PGDM Program Highlights
About Program
The PGDM focuses on developing management skills and business acumen though an extensive case-study based pedagogy simulating real-life decision-making. Apart from developing a strong appreciation of functional areas like Finance, Marketing, Operations, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior and Strategy, the program also focuses on developing soft skills, emotional intelligence and leadership potential. The students can opt for functional specializations in Finance, Marketing, Operations and Analytics. Students can opt for a Major and a Minor in two functions, or a Double-Major in them, or even a General Management specialization with a mix of subjects from each function.
Program Highlights:
- Two year Fully Residential program
- Emerging economy centric curriculum
- Delivered by the best faculty and industry leaders from across the globe
- Optional semester abroad program [SAP]
- Short term international immersions
- Entrepreneurial Incubation
- Chinese (Mandarin) Language taught as a mandatory course
- Karma Yoga - A Leadership Experiential Program
- Empirical study under Great Lakes Research Centre
- Rigorous 12 week summer internship
- AICTE approved
Learning Experience
Value-adds Inside Classrooms
- Emerging economy centric curriculum
- Foreign language learning [Mandarin & Spanish]
- Horizontal function + Vertical domain focus
- Study of PEST environment of specific emerging economy clusters
- Experiential learning through simulations
- Technology driven virtual classrooms with global connectivity
- Emotional and ethical quotient building
- Exposure to latest curriculum with faculty from across the globe
Value-adds Outside Classrooms
- Entrepreneurial incubation
- Technopreneurship with focus on emerging markets
- Emerging economy centric empirical study
- Internship with Indian companies having operations abroad
- Karma Yoga - A Leadership Experiential Program
International Tie-ups
- Tie ups with Schools in Emerging Economies, Europe & USA
- Faculty & student exchange programs across the globe
- MOUs for consulting, knowledge exchange with leading global schools
- Short term international immersions
- SAP [Semester Abroad Program]
- Term structure in sync with international schools
- Sharing of online resources with global schools
- Free boarding / lodging on reciprocal basis for students during exchange
- Joint global summers [8-12 weeks]
Summer Internship
The summer internship of Great Lakes is structured more in tune with the traditional summer internships offered across B-schools. It involves rigorous hands on, on-site industry exposure spread over a duration of 8- 10 weeks. If empirical study takes on a theoretical flavor in terms of problem analysis, the summer internship takes on a hands-on applications flavor.
Some of the salient features of the summer internship are:
- Runs through the months of April-May-June at the end of the first year.
- Students will be required to put in not less than 120 hours of input.
- This study is done either individually or by groups of two or three students jointly.
- The internship would be mentored by a Great Lakes faculty as well as by an industry mentor.
The benefits that are common to both summer internship and empirical study are:
- Global academic exposure
- Working with globally connected student teams
- On-field, real time experience
- Building live business solving capabilities
