Student Committees and Clubs
Being a student-managed and student-run institute, all key functions of the institute are ably supported by committed student bodies – be it admissions, placements, web management or branding. Below is the list of all committees and clubs
Student Committees
Mission
Empowering students to achieve their career aspirations by fostering industry connections, facilitating skill development, and ensuring successfulplacement outcomes
Goals
- Industry Engagement: Establish and maintain strong relationships with diverse industries to create ample opportunities for student placements.
- Skill Enhancement: Organize workshops, training sessions, and mock interviews to equip students with the necessary skills and confidence toexcel in their job search.
- Career Guidance: Provide personalized career counseling and mentorship to help students identify and pursue their career goals.
- Placement Success: Achieve high placement rates by matching student talents with the right job opportunities, ensuring a successful start totheir professional journeys.
- Alumni Network: Leverage the alumni network to create more placement opportunities and foster a supportive community for ongoingprofessional development.
Committee Snapshot
The placement committee supports student placements at Great Lakes. Working alongside Corporate & Career Services, led by Dr. Balaji, this committee ensures that students obtain their ideal employment and that corporations discover the best talent. Students in the placement committee assist their batchmates with resume building, interview preparation, and case study discussions, in addition to conducting corporate events. Each student is allocated a “buddy” who assists them with questions about resume screening and interviews. PlaceCom facilitates interview processes and acts as a liaison between students and corporates.
Mission
The years a student spends in college is crucial to his overall development. The events committee provides a perfect platform to learn, respect,understand and exchange different cultures. The aim of the committee is to create an environment that encourages overall education and helpscreate multi-talented individuals. through a variety of events - management related and cultural.
Goals
- The Events Committee plays a very important role in the lives of the students with regards to exposing them to non-academic activities,promoting creativity, talent, cooperation, team work and healthy competition.
- The committee keeps a record of all activities and events for the AY and ensures that students participate in the same.
- The committee plans and organizes cultural events on campus with the help of the students.
- The committee motivates students to practice and participate in events organized by other departments and committees in turn helping torealise new talent.
- The committee encourages introverted students to explore beyond their comfort zone, trains and develops their interpersonal skills.
Committee Snapshot
EventsCom is responsible for coordinating major events held at Great Lakes. One of the biggest events they organize each year is Sanghamitra - the Great Lakes Annual Cultural Fest, where students get a chance to showcase their talents, be it dance, music, or acting. It also organizes movie & DJ nights, Karaoke events, and standup comedy shows, to keep the students’ spirits up. They also plan events in collaboration with brands that act as sponsors, create content for social media, and execute events end-to-end. It provides a platform for students to unleash their creativity.
Mission
With experienced professionals, the Committee endeavors to continuously and consistently build Brand Great Lakes and disseminate awarenessabout the Institution across various media - print, visual and most importantly online social media through an Integrated MarketingCommunications approach.
Goals
- To establish a distinct identity for Great Lakes on the web
- To create and curate new content for Great Lakes' website and social media channels
- To increase the awareness and engagement of Great Lakes on social media with a specific focus on engagement metrics and page following
- To curate the committee's flagship 'Brand Conclave' event
- To work with professionals and aligned agencies on the #Iam20 campaign celebrating Great Lakes' 20 years - through inter-city events, and arevamped brand identity
- To interact with applicants through multiple channels and address queries about the course, application process, and amenities on campus
Committee Snapshot
EventsCom is responsible for coordinating major events held at Great Lakes. One of the biggest events they organize each year is Sanghamitra - the Great Lakes Annual Cultural Fest, where students get a chance to showcase their talents, be it dance, music, or acting. It also organizes movie & DJ nights, Karaoke events, and standup comedy shows, to keep the students’ spirits up. They also plan events in collaboration with brands that act as sponsors, create content for social media, and execute events end-to-end. It provides a platform for students to unleash their creativity.
Mission
Empower students to engage in corporate and academic competitions, fostering structured thinking, problem-solving, dataanalysis, and impactful presentations to industry leaders.
