Former Chairman of the Tata Group and Chairman, Tata Trusts, Ratan Tata, conferred a lifetime achievement award on Prof S. Sriram, Founding Executive Director (Emeritus) Great Lakes institute of Management and Founder Director, Cloudcherry, an online customer sentiment mapping tool.
The award recognises Prof Sriram’s contribution to management education over the last 25 years. The citation says: “He has been part of the founding team at Great Lakes Institute of Management and has played a major role in making the institute counted among the top 10 business schools in the country in a short span of just 10 years. He is a great organisational builder and an inspiring teacher. His ability and contribution to help build institutions is immense. Thousands of students have benefited from his stint both at Great Lakes and earlier at SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai.”
Prof Sriram is a weekly columnist for Business Line on Campus (BLoC) where he writes on business strategy in his Simply Strategy column.