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PGXPM CURRICULUM


PGXPM HIGHLIGHTS

The Program Highlights

  • Two years part time (9 days residency once in a quarter). Stringent selection process including entrance test and panel interview.
  • Rigorous 1536 hours learning time over 8 terms. 32 courses excluding Chinese mandarin throughout 2 years.
  • Top faculty from leading US, Asian and Indian B-Schools.
  • Rich peer environment for cross-learning and networking as course participants are fast-track senior managers from top companies.
  • Course content is tailored to suit the global business environment
  • Potential participant segments – Entrepreneurs, next generation of FMB’s, Company funded fast-track managers, self funded middle and middle-senior managers on track towards General Manager position.
  • Blackboard – the state of the art Learning management system
  • Unique program design focused on building capability, learn, apply, appraise, reflect, be coached, redo, report, mentored. Program integrated with the organization's talent management process.
  • Individual country-based / vertical-based intensive year-long project in 2nd year under a faculty guide.
  • Leadership lectures series aligned to the course plan.
  • Quasi-consulting: Participants are given real business issues to analyze and solve.
  • Optional overseas visit in last semester.
  • Environment friendly world-class Green Campus nestled in sylvan surroundings – one of the First buildings in India and very few in the world to be LEED Platinum rated.

The Base

The Great Lakes own world class campus is built on about 18 acres of land near the historic town of Mahabalipuram. It is about an hours drive from Chennai situated among open fields on the East Coast Road at 9th milestone after Mahabalipuram towards Pondicherry., Nestled in sylvian and serene surroundings that would facilitate Learning, the state of the art campus is an environment friendly green building with different blocks dedicated to research, faculty offices and housing, administrative, student residences, recreation centres etc. The green campus is a part of our social responsibility that will inculcate the spirit of social consciousness and patriotism in all. Facilities include an open air theatre, hostels for students, resource centre and cafeteria to name a few. It is designed to be LEED Platinum rated green campus and would be one of the first in India and very few in the world.

State-of-the-Art-Class-rooms

The heart of the campus is the Academic Wing which houses a versatile resource center, a computer lab, classrooms, faculty offices, administrative offices, air-conditioned lecture theatres, meeting rooms, and an auditorium with a seating capacity of 500 that is coming up shortly. It has a trading terminal directly connected to the NSE trading terminal to facilitate Online stock trading. From the conference halls, participants’ can interact by computer or video-link with faculty, industrial leaders and other students anywhere in the world. Specially designed conference halls and class rooms facilitate group study and dynamic peer interaction. The Amphitheatre in the middle of the Institute would be the social hub of the campus, providing space for discussions and leisure.

Inspiring Guest Lectures

Guest Lectures are an integral part of our offering. Participants get a chance to interact closely with visionaries, achievers and outstanding personalities on a wide variety of contemporary topics. Guest Lectures are generally planned as complimentary to a course that is being offered during that term. Normally a GL is of about 90 minutes duration with the first 45 minutes taken up by the speaker during which he/she introduces to the audience the latest concepts / practices in vogue on the subject and thereafter the guest speaker prompts to the class and a lively discussion ensues that serves to reflect as well as to draw inferences.

Recent speakers include Mr. Ratan Tata, Prof. Philip Kotler, Prof. C.K. Prahlad, Prof. Ashwath Damodaran, Dr. Y. V. Reddy, Prof. Jagdish Sheth, Mr. Vivek Paul, Dr. Gold Ratt, Mr. Narayana Murthy and Dr. Marti Subrahmaniam, Dr. Subramaniam Swamy, Dr. Anji Reddy of Reddy's Labs and Prof. Mangalam Srinivasan (advisor to former Indian PM Mrs. Indira Gandhi).

Location

Post Graduate Global Executive Program in Management contact classes will be held at the Great Lakes campus, Manamai. A modern day gurukulam, the picturesque seaside resort will provide a world-class learning environment for the participants.

Computer Centre

The Institution has a well-equipped computing facility and offers Intranet, Internet and e-mail services to its community members. The entire campus is Wi-Fi enabled and there is 24 hour uninterrupted net access including the hostels. The e-mail system, which is the most widely used service on the campus premises, offers a very user-friendly and comprehensive set of communication facilities. The e-mail system allows users to access mails, both from inside the campus and outside. A computer lab with several desktop systems is also available for students to access. The centre has several software packages like SPSS, SAS and more, to help students to be Business Ready Managers. Every student is given a permanent life long e-mail (Web Mail) account for all correspondence with the faculty, administration, peers and alumni. The Great Lakes website also provides for in-depth information on the School and its activities. Great Lakes implements a very strict security policy to ensure the highest levels of network health and safety.

Blackboard – State of the art Learning Management System (E-Learning)

Salient features of Blackboard

  • Creating and Uploading Course content
  • Communications
  • Assessments & Grade Book
  • Student Management
  • Workshops
  • Discussion Board
  • Forum – Forum & Thread grading
  • Forum moderation & User Management
  • Group discussions
  • Statistics
  • Cross browser options Recreational Activities

Recreational facilities

In addition to the Fitness centre that houses treadmills, steppers, stationery cycles, multi-station gym, the PGXPM participants can enjoy inbound and outbound group events such as Carrom, Chess, Cricket, Volleyball, cycling etc. Participants are encouraged to avail the facilities at the Great Lakes campus at Manamai.

THE ELEMENTS


Organizational Behavior

Provides the knowledge and insights to better diagnose and implement organizational change. Helps managers to describe situations completely, diagnose the organizational behavior, prescribe the best practices or most appropriate behavior for given organizational situations, and then act effectively in those situations. The topics include individuals in organizations, groups and teams in organizations, building an organizational culture, structuring high-performance organizations, influences on organizational structure and managing change in organizations.

Marketing Management

Addresses the importance of companies being market-driven and customerfocused and presents current theories and practices of marketing management. Topics include strategies for pioneering brands, later entrants and strategies for growth in declining markets and hyper competition. Develops an understanding of skills needed in formulating and planning marketing strategies and acquisitions.

Business Economics

Explores the nature and determinants of decisions about profit maximizing, production and pricing. It creates a vivid, dynamic business setting that highlights micro-economic theory and the tools of quantitative analysis used in management decision-making. The course reinforces the connection between economics and real business situations, government and industry, challenges and opportunities for today's managers and economic decisionmaking in the 21st century. Topics include forecasting, the theory and estimation of production and cost, pricing and output decisions, special pricing practices, capital budgeting and risk uncertainty.

Basic Financial Accounting

For this basic course on Financial Accounting participants are not expected to have any prior knowledge of accounting or finance. The topics which are covered in this course are personal and corporate balance sheet, personal and corporate profit and loss statement, basic accounting equation, transaction accounting, monopoly game and preliminary financial statement analysis.

Quantitative Methods

Provides a comprehensive treatment of basic statistical concepts and methods for managers. Topics covered include time series, categorical data, random variables and their distributions, variability and regression models. The emphasis is on understanding the concepts and their applications.
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