Admission is open for the 1-year full-time PGPX and part-time EMBA (Executive MBA) at the Mysore-based MYRA School of Business with the application deadline on February 15.

The PGPX (Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives) is designed as a 1 year full-time management programme for senior managers and entrepreneurs with at least five years of work experience.

MYRA says PGPX graduates are able to draw between Rs 11-21 lakh annual compensation in placements. The key recruiters include Infosys, Maveric, NxtGen, Reliance Jio, TCS, Capgemini, GMR group, Incedo, Metacog solutions, VIVO healthcare, Power Research & Development Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

It has been specifically developed to enhance managerial prowess and leadership skills that are required to take-on key responsibilities and important roles in a fast-changing and expanding business scenario, says MYRA.

The curriculum is based on extensive research and feedback from numerous executives, with an explicit focus on triple-bottom-line principles, where corporate outcomes are defined and measured through financial, social and environmental performance.

Five Majors are offered in Data Analytics, Operations, Marketing, Finance & Human Resources.

The students have to take 24 courses- 16 core courses and 8 electives in a year, representing 72 credit points. Each course is worth 3 credit points. Students typically take one to two courses at a time, with each course held over a duration of 2 to 3 weeks. The PGPX program commences in June and concludes in May.

Global faculty at Myra School of Business

The program also has a Semester Exchange with Catolica Lisbon-Portugal or the University of Wurzburg-Germany.

MYRA says PGPX graduates are able to draw between Rs 11-21 lakh annual compensation in placements. The key recruiters include Infosys, Maveric, NxtGen, Reliance Jio, TCS, Capgemini, GMR group, Incedo, Metacog solutions, VIVO healthcare, Power Research & Development Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

Eligibility criteria for PGPX/EMBA applicants

You should possess a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification and a minimum of 5 years of work experience as on June 1, 2018.

EMBA Program

EMBA course is covered in 336 intensive hours over alternate weekends in Bangalore including an international immersion at Cambridge Judge Business School, across 59 full-class days.

The international immersion involves two 1-week long Majors in Strategy, Innovation & Digital Transformation.

International Immersion at University of Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education

The 50 credit program with 6 Core, 6 Advanced Core, 2 Majors & 1 Business Capstone also provides the student Alumni status with Cambridge Judge

Ten merit-based scholarships are available for applicants with either GMAT, EA, NMAT, GRE, CAT or XAT scores. Test scores are not mandatory.

Personalised Executive Career Services by Right Management-Manpower Group,  includes Birkman Leadership Assessment, CV & LinkedIn review and restructuring,

Interview preparation & mock interviews, Executive Career Coaching and Guaranteed interviews for mid-career and senior career positions.

Before starting the program, all participants will complete the ESSENTIALprep® programme, a comprehensive web-based introduction to the core courses of business schools created by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).

The brief online review modules in Accounting, Finance, Statistics, and Quantitative Skills allow you to brush up on fundamental business concepts on your own time, so you can come to class ready to learn at a higher level. MYRA is the first Indian business school to offer this facility.

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CNN Money listed him as one of the “top-ten business school professors in the world” in their 2012 ranking. Now you can hear him in person. MYRA School of Business, Mysore in collaboration with Harvard Business Review Press is organizing an Executive Master Class with Prof. Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck at Dartmouth, USA, & Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School, USA on January 30th, 2016 at the MYRA campus, exclusively for applicants to MYRA School of Business.

Student’s applying to MYRA School of Business, either for the One Year Full Time PGPX Program or the AICTE Approved 2 year PGDM by January 26, 2016 stand a chance to win a seat and an all paid trip to Mysore for the prestigious lecture.

The Master Class is based on VG’s forthcoming book – Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation, HBR Press, which is set for release in April 2016.

Dr. Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is an expert on strategy and innovation and New York Times and Wall Street Journal’s bestselling author.

As the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric, he worked with GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt to write “How GE is Disrupting Itself,” the Harvard Business Review (HBR) article that pioneered the concept of reverse innovation.

Prior to joining the faculty at Tuck, VG was on the faculties of Harvard Business School, INSEAD, and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

VG has worked with CEOs and top management teams in more than 25% of the Fortune 500 firms such as Boeing, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Deere, FedEx, GE, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, J.P. Morgan Chase, J&J, New York Times, P&G, Sony, Wal-Mart and others.

VG received his MBA and PhD from the Harvard Business School.

