Kazmi, Azhar creator text xu| 2000 continuing ng p.42-52 The ultimate responsibility for management development rests with the top management. It is also their duty to formulate and implement corporate strategies. How are these tasks interlinked? This article, based on an argumentative approach, seeks to deliberate upon the linkages that exist between management development and corporate strategy formulation, and implementation. In the later part, three case studies of Indian companies are presented and lessons drawn from them to highlight the efforts being made to create the right fit between management development and strategy. - Reproduced Management Indian Journal of Training and Development 180718