Great Lakes Institute of Management organized ‘Karma Yoga Convention’ at its campus at Manamai, Chennai on recently. This convention a forum to bring together various stakeholders from the community under one roof: farmers, businessmen, local Panchayat leaders, students as well as corporate leaders who play an important role in rural development, thus creating a single platform for all their needs.
The Karma-Yoga Convention was the participation of villagers in activities like discussion forums, networking with visiting organizations, as well as performing music, dance and theatre.
The purpose of this Convention is to link all available stakeholders and prospective collaborators directly with the villagers for perpetuating enduring partnerships for the sake of development.
Karma Yoga is a Leadership Experiential Program (LEP) for the students of Great Lakes Institute of Management. The program is designed for the students to connect with the ground realities and experientially learn transformational leadership besides inducting them onto Social Responsibility early in their careers. The LEP creates a mutual win-win situation for both the students and the villagers – the villagers of the 20 villages that have been adopted by Great Lakes and the students of Great Lakes. Karma Yoga program acts as a real life practical lab for the students to learn and experience the power of transformational leadership. Students also understand of what it means to create followers and transform them practically.
About Great Lakes Institute of Management
Great Lakes Institute of Management is a leading B-school in India founded in 2004 by Prof. Bala V. Balachandran J.L. Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Information Management Northwestern University, USA . The campus has been built on sprawling 27 acres and is LEED Platinum rated .The institute has academic alliances with Stuart Graduate School of Business USA, Yale University USA., and Nanyang Technical University, Singapore. In a short span of 9 years since inception, it is ranked in the Top 10 B Schools of India in 2012 (Outlook & Careers 360)
The institute offers a flagship one year Post Graduate Program in Management besides a Two year regular Post Graduate Diploma in Management. In addition, for Executives there are 2 part time programs to choose besides a Global Executive MBA in Energy Management in association with Bauer college, Houston Texas.
Great Lakes Institute of Management is guided by a Business Advisory Council chaired by Mr. Ratan Tata, and comprises of corporate stalwarts like Mr. Jamshyd Godrej, Mr. S Ramadorai, Mr. Kumaramangalam Birla, Mr. Narayana Murthy to name a few. The Academic Advisory Council chaired by Dr. Bala V Balachandran includes world renowned management gurus including Dr. Philip Kotler, Dr. Seenu Srinivasan, Dr. Raghuram Rajan and Dr. Aswath Damodaran amongst others. Mr. Jamshyd N Godrej is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Great Lakes Institute of Management.
Faculty from leading business schools such as Harvard, Stanford, Stuart, Kellogg and Florida teach at the institute. Chinese is a mandatory course for the students at Great Lakes. Eminent personalities like Dr. Ratan Tata, Dr. Deepak Chopra, (Late) Dr. C.K. Prahalad, Dr. Y.V. Reddy, Dr. Philip Kotler, Dr. Finn E Kydland , Mr. Vivek Paul, and Mr. Rahul Bajaj have visited the institute and have addressed the students.
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