Program Info PGWPM

PGWPM is aimed at ambitious, goal-oriented, career -focused working professionals with typically 2 to 10 years’ of work experience, on the lookout for the wherewithal.

The Curriculum Highlights are:

  • Two years (52 alternate weekends), 8-term academic program with rigorous 720 hours of class room learning

  • Comprises of 36 class room delivered courses & one year-long dissertation work for a 120 credit program

  • Stringent selection process including entrance test and panel interview

  • Top faculty, taken from the faculty pool of Chennai & New Delhi, will be handling the course work over and above visiting faculty from industry and academia

  • Good cross-industry peer environment inside the classroom for synergistic learning

  • Course content matches that of the core PGPM program offering of Great Lakes. Only the delivery is staggered over 2 years

  • Unique, fully mentored 12 credit dissertation work which runs through the entire second year. Each student will have to identify a core problem in his or her functional area

  • Functional specialization option will be given spread across three areas - Finance, Marketing and Operations

A typical PGWPM student could be:

  • Self Sponsored or Company Sponsored candidates from Private/Public Sector/Government Department

  • Candidates with few years work experience in a top-notch IT company with understanding limited to projects involved, and wanting to know how the application integrates and gets delivered as a functional solution to meet client’s business needs

  • A second generation entrepreneur who’s not satisfied with the scale and scope of his inheritance. Though he would like a sound academic grounding, his day-to-day operational pressures does not permit him for a full-time program

  • A start up owner wanting to scale up and explore all the options, do a live project after he has got a good grounding in concepts in the first year and then hit the road

  • In the ITES / BPO industry for a few years and yet the resume lacks the punch to take him to the next trajectory

  • Playing a support role in functions like PR, Admissions, Payrolls, Merchandising etc. in the service sectors, and is in need of something more in the resume for moving up in his function

  • In the banking industry for a few years and realize that MBAs are being hired for higher positions

  • In the manufacturing industry with relevant experience, wanting to get the knowledge that would help him assess issues that impact the future of his industry and his career

  • A budding marketer who is aiming for the coveted FMCG sector

  • A professional (doctor, lawyer, model, actor, architect, teacher, cost accountants) for whom a management education is the next requirement for a scale up.

    • ***Note: The list is purely indicative.

PGWPM - Course Architecture

Term 01 - Spring Quarter 1
Months : JFM 2012
No. of Contact hours = 100

1 Financial Accounting
2 Statistical Methods
3 Micro Economics
4 Marketing Management 1
5 Business Communication

Term 03 - Autumn Quarter 1
Months : JAS 2011
No. of Contact hours = 100

10 Marketing Management 2
11 Financial Management 2
12 Operations Management 2
13 HRM
14 IT for Managers

Term 05 - Spring Quarter 2
Months : JFM 2013
No. of Contact hours = 100
Project work begins

19 Sales & Distn Management
20 Supply Chain Management
21 Futures & Options
22 Brand Management
23 Elective*

Term 07 - Autumn Quarter 2
Months : JAS 2013
No. of Contact hours = 100

28 Strategic Marketing
29 Investment Management
30 Corporate Governance, Ethics and Human Rights
31 Project Management
32 Elective*
Term 02 - Summer Quarter 1
Months : AMJ 2012
No. of Contact hours = 80

6 Managerial Accounting
7 Financial Management 1
8 Operations Management 1
9 Macro Economics
Term 04 - Winter Quarter 1
Months : OND 2011
No. of Contact hours = 80

15 Strategic Management
16 Organizational Behaviour
17 Market Research
18 Investment Analysis
Term 06 - Winter Quarter 2
Months : AMJ 2013
No. of Contact hours = 80


24 Consumer Behaviour & CRM
25 Working Capital Management
26 Contracting and Business Law
27 Elective*

Term 08 - Winter Quarter 2
Months : OND 2013
No. of Contact hours = 80
Project work submission

33 Leadership and Organizational Development
34 Entrepreneurship and Innovation
35 Strategic Outsourcing
36 Elective*
 
Suggested List of Electives: (indicative and not complete list)
 
Capital Markets Pricing Strategies Lean Manufacturing
M&A and Valuation Technology Marketing Demand Planning & Supply Chain Forecasting
Management of Banking Business to Business Marketing Root Cause Analysis
Risk Management Retail Management Supply Chain Modelling
 
* There will be one elective each in Operations/Finance/Marketing for all the terms in the second year. The elective will be chosen from an available pool of possible electives in that stream by the students themselves