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From being a team leader / project leader, its time to
become a thought leader
How? Join Executive Fellowship program of IIMs
IIMs are on the look out for you.. But why?
Bring in real industry insights into academia
Thereby improve research quality and quantity
Through increased research output, improve their global ranking
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Team leader to a thought leader
A doctoral program offered by IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore,
XLRI / MDI
An excellent executive (part time) program
Requires insights from industry
Targeted at professionals (engineers, post graduates and professionals like CAs)
Excellent program that can bridge gap between academia and industry by producing Academic leaders (Directors/deans)
Thought leaders (Faculty at top Institutes)
Corporate thinkers (senior business leaders)
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What is a Fellowship program?
Thousands of businesses, with millions of data
points, over time building up big data
Some familiar examples
Stock prices of firms over time
Mergers and acquisitions of firms
Profitability of firms over time
Effectiveness of economic reforms
Effectiveness of ICT in team and firm performance
Research in Management
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Investors like Buffett for investing
Stock Analysts for rating firms
Investment banks for making deals
Consultants for improving businesses
Researchers/ academicians for understanding concepts
Entrepreneurs for building businesses
Senior Managers for leading their businesses
Research is required by
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Need to bridge industry and academia gap
IIMs more importantly need insights from the industry, which can enrich academia
Therefore the need of starting Executive FPM program
Wear your thinking caps and embark on your thought leadership career
Its time to enrich your career and contribute to academia
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Industry Academia interaction
IIM Lucknow and IIM Indore offers this program
Minimum work experience: 7-10 years
4 years program
Continue your job along with Fellowship program
No requirement of CAT for admission into the program
Opens up your career avenue big time
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Executive Fellowship
Academic eligibility B.E with 60% Any post graduate with 55% marks
Entrance exam: If no CAT / GMAT scores, then WMP test of IIM L to be taken
Age: Not more than 55 years Work experience: At least 7 Years of work experience for Post Graduates and
professionally qualified (CA/CS) At least 8 years if you are an engineering graduate
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IIM L - Exec FPM
Any Master’s degree, with at least 55 per cent marks
Professional qualifications like CA, ICWA, CS with at least 55 percent or equivalent grade point average
4 years/8 semester bachelor’s degree with at least 60 per cent marks or equivalent grade point average
Work experience not less than 10 years (out of which at least 05 years must be in Industry)
Entrance exam: If not having CAT / GMAT scores, then Research Aptitude Test =RAT conducted before interview
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IIM I FPM (Industry)
Investment ? Around 6 lakh Rs for the entire program
Salary foregone ? Nil. You continue to work as before!
Time spent ? Around 4 years on the best campuses
Social life ? IIM life = Study hard and party harder
Degree received ? Fellow of IIM
Future career path ? Senior corporate, academics or entrepreneurship. The sky opens up
Cost Benefit analysis for you
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Due to technology advances in:
Database access
E-Library creation
Statistics software
• Life made easy, research cycle time cut short easily by 2 years, that too with less pain!
Research made easy
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Literature Review
Research gap/research question identification
Hypothesis generation
Data collection
Data analysis and testing
Results and outcome
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PhD process overview
A few decades ago Present state Physical library E-library, at the click of mouse
Manual data collection for months Ready database accessible online
The much dreaded survey process Online : “Survey Monkey ”
Qualitative research : More painful than survey, travel for interviewing and transcribe later on for months..
Online, audio recording, auto convert from voice to word software..
Statistical analysis, months of work, finding error & rework
Faster than fast food.. 2 minutes sufficient for analysing 10,000 dataset. Eviews, SPSS & excel
Enriching and painful process Enriching and fun filled process!
End up as a professor Be an educator, executive or entrepreneur !
Doctoral process comparison
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Output of “research process is publication”
Publication is communication with
Peers/scholars (scholarly journal)
Managers (practice oriented journal)
This is a sign of your research capability, exactly what the top rung PhD programs like IIMs look for
And this is where eMBArkers steps in to help you!
Research as a communication process
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But why should IIMs admit you?
Entry barriers: Admit only those candidates with “research capability” i.e those having
i. High focus on specialization area of his / her choice
ii. Research interest (ask in-depth relevant questions and try to find answers objectively, backed by data)
iii. “Think out of the box” attitude
Conference or journal publication = signal of your research capability How to get there? Ask us!
Where is the catch?
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Promoted by alumni of IIMB Doctoral programme with rich corporate & academic experience
Aim:
Enable your entry to FPM programme by informing, mentoring & handholding potential candidates
Be one step ahead of the curve, make a start by publishing in Indian journals before joining IIMs.
Who are we?
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Services offered: (in brief)
Exposure to doctoral process at IIMs
Mentoring: individual hand holding by providing focus on area of specialization and research interest
RAT/WMP and interview preparation
In sum: bridge course and preparation for & publication even before entering the IIMs !
Service offered
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Online classes: Virtual classroom (Linkstreet offers service
to IIM B also) http://linkstreet.in/ Only IIM doctoral students / alumni as faculty members Class Videos are recorded (unlimited revision and
reviewing is made possible) Forum for discussion among students / batches Access to database for corporate data & journals Phase I: Theory & concepts of doctoral process (3 months) Phase II: Mentorship for paper writing Tangible output: “Research paper” that helps you to
strengthen your candidature at the FPM interviews
How does it work?
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Phase I to start in May 2013
Classes: Weekday & weekend options available
Mode of delivery: Live online as well as recorded
Application deadline: (tentative)
IIM Indore: Dec end 2013
IIM Lucknow: Feb 2014
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Timelines
Need more information about us?
Visit us at: www.embarkers.in
Write to us at: [email protected]
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Thank You!