Department of Management Studies IIT Madras

Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras
Established	2004
Head	Prof. Srinivasan G.
Location	Chennai, India
Enrollment	80-85 students
Homepage	http://www.doms.iitm.ac.in

The Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras, also known as DoMS, IIT Madras is a business school under the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Chennai, India.

History

IIT Madras was established in 1959. The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras was offering management education in the form of M. Tech. (Industrial Engineering) from 1959 . A full-fledged MBA program was started by the department in 2001. The Department of Management Studies (DoMS) at IIT Madras formally came into existence in April 2004.

Programs offered

Currently, the department offers MBA, MS by research and PhD degrees.

MBA

The MBA programme is a two-year programme, structured with courses spread over eight quarters and about five to six courses per quarter. The first year contains core courses that are compulsory for all students, whereas the second year mostly has electives and a few core courses.

In the summer break between the first and second year, students are expected to work on a summer project with a company.

Apart from regular academics, course activities include taking courses on audit, going on field visits, participating in management workshops, organizing professional events, and working on live business projects. The programme includes three core courses on various Industrial and Business Domains spread over the last three quarters.

Students of the programme can opt for auditing courses (i.e. taking classes but not assignments or exams and not receiving credits) from any of the elective courses offered by the Department of Management Studies or from the more than 300 courses offered by the other 14 departments in the Institute.

Early recruiters can guide students to opt for selected courses - electives, Industrial and Business Domains, and audit courses - during the last three quarters. Additionally, recruiters can also offer students projects in the last quarter to enable smooth induction.

Co-curricular courses offered at the department include business communication and presentation skills, negotiation skills, teamwork and conflict resolution skills, time management, business etiquette, and foreign languages (primarily German).

The batch size is in the range of 80 to 85 students, picked from over thirty five thousand applicants who sit for the national-level Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) conducted by the IITs and IISc and over 250000 applicants who take up the Common Admission Test CAT conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management followed by a Group Task/Personal interview session later on.

Extracurricular activities

Apart from the rigorous curricular courses, the students take part in a variety of extra curricular activities.

• DoMS Day Out, popularly called the DDO, is an intra-departmental sporting event held every year during March-April.
• DoMS Cricket League (DCL). In Feb, 2011 the 5th edition of DCL (DCL 5.0) was successfully conducted. The DCL format unlike the normal cricket formats is unique as each team has only 7 players (5 males + 2 girls compulsory)+ 1 substitute player.

Other activities include the Teacher's Day Event, Hostel Day Event, Industrial Visits, Class Trips and Outbound at dawn.

Events

Samanvay

Samanvay is the annual National Business School Fest of the IIT Madras. It is organized by students of MBA at Department of Management Studies. Each year Samanvay revolves around a new theme and its events are centered around it. Samanvay 2010 ^[1] was inaugurated by Mr K. Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services. Some of the recurring events are Business Plan contest, Panel Discussion by industry experts, Online quizzing and other function specific events on Finance, Marketing, Operations, HR and Consulting.

ICON

ICON ^[2] or Inter-Corporate Outbound National Championship is a sporting event organized by DoMS, IITM for the corporate community. It aims to provide a welcome break to the corporate minds from the daily routine of their lives and exhibit their skill sets in a different arena. Teams spanning across the country are pitted against each other to demonstrate their team work and leadership skills in a fun-filled informal way.

Student initiatives and interfaces

The feature that stands out at DoMS, IIT Madras is the number and involvement of student led interfaces. They are primarily focussed towards getting the best corporate exposure before students embark on their own corporate journey.Some of them are listed below. ^[3]

The esteemed guest list under these initiatives include (Please Note: Designations indicated may not be relevant as on date and only indicate their respective positions on when they visited Institute):

• Mr. Satish Kumar (CEO, Henkel Spic)
• Mr. Lakshmi Narayanan (CEO & President, Cognizant Technologies Solutions)
• Mr. V. Pradeep Kumar (CEO, Sara Lee Household & Body Care India Pvt. Ltd.)
• Mr. C. K. Ranganathan (CMD, CavinKare Pvt. Ltd.)
• Mr. B. Muthuraman (CEO, TATA Steel)
• Mr. George Zacharias (CMD, Yahoo ! India)
• Capt. G R Gopinath (CEO, Air Deccan Airways)
• Mrs. Ingrid Srinath (CEO, Child Rights and You (CRY))
• Mr. Sarath Babu (CEO, Food King Catering Services Private Limited)

CEO Connect

In CEO connect eminent business leaders are invited to the campus, to share their experiences and lessons of excellence. They have a broad interaction with the students on diverse topics and give their take on the corporate world. The essence of the event is to provide the students an opportunity to get the perspective from the captains of the industry.

Corporate Wisdom

This team ensures students to get an operation level picture in various organization by inviting managers for lectures and workshops.

Management Insights for Social Transformation (MIST)

Students at DoMS, IIT Madras recognize that societal up-liftment is imperative for Nation building. Management Insights for Social Transformation (MIST) is a novel forum in the Department of Management Studies, IITM which has been created to operationalize the linkage between management graduates and social organizations. Through MIST, DoMS IITM, aims at inviting eminent philanthropists, who have reached out to the society in their own unique ways, to share their experiences and enrich the students in their outlook and attitude towards the society.

MBA Invitation Lecture Series (MILS)

Started in the year 2011, Invitation Lecture Series initiative has a vision to become the most prestigious lecture event at IIT Madras attracting audience from across departments. The "By Invitation" lecture series has witnessed speakers sharing their journeys which transcends all of forms of education, "Life".

DoMS Interface (DI)

DoMS INTERFACE is an initiative, to develop a forum whose objective is to be a program communication link to the outside world which includes corporate world, prospective students, alumni and media. The role of DoMS INTERFACE is to seamlessly blend with all forums currently inherent to the system. It provides an appropriate medium for all existing forums to have an appropriate exposure which can catapult their existing significance

Collaborations

Mannheim Business School, Germany

The Department has a Memorandum of Understanding with Mannheim Business School Germany for Exchange of students and faculty. The students at either universities do courses from the other for a semester.

Indian School of Business

In November 2007, DoMS IIT Madras & The Indian School of Business (ISB) inked a pact for collaborative research. ^[4]

References

1. ^ http://www.thehindubusinessline.in/2010/02/04/stories/2010020452911700.htm
2. ^ http://www.icon.iitm.ac.in/
3. ^ http://www.doms.iitm.ac.in/interfaces.htm
4. ^ http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/11/07/stories/2007110752602300.htm

External links

• Department of Management Studies IIT Madras Official Website
• Department of Management Studies IIT Madras Interfaces
• Students' Blog.
• SAMANVAY - The Annual B-School festival of DOMS-IITM.
• Research collaboration with ISB, Hyderabad.
• Inter-Corporate Outbound National Championship

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