Goals
- 1Identify the corporate and academic competitions, with a focus on corporate competitions, that increase exposure to the students and also placethe GL students on the map
- Introduce comps during the PGPM and PGDM orientation, introduce them to comp portals, list of comps to focus
- preparation and mindset set needed
- Monthly/quarterly leaderboards
- Domain wise sessions, planned to align with marquee comps – mentoring by alumni, internal competition with prizes, to
- encourage the competitive spirit and be prepared for marquee comp, suggestions, and comments from alumni mentors or faculty
- mentors
- Sessions on utilizing databases subscribed by the institute and open-source databases, for data analysis, for competitions
- Case discussions, run akin to consulting clubs in other B-schools – solving cases as a practice for competitions and placements
Committee Snapshot
The competitions committee identifies a list of reputed corporate competitions, where the students can showcase their technical and management skills. The committee will release the competition calendar, share the competition calls, and send reminders to enroll. The committee also plans to hold domain-wise workshops, with alumni, academic mentors, and industry mentors, to enable students to prepare for the upcoming competitions.
Will work along with other clubs/SIGs, CCS, and BPR. With SIGs: Identifying mentors from industry/ alumni who evaluate the student's presentations before Marquee competitions and help with the preparation.
The committee also compiles a monthly/quarterly leader board, with attractive prize money to be won by the toppers of the leader board (to inculcate competitive spirit).
Mission
To build and strengthen enduring relationships with Great Lakes' alumni network of 13500+ alumni from full-time and executive programs whilecreating mentoring opportunities for current students and increasing opportunities for engagement with alumni.
Goals
- To facilitate activities of the Office of Alumni Relations and engage with alumni at various levels
- To arrange interactions of alumni with the current students and explore opportunities for mentoring and other enabling associations
- To curate the 'Annual Alumni Meet' and ‘Chapter Meets’ across 18 cities
- To execute the Alumni Chapter elections for the period of two years
- To initiate fundraising activities with the alumni network
Committee Snapshot
AlCom contributes to the promotion of alumni relations and involvement at Great Lakes. It hosts alumni reunions and chapter meets across major cities in India, and abroad. The Great Lakes alumni network is dispersed throughout 33 countries across the world, and AlCom ensures that alumni are abreast with the advances and achievements of the institute. There is also an elected body, known as, GLAA - The Great Lakes Alumni Association which assists students in reaching out to the large network of 13000+ alums and conducting meets, guest lectures, and more.
Mission
To initiate and conduct all student sports activities in consultation with the Administration and Program Offices ensuring a spirit offair and vigorous competition and display of competitive spirit among supporting groups.
Goals
- Indoor Sports and gaming competitions
- Badminton, Volleyball Tennis and Table Tennis Competitions
- PGPM and PGDM 1-2 Section competitions and PGPM – PGDM 2 AND PGDM 1-PGDM 2 Competitions
- Great Lakes Premier League and Great Lakes Football League
Committee Snapshot
SPORTSCOM is the sole mover and shaker behind all student sports activities for both PGPM and PGDM on campus. Sportscom schedules and conducts throughout-the-year events for outdoor sports, indoor sports, and e-sports depending upon the academic calendar and weather patterns. Events are held for both inter and intra-program competitions and the finale at the end of the academic year is the now-famous Great Lakes Premier League and the Great Lakes Football League tournaments
Mission
DSLC is not about organizing events. It is about ideas that build the Great Lakes brand for posterity. It is about creating a lastingthe footprint for the entire community that will stand the test of time.
Goals
Some of the big ideas implemented in the past include:
- Great Ladoos
- Le Bal
- Pride Walk
- Mock Parliament
- Section Wars
Committee Snapshot
DSLC heads many of the community-building and strengthening activities on campus. It also leads different campaigns, be it for entertainment, or a cause. The members also take inputs from the student community and work on ideas that would boost the brand equity of the Institution among the current students, alumni, prospective students, and recruiters. The DSLC is a group of students chosen from both the PGPM and PGDM programs that act as the custodians of the Great Lakes brand. It aims to foster a sense of belonging and inclusion among the entire student community through a variety of initiatives. By design, DSLC focuses on ideas that can have a long-term impact rather than one-off events. Highly entrepreneurial in nature, the DSLC members work closely with the Dean.
Mission
Strive to enrich the experience of Great Lakes students by promoting school spirit, voicing student’s opinions, organizing student activities, andproviding leadership opportunities within and outside the classroom,
Goals
- Leadership - Developing and promoting the leadership abilities of council members
- Diversity - Building awareness, respect, and value for all
- Academic Excellence - Striving for and creating a platform to encourage academic excellence
- School spirit - Celebrating and promoting a spirit of oneness and unity among students and faculty
Committee Snapshot
As a component of the student council, SAC serves as a liaison between the program administration and the students. The SAC addresses student questions, concerns, and complaints and serves as the student's voice to the program offices. The SAC attends regular meetings with the program director and managers to relay all batch-related questions and concerns. SAC must be knowledgeable of current events to effectively guide the peer and to contact authorities in the event of any misdemeanors.
