XLRI School of Business & Human Resources is in the process of inducting a couple of heads of the institutions it has tied up with, in its board of governors, to enrich it with a global perspective.
The leading B-school is to initially fill two of its vacant board seats by taking on Manila-based Asian School of Management (ASM) president Francis Estrada and Chicago-based Loyola University?s School of Business Administration dean & professor of finance, Abol Jalilvand.
Manila-based Asian School of Management (ASM) president Francis Estrada and Chicago-based Loyola University?s School of Business Administration dean & professor of finance, Abol Jalilvand, are to be inducted on XLRI?s 21-member board of governors at a meeting to be held in November. But the B-school is not going to increase the number of board members to accommodate heads of some European/US B-Schools. XLRI director Father E Abraham, speaking to FE, ruled out any such expansion plans, saying ?there is no need to take everyone on board?. According to him, accommodating heads of a couple of European B-Schools could be thought of by way of rotation, once the terms of both Estrada and Jalilvand expire.
XLRI is in the course of tying up with five globally ranked US B-schools. The director of the institution has had fruitful tieup talks with institutions like the Weatherhead School of Management, Darden School of Business Administration, the Fordham University Graduate School of Business, the Bauer College of Business and the Freeman School of Business. The tieups with most of these institutions are expected to go much beyond the normal student and faculty exchange programmes, extending to the areas of joint research and joint management development programmes (MDPs).