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S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research
All Participating Schools
Andheri (West)
Mumbai, MM, 400058
India
Demographic Information
Number of full-time MBA students (2011):
178
Number of part-time MBA students (2011):
0
Total duration of full-time MBA program:
22 months
MBA faculty (Fall 2010):
55
Females as percent of student body:
42%
Description of MBA Program:
At the heart of our institute’s approach is our mission to influence the practice here and now and to promote value-based growth. Our endeavor is to ensure that the experience with the institute is a significant value addition to an individual’s career -- indeed his or her entire life. This calls for resolving three contradictions that we believe we have successfully addressed:
a. A synthesis of western values of efficiency - a concern for ends and eastern values and ethos - with an equal concern for means
b. Co-existence of collaborative and competitive models - striving for individual excellence and yet reinforcing the ‘group’ culture through daily activities
c. Commitment to material advancement, with sensitivity to distributive justice
Our selection process to a large extent depends on the softer skill of a person and not merely on their IQ. To us, while a sharp mind is important, more so is a curious and sensitive individual backed by rich values and integrity.
The already strong values that the candidates bring is further reinforced by our pedagogy where non-classroom learning is as important as the classroom.
Instructor: Uma Narain
Course Name: Development of Corporate Citizenship
Instructor: Prof. Nirja Mattoo
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) is rated among the top ten B-schools in the country. The guiding philosophy of SPJIMR is influencing practice and promoting value based growth. The institute has an enviable track record of recognizing the needs of society and quickly and aptly responding with relevant programmes. More than a decade ago, we were looking for activities to enhance our academic strength and contribute towards development of the Society.
The Centre for Development of Corporate Citizenship (DOCC) is an attempt by SPJIMR to establish a symbiotic relationship between management participants and the society of which they are all potential participants and partners. DOCC stands for instilling respect for values in future managers and allowing them to contribute to the efficiency, effectiveness and structure of NGOs by lending their management learnings. Participants at SPJIMR are required to undertake a six-week project that will provide him/her an opportunity to sensitize to rural issues, operate in an unstructured setting and realize the universality of management discipline. For the last decade, SPIMR participants have worked on more than 1200 projects with Corporate, Government, NGOs and International Agencies across the country.
The emphasis of every social project will be to explore, document, develop/modify and adopt multiple approaches to address operational as well as strategic issues/problems, with a view to achieve program goals more efficiently and deliver higher level of value to the community. Our objective is to show the way by which business in India could relate to rural society on one hand and to the global economy on the other. It will attempt to provide framework to address developmental issues by taking help from different organizational methodology and effective managerial tools.
The DOCC project is scheduled from 17th March 2011 to 28th April 2011; the brochure with brief details about the program of the Centre is enclosed for your reference.
Since last year we are focusing on the following 12 critical issues in rural development initiatives:
1. Health
2. Management Issues of NGOs
3. Education
4. Social Entrepreneurship
5. Infrastructure
6. Area Development Planning
7. Income Generation
8. Environment
9. Women Empowerment
10. Training & Development
11. Disability
12. Micro Finance & SHGs
Type: Management Development Program
Date: September, 2010
Encouraged by the response and feedback of last year where 76 participants from 42 NGOs participated, again this year a three day Management Development Program (MDP) for NGOs was organized during 6th -8th September 2010. The event was attended by around 75 participants from 39 NGOs across the country. These NGOs, which that, included Self Employed Women's association (SEWA) (Gujarat), MLDT (Maharashtra & Gujarat), Gandhigram Trust (Tamil Nadu), Citizen Foundation (Karnataka), The Banyan (Tamil Nadu), Bhansali Trust (Gujarat) and Karmayog amongst many others.
This MDP covered areas like Energising the oganisation, People & Performance and Evaluation, Finance and Cost Management, Leadership and People Management, Project Management & Scale up and also an introductory session on Building an NGO Brand. Interactive and collective learning with theoretical framework, case studies, games, films and exercises were a part of the programme. The training was conducted by senior SPJIMR faculty and experts from the field.
