Life @ Great Lakes Inst. of Mgmt-Chennai [GLIM]

MBA CAT 2022
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Also Please talk about the placments for the freshers.

please tell me what are the things that u feel on should come prepared with before joining a B-School esp GLIM since it is a one year proggramme.



Ashish.. Please share with us your profile, so that we can help you in a better way... If you know why you want to do an MBA, then I am sure.. you yourself can answer the question better.. Aint u think so :)

Bibin..
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Simply great to know about GLIM.


I am a commerce graduate and I have a 2 year work ex. Currently I am working with ICICI PRU.


Regards

Ashish


I am working as a unit manager in ICICIpru since Jan'05 with a package of 2.5lacs. Prior to that i was working with a chemical industry as a Marketing Executive. I am very average in acads. Can anything be done with that?



Thanks a lot for your replies Friends

Regards
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This thread has been a revelation for me.
I was under the impression that Glim is one of those B-grade schools in the **** mould. When my uncle,who knows mr.Bala personally, suggested that I should be considering glim seriously if I don't make it to iims this year, i was flabbergasted.
Seems as though I was blatantly wrong in my assessment.
Lesson: Never derive conclusions based on preconceived notions without having done the requisite research.

Who knows,I might land up there after giving CAT a couple more tries.

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This thread has been a revelation for me.
I should be considering glim seriously if I don't make it to iims this year, i was flabbergasted. Seems as though I was blatantly wrong in my assessment.



Lots more to come.. dude.. Five out of eight papers in this first term, will be taken by professors from US,who are pioneers in their domain.. Be it strateigc management or marketing management.. They are the people who do serious research and study the latest concepts in mangement... Rather than theory mugging, it would be a unique experience, considering that there are so many experienced faces in our class..



Lesson: Never derive conclusions based on preconceived notions without having done the requisite research.


Very well said, my friend.. !!

- Trail Blazer.
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This thread has been a revelation for me.
I was under the impression that Glim is one of those B-grade schools in the **** mould. When my uncle,who knows mr.Bala personally, suggested that I should be considering glim seriously if I don't make it to iims this year, i was flabbergasted.
Seems as though I was blatantly wrong in my assessment.
Lesson: Never derive conclusions based on preconceived notions without having done the requisite research.

Who knows,I might land up there after giving CAT a couple more tries.


Well, many have this perception. After all, our's is a new school.

One would love to be here. As TrailBlazer said, we have a great set of profs who are experts in their domain and more importantly many are active consultants for various industries.

I am happy that I took the admission offer.

Vijai
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We had a taste of how a B School quiz would be when we had one on Financial Accounting. After the quiz some were happy, some were no so and some were glad that they got the Balance Sheet right while some wondered ow they made this silly mistake.

The quiz was a great experiance for us. We have few in the pipeline next week.

As of now, we are loaded with assignments, presentations and case studies. The enthu. level here is quite high and ppl with more than 8 yrs of exp match the younger brigade in their enthu. to study.

The schedule for the next week leaves us with very little time to study. That is what the challenge is and we are upto it.

All the different committees have become operational and we have so many ideas to take our school forward. Great Lakes will soon become a much sought after school in India.

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hey prashanth

sounds good d00d. keep us updated on the happenings at glim :)

- suze

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sounds good d00d. keep us updated on the happenings at glim



Day before yesterday, we had a lecture by Mr. Vellayan, Deputy Chairman of Murugappa group, a 1.44 billion dollar *Indian* company. I was dumbstruck to see the phenomenal growth and strategies of an indian enterprise, who are into manufacturing bicycles, steel pipes and fertilizers etc.., rising to the levels of multinationals like TCS, Wipro in terms of turnover..

Here is a glimpse of the people you will ( ) be interacting as a student of Great Lakes.. Almost all of the following people has taken different papers in different terms including the Economics Nobel Laureate... Will keep you all updated of this years events..


