We Want To Form Leaders Who Can Excel With Ethics

Fr. Joe Arun SJ Director, Loyola Institute of Business Administration

As a leading MBA institute in India, how has the current pandemic changed your outlook on management studies?

The current pandemic has made clear the following:

• Adaptation is the key to growth.

• The pandemic is not a crisis but an opportunity to grow. It is not a disease but a cure.

• The lockdown has unlocked the hidden potentials of creative and innovative ways of facing unprecedented challenges.

• Learning and education do not lie outside but inside. Therefore, education is an inside business.

Why and how are management studies relevant in the post-pandemic world?

What stands out in the post-pandemic world is how one is competent enough to manage human resources, financial resources and finance during a period of crisis. It is also a lesson in how technology could be leveraged to mitigate challenges such as the present one. A Centre for Technology and Innovation (CTI) was conceived to bring about a digital transformation in LIBA and to leap-frog into the new normal environment of the post-pandemic era to become a beacon of knowledge in educational technology and offer assistance to other institutions. In its proactive efforts towards online teaching and learning, LIBA has opened a learning studio that functions as a technological centre in which the online content of learning would be created by faculty and industry experts.