Participants at MDPA new Pedagogic approach was adopted where for each of the themes of the training, an NGO with a success story in that field was invited. Eminient Personalities who came in to share their stories were, G.G Sohani- President & Managing Trustee –BAIF, Ms Shaheen Mistry- Trustee Akanksha Foundation., Ms Jyoti Macwan- General Secretary- SEWA & Devika Chadha - Program Director- SalaamBombay.
Type: Workshop
Date: November, 2010
After successfully helping 35 NGOs in their Brand Building activities in January, May & August, Socialbrics proudly announced the next workshop in November 2010.
Regardless of the service you offer or the business you operate in, tangible identity and a strong brand is essential. It supports organization in building a sound and long lasting relationship with stakeholders. Most people believe that not-for-profit organisations have to work very differently from for-profit organisations. However the only difference is that For-profit organisations earn a high “return on investment” and Not-for-profit organisations get their reward from a “high return on social investment” by making our world a fairer place to live in.
This workshop shows how NGO Brands can become self-sustainable.
Date: February, 2010
By Thomas J. DeLong, who is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice in the Organizational Behavior area at the Harvard Business School. Before joining the Harvard Faculty, DeLong was Chief Development Officer and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Group, Inc., where he was responsible for the firm's human capital and focused on issues of organizational strategy regarding people, organizational change and globalization.
At Harvard, Professor DeLong teaches MBA and executive education courses focused on managing human capital, organizational behavior and managing talent in professional service firms. Most recently, DeLong has been responsible for the first-year required curriculum for the MBA program and now serves as course head for the required course on Leadership and Organizational Behavior. He has designed an MBA course focused on managing human capital in high performance organizations and an MBA course on strategic issues in professional service firms, taking into account the growth, competitive dynamics, and disintermediation of the business. This was the first course at the Harvard Business School on understanding and leading professional service firms.
Type: Workshop
Date: October, 2009
The 2nd TEPP training programme was held from 21st to 25th October 2009 with 16 Innovators and 8 TUC cocoordinators. Some of the innovations displayed included an oil explorer machine, low cost modular bomb disposal robot, tractor mounted pulverizer, multi-purpose mosquito trap, and smart solar irrigation unit etc. TEPP (Technopreneur Training Programme) is a grass-root level programme from DSIR for encouraging innovation that has helped catalyze technology based ideas to a prototype stage. The TEPP Prototype to Enterprise training program has been designed by the Center for Entrepreneurship, SPJIMR to enable the innovators develop an entrepreneurial mindset and acquire familiarity with the basics of creating a new venture.
Date: November, 2010
The S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai and the ESB Business School at Reutlingen University, Germany and their joint initiative, the Centre for European Business Studies (CEBS), organized its Inaugural International Conference on November 26-27, 2010 at Lotus Room, Trident, Nariman Point, Mumbai. The conference was funded by the European Commission. It was supported by FICCI, Bloomberg UTV and the Council of Indo-EU Chamber of Commerce.
India established diplomatic relations with European Economic Community since 1962. From 2005, Indo EU summit initiatives have culminated in negotiations for an Indo - EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The proposed FTA is expected to be fully WTO compatible covering not only trade in goods and services but also investment and Intellectual Property Rights. The proposed India-EU FTA is of great significance to both India and the EU.
The EU funded Conference aimed to bring together industry professionals and leading academicians, from both India and the EU countries to explore current issues, challenges and opportunities in the proposed India-EU FTA. The objective of the Conference was to debate and discuss the various implications of such an FTA, thereby providing sufficient insights to policy makers, business entities and all other parties involved facilitating the effective implementation of the agreement.
Inauguration
The Conference was inaugurated on 26th November morning by lighting of the lamp by an eminent delegation comprising of Dr. Sesha Iyer, the Director of SPJIMR, Dr. Dennis De, the Director of ESB Business School Reutlingen University, Dr Leopold-Thedore Heldman, the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Mumbai who was also the key – note speaker, Mr. Peter Young, Counsellor, Head of Trade and Economic Affairs, Delegation of the European Union to India and Dr. Preeta George, Faculty of Economics and the Conference convener at SPJIMR.
