Brochure - 1 - Great Lakes

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR-PGDM
Dear Sir/Madam
It gives me immense pleasure to welcome you to the summer internship program
for Two Year Post Graduate Diploma Program in Management (PGDM) of Great
Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, India. As Program Director, here is an
opportunity for me to communicate with you about the uniqueness of this
program and students thereof. This program has been a unique challenge for me
as an academician and Program Director in many ways. I worked along with Prof.
Srikant Dattar of Harvard Business School in designing this program based on
his path breaking research in seminal book covering the paradigm of the New
MBA.
While many MBA programs drive the orientation towards enhancing functional
capabilities, this program is conceptualized and executed at three levels viz.
functional, experiential and augmented learning levels. The core functional
levels offer the traditional MBA courses in various areas such as Marketing,
Finance, Operations, Human Resource Management and Information Science.
To enrich the student learning process, there is an additional layer added to the
core in the form of courses on foreign language and soft skills, which is important
for the holistic growth of a budding manager. The final level, called the
augmented level, brings in key learning from emerging economies like China,
Brazil, Russia and many more countries. Students are able to not only appreciate
unique opportunities that exist in these economies but also have in depth
understanding of how to do business in these countries.
The experiential learning is augmented with language courses in Mandarin (in
the first year) and Spanish (in the second year). We also spend considerable time
in improving student's interpersonal communication and group behavior skills by
integrating the same with learning in business etiquette. Our student managers
are groomed to become socially responsive through our unique experiential
leadership learning program called 'Karma Yoga”. While working on the design
of this program, I had the chance to interact with many senior managers from
corporate world and one of the key inputs that I got is the gap between theory in
the classroom and practice in the real world. We have a CXO mentoring program
along with industrial visits and guest lecture programs that helps in bridging the
gap between what is being 'taught' and practiced.
Our students are admitted through GMAT/CAT and other international level
tests, through which we ensure that we have quality students joining the
program. We have sharpened their conceptual, analytical and reasoning skills.
Now it is turn for corporates to give them an internship opportunity over 8 weeks
and build them as future leaders.
I welcome you to our internship program and will be happy to answer any
questions that you may have related to the program. Please free to connect with
me at tapan@greatlakes.edu.in for any further clarifications.
“We cannot become what we need to be
by remaining WHAT we are!”