MDI Gurgaon signs MoU with Maruti Suzuki India Limited

The Management Institute and Auto Giant join hands for Open Innovation

Tuesday, 3 August 2010: Management Development Institute (MDI), in its endeavor to establish academia and industry collaborations has signed a major MoU with Maruti Suzuki India. This agreement has been done to engage in constructive partnerships at multiple levels including the area of research, training, academic programmes and conferences. The MOU was signed by Dr. B.S. Sahay, Director MDI and Mr. S Y Siddiqui, Managing Executive Officer-Administration, Maruti Suzuki India Limited. On this occasion, Prof. CP Shrimali, Dean Continuing Education MDI, Prof. Metri, Dean Graduate Programmes, Prof. Bhusnurmath, Dean Placements and Corporate Affairs, Prof. Jaiswal, Dean Research and other faculty members from MDI were present. From Maruti, Mr. A D Burman, GM- HR, Maruti Suzuki India Limited also joined the occasion.

The tie-up is an important step in the two way industry-academia partnership which MDI is deliberating upon. MDI, being the market leader in executive education in India would undertake competency development programmes for different levels of executives at Maruti. The agreement envisions utilizing the excellent intellectual resource and infrastructure of MDI to facilitate Maruti in its various areas of talent and organization development. Speaking on the occasion, Dr. B S Sahay said, "As a B-school, we need to create opportunities to bring together academia and industry. MDI and MSIL have been working together for a long time however this MoU would further strengthen and reinforce the relationship. In the past MDI, has designed customized short duration course offerings for the senior executives of Maruti Suzuki India. With this tie-up MDI is looking at a partnership beyond that as MDI and Maruti will now work together in doing joint research, organizing conferences and writing case studies. This would help in creating knowledge for the larger interest of society".