On the 6th of January, 2005, the foundation stone for YALE-GLIM CENTRE FOR MANAGEMENT RESEARCH was laid by Dr. Richard Levin, President Yale University. Ms. Linda Koch Lorimer, Vice President and Secretary of the University.Later, there was a Symposium on "Management in India: Global Vision - Indian Roots" participated by some of the worlds best teachers and thinkers. Prof. V.S. Arunachalam, Carnegie-Mellon University, Prof. S.P.Kothari, Sloan School of Management, MIT, Prof. V.G.Narayanan, Harvard Business School, Prof. Paul Prabhaker, Stuart School of Business, IIT, Chicago, Mr. Vittal, Former Central Vigilance Commissioner, Government of India, Prof. Shyam Sundar, Yale School of Management, Yale University debated on the topic and dumbfounded the audience. The entire program was anchored by Prof. Bala V. Balachandran, Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Information Systems, Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
On the 13th of January, 2005, Dr.Raghuram Rajan, Economic Counselor and Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund gave a lecture to the students of Great Lakes Institute of Management on Monetary Policies & Improvement of Economic
conditions.
On the 18th of January, 2005, the unveiling of the foundation stone for the new Auditorium in our new proposed campus was done by Prof. Finn E. Kydland, the Nobel Laureate for Economics for the year 2004. The function was held in the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras auditorium presided over by Prof. M.S. Ananth, Director, IIT, Madras.
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hey i think a few of my collegemates are at glim this yr.. keshav, aditya suresh.. ring a bell?

any way sounds good..
can't wait till june when our classes start 😃

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Hi suzy,
u r right there are a hell lotta venky monke** in our class-aditya 1 & 2,vignesh,keshav .classes are really hectic .will keep u peepz posted on the quality of profs we are getting.as of date we have had 6 profs teaching us of which 4 are international faculty and they are brilliant.more to post but paucity of time restricts me as i have got FinAc final exam tomorrow.

amit i cant rate your chances,but if u have substantial work ex and have excelled in it i dont see a reason why u cant get an admit here. . ATB and guyz,the insti is getting better and better with each passing day.More abt our chinese classes in the next post.

Regards,
Prashanth

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you guys learn chinese??
why?

and venky whateys??? svce rawks dahling with so many classmates at glim and 6 @ IIMs..

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Hiya peepz,

here comes haripi express - part 2 with all details about the first month life @ Great lakes.Its been a hectic ride so far with my average hours of sleep reducing from 10/day to 6 /day with signs forboding that it is going to get much worser. . we have 8 sujects this term including chinese with 2 subjects already been completed . we have also finished the final exam of FinAc last saturday.



The subjects we have this term are FinAc,macroeconomics,statistics,marketing,strategy,chinese,Business communication and corporate finance. So far 6 subjects have been taught by 4 foreign profs and two by reputed indian faculty.The quality of faculty has been so good that i can say that these are the best teachers i have gt after my 12th wherein i had a gem of a maths teacher.All foreign profs are PhD's in their respective fields. so that shud give u an idea of the knowledge level they poses and the best part has been that they have come down to our level to teach and ensure that whatever they impart has been completely absorbed by the students.:) 😃 😃 😃

so far the toughest subject seems to be macroecon becoz it involves a great deal of studying as well as analytical skills.But the prof has done such a great job in making sure that our basics are proper w.r.t classical and keynesian economics.The last class wherein we had a case analysis of the indian economy post liberalisation was spellbinding. we had done close to 10 assignments in macroecon alone . The prof is a gold medallist in ecnomics and frequently writes for businesline.

FinAc we had a prof from FIU teaching us , Strategy by a prof from Texas alington,Buss comm by a prof from IIT,Chicago and marketing also by a faculty from IIT,chicago.i am mentioning the profs becoz i feel last year not many knew about the quality of faculty who had taught our seniors. this year its getting even beter eith a wide diaspora of international faculty.

The classes are held with a clear focus on equal class participation.we are divided into groups and we do some projects in groups which brings out the cameraderie between us.



