Toulouse – Bangalore: a stronger partnership in aerospace management
TBS Education is strengthening its long-standing partnership with the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore—one of Asia’s leading management schools. The aim is to deploy a Global Executive MBA delivering excellence in two areas: management and aerospace. Focus on a win-win program.
“It gives me great pleasure and satisfaction to have played a role in creating a pool of talented managers in India and in several Middle Eastern countries, building on our strong collaboration with TBS Education and the support of Airbus over the past ten years,” says Professor S. Raghunath, Dean of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB). “We were impressed by the quality of the candidates taking part in this program. All of them are highly experienced managers from companies including GE Aviation, Safran, Honeywell, and Collins Aerospace. They have proved to be excellent students. With the launch of the new GEMBA program this year, we will be able to tailor content even more closely to the needs of a fast-changing industry,” adds Professor Raghunath, who is an expert in strategy.
Creating a community
With the difficulties of the COVID pandemic behind us, we can now consolidate our efforts in this area. The objective is to enable students and participants from both campuses to forge even closer ties. The program has been revised to create a shared grid of 500 hours over two years. At the same time, the duration of the joint sessions—first in France and then in India—has been increased from one week to 35 days. “This GEMBA is unique,” explains Laurent Besson, Academic Director of the TBS Education program. “Both Toulouse and Bangalore offer a wealth of strategic collaborations through their aerospace ecosystems. This is a unique opportunity for our students, who become part of a strong professional network after graduation.”
Adapting to a rapidly-changing industrial context
Professor of strategic and digital marketing, G. Shainesh draws attention to the changes taking place in this sector. “Over the past ten years, we have seen a complete transformation of the aerospace landscape in terms of services and technologies, from tourism platforms to the use of drones, for example,” he explains. Professor S. Raghunath takes a similar view: “We share an intercultural commitment with TBS Education to adopt a long term approach, taking into account the diversity of stakeholders and their needs, and pursuing compatibility with sustainable development, a key concern for us all.”
TBS Education believes strongly in the future of this sector and is seeking to set up similar partnerships elsewhere. It has already made contact with schools on other continents; the dialog is already well under way in Australia and North America. This strategy underlines the benefits of collaboration in forming a global network. Watch this space!