SLC is elected to address student concerns regarding their hostel life and Great Lakes' stay. They serve as a link between the program office, administration, and students. The SLC attends monthly meetings with the college administration, and the program director conveys the concerns of the cohort. It takes proactive measures to comprehend and resolve any non- academic issues, such as the hours of operation of the Resource Centre and Hostel Amenities, by listening to all of the problems that GLIM students face.
Mission
To be the compass that connects Great Lakes to the world - curating transformative global experiences, fostering cross-cultural collaboration, and building bridges that turn borders into opportunities. We empower students to not just experience the world, but to understand it, shape it, and lead within it.
Goals
- Global Exposure Events:
Organize international summits and conferences, global business dialogues, special seminars, global village and cultural festivals, among other initiatives to promote global awareness on campus. - Hosting International Delegates
Plan and coordinate visits of international professors, business leaders, diplomats, dignitaries, and thought leaders. - Marketing & Outreach
Promote student exchange opportunities and all international events through newsletters, social media, and campus campaigns. - Partnership Management
Build and maintain strong relationships with international academic institutions through their students and alumni base in line with the vision and mission of Great Lakes. - New Initiatives
Serve as GL Global Brand Ambassadors by acting as a liaison with international institutions for launching groundbreaking initiatives
Committee Snapshot
The International Relations Committee is key in shaping Great Lakes' global identity. It helps international students settle in, understand local customs, and thrive in the campus environment. From organizing international student orientation and cultural nights to supporting global partnerships and student exchange programs, the committee acts as a cultural bridge, celebrating diversity and encouraging mutual respect and learning. It ensures that global voices are heard and valued on campus.
Committee Mentor: Mr. Chahat Mishra
Mission
To foster socially responsible leadership among students through community engagement, experiential learning, and project implementation.
Goals
- Enhance impactful student learning through a project-based approach.
- Facilitate immersive field experiences that expose students to real-world developmental challenges in rural communities.
- Help students develop frameworks to create innovative solutions with measurable community and societal impact.
- Provide opportunities for students to innovate, establish social enterprises, and gain meaningful field experience.
- Strengthen partnerships with NGOs, local government bodies, and community leaders to ensure sustained development in adopted communities, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Committee Snapshot
The Karma Yoga Committee anchors Great Lakes' flagship experiential learning initiative, where students live and work in rural villages to understand grassroots challenges. Committee members coordinate logistics, village assignments, stakeholder engagement, and impact documentation. Beyond organizing fieldwork, the committee fosters a deeper understanding of inclusive growth and ethical leadership. Karma Yoga is not just a course-it's a transformational journey, and the committee ensures each student walks away with insight, empathy, and purpose.
Committee Mentor: Dr. Arulsamy and Dr. Narsimma
Mission
To ensure that students at Great Lakes enjoy safe, healthy, and diverse food options while creating an inclusive environment that celebrates culinary variety, hygiene, and nutrition.
Goals
- Maintain food quality, hygiene, and service standards across all campus dining facilities.
- Collect regular feedback from students and work with vendors and administration for continuous improvements.
- Introduce a variety of cuisines through food festivals, special menus, and collaborations.
- Ensure that dietary needs (vegetarian, vegan, Jain, etc.) are respected and catered to.
Committee Snapshot
The Food Committee acts as the bridge between students, the program office, and food vendors on campus. It monitors food quality, hygiene standards, and menu variety by conducting regular audits and collecting feedback. The committee ensures that dining services cater to diverse student needs while maintaining a safe and enjoyable eating experience.
Committee Mentor: Colonel Ranjan Prabhu
Student Clubs
Moving in several directions at different speeds, often simultaneously, Great Lakers evince the ability to excel at multi-faceted interests. The various student run clubs and committees demonstrate the holistic development of the students and enhance the overall diversity at GLIM.
Mission
The Entrepreneurship Club of Great Lakes transforms ideas into reality. Join us to generate ideas, build teams, learn aboutfundraising, and more. Our vision is to establish the institution as the premier hub for entrepreneurial and startup talent.
Goals
- To foster an 'Entrepreneurial Mindset' among students.
- To offer resources and learning experiences for students aiming to start their own ventures, or possibly join startups or VC firms.
- To enable interaction with seasoned entrepreneurs, industry experts, and venture capitalists for insight and inspiration.
