Great Lakes Institute of Management is a business school located in the South Indian city of Chennai. The institution, a brain-child of the US-based management guru Dr Bala V. Balachandran, aims to fill the vacuum for a top-flight business school in Tamil Nadu and put it on par with the three other southern states that boast of top-rung management institutions: Indian Institutes of Management in Bangalore and Kozhikode and Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. The institute was founded by Bala in 2004. Great Lakes has earned the accreditation of AICTE. Great Lakes Institute of Management has a memorandum of understanding with Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. The Yale-Great Lakes Research Center has been established with the objective of pursuing advanced research in management in partnership with Yale University of the USA. The institute has entered into an MoU with the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, Universiti Tun Abdul Razak, Malaysia, Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston, and IIT Madras for academic exchange programs. Wikipedia [ - ]

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