Rated as India’s best and Asia’s foremost Business School, IIMA continues to be ranked as one of the finest institutions in the world; having an academic rigour that matches the top league. With a distinguished faculty, an exceptional student-faculty ratio, and a 100-acre world class campus conducive to continuous learning, IIMA is an Institute that sets international standards in the field of management education.
The Institute is the pioneer of the case study method to management education in India, the result of its early collaboration with Harvard. A student-centered methodology entails working in group and encourages intense participation, as students learn to present their perspectives, defend their stand and think through management problems.
IIMA’s mission is to help India and other developing countries improve their managerial practices both in the private and in the public sector, and adopt superior public policies. It seeks to do this through producing risk-taking leader-mangers who will pioneer new managerial practices and set new standards; through producing teachers and researchers who will generate new idea of international significance; and through purposeful consulting aimed at helping client organizations scale new heights.
The Institute conducts the following major Programmes:
• Two-year Post-Graduate Programme in Management (equivalent to MBA)
• Two-year Post-Graduate Programme in Agri-business Management (equivalent to MBA)
• Fellow Programme in Management (equivalent to Ph.D.)
• One-year Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX, equivalent to MBA)
• Faculty Development Programme for Teachers in Universities and Colleges
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Management Development Programmes:
Transforming to Lead
It was a deliberate decision to begin the academic activities at IIMA with a Management Development Programme (MDP). The first set of executive courses designed, developed and offered by IIMA has now become popular as the 3-Tier Programmes (3-TP). Since then, IIMA has been constantly adding to the list of MDPs. For the academic year June 2008- May 2009, more than 40 MDPs have been planned. This list includes the flagship MDPs like the 3-TP and the MDP for small and medium enterprises (SMEP). These MDPs know as General Management Programmes (GMPs) are designed with the objective of providing insights into managerial concepts and techniques relevant for formulating and implementing strategies in functional areas, and an overall perspective for decision making by integrating functional and general management approaches.
Beside GMPs, the Institute’s MDPs offered as open enrollment programmes are designed to address specialized needs in areas such as business policy, communications, economics, finance, marketing, organizational behaviour, personnel and industrial relations, production and quantitative methods, information systems, agriculture, public systems, heath and education. These MDPs enable participants gain insights into managerial concepts and techniques for formulating and implementing strategies and enhance their overall perspective for effective managerial decision-making.
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In response to the growing challenges of globalized world, the institute collaborates with world renowned business schools like Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, ESSEC Business School, Paris-Singapore and Alliant University, USA to offer uniquely phased joint MDPs in India and abroad.
At IIMA, it is a tradition to constantly update the course content, revise the course design, and experiment with innovation pedagogy. More than 80 full-time faculty at IIMA continuously attempt to integrate research, teaching and applied work. Pedagogical tools create a participative learning environment. While the case method is the major tools, it is supplemented by group exercises, computer based simulation games, lecture-cum-discussions, role plays, project work and presentations by participants.
The response of the corporate, government and non-government sectors to MDPs has been very encouraging. Over the years, more than 42,500 managers has benefited from more than 1,200 MDPs conducted by IIMA.
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