Committee Snapshot
This club promotes the spirit of entrepreneurship on campus, encourages entrepreneurial thought and action among students, and cultivates an entrepreneurial attitude. With a mission to help Great Lakes to produce more future business leaders, the committee works with the AGB incubator to encourage disruptive innovation in the Financial, Educational, Health, Agricultural, and Energy/Ecological Technologies domains. They host training sessions, unicorn meet-ups, quizzes, and hackathons to maintain the entrepreneurial spirit
Mission
FINCOM enhances financial literacy, provides practical experience, fosters professional development, promotes ethics, andencourages innovative financial thinking.
Goals
- Financial Education and Literacy: Provide opportunities for students to deepen their understanding of financial principles, markets, andinstruments through workshops, seminars, and hands-on activities.
- Practical Experience: Offer practical experiences in financial analysis, investment strategies, and budgeting through student-managedinvestment funds, financial simulations, and collaborative projects.
- Professional Development: Facilitate connections with industry professionals, alumni, and faculty to provide mentorship, networkingopportunities, and career guidance in finance-related fields.
- Community Engagement: Promote financial literacy within the broader school community through outreach programs, financialeducation events, and partnerships with local organizations.
- Innovative Thinking: Encourage innovative thinking and problem-solving in finance by hosting competitions, case studies, and guestspeaker events that challenge conventional approaches and inspire creative solutions. Ethical Standards: Uphold the highest standardsof integrity and ethics in all financial activities, fostering a culture of responsibility and accountability among members.
- Collaborative Environment: Create an inclusive environment where students can share knowledge, exchange ideas, and work togetheron finance-related initiatives and projects.
Committee Snapshot
FINCOM is dedicated to enhancing financial literacy, providing hands-on experience, and fostering professional growth among students. Through workshops,student-managed investment funds (proposed for the present academic year), and financial simulations, members and the community gain practical skills and insights. The committee also promotes ethical standards and innovative thinking by hosting competitions, case studies, and guest speaker events. By facilitating connections with industry professionals, alumni, and faculty, it offers invaluable networking and mentorship opportunities. Additionally, the committee engages in community outreach to promote financial literacy and inclusivity. Together, these initiatives prepare members for successful finance careers and support the academic community's overall excellence
Mission
To keep students updated on recent developments in marketing by bringing together some of the most competent and bright minds who are keento delve into the rapidly changing realm of marketing and promote peer learning and exchange of ideas on various marketing topics.
Goals
- Mélange Musings -Publishing quarterly newsletter Mélange Musings to inform about contemporary topics in the marketing domain,news snippets about various brands/Trivia. Students get a chance to write articles of their interest that can be posted in the newsletter.
- Organize Brand Wars- To enable students to come out with creative ideas around a brand to safeguard it from a closely rival brand.
- Creating an Advertising Campaign- Ad-Mad requires students to use their imagination to create advertising campaigns using a varietyof taglines, slogans, logos, and storytelling techniques.
- Clear Pitch- Students market their products, negotiate, and close agreements to compete in a sales pitch competition. The objective isto teach students how to negotiate and interact effectively in sales.
- Organize Brand charades: To enable students to become aware of various global and national brands.
- Organize Mark-O-Wiz- A quiz competition organized to test students' know-how of various brands and their marketing strategies
- Coordinate the annual (North American Society for Marketing Education in India)The NASMEI conference organized in the month ofDecember attracts globally renowned scholars in the Marketing area. Students get an opportunity to present their research ideas andlearn about some of the interesting research work undertaken in the Marketing academia.
Committee Snapshot
This club ensures sure that students apply marketing ideas in the real world by organizing events and case competitions. We publish quarterly newsletters called Melange Musings to keep the student community informed on the latest events in the world of marketing. We additionally, leverage our Instagram social media account to actively engage students with the most recent marketing content.
Mission
To groom students analytical mind set and challenge them to depict meaningful information through real-life datasets.
Goals
- Quarter 1 - Anovision (An internal GL Quiz competition) – An interactive quiz roving from round 1 to round 5
- Quarter 2 - Skill Enhancement Workshop (For all GL students) – To help them build analytics skills that help them inplacements
- Quarter 3/4 - Data Tales (A National Flagship event) – Going for the last 4 years, attracting students from IIMs. An eventwhere teams
- work on datasets and depict meaningful information through data visualization
Committee Snapshot
We conduct a series of events, comprising of quiz competitions, skill enhancement workshops, and finally a flagship event that involves working on live datasets (National event). All the events are so placed in a chain that it challenges and enhance the analytical capabilities of the students.
