Great Lakes Admission Queries

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C K Prahalad@Great Lakes

Great LAkes Institute of Management, Chennai is hosting a land mark lecture on "Business Challenges in the current global environment" by Prof C. K. Prahalad. Prof Prahalad, is a distinguished professor of corporate strategy at University of Michigan.

The Guest Lecture is scheduled to happen on 3rd January.

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Fall Project Report at Great Lakes is available on Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai and http://www.glakes.org/report-2006.htm

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Why MBA @ Great Lakes

This post has been pending for a long time.

I was getting all kinds of enquiries about Great Lakes, the kind of student profiles we have here at Great Lakes, the faculty that teaches here, and the most important of all, the placement scene! - Basically the usual “What is in it for us” kind of questions. The objective of my post here is to reason what sets the Great Lakers apart… Why and How are we different from the rest of the B-Schools.

• One - Year course- the only other college offering the same kind of course is ISB. The common link between both the colleges being Uncle Bala, who is one of the founders of ISB, MDI and also Great Lakes. One year MBA makes certainly more sense, specially for those with prior relevant work-ex - You save one precious year of your life
• International Focus - Our entire curriculum has an international focus to it. We study Chinese language and both US and Indian forms of Accounting - Indian Accounting taught by an Indian CA; the US GAAP being taught by a US based Accounting Professor
• World class faculty - We, at Great Lakes, have professors flying down from the US to teach us various courses. 90% of the courses that we study here are taught by professors from Kellogg School of management, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stern School of Business, Georgia State University, University of Miami, Stuart Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Florida International University, University of Rhode Island, San Jose State University, University of Illinois, IIMA, IIMB, and so on…
• Quality of Student Interaction – We have students with an average work-ex of 3.5 years. This being the case, the wealth of practical knowledge Great Lakers bring to the table even before joining Great Lakes is exceptional. This thereby, leads to high quality peer group interactions and brings in newer perspective to different dimensions.
• International Affliations – Great Lakes is affiliated to Stuart Business School, Illinois Institute of Technology for its PGPM course. We also have MOU with Nanyang University, Singapore and Collaboration with Yale University. We have recently signed an MOU with Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, thereby enabling us to have value additions in technical expertise that IIT has been able to gain in past few decades.
• Research Outlook– With Dr Venkat R Krishnan, Director Yale – Great Lakes Centre of Research, at the helm of research activities at Great Lakes, we have already marked our presence in Management Research. We organized the first Yale Great Lakes International Conference on 24thDec ‘06, which was a run away success with academicians from across the globe participating in the same. We have also announced the setting up of Kotler – Srinivasan Centre of Marketing Research, thereby developing our collaboration with Stanford University also.
• Luminaries – Great Lakes has been known for the luminaries visiting the campus. Interactions with them have been profoundly insightful and they not only enthralled Great Lakers with their charisma, but also have been extremely motivational, showing us the path ahead! In terms of Academicians, we have had the privilege to listen to the some of the stalwarts of Management education throughout the world. The list includes Dr. Bala V Balachandran, Dr. Philip Kotler, Prof C K Prahalad, Prof Seenu Srinivasan, Prof HayaGriva Rao, Prof. Sudhakar Balachandran, and many others. Some of the eminent personalities at our campus are:
  
  Ms. Indra Nooyi, CEO & President, Pepsi Co,
  Mr Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft India
  Mr Ratan Tata, Chairman Tata Group
  Mr Adi Godrej, Chairman Godrej Group
  Mr Lakshminarayan, CEO Cognizant
  Mr Vivek Paul, Former CEO, Wipro
• Industrial Interface – In a short span of two and half years, Great Lakes has been able to build its brand equity, with Industry across verticals accepting and praising Great Lakers and their efforts. We have been able to achieve 100% placements in the first two years of inception and had 7.2 LPA as the average salary last year. This year, we have had more than 81 companies participating in Fall Project Phase, which is a testimony of the acceptance industry has shown towards Great Lakers.
• Last, but not the least, Great Lakes is a student-run school. Here Students are given a lot of freedom to decide what path they want to take. For instance, the students are the ones who decide what electives to be taken. Hence, the course structure is very application-oriented with a lot of focus on the latest trends in Management. Even though it is a one-year course, the total number of courses offered are 40, with the total number of teaching hours being around 950 hours, even more than what some b-schools teach in 2 years.

