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India's top management gurus

Last updated on: March 9, 2010 18:16 IST

Bala Balachandran

Bala Balachandran is one of the top management gurus of Indian origin in the United States. Two decades ago, Balachandran
was the only Indian professor at the prestigious Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Chicago, where he has specialized in accounting information systems and decision sciences. He has been with Kellogg School for the past 34 years. He has played a key role in building the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He has also set up his own B-school, the Great Lakes Institute of Management, in Chennai. Earlier he worked as a advisor in the planning commission. He is on the board of directors of the Credit Rating Information Services of India (CRISIL). He is working on projects to integrate information technology in states like Gujarat, Maharashta, Punjab and Rajasthan. He is also a consultant to the governments of Israel, Malaysia and Peru. Image: Bala Balachandran.