Great Lakes Celebrates L' Attitude 13°5' with Top B-schools & Corporate

Great Lakes Celebrates L' Attitude 13°5' with Top B-schools & Corporate
Post-event Press-release

Mr. Anderson stressed that there was a need to start early in the education process, in primary schools, to encourage students to take more responsibility. He added that introducing a global perspective in education through associations between universities from different countries was also needed.

Earlier Dr. Bala said that the idea behind such a festival is to provide a common platform for eminent scholars from various walks of life to interact and exchange ideas and for the students to keep themselves abreast with the experts' views on current trends. He also acknowledged the contributions of Mr. Darsh Wasan, VP, IIT Chicago, Illinois, who inaugurated Great Lakes' EMBA Program, Dr. Paul Prabhaker from Stuart Business School, IIT Chicago, who has been constant source of strong support, the college administration team and several others towards the creation and building of Great Lakes Institute of Management.

15th December 2007

This was the day when L' Attitude 13°5' was graced by none other then Mr. Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies. Mr. Murthy, also inaugurated a new Centre for Excellence for Infrastructure created by MARG Construction Limited at Great Lakes. The centre is the product of a partnership between MARG Constructions Limited, which has committed Rs. 3 Crores to the centre, and Great Lakes Institute of Management, where it will be located. It will conduct in-depth studies into infrastructure in India and abroad and use them to develop business models for growth and development. While addressing students, Mr. Murthy said that though there were signs of tremendous positivity, "For us to make it an inclusive growth story, to bring the benefits of globalisation to the worst off sections, we have to get into low-tech manufacturing and services to create job opportunities for the illiterate and semi-literate. In order to make sure that they can enjoy the fruits of liberalisation and globalisation, we have to focus on infrastructure."

The need of the day and the first stage to a better infrastructure, he said, was to bring about a change in the mindset. "Unless we are open-minded and learn from other countries and cultures which have performed better than us, unless we are willing to engage in discussions with those who have created infrastructure better than we have done, unless we are willing to admit our mistakes and open our minds to learn, I am not very sure that we will make the kind of progress that we want."

Along with customer care and an invigorating workplace, it was openness to ideas, benchmarking with the global best and adapting best practices from across the world that made the IT industry what it was today, he said. His speech ended with a thunderous applause and a standing ovation by all Great Lakers and everyone present.

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Contributed by -
Nihit Nirmal,
Class of 2008,
Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai.

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