nooyi, Mr. S. Ramadorai and others. Further Great Lakes has leading management gurus such as Dr. Philip Kotler, Dr. Seenu V. Srinivasan, Dr. Jitendra V. Singh, Dr. Ashwath Damodaran and Dr. Raghuram Rajan in its academic advisory council. More details on the Advisory Councils are available at  http://greatlakes.edu.in/about-us/advisors/business-advisors.html.

Global Recognition
With exceptional academic faculty, outstanding business and the academic advisory councils and the aforesaid international collaborations, Great Lakes has, within a short span of six years, established its goodwill and reputation among the top global industry players and student community. The best management gurus from around the world teach at Great Lakes making the education provided world class.

Great Lakes is one of the few Indian schools to become a member of AACSB and has also been invited to be one of the members of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the apex body that conducts GMAT across the world. The only other Indian Institutes that have been chosen are ISB, IIMA, IIMB, and S.P. Jain.

Benefits from the Partnership
IEMR offers India’s most comprehensive Energy management program covering Power, Oil&&Gas, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development. Great Lakes has also entered the Energy Management education arena with a tie-up with the Bauer School of Business at the University of Houston to offer it’s globally top-ranked Executive Energy Management program in India called GEMBA. Houston, being the Energy capital of the world, the Bauer Energy Management program is the highest ranked program in the USA and is attended by executives from all the leading Energy companies in the world.

As part of this strategic collaboration, the tie-up with the Bauer School would be extended to IEMR programs, which would be a major value addition to the IEMR community. IEMR and Great Lakes would work to extend the scope of this tie-up to other Energy programs also. The Bauer GEMBA program would be conducted in Gurgaon in addition to Chennai and would result in faculty from Bauer School visiting and teaching at GLIEMR. Further, students would also benefit from the stellar visiting faculty from the best global and Indian business schools that teach at Great Lakes, who would also teach at the Gurgaon campus going forward. Further, the alumni network of Great Lakes that has been developing over the past 7 years would be a valuable avenue for greater industry interaction.