Mission
The Operations Club’s mission is to equip students with a comprehensive, global perspective on operations and career opportunities byorganizing case competitions, networking events, speaker sessions, and informative workshops.
Goals
- Organise case competitions: Provide students with practical problem-solving experiences and opportunities to showcase their skills inoperations management.
- Host monthly networking events: Facilitate connections between students and industry professionals to expand their professional networksand gain insights into various career paths in operations.
- Conduct a series of speaker sessions: Invite industry leaders and experts to share their experiences, best practices, and trends in operations,enhancing students' understanding of the field.
Committee Snapshot
The ops club enables the dissemination of information regarding Supply Chain and Operations management. They host a variety of current-affairs quizzes, bi-monthly crosswords on the topic of SCM (with special rewards), and events to promote interest in SCM. They host one primary event SCInnovatia in L'attitude that consists of quizzes, riddles, and case study discussions.
Mission
The Consulting Club provides resources, tools, and opportunities for students to excel in consulting careers. By offering forums withindustry experts and practical initiatives, the club helps students develop skills, make informed career decisions, and achieve extra-curricular excellence.
Goals
- To provide students with essential tools and resources for successful consulting careers.
- To facilitate information exchange between industry executives and students through dedicated forums.
Committee Snapshot
The Great Lakes Consulting Committee helps students become more competitive and experience the rigors of consulting. Students acquire a more strategic way of thinking and a greater capacity for knowledge accumulation as a result. Consulting committee members increase the college's visibility in the consulting industry by connecting with professionals from their networks. They organize case study competitions, compete in competitions run by leading consulting committees, and assist students in developing a consulting mindset.
Mission
The committee's core objective is to provide students the opportunity to demonstrate their skills in both the business and culturaldomains. We will focus on curating array of events that cater to academic and extra curricular aspects of student’s life.
Goals
- Increase awareness about Great Lakes among undergrad colleges across India
- Showcase Great Lakes Faculty & Students through business and cultural events
- Conduct pre-events, marketing, and promotion in person across colleges in Tamil Nadu, obtain Sponsorships from popular andtop brands
Committee Snapshot
L’Attitude is Great Lakes Chennai’s annual cultural and management festival and among South India’s biggest college fests. Students manage all the end-to-end processes from conceiving the theme for the event, promotion, sponsorships, logistics, curating key-note speakers and judges for the competitions, conducting pre- events, cultural nights, and, the main event. The main event revolves around three pillars: Symphony - The Cultural Wing, Synergy - The Business Wing, and Spotlight - The Grand Showcase
Missin
Successfully conduct a memorable TEDx event featuring new ideas and perspectives.
Goals
- Renew the event license
- Finalize the theme for the event and obtain sponsorship for the event
- Search for speakers fitting the event’s theme and conduct the event successfully.
Committee Snapshot
The TEDx club strives to manage all initiatives and operations that enable the institute to conduct a successful TEDx event. The club members will conceive creative themes that will spark the audience’s imagination. The members will search for suitable speakers and liaise with them for seamless coordination.
Mission
The mission of the Product Management Club at Great Lakes is to deepen students' understanding of the diverse aspects of product managementand to bridge the gap between future leaders and current global experts in the field.
Goals
- Enhance Knowledge: Organise workshops and seminars to provide in-depth insights into various aspects of product management, includingmarket research, product development, and lifecycle management.
- Facilitate Networking: Arrange networking events and meetups with industry professionals and alumni to foster connections and mentorshipopportunities for students.
- Promote Practical Experience: Conduct case studies, hackathons, and product design competitions to give students hands-on experience andpractical skills in product management.
- Industry Engagement: Host guest lectures and panel discussions with leading product managers and executives from top companies todiscuss industry trends, challenges, and best practices.
Mission
To foster a vibrant reading culture within the Great Lakes community by promoting literary discussions, encouraging diverse perspectives, and building a habit of continuous learning through books.
Goals
- Organize regular book discussions, review circles, and author sessions.
- Curate monthly reading lists spanning business, fiction, non-fiction, and self-development genres.
- Host reading challenges and literary quizzes to keep the student community engaged.
- Collaborate with faculty to recommend academic and leadership books.
Committee Snapshot
The Reading Club is a platform for students passionate about books and learning. It curates book recommendations, conducts lively discussion circles, organizes meetups with authors and thought leaders, and drives initiatives like 'Book of the Month' and reading challenges. The club aims to create a shared space for intellectual exploration, critical thinking, and meaningful conversations beyond academic coursework.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Raj Krishnan Shankar
