As reported last week, MIT’s Sloan School of Management will partner with the Indian School of Business (ISB) as it expands to a second campus in Mohali. In a subsequent article, the Economic Times reports that exchanges by professors and graduate students will also take place between Sloan and ISB’s Hyderabad campus, beginning in about 18 months.
ISB will send up to two professors a year to teach at MIT Sloan, and Sloan in return will send two to four professors to teach at ISB in Hyderabad, the ET reports. In addition to teaching classes, professors from each institution will have the opportunity to conduct research and get to know the faculty at the partner school.
“We have a strong desire to further MIT’s mission, which is to build management education capacity and also be a catalyst for research around the globe,” Sloan Deputy Dean S.P. Kothari told the ET. “India was a gaping hole that existed in our strategy,” he added.
Two to four teams of up to six Sloan students each – mostly graduate students – also will go to India to work with ISB students, Kothari added.
Sloan professors also will help establish new institutes of manufacturing and infrastructure management as part of the second campus ISB plans to build in Mohali. The MIT faculty will manage the institutes – two of four ISB will establish in Mohali – and help recruit faculty from around the world to teach in them, Kothari told the ET. MIT and ISB also will organize a joint annual conference focused on either manufacturing or infrastructure management, Kothari added.
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