The promoting body, Park ED Trust, is a charitable trust registered under Societies Registration Act. The Managing Trustee, Dr. P.V. Ravi has nearly four decades of experience in establishing and efficiently administering educational institutions ranging from Primary and Secondary schools to Engineering, Arts, teacher training, nursing, physiotherapy and polytechnics. PARK is a name associated with quality education for four decades now in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. PARK intends to be Globally known for quality education with this new venture. Management education in India has been wide spread throughout the country. All types of institutions like engineering colleges, arts and science colleges, standalone institutions with university affiliation, standalone institutions without university affiliation, and institutions shunning approvals from appropriate bodies are engaged in management education. However majority of institutions offering management education are affiliated to universities and confer MBA degrees after imparting the curriculum fixed by the concerned universities. The university curricula normally do not reflect the contemporary business as universities take longer period to change their curricula. This kind of "fixed curricula" is not suitable to the requirements of the contemporary business where major changes happen very often. Business also has become global with every shackle being removed by the government facilitating globalisation. Institutions which have all approvals from appropriate bodies which have academic autonomy, and capability to design global and dynamic curriculum are the need of the hour. The Park Global has been established to cater to this need. Park Global has tied up University of Missouri, St.Louis for faculty and student exchange program and the Board of Studies constitutes eminent faculties from premier institutions in India and the US. Park Global is in process of approval by the All India Council of Technical Education(AICTE) . Park Global also intends to be approved by international accrediting bodies like AACSB in the future. Message from the Chairman: It is an exciting time to be in the business world in India as the country goes through the twin revolutions of information revolution and industrial revolution in the 21st century. Concomitant with the overall economic growth, the demand for professionally trained graduate managers and business leaders is set to increase exponentially. I am glad to share the good news that Park Global is offering a high quality, to be approved by AICTE graduate business program with five specializations taught by some of the most distinguished Indian faculty as well as foreign faculty especially from the United States. Even as there is a proliferation of institutions offering graduate business degrees, Park Global's focus will be on quality. Park Global is to set new quality benchmarks on both the intellectual as well as the physical infrastructure. Two distinguished professors from the United States, namely, Dr. Allan Bird and Dr. Mahesh N. Shankarmahesh have agreed to serve as the Honorary Dean and Honorary Director of Park Global respectively. Dr. Ganesan, who brings with him a vast array of academic and industrial exposure and expertise, will be the resident Dean and Director in India. About a third of the coursework at Park Global's two year program will be taught by distinguished international faculty drawn from multiple business schools in the United States. Park Global is also set to work student and faculty exchange agreements with the University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA. Park Global will have state of the art facilities including a full-fledged campus, a city center, a dedicated placement cell and allied labs and libraries. Apart from offering cutting edge curricula and technologies, Park Global will concentrate on enhancing the soft skills of managers. As trade and investment flows increase thereby integrating India's economy with the global economy, India is no longer an inward looking economy and society. Park Global will train its graduates in the soft skills of cross-cultural management, international negotiations and management of a global work force. Park Global's offerings are going to be an eclectic collection of best business practices from around the world. As Park Global embarks on a fusion of the soul of the East and the spirit of the West, I ask you to join the enthusiasm at Park Global. Yours Sincerely, Dr. P.V.Ravi CEO: Anusha.R.Mahesh Anusha R. Mahesh holds MS degree from Old Dominion University, USA and is currently pursuing her doctoral research study on Data Mining and Business Intelligence. She has nearly 7 years of work experience in the US software industry. One of her prestigious assignments was with Onair, Seattle - a subsidiary of Airbus as Senior Systems Engineer. She has traveled widely around the world interacting first hand with Onair clients. She is a recipient of many awards for her professional excellence. She also worked as Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager at Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis for automating a human resource project, and has managed software development projects outsourced to India. Honorary Director: Dr. Mahesh Shankarmahesh Honorary Director & Chairman of Board of StudiesMahesh N. Shankarmahesh, Ph.D. (Old Dominion) is Associate Professor of Marketing and Fellow of the International Business Institute at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA. He is the 2004-05 recipient of the Anheuser-Busch Award in Teaching Excellence in the College of Business at UMSL. His major areas of interest include international buyer-seller negotiations, international strategic alliances, cross cultural ethics, barriers to trade and marketing/finance interface issues. Papers authored or co-authored by him have received 'best paper' awards in the AMS(Academy of Marketing Science) and the AMA (American Marketing Association) national conferences in the United States. Honorary Dean: Allan Bird, Ph.D. (Oregon) Allan Bird, Ph.D. (Oregon) is the Eiichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professor of Japanese Studies and Professor of Management at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA. Dr. Bird's research activities have focused on issues relevant to managing in a global environment. He has worked on issues related to expatriates and the management of international assignments. He has an established record of research on Japanese business and management, focusing on the careers and behaviors of Japanese executives. He is currently the Director of the International Business Instituteand Chair of the Steering Committee of the Consortium for Undergraduate International Business Education - CUIBE.