Program Info PGWPM

PGWPM is aimed at ambitious, goal-oriented, career -focused working professionals with typically 2 to 10 years’ of work experience, on the lookout for the wherewithal.

The Curriculum Highlights are:

  • Two years (52 alternate weekends), 8-term academic program with rigorous 720 hours of class room learning

  • Comprises of 36 class room delivered courses & one year-long dissertation work for a 120 credit program

  • Stringent selection process including entrance test and panel interview

  • Top faculty, taken from the faculty pool of Chennai & New Delhi, will be handling the course work over and above visiting faculty from industry and academia

  • Good cross-industry peer environment inside the classroom for synergistic learning

  • Course content matches that of the core PGPM program offering of Great Lakes. Only the delivery is staggered over 2 years

  • Unique, fully mentored 12 credit dissertation work which runs through the entire second year. Each student will have to identify a core problem in his or her functional area

  • Functional specialization option will be given spread across three areas - Finance, Marketing and Operations

A typical PGWPM student could be:

  • Self Sponsored or Company Sponsored candidates from Private/Public Sector/Government Department

  • Candidates with few years work experience in a top-notch IT company with understanding limited to projects involved, and wanting to know how the application integrates and gets delivered as a functional solution to meet client’s business needs

  • A second generation entrepreneur who’s not satisfied with the scale and scope of his inheritance. Though he would like a sound academic grounding, his day-to-day operational pressures does not permit him for a full-time program

  • A start up owner wanting to scale up and explore all the options, do a live project after he has got a good grounding in concepts in the first year and then hit the road

  • In the ITES / BPO industry for a few years and yet the resume lacks the punch to take him to the next trajectory

  • Playing a support role in functions like PR, Admissions, Payrolls, Merchandising etc. in the service sectors, and is in need of something more in the resume for moving up in his function

  • In the banking industry for a few years and realize that MBAs are being hired for higher positions

  • In the manufacturing industry with relevant experience, wanting to get the knowledge that would help him assess issues that impact the future of his industry and his career

  • A budding marketer who is aiming for the coveted FMCG sector

  • A professional (doctor, lawyer, model, actor, architect, teacher, cost accountants) for whom a management education is the next requirement for a scale up.

    • ***Note: The list is purely indicative.

PGWPM - Course Architecture

Term 01
Months : Aug, Sept, Oct 2012
No. of Contact hours = 100

1 Financial Accounting
2 Statistical Methods
3 Micro Economics
4 Marketing Management 1
5 Business Communication

Term 03
Months : Feb, Mar, Apr 2013
No. of Contact hours = 100

10 Marketing Management 2
11 Financial Management 2
12 Operations Management 2
13 HRM
14 IT for Managers

Term 05
Months : Aug, Sep, Oct 2013
No. of Contact hours = 100
Project work begins

19 Sales & Distn Management
20 Supply Chain Management
21 Futures & Options
22 Brand Management
23 Elective*

Term 07
Months : Feb, Mar, Apr 2014
No. of Contact hours = 100

28 Strategic Marketing
29 Investment Management
30 Corporate Governance, Ethics and Human Rights
31 Project Management
32 Elective*
Term 02
Months : Nov, Dec 2012, Jan 2013
No. of Contact hours = 80

6 Managerial Accounting
7 Financial Management 1
8 Operations Management 1
9 Macro Economics
Term 04
Months : May, Jun, Jul 2013
No. of Contact hours = 80

15 Strategic Management
16 Organizational Behaviour
17 Market Research
18 Investment Analysis
Term 06
Months : Nov, Dec 2013, Jan 2014
No. of Contact hours = 80


24 Consumer Behaviour & CRM
25 Working Capital Management
26 Contracting and Business Law
27 Elective*

Term 08
Months : May, Jun, Jul 2014
No. of Contact hours = 80
Project work submission

33 Leadership and Organizational Development
34 Entrepreneurship and Innovation
35 Strategic Outsourcing
36 Elective*
 
Suggested List of Electives: (indicative and not complete list)
 
Capital Markets Pricing Strategies Lean Manufacturing
M&A and Valuation Technology Marketing Demand Planning & Supply Chain Forecasting
Management of Banking Business to Business Marketing Root Cause Analysis
Risk Management Retail Management Supply Chain Modelling
 
* There will be one elective each in Operations/Finance/Marketing for all the terms in the second year.

The elective will be chosen from an available pool of possible electives in that stream by the students themselves

The course listing is indicative and could marginally vary from year to year.