IIPM-Academic Centers

Academic Centers (scroll down for details of Scholarships, Student Committees & Clubs)

Over the past many years, since IIPM was established in 1973, there have been various academic Centers at IIPM that have gained international repute due to their critical researches, surveys and consulting assignments for international bodies. A synopsis of these Centers of repute & their objectives is provided below.

Center for Executive Development: With IIPM's HRIC (Human Resource Intelligence Cell), Executive development programs in the areas of Corporate Planning & Strategic Behavior, Management of National Economy, Behavioral Sciences etc are conducted regularly under the aegis of this Center. Please visit the link on training (HRIC) for detailed information.

Center for Enterprise Management: The Center was founded with the sole objective of encouraging learning of enterprise management techniques right from the collegiate level. Due to the fact that most of the Asian business schools do not give importance to teaching high level management concepts to undergraduate students, this Center has the responsibility of managing the BBA course of IIPM that has now become one of Asia's premier undergraduate courses and India's number one.

Regional Centers of Studies & Research: These Centers undertake geographically decentralized researches through IIPM's research cell ICMR (Indian Council of Market Research) and various academic communities in areas related to social and economic development. These Centers enable academic and student bodies from all over the world to take part in research in geographical locations of their particular interest area, thus providing phenomenal diversity, flexibility and specificity to any research assignment.

Center for Human Development: This Center is credited to have led to the birth of the Great Indian Dream Foundation, which is now one of the world's leading support and development organizations that support socio-economic development activities in various disadvantaged, underprivileged, and underdeveloped areas. The objective of the Center is to initiate discussions, seminars and research on sustainable and ethical needs of man & woman, on both physical and psychological fronts, and on how to plan and manage societies. The Center focuses on actual implementation of multi level support activities that would ensure full growth of human capabilities avoiding the unfortunate dehumanizing process of the industrial civilization.

Center for Rural Development: The Center intends to train entrepreneurs and social workers for providing support in rural reconstruction and service programs. The Center acts hand in hand with other rural reconstruction boards operated by national and international bodies. Probably one of the reasons for the absolute success of this Center could be that this is one of the few Centers that recruits its future leaders directly from its training base. This ensures that the mission, aims & objectives of the Center are clearly transmitted throughout various cells of the center, wherever in the world.

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The future is here

When I started Planman Consulting in 1996, my biggest division then was the research and analysis division. It had 5 of the most brilliant toppers from IIPM. We had a dream to start a world-class business magazine. It was the first division to close down too! Dreams, however,have this habit of re-surfacing. They did, when I met this 19 year old exceptionally talented BBA topper at IIPM named Siddharth Nambiar. I have always believed in the abilities of intelligent, young business graduates and Siddharth fitted the bill perfectly. Siddharth’s drive and his willingness to take up this project got us rolling. We were soon sitting on the mission impossible - to bring out a first-of-its-kind business and economy magazine. I immediately asked him to first book the name, Business & Economy. When we approached RNI, we were disappointed to realise that the name had already been booked. But it was pleasant to get to know later that day that the name had been booked years back by us only!

Then started the tougher part. The hunt for world class people – and the rejection associated with being rejected by the people we wanted. And finally falling back on our internal support system. In walked A. Sandeep with a promise to do it all alone. Prasoon also decided to join in. We three were batch mates at IIPM too, so the tempo started building up. The excitement reached top gear when Sutanu took up our offer. Finally, we had someone to bring in industry expertise. Mouli Marur brought in the world class design. Prashanto, Abhimanyu and Satyajit added the remaining elements of excitement.

When you have a world class team, the rest of the job becomes easy – especially if the people are passionate about the dream ahead. Time flew... passionate, smiling and capable new people joined in and worked with utmost sincerity... and we reached the last week before the launch and suddenly 24 hours a day was not enough. The lovely, lively and smart team worked through the nights to bring out this first issue of a revolution. Because what you hold in your hand right now is a never seen before, Indian, world-class business and economy magazine. Each story, each column, each analysis done with just one aim in mind – to give you an intellectually stimulating experience. In these days of dust-bin-ization of the consumer with unlimited bombardment of relevant and irrelevant news from multiple sources, we realise the only reason you would want to read a magazine is when it gives you incisive and insightful analysis done by supremely competent people. And that’s what B&E stands for (ninety percent of our editorial people are MBAs. They understand business best and their analysis is impeccable). It’s time you start reading a business magazine that adds meaningful value to your precious time. Its time you realise - the future is here.

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