Businessweek rated him as a “Top Ten Professor in Corporate Executive Education” and has included him in their list of “Outstanding Faculty” in their guide to the best business school for six different years. CNN money listed him as one of the “top-ten business school professors in the world” in their 2012 ranking. Dr. Govindarajan has been rated as a top fifty management thinker by the London Times and was rated as the number three management guru in the world by Thinkers50 in 2011.

Dr. Govindarajan will address the audience on ‘Three-Box Solution: Strategy for Leading Innovation”.

The Three-Box Solution describes the framework for managing a business’s responsibility to take action in three time horizons at once: executing the present core business at peak efficiency (Box 1); taking steps to avoid the inhibiting traps of past success (Box 2); and innovating a future built on nonlinear ideas (Box 3).

This Master Class presents the inter-relationship between the three boxes, the skills required to create each box and balancing between the three boxes and answer the critical question: How to successfully create the future even while managing excellence in the present?

Eligibility

All those who apply to MYRA School of Business for either the AICTE Approved 2 year PGDM or one year PGPX Program by January 26, 2016. Click here to apply: http://myra.ac.in/apply 

What students need to do

1. Register for an invite by clicking here.

2. Along with your application to MYRA, submit an essay on ‘How you will benefit from an MBA’ in not more than 500 words.

What students get

Five winners will get a fully paid visit to Mysore, a seat to participate in the Master Class, a Certificate of Participation signed by VG and a selfie with the Management Guru.

Besides a free seat and trip to Mysore, Scholarships for full-time courses are also on offer:

• If your GMAT score is above 700 /CAT is above 95 percentile – 40% tuition fee waiver
• If your GMAT score is 650 – 700 /CAT is between 90 to 95 percentile – upto 30% tuition fee waiver
• If your GMAT score is 600 – 650 /CAT is between 85 to 90 percentile – upto 20% tuition fee waiver

Click here to know more about scholarships.

Dr. Gopinath focused on the global macroeconomic scenario and its implications for the Indian economy. 

She began by noting that the current economic scenario is in a very interesting phase. We are coming out of the recession with the world economy slowly repairing itself and different countries going through different trends in the recovery process; now is a good time to pause and see where the world is heading, she said. 

Dr. Gopinath outlined four major trends that are currently playing out in the global economy:

• Diminishing GDP growth in China and its immensely negative effect on the entire global economy
• Collapse in commodity prices which has sent a chill down the spine of commodity investors: a huge drop of up to 40%, this sudden plunge in prices of commodities has set in a macroeconomic bubble
• The beginning of the end of low interest rates: tightening of the monetary and fiscal policies to bring down inflation rates is already in process
• Demographic trends of rising life expectancy with an increase in aging population in developed economies: this has had a negative impact on the global economy with a steep decline in the ratio of working population to retired population

The last trend is the one that will have a long-term effect, said Dr. Gopinath. This trend represents the most critical long-term economic dilemma facing the developed world. The big implications are on the fiscal side – with a significant amount of the population being retired and living off the wealth it generated during its working years, there are expected to be increased social security and related costs on government budgets,  she elaborated. 

What are the implications of these global economic trends on the Indian economy? 

As per Dr. Gopinath, while the global economic scenario might look bleak, things are looking good for India.

While most emerging markets are exposed to a negative shock due to crashing commodity prices, India being a big commodity importer, stands to gain, she said. 

The China Slowdown effect has not had a major negative effect on India as India’s exports to China are a small 4%. 

The high borrowing interests are also not bothering India much. Given that India has a young working force, the demographic aging trends and their negative impacts is not a major concern to India either. 

The audience interacted with her with questions on wide ranging issues—the global currency issues, increasing environmental concern on the global economy; distribution of agri-products, etc. 

Commenting on this, Dr. Gopinath said, “While each country is trying to do its bit, and new employment opportunities have opened up with the solar projects, waste management programs and such, yet on the global front, these (policies) lack teeth.”

Implementation of the right technologies can address a few of these problems, she added. 

Dr. Gita Gopinath, who has a number of laurels to her credit including the ‘Young Global Leader Award’ by  the World Economic Forum in 2011 was inducted into the Women Achievers’ Hall of Fame at MYRA School of Business, Mysore, by Mr. Ashok Baweja, Head, Quest Global Defense and Former Chairman of HAL.

Dr. Gita Gopinath with MYRA students and faculty

Mrs. Rashmi Bansal, the well-known author was inducted into Women Achievers’ Hall of fame (WAH) in 2014.