Type: Short Term Programme
Date: October, 2009
Start Your Business Batch 07 (SYB) commenced on 24th October with 27 aspiring and talented entrepreneurs at its helm. The Centre for Entrepreneurship at SPJIMR has designed this programme for budding entrepreneurs who have passion and willingness to start their own venture and are keen to convert it into a sustainable business. The participants for the programme came from varied backgrounds and included IT professionals, creative and fashion heads, brand managers, real estate, graphic designers and engineers in 20 - 40 age group.
Type: Workshop
Date: May, 2010
Encouraged by the good response received for the workshop on "Creating an NGO Brand" held in January 2010, Socialbrics organized a three day workshop on the same topic from May 10th -12th , 2010. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Sumit Roy of Univbrands and SPJIMR faculty Prof.A.B Kulkarni and Dr.Ashita Sharma, and experts from the field Ms.Ritu Modi & Prof.Dibendu. It was attended by CEOs & Senior executives of NGOs from all over India such as Childfund India (Banglore), Deepak Foundation (Gujarat), SMK (Jaipur), Tribal Cultural Society (Jamshedpur) Salaam Bomaby Foundation, Ambuja Cement Foundation, V care etc. Ms.Ritu Modi and Mr.Dibendu were also a part of the workshop as observers.
The workshop methodology is learning by doing. The participants learned through exercises, games and six live cases. The participants learned how to find the emotional truth that will make their NGO a sought after brand, generate revenues or funding that make their NGO brand self-sustainable, discover a word-of-mouth strategy for their key publics, create self-financing-promotions that became a source of revenue instead of a cost and finally to create a branding idea that the public wants to champion. The participants were given help to create their ngo's own verbal business card to find answers for the challenges faced by their ngo. The feedback from the participants shows that the workshop was well received and it was informative and the concepts discussed were easy to understand.
Socialbrics has started "Thursday Clinics" for supporting NGOs creating their own brand. This service is available to the participants without any professional fees.
The workshop methodology is learning by doing. The participants learned through exercises, games and a live case, for that they went out to meet the stakeholders. The participants learned how to find the emotional truth that will make their NGO a sought after brand, generate revenues or funding that make their NGO brand self-sustainable, discover a word-of-mouth strategy for their key publics, create self-financing-promotions that became a source of revenue instead of a cost and finally to create a branding idea that the public wants to champion.
Type: Management Development Program
Date: September, 2009
A Management Development Training Program for NGOs from all over India was conducted on 22-24th Sep ,2009.76 senior executives from 46 organisations participated. The key areas covered in this training were Strategic Planning, Finance Management, People & Performance, Leadership in NGO, Sustainability of NGOs, Project monitoring and Evaluation, Effective Communication and MIS. In the evening of Social networking participants interacted with some of the funding organizations and Credibility Alliance etc.
Type: Event
Date: December, 2009
SPJIMR, in association with National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), is organizing the event LOCK STOCK & TRADE. Lock, Stock & Trade (LST) is an annual entrepreneurship event which aims to inspire the younger generation towards entrepreneurship.
At this event, student teams representing the entrepreneur and investment banker present selected real life entrepreneurial businesses to the audience. These businesses are open for evaluation and trading by the audience who, acting as investors, mock 'invest' in shares of their choice. The stocks are allotted through bidding and the ultimate stock prices are determined by the market forces. At the end of the day the winning 'investors' are those with highest value portfolios and the winning 'company' is that which has the highest market capitalization. The game provides opportunity for many a player to bid, trade and build their portfolio, and experience.the Dalal Street excitement.
Type: Event
Date: February, 2010
Uddyam is the annual Innovation and Entrepreneurship event of S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research that aims to be an enterprise building exercise and serve as a platform for commercialization of innovations.
Uddyam ’10 will be conducted in association with Technopreneur Promotion Program (TePP) of the Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India). A pioneer in promoting technology based innovations, TePP has helped many innovators patent their prototypes over the past few years. Though many of them have the potential to become successful ventures, there is a huge divide between the innovators who make these products, the entrepreneurs who can take them to the markets and investors who can provide the funding.
