BWI: Great Lakes Institute of Management Launches PGWPM – a Post Graduate Working Professional Program in Management

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Source: Great Lakes Institute of Management
Friday, March 26, 2010 10:07 AM IST (04:37 AM GMT)
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Great Lakes Institute of Management Launches PGWPM - a Post Graduate Working Professional Program in Management


Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Friday, March 26, 2010 -- (Business Wire India) -- Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai, a leading management institute in the country founded by Prof. Bala V Balachandran, today announced the launch of PGWPM - a Post Graduate Working Professional Program in Management.

This new program offers the same academic rigor that is currently being offered to the institute's core one-year, full-time residential PGPM students. The difference is in the time frame of delivery. To facilitate learning while still at work, the newly launched program is spread over 52 alternate week ends, thus making PGWPM an eight term, 2 year academic program. Speaking on the media launch, Prof. S. Sriram, Executive Director, Great Lakes, said, "Time and again we are approached by people who want to pursue a rigorous management education with out being away from their Job. This is our response to such a need".

Though the program - given its week-end structure - is primarily intended for the working professional of Chennai, the institute foresees prospective aspirants from cities like Coimbatore and Bangalore which are at over-night travel distances. Spread over all major management disciplines, the program will deliver 36 class-room courses capped by an intensive 12-credit Master Thesis project. Renowned faculty from various leading B-Schools and from industry will be hand-holding the student through his course work and project.

With the school's Business Advisory Council headed by Shri Ratan Tata, the Board of Directors by Shri Jamshyd Godrej and the Academic Advisory Council by Prof. Bala himself, Great Lakes commits high quality, rigor and ethical standards in all its offerings. After its core program PGPM and its Global Executive program [aimed at professionals with 10 years or more work ex], this is the third offering from the Great Lakes stable.

This program is designed to develop resources with cross-functional skills, ready to respond to today's complex business requirements in a changing global environment. Explaining the need of the new program, Prof. Easwar Krishna Iyer, Director, PGWPM said, "The need of the day is for multi-skilled all-round resources. Our new program aims at grooming such 'T' shaped professionals - excellent in his core skill and good in a few more".

Executives aspiring to apply to the PGWPM need to possess a bachelor's degree and minimum of 2 years of full time work experience. Online application for admissions starts on the 1st week of April 2010. The programme commences from July 2010.

About Great Lakes Institute of Management:

Great Lakes Institute of Management is one of Chennai's finest management Institutes, founded by Prof. Bala V. Balachandran of Kellogg School of Management. He established the institute with a dream of setting up an international class Business School in Chennai. Great Lakes Institute of Management has been bringing the best brains in the world of management to India with an objective to provide world-class management education. Great Lakes have tie-ups with eminent universities of international repute. One such initiative is Yale-Great Lakes Center for Management Research, started in partnership with Yale University of USA. This center aims to promote, facilitate and advance India-centric management related research, which contributes, to the development of basic and applied knowledge in the field of management. The centre will be a bridge that links scholars around the globe with India as a common interest.


CONTACT DETAILS
Prof. Easwar Krishna Iyer, Director PGWPM & Associate Prof. Marketing, Great Lakes Institute of Management, +91 9500021965, easwar@greatlakes.edu.in
Nachu Nagappan, 20:20 MEDIA, +91 9940068348, nachu@2020india.com

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