Dr. Shalini R Urs Founder and Chairperson, MYRA, welcomed Dr. Gopinath to the event with enormous pride, and talked about her contributions to the field of macroeconomics, especially fiscal devaluation studies. Dr. Gopinath, who was born in Mysore, drew praise from Dr. Urs for her illustrious journey. Dr. Gopinath’s journey from Mysore to Harvard is truly remarkable and inspiring to young minds, she said in her welcome address.

Dr. Shrijay Urs, Executive Director, MYRA, Faculty, staff, students and select invitees formed the audience. 

Dr. Sudhendar Rao, Professor of Information Systems at MYRA in his valedictory address said that her talk on the global economic situation was like a capstone course to the just-concluded course on Economics and the on-going course on Global Competitiveness at MYRA. Dr. M N Panini, Distinguished Professor Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Business Innovations, read out the citation. 

He was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Jyoti Rai, President of the Air Force Wives’ Welfare Association; Air Commodore, Om Prakash Tiwari of the Air Force Selection Board, Mysore and a host of Senior Air Force Personnel.

The initiation of a leader in the Forces begins with the all-important oath-taking ceremony, explained the Air Marshal.  The oath is imbibed into the blood and soul of every officer.  The commitment to the nation, uniform and to oneself, in that order, is also drilled into their souls.  The motto that is ingrained into each officer’s psyche during training ensures that every officer comprehends that the safety, honor and welfare of the nation always comes first; the safety, honor and welfare of the men they command always follows next; while personal ease, comfort and safety always comes last.

That there are lessons here for future business leaders is obvious because often one finds an exact flip of this motto in the corporate world! Managers and leaders often get sidetracked from taking decisions that build the company they work for in favour of decisions that secure their position in the company and expand their own personal fiefdoms. 

The motto that is ingrained into each officer’s psyche during training: the safety, honor and welfare of the nation always comes first; the safety, honor and welfare of the men they command always follows next; while personal ease, comfort and safety always comes last. That there are lessons here for future business leaders is obvious because often one finds an exact flip of this motto in the corporate world!

Sir Marshal Rai said that the training for future leaders begins at the ab-initio level with soldiers imbibing the required knowledge and skills to deal with all kinds of warfare.  Applying the skills gained through class room lectures, demonstrations and war simulation exercises, they acquire the knowledge and experience that will produce the competencies essential to effective leadership.  They are focused on honing followership abilities, influencing peers and motivating subordinates.

At the Operational level, personnel are trained to understand the broader Air Force perspective and the integration of diverse people and their capabilities to execute operations. 

At the Strategic level, airmen combine highly developed occupational and enduring competencies to apply broad professional leadership capabilities. At this level, an airman’s required competencies transition from the integration of people with missions, to leading and directing exceptionally complex and multi-tiered operations.

Drawing upon his personal experiences during the Kargil War and other war encounters, he enthralled the audience and instilled what true leadership entails: adapting and maintaining composure in stressful situations; demonstrating flexibility and resilience; seeking and accepting constructive criticism; balancing change and continuity; inspiring trust through establishing open, candid, and good relationships; treating all individuals fairly and with respect; maintaining high standards of integrity; placing mission success over personal gain; leading courageously from the front; taking personal responsibility and accountability for decisions and actions — are all the facets of a good leader, and every officer is trained to develop these qualities during his career, he said.

…the stark difference between a leader in the Forces and in the corporate world is the ability of a leader in the Forces to motivate the men he commands to go to war and give his life for the country.  It is this aspect that makes it all the more important for a leader of the Forces to have a conceptual clarity as every decision he makes and every command he gives

He explained that the stark difference between a leader in the Forces and in the corporate world is the ability of a leader in the Forces to motivate the men he commands to go to war and give his life for the country.  It is this aspect that makes it all the more important for a leader of the Forces to have a conceptual clarity as every decision he makes and every command he gives is critical to the entire group. 

He emphasized on two characteristics of a good leader — being audacious, and expressing a strong professional presence.  These two traits, he stated, will ensure that your team believes in your vision and connects with you as a leader and with the mission at large.  They provide the spirit, soul and continuity of the Mission statement.  This is the epitome of Leadership he concluded.   

He wrapped up the session with a short movie clip to demonstrate that the mission of the IAF is to defend the skies of the nation to ensure that the countrymen sleep peacefully.