At Uddyam, we aim to bridge the gap between the innovators, entrepreneurs and investors. We present to you validated TePP innovations and you prepare ‘Innovation-plans’ and tell us how you think these innovations can be commercialized. The top six ‘I-plans’ will be selected and presented in front of an esteemed panel of judges and also interested entrepreneurs and investors. At Uddyam, we provide the right ecosystem for enterprise building!
Type: Event
Date: October, 2009
The Centre for Development of Corporate Citizenship (DOCC) has been actively involved in organising Ehsaas every year since 2005. Ehsaas, as the name suggests stands for feelings, emotions and sensitivity. The aim is to develop a sense of belonging in the minds of these wonderful, extremely talented special children and give them a day of pure joy. It is also an attempt to make the students at SPJIMR more sensitive to the challenges and triumphs of special children.
This year, DOCC organised Ehsaas in collaboration with Leo Club of Juhu. The participating NGOs included PODS, Punarvas, Child Reach, Sangini, WITS, Banajee Industrial Home, Spastic Society, Aarushi, Disha Karnbadhir Vidyalaya, Rotract Sanskar, Kalyandeep and Sewa. The event had around 220 people from various NGOs participating which included 180 children.
Ehsaas- A DOCC Initiative The children from different NGOs put up various performances, showcasing their multitude of talents to an extremely encouraging and appreciative audience. The students of SPJIMR and Leo club volunteers had a wonderful time performing for the children. After the cultural performances, the evening unfolded more fun and frolic. Several games stalls were put up by Leo Club and the SPJIMR participants took an active part in volunteering at these stalls. They took the opportunity to interact with the children to let them know how special they are. Fake currency had been issued to the children each time they played a game or won it. At the end, they could exchange the currency for gifts, which gave them a sense of purchasing something they desired with the money they earned. It was an evening of fun and entertainment and everyone leaving with a feeling of joy and contentment.
Date: November, 2009
The Centre for Development of Corporate Citizenship (DOCC) and HIV Champions organised the “Training of Trainers” session on “Living with HIV programme” at SPJIMR campus, taking ahead the collaboration of SPJIMR and Standard Chartered. Training was conducted by HIV Champions of Standard Chartered. The session began and continued for more than four hours. The session was attended by 73 budding HIV Champions- 41 from SPJIMR and 32 from BCIDS (Bhavan's Centre for Inter-Disciplinary Studies), which according to Standard Chartered's executives was the highest they had seen in one session since the inception of this programmein India.
The session started with a small note from Prof. Nirja Mattoo, Chairperson - Centre for DOCC and began with an introduction to HIV and AIDS dispelling myths around it. Some hard facts regarding the reach, implication and the peril that HIV/AIDS poses to our society . Approximately 30 million people have died due to AIDS worldwide and 75 - 90% of people infected with HIV do not know that they are infected. Millions of left the audience astounded lives are at stake and if not checked, AIDS can set back the human growth that the modern era has seen. Standard Chartered and Clinton Global Initiative has taken a stupendous task of imparting education and awareness about HIV and AIDS to 1 million people by 2010.
The training emphasized on the means through which AIDS gets transmitted and stressed upon the QQR (Quality- Quantity-Route) theory. Many questions flew in this round and itwas made sure that no attendee goes with a doubt in his mind as this formed the core of HIV/AIDS awareness. The session also provided knowledge about the HIV testing procedures, precautions and the window period of the same.
At the end, all 73 attendees walked out as HIV Champions - enlightened about HIV and AIDS, and ready to take forward the initiative of ‘Living with HIV’ with health and safety.
Date: August, 2010
Dr. Vinod Jain conducted a seminar on 'Globalization' for the participants of SPJIMR.
Dr. Vinod Jain, professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and the founder and former director of the Center for International Business Education & Research (CIBER), visited the Institute in connection with the SPJIMR-IBMSSMECentre.
Dr. Jain is a member of Academy of International Business, Academy of Management, Mensa, Strategic Management Society, and theWorld Affairs Council. He is President and CEO of the India-US World Affairs Institute, President Emeritus of the Toledo Area International Trade Association and served on the board of governors of Ohio's Information Technology Alliance during 2000-2002. In 2008, hewas appointed by the Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce to serve on the Maryland-Washington D.C. District Export Council.