The unique USP of Great lakes has been the focus of learning chinese . we have been getting a person of great repute who knows close to 10 languages teaching us. class is great fun as all of us shout chinese and its queer when we hear strange sounds. regarding chinese i would like to give u guyz a brief intro. chinese language is based on how it is enunciated.phonetics play a very important role.for eg: li can be spelt in four different tones which carry different meanings.the tones are high low,base and a curvy tone. curvy means like wuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

we also learnt how to call numbers till 1 crore.



for eg : 111111 is called as yi shr yi wan yi chyan yi bai yi shr yi . how does it sound?? the emphasis shud def be on the enunciation.





we had two done 2 mock presentations one on submitting a business proposal to the mayor of chennai abt a new start up business and the oher on teamwork.it was videotaped and we got an idea as to what our weaknesseses were when it comes to presentation skills.



we also had 3 guest lectures one on brand positioning,one on winning vision and other abt murugappa group by their director vellayan.



thats all reg great lakes.more abt Great lakes in the next express.


reg venky monke** i do admit they rock..but they remain as mon**** .j.k..

my bro is gonna kill me if he sees this post..

Prashanth

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Its official..Yes we have completed 12.5% of our course when still majority of our contemporaries are yet to start with their lessons.Does that count as a headstart??

I am breathing after a week of hectic tests,assignments,presentations. 6 subjects excluding chinese. barring marketing all other subjects exams were over.

The schedule for last week was 7 * 6 = 42 hours of class
+
4 * 2 hours of exam

+ 3 assignments(6/assgn) = 68 hrs apart fropm studying for our exams.

saturday exam got over and sunday was semester leave and i was in college till 5 AM monday to finish the strategy assignment. Its really tight guyz...B-School Life ain't easy and my profs promise me that it is going to get worser. but i am beginning to enjoy the pressure. 2 new subjects for the current sem have started and we have close to 7 hrs of contact classes everyday.some days we do get lucky and we have just 4 hrs. saturday relaxed a bit and went for D (film) . sunday i had to make it up and result was 5 AM night out. some guyz were awake the whole night.

rest of teh gang freaked out by going to BelaChow..(hope spelling is not wrong. )
we might in all probability be getting the former RBI governor to give us a GL this term.Besides Uncle bala will be teaching us this term. ,looking forward to his lectures.. . All profs we had till now have been amazing. simply the best. 90% are foreign faculty ,majority of em who had done MBA from IIMs and then PhD's from US univs and have been teaching and doing research in US. the remaining Indian faculty are also studs from top 10 b-schools in India.

I found that at least 4-5 profs who have taught us so far did their PG from IIMC. IIMC rocks w.r.t producing quality professors and research personnel.

we have also formed commitees for conducting various tasks like PR,placements,admissions,Events,General consulting etc.. . Any guesses for what commitee i am in??..obviously PR..

The best part is we are getting noticed which is visible in the amt of media space we are getting. We need to carry the message forward and i feel that PG is the best forum to really tell abt what is really happening at Great lakes.Being a old timer i guess it adds more to the veracity of my posts.

the best compliment we received in recent times was a statement by a CTS top management person who said that they recruit only from the top 8 B-Schools of India and Great lakes is one among them and added that he had unshakeable faith in the ability of Uncle bala.way to go i guess..

Any further enquiries u can PM me guyz or drop in a comment in my Blog. i will be more than willing to help.

Prashanth

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Any further enquiries u can PM me guyz or drop in a comment in my Blog. i will be more than willing to help.

Prashanth


Hi Prashanthi,

great to know about the happening of GLIM.

I am a commerce graduate(with very avg marks). and from last six months i am working as a unit manager in ICICI PRU. prior to that i was working with a pvt ltd chemical industry as Marketing executive. by the time i will appear in the selection process of GLIM i would have completed one year in ICICI PRU with a total of 3 year of workexp.

Is my profile suitable for GLIM. I am very desparate to get into GLIM.

Can u suggest me some additional course to enhance my profile. And what else I should look forward to make it to GLIM.

