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New partnership with Indian business school

13 August 2008

Amrik Sohal, Arijit Chakraborty, Jeeja Gjopalakrishnan and Julian Teicher.
Faculty of Business and Economics Associate Dean (India Development) Professor Amrik Sohal with Indian students Arijit Chakraborty and Jeeja Gjopalakrishnan, and Graduate School of Business Director Professor Julian Teicher.

Monash University's Graduate School of Business is giving emerging Indian business leaders the chance to gain valuable experience in Australia as part of a new partnership with one of India's most prestigious business schools, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C).

The Monash Graduate School of Business is offering students enrolled in IIM-C's Post Graduate Program for Executives the opportunity to do an internship of about five weeks based in Melbourne.

The students will receive education on global business from Monash academics and will complete an internship at a leading Australian company of their choice.

The students, supervised by an IIM-C professor, will work in groups of three to four on a project of strategic value to the company.

IIM-C is one of the top three business schools in India and offers places to only 300 post graduate executive candidates annually from a pool of about 240,000 applicants.

Associate Dean, India Development, Professor Amrik Sohal said the new partnership between Monash and IIM-C highlighted the strong international focus of Monash University's Faculty of Business and Economics.

"The aim of this partnership is to provide an umbrella for academic activities," Professor Sohal said. "Areas of joint activity may include research and training programs. We will also look at exchange of materials, articles and publications."