Dr. Jain Jain has a Ph.D. degree in Strategy and International Management from the University of Maryland at College Park and Master's degrees in Management (UCLA) and Statistics (Indian Statistical Institute).
This visit further builds up the relationship between SSME Center and University of Maryland.
Type: Workshop
Date: October, 2009
A workshop was conducted for three days for Dasra & Social Impact from Oct 28th to 30th, 2009. There were around 36 participants from NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs’ from all over India. The workshop was conducted by core faculty from SPJIMR and experts from the field. The topics included Strategic Management, Finance for NGOs and Human Resource Management for growth.
Date: August, 2009
Dileep Rao is a nationally acclaimed practitioner, advisor, author and communicator on new business development, business growth and financing businesses and ventures in USA.. He combines real-world experience in financing over 450 firms and managing five companies as the V.P. (now director) of one of the U.S.’ largest development finance institutions with advising governments (including the U.S. government), Fortune 1000 companies and entrepreneurs in new business development and financing. Dr. Rao is also a leading communicator in these areas, as a lecturer in New Business Development and Financing in MBA and Executive MBA programs in the U.S., Europe and Asia, receiving Outstanding MBA Teacher of the Year awards.
Dileep Rao spoke to 2nd year students, who had opted for elective project based Managing New Business Initiatives, on "How to Build Great New Businesses: Silicon Valley Model, the Corporate model and the High-Performance Model". The students gained a lot of insights from their interaction with Mr. Dileep Rao.
Type: Workshop
Date: August, 2010
Socialbrics conducted a workshop on “Creating an NGO Brand” on Aug 9th and 11th, 2010. It was conducted by Mr.Sumit Roy founder director of Univbrands and the faculty facilitators- Prof.A.B Kulkarni & Dr.Ashita Sharma. This was the third brand building workshop conducted by Socialbrics after successfully conducting the earlier two.
Directors & Senior executives of NGOs from all over India such as IAD (Kerala), Lupin Foundation (Pune), Apnalaya, YWCA , Kherwadi Welfare Society etc participated in this workshop. Workshop was activity based and a field visit to gauge the public opinion about one’s brand was also organised. All the participants got to learn more about their own brand through branding exercises and answering 5 Branding questions. Various exercises were also introduced to them like devising engaging research games and formulating the same, Aha trees, verbal business card etc. The participants learned how to find the emotional truth that will make their NGO a sought after brand, generate revenues or funding that make their NGO brand self-sustainable, discover a word-of-mouth strategy for their key publics, create self-financing-promotions that became a source of revenue instead of a cost and finally to create a branding idea that the public wants to champion. The participants found the workshop to be very beneficial to them.
Type: Management Development Program
Date: September, 2010
As per the Training Need Assessment done at Dharampur site of AnaRDe, Socialbrics developed a two phased MDP “Leadership in Ngo Management” for the senior management of AnaRDe foundation. The first Phase was initiated between 24th -27th Sept 2010 where 29 participants across Maharashtra & Gujarat participated. The sessions were conducted by senior faculty of SPJIMR, like Prof.Rukaiya Joshi, Prof.Samish Dalal, Prof.Ramu & Dr.Raman, and experts from the field like Mr.Gaurang Mehta & Prof.Madhavi Gokhale on areas like Leadership, Managing others is managing oneself, Communication Skills, Influencing without Authority, Entrepreneurial Outlook & Data Reporting and MIS.
The faculty gave a tone of regional languages to the sessions, making the participants comfortable.
Mr.Kapoor Chandaria, Chairman AnaRDe Foundation, came for the inauguration of the training , marking the beginning of a long term relationship between SPJIMR & AnaRDe with more training programmes to come.
Type: Non Classroom Activity
Date: November, 2009
As a part of 'non classroom' pedagogic innovation, the movie The Informant was used as a visual case study to learn “Ethics in Business”.