Plz help me

Regards

Ashish
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hey prashanth!
good work man.. keep them coming! :thumbsup:

its high time chennai had an institute that can be spoken in the same breath as the top b-schools in India.. Balachandran i guess is again doing a wonderful job over there

also i think u guys should consider urself lucky as in the future getting into GLIM would get tougher and tougher... but again u spotted the winning horse ans so deserve it

nagila

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Hi Prashanth, A few questions regarding GLIM.
1) Where is ur hostel?? Are there any day-scholars?? (Just wondering, if a MBA education allows that)
2) What is the complete course fee..

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Hi Prashanthi,

great to know about the happening of GLIM.

Ashish


Hey Prashanth....er umm...Prashanthi.....like this name so much better .
Ashish, 3 yrs with ICICI Pru sounds good.....as u probably hv the read thru the rest of the thread.....we'v got guys with 15yrs wrk ex...to freshers....so wht u hv is a fairly gud chnce....


rest of teh gang freaked out by going to BelaChow..(hope spelling is not wrong. )

its bella caio ...dude.....:)anyways...ur forgiven....if u treat me there....

Hi Prashanth, A few questions regarding GLIM.
1) Where is ur hostel?? Are there any day-scholars?? (Just wondering, if a MBA education allows that)
2) What is the complete course fee

well....since the campus is nt in place yet....the students are managing by leasing some of the flats around the locality. The inst. ds have a tie up of sorts ...but that place is kinda far...so many outstation guys took it up as interim acco....
yeah,....we've got loads of day schi's.....more than 40 students are frm chennai....though most of us also have shftd clsr to the inst.
Abt the fees....this yr the fees came up to 4.37...thts inclusive of the laptop for 70k...obviously likely to increase next yr......
hope this clarifies ur queries...
cheers
Mru
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Hope Mrudula's post answered the quesitons raised.

We had a 4 day break and the classes resumed today. Term 1 was hectic. We were told that Term 2 would be relatively easy. We are looking forward to Uncle Bala's (our dean) class early July.

The assignments and projects are challenging. A lot of learning has happened since we stepped into Great Lakes.

Vijai

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hi

Check this article which highlights the great lakes institute


Great Lakes is a particularly odd name for a school in Chennai given that the city is perpetually short of water. The name derives from the adopted American geography of the school's backers - a group of Indian academics at some of the most reputable business schools in the United States.

The school also has a collaborative arrangement with the Ivy League, hosting visiting faculty members from Yale University in New Haven.

Launched as a non-profit establishment, Great Lakes was bankrolled by Bala Balachandran, an accounting professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management who hails from India's southern Tamil Nadu state. Chennai is its capital.



It's not the first institution of higher learning in India to offer Putonghua. But to earn a degree here, Chinese language skills are mandatory, not optional. And although students won't be fluent by the time they finish their one-year management program, their familiarity with the basics will make them more marketable, predicts S Sriram, executive director of Great Lakes.

To bolster Krishnan's efforts, the school is in preliminary talks with universities in Shanghai and Hong Kong to facilitate faculty exchanges and beef up its Putonghua teaching staff.

you can view the original by clicking on the link below

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Weekend/GF18Jp02.html

chalo bye

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HI aal those guys who are in Great lakes (GLIM). My name is Mayank Gupta.
I belong to New Delhi. I will definitely apply to GLIM this year. But
let me tell you about my background. I am a BCA graduate but telling you
frankly that I dont have any interests in coding and computer programming.
the biggest mistake I did in my life was taking BCA as my graduation. I
completed my graduation in the year 2003. After my grads I started working
for a call centre. I worked there for an year as customer care executive.
In sep 2004 I left my Call centre and preparep for CAT and all those
exams but not able to get thru any of those good institutes. Now I am
planning to join a 1 year Diploma course in Financial Planning. Here
in delhi there is an institute which offers 1 year diploma in Financial
planning. they say that it had a great future but frankly speaking that
I am doing this bcoz I dont want to sit idle at home and want to learn
something concrete so that I can overcome my Bca graduation. Thats why
I am choosing finance. Please enlighten me that if I am a good candidate
for GLIM or not. OR my Financial planning options is really a good option
or not. Do this really have a good future. Please reply. I am really
depressed and need help from you guys.