Life @ Great Lakes Inst. of Mgmt-Chennai

[george.kaipanat]

Hello Everyone,

After a brief period of non activity, Im back here at PG to give my perspective on happenings at Great Lakes. For more information on what goes on at Great lakes, do visit our Blog Here.

As to whats been happening at Great Lakes... well a lot has already been said. All i can add to it is that... Its too cool!!! MBA @ Great Lakes Rocks!!!

You've got to experience it to know it...

[crazyaboutmbabs]

Dear Fellow GLakers – You are every bit right in saying that the Convocation was in fact a memorable one for the graduating batch (The Jaycees) and an inspirational one for the incoming batch (We, The Champions).The ideas shared by Uncle Bala, Mr.B.Ramalinga Raju (CEO, Satyam) and Mr. Ram (Editor, Hindu) ,to say the least were enlightening and gave a lot of mental fodder. The baton of taking GL to heights of unparalleled glory has now been passed onto us and I am sure we have started in the right earnest and on a very promising note.

Just to add on some of the defining moments that stood out during our short stay here – The GUEST LECTURES by some towering personalities of the corporate world like CXOs of firms like MaFoi Management Consulting (Founder, CEO), Saint Gobain (CEO) and HeyMath (CTO) were really inspiring and definitely added in a big way to our understanding of the importance of having a long term vision, focus, commitment and risk appetite. The words from such people are priceless and what a great opportunity it was to hear straight from the people who themselves define what a business leader is all about!!

Originally Posted by The Hummer

Another batch of high-energy photons graduated out of the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai on the 30th of April, 2008. Bedecked with the tag of MBA, the Junior Crusaders (as the Batch 2008 is known) are all set to launch their crusade in the corporate sphere. Held at the grand Chennai Convention Center, the convocation was an event filled with emotions, resolutions, guidance and exuberance.
The gathering witnessed the presence of Mr. N.Ram, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu as Chief Guest and Mr. Ramalinga Raju, Founder and Chairman, Satyam Computers Limited as the Guest of Honour. Of course there were distinguished personalities like our Uncle Bala and Mr. T. N. Seshan (our permanent faculty).
Thoughts were poured in on issues like the importance of leadership in India, the essence of curiosity, need to see a dream and ensure that it gets realized and the relative significance of imagination vis-à-vis knowledge.
The feeling of accomplishment could easily be seen in the eyes of our seniors. An equal degree of determination was reflected in their attitudes. Check out the following link for more information.
The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Business schools urged to provide reality check



Cheers

[crazyaboutmbabs]

@ranjit
I fully endorse whatever you have said about our experience at GLakes..And in addition to that I would like to mention something more ..Something about the OUTBOUND TRAINING Program..
GL is not just all about serious work 24X7, power talks, Guest Lectures and sleepless nights .Itz all this, but much more than that and this program was a testimony to that. We played team games here, interacted with each other, danced late into the night and got our batteries recharged for what I am sure will be the greatest learning experience of our lifetime. And thatz not all .All this was beautifully designed to teach us the lessons of team spirit, team camaraderie and friendly competition and whole lot of things. There are just no words to explain what we experienced there as the words fall short. U‘ve got to be there to experience it!!



CHEERS
BS.......

Originally Posted by ranjit_2007

Well, to sum up my experience so far at great lakes.....there is never a dull moment when u are surrounded by great Faculty, great peer group coming from diverse backgrounds, an outbound program that is designed to overwhelm your senses at the beginning of the course, guest lectures from some renowned entrepreneurs, student driven activities, assignments, case study discussions, learning foreign languages like chinese, research activities and new initiatives designed to encourage students to share their knowledge, experiences....and the list is endless.....life at great lakes is "living the MBA dream" and hey whats more....all in an year's time....before u know what hit u...u would be armed with an MBA degree to take on the challenges of a global manager.

[gautam.chhabra]

truly endorse the views expressed by the fellow Great lakers..the orientation program, outbound fun and team building exercises, guest lectures by industry eminent CEO's and CTO's, Marketing lectures and case study by Prof Nirmal Gupta and How to become an effective executive lectures . Everything was just awesome and helped all of us to get ready and energised for Term 1.

[gautam.chhabra]

2 weeks into Term 1

The term 1 with subjects like Intelligently interacting with others, Marketing Management, Financial Accounting, Macro economics, Statistics and Mandrin are all keeping us very busy. Adding to it the team activities, internal clubs, group activities and discussions, case studies and karm yoga - working with the needy people and hence contributing to the society...all this in just 24 hours a day and 7 days a week...seems impossible

Who can teach better time management than this. A formal welcome to the MBA course.

[The Hummer]

Excellent work EvilZombie....I am sure aspiring folks would gain a lot of information about Great Lakes.
Let the fragrance spread....
Cheers!!!!!

Originally Posted by EvilZombie

Some links on the coverage that the institute got from the media on the day of convocation. This is to give an indication to the 2009-2010 hopefuls that the college has started creating a mark for itself in the media.

Also Uncle Bala has gone on record saying that we intend to move into our new ECR campus for the incoming batch of 2009 - 2010

The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Business schools urged to provide reality check

The Hindu Business Line : ‘India should focus more on human development’

Indiainfoline.com

B-school Great Lakes' convocation held - Newindpress.com

Great Lakes Institute, Chennai Holds Convocation for PGPM Batch 2008 & EMBA Batch

The MBA Universe :- News & Updates


Thanks
Vidya Shankar
Class of 2009

[mkinra]

Awesome Job Guys!

[meetgmat]

Originally Posted by mkinra

Awesome Job Guys!

Thank U mkinra. Its all the inspiration we got from seniors which is flowing in the form of enthusiasm here.
And as my fellow Great Lakers have mentioned above, apart from subject one thing which we are learning here is giving the best in the peak of stress. Dont think any B School give this much variety of experience in the first 15 days only. Its awesome. We ae doing so much simultaneously that sometimes I can not believe is the same me who used to procrastinate at work

Here procrastination will hit you with tons of unread-preread and tons of postread

Thank you very much to everyone who is posting all the happenings of the roller coaster in the busiest schedule here... Ya I know we all Great Lakers rock !!!

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Murli

[Hard_Rocker]

Great job guys .. Have a look at [FONT='Arial','sans-serif']www.greatlaker.wordpress.com[/font]

lots of interesting things posted ....

[george.kaipanat]

We at Great Lakes do a lot more than study. for instance we have something called The Karma-Yoga Project. Well, why dont you go ahead and read about it here --> The Karma-Yoga Experience Great Lakes Institute of Management