After having said this, Its our duty to warn you that the course is no piece of cake… The scope for learning is tremendous. But, an equal amount of effort has to be put in. For instance, for every one hour of class, there is 4 hours of pre-reading involved!! You have to slog… to see the fruit in the end!


Hope that meets most of ur queries… In case, you would like to know something more, do feel free to ask More on Great Lakes at Great Lakes Institute of Management


Neha/Manik

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hiii piiiiipllllllll....
hope you guys are all doing fine and partying hard this year end...
well, if u want to know what the Great Lakers are doing... we are having classes till 9.30 pm on 31st, and classes from morning 8 on 1st... doesnt it sound uttttttttter sadistiic????
well... it might sound sad, but we are partying... and partying the whooooooole night... dunno if we can arrange for a party in college..
well apart from partying and stuffs, the big question is what are the glakers doing other than studies(did i sound like a very academic personality trying to concentrate into extracurriculars???)... well a group of people just finished organizing an international conference with Yale, where Indra Nooyi came... a bunch of people are now busy with the CK Pralhad visit who will be at Great Lakes for a talk.... and a bunch of ever-vella people are working on L'Attitude... the people are selected, queries are coming from all over about how to come down to the venue and stuffs, the venue still seems to be in a slumber in absence of the glakers, the prizes bought--- not liked---- and returned--- and ordered for better ones. Arrangements are in full swing to host all the ceo s and the whos who of the corporate world.... the logistics team is working too hard to ensure everything goes right, the individual events teams are ensuring the best qualities on the stage... however complaints are on -- for eg. hr event co-ordinator was seen yesterday night at 3 o clock in a hot discussion with the event coordinators... the team responsible for confirming the judges is on the brink of their tears... and the coordinators have become 500% mads... and the list goes on.... and on.......and on........
oh o ! i forgot to mention these are in addition to the normal acads(10-12 hrs classes per day).... isn't that Great Lakes is known for?? CREATING A SYSTEM IN THE CHAOS !
chalo i got a L'Attitude meeting.....

yours 500% dear mad blogger,
FnS

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Hapy New Year...

[avi_15]

hii all

can u suggest me whether i wud manage a call from glakes
my percentile scores of cat are
di -- 86.22
qa 84.17
va 82.84
overall - 89.1

gmat--- 640

workex - 27 months(till date) in IT
good acads and extracurriculars

please advise which score to use for applying cat/gmat

avi_15

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Originally Posted by avi_15

hii all

can u suggest me whether i wud manage a call from glakes
my percentile scores of cat are
di -- 86.22
qa 84.17
va 82.84
overall - 89.1

gmat--- 640

workex - 27 months(till date) in IT
good acads and extracurriculars

please advise which score to use for applying cat/gmat

avi_15

Well me too sailing some what in the same boat with a overall percentile in CAT 06 of 89.38.Three years Work Ex in Corporate Sales.......
Calls from GLIM????????

Help plz.
Regards.....
Bharath

[avi_15]

HiPlease clarify as to what all documents need to be sent along with the applications package for the FUll time MBA program for 2007-2008.Also can i apply with both my gmat and cat scores or do i need to use one of them?Regards

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Hi,
Interview calls would go on the basis of relative scores. So it would be difficult for us to say the probability of a call on the basis of scores now. Also, same would be the problem if u ask us which of Gmat/Cat would suffice for calls.

~FnS

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Originally Posted by avi_15

HiPlease clarify as to what all documents need to be sent along with the applications package for the FUll time MBA program for 2007-2008.Also can i apply with both my gmat and cat scores or do i need to use one of them?Regards

Hi,

u need to send only reco letters by 20th Jan, 2006 to Great Lakes.
U can apply with any one of cat or gmat scores.

~FnS