The Informant (starring Matt Damon), based on New York Times investigative reporter Kurt Eichenwald's book of the same name, deals with the greatest fraud in price fixing by a 100 year oldUS company Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), the global giant food processing company. Their products can be read in fine print on the packaging of all processed food. Mark Whitacre, a Ph.D fromCornell, and senior Vice- President decides to help FBI record evidence of the price fixing game by becoming an 'Informant'. The movie gives a feel of human compulsions and stress, under which ordinary people like us,make unusual choices.
What was of greater interest to the participants was the fact that post imprisonment, Mark Whitacarewas hired by Cyprus Systems in a senior position and made COO recently. When contacted, Mark offered to answer the participants' queries on ethical issues in business. The effort initiated by the ADMAP committee, was well received by all the participants who attended the movie at PVR Juhu on November 11, 2009. It was a unique learning experience for the PGDM batch.
Type: Management Development Program
Date: February, 2010
SPJIMR's Socialbrics conducted a refresher MDP for Ambuja Cement Foundation's senior executives from Feb 3rd to 5th 2010. The training sessions were taken by the SPJIMR faculty Dr.Mayank Joshipura and experts from the field like Dr. Rajshree Mahtani, Ms. Uma Arora, and Prof. Madhavi Gokhale. The training sessions provided very useful learning to the participants on goal setting, communication, monitoring & evaluation and Activity Based Costing & balance score card.
The Senior Executives of Ambuja Cement Foundation from all over the country had earlier attended a five day MDP in July 2009 they did application exercises and had a video conference with the faculty during the intervening period. They will be awarded a certificate of participation for attending these trainings.
Type: Event
Date: January, 2010
SPJIMR Marketing Impact Awards (SMIA) is a truly unique event which rewards marketing initiatives based on their impact. Each year, this event felicitates those corporate houses that have solved a business problem or exploited a market opportunity with marketing initiatives that are significantly more impactful than those of their competitors.
With 22 entries from reputed brands like LOREAL, Intel, Microsoft, Dabur and the likes; SMIA 2010 got off to a flying start. 13 entries were short listed for the next round, which called for a detailed case study on the marketing initiative. Based on deliberations by marketing faculty, 4 teams were selected for the final round - Mahindra & Mahindra, HDFC Bank, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance & R.K. Swamy BBDO for their Raymond Strategy. The SMIA jury includes eminent professionals from the areas of Marketing Research, Consultancy, Advertising, Corporate and Academia. Prof. Vithala Rao, Deane W. Malott Professor of Management, Cornell University Johnson School and Mr. K. S. Ramesh, ex. MD Cavin Care, among others constituted our esteemed Jury this year
Professor Renuka Kamat delivered the welcome address, inaugurating SMEC 2010. After introducing and felicitating our eminent jury members, it was time for the first presentation. ICICI Prudential Life Insurance spoke about how they managed to grow their customer base even during times of economic recession and financial panic. R K Swamy BBDO spoke about how their consistent advertising campaign over the last 8 years on behalf of Raymond, had helped Raymond become a market leader. HDFC Bank spoke about how they used technology and various innovative metrics to estimate the potential value of each customer. After a brief tea break, Mahindra and Mahindra spoke about how they have been able position their 3 vehicles in the MPV sector, to minimise cannibalisation of sales.
Next, Dr. Vithala Rao, delivered the key note address, on Enhancing Marketing Effectiveness. He spoke about both the importance of, and the means for measuring your marketing expenditure's effectiveness. This was followed by a short quiz and a brief presentation by one of our alumni for the benefit of the audience. Mr. K Ramesh, then led an insightful panel discussion on Making Marketing Accountable. Over hundred professionals from various companies attended the by invite only event and made their presence felt in a high quality Q&A for the panellists.
The jury was left in a fix to pick the final winner as all 4 finalists demonstrated marketing metrics and high quality marketing initiatives. Mahindra & Mahindra were thrilled to be pronounced overall winners of SMIA 2010. HDFC bank came in at commendable runners up place. Professor Kamat, ended the event on a great note with her Vote of Thanks. All in all, it was a great event that added value to students, faculty and the 110 odd corporates who took the time out to attend the event.
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