KIAMS Faculty: making a difference

Faculty can make an education institution rise to great heights. While anybody can acquire educational qualifications, fortune’s favourites are the ones who get to guide and educate students into their future. When any youngster steps into a management institute it is with faith and the knowledge that this is going to decide how their careers are shaped. Rarely do students forget great teachers. The ones chosen to guide KIAMS students are:

Dr Janaki Naik, Director, KIAMS, Pune has seen the institute start from scratch. After her post graduation in commerce, she went on to earn an M.Phil and Ph.D. Her career as a teacher spans well over two decades. Coming on board KIAMS in April, 2010, she has worked for over a year at shaping the curriculum.

Guiding man projects, she has seen many students through their MBA and MPM.
A professional membership in two organizations, Dr. Janaki is a soft skills trainer. She works with HR departments in competency mapping and assessment. Many awards have come her way, a few of them being:
- UGC Research Fellowship – JRF / SRF
- Business excellence award CII-EXIM
- Business excellence award TKQP.

Her professional activities include designing and conducting assessments for the Kirloskar Group of Companies. She performs employee satisfaction surveys in organizations, and does human capital restructuring for companies that require it.

Prof Sandeep Kayastha heads Executive Education at KIAMS, Pune. He comes from a background in education with years of experience behind him. Work at ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad, Everonn Education Ltd, Chennai, KIAMS, Harihar, IIM A, IIT Delhi and a few other management institutes across the country give him a varied spectrum of exposure and insight into management education.

An M. Tech from IIT Khragpur, Kayastha has a deep interest in service management and simulation.

With his finger firmly on the pulse of management studies, Prof Kayastha’s expertise is in teaching Operations Management to MBA students. Besides teaching, he conducts management development programmes for executives and government officials.

His book, Workload Reduction in Government has been well received.

Prof Priya Venkatesh comes to KIAMS with 13 years in the industry and 12 years teaching. After having worked in both sides of the coin, when lecturing a class, she is able to draw from real life experiences and bring them to the classroom, making her classes interesting and informative.

Prof Shruti Das did her post graduation in MMS from Bombay University, after which she took up a job. 12 years later, she went into teaching as that was her real calling and has been instrumental in guiding young minds for over two years. Das is a lecturer at KIAMS, Pune.

KIAMS: new campus in Student Town – Pune

Doing an MBA has become the need of the hour, but choosing the best institute from the innumerable management institutes in India can be a daunting task for management aspirants. As the demand for the B-schools has increased over the years, many new institutes have come up to match the supply.

The Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies or KIAMS, run by one of the best known Industrial Conglomerates of India – Kirloskar Group of Companies – has emerged as one of the most promising and fast growing management schools in India. This AICTE approved premier management institute offers a full time Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) program to the students.

Conceived as a quality training hub in 1991, KIAMS began its full fledged operation as a premier B-School in 1995. The first campus was founded in Harihar. The second is coming up beautifully in Pune in a scenic campus by the serene Tungabhadra riverside. Offering its students excellent, state of the art infrastructure, KIAMS has put together a carefully chosen faculty to guide students into focusing on their management strengths.

KIAMS offers more than just a management course to the students. Right from the beginning of the two year PGDM course the students get first hand exposure to the industry. Intensive summer internships make every one of our students industry ready even before they pass out of KIAMS. Students benefit from direct interaction with the Kirloskar group of companies during the course, thereby being able to practically implement the theory they learn in class.

The PGDM course of KIAMS has been designed to impart quality management education where the students are trained intensively to sharpen their cognitive skills and professional aptitude giving them that extra edge needed to differentiate the good from the best in a fiercely competitive industry scenario. Apart from quality education, KIAMS offers trendsetting management development programs and top notch consultancy and training from industry experts.

The institute boasts of enviable placement records in the management sector with a huge number of students placed successfully in national and global corporate giants. The current KIAMS placement body in Harihar comprises of the Deputy Director, Director, Placement Officer, Senior Managers as well as four student community members, KIAMS Pune will replicate this same tried and tested placement method.

The KIAMS management believes in incorporating the virtues of community building in the students which has led to the development of the Management Forum. This entity gives the students the scope of interaction with established industry veterans and exposes them to the prevalent trends in the sector.  Apart from the academic curriculum the new campus also offers various extracurricular activities that include Pragati which is the annual marketing festival – looked forward to all of KIAMS – students and faculty alike.

For students with a creative bent of mind, there is Kalasanchay, the cultural arm of KIAMS. Talented students are offered a platform by this group to showcase their merits in various forms of performing arts. The sports committee of KIAMS, Ashwamedha involves the students in games to help them unwind after a rigorous day with learning and helps them interact with friends at a different level. In brief, the cultural bodies of KIAMS help the students to bring out the best in them and help in overall personality development.

KIAMS – A NEW BEGINNING

Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies or KIAMS is now open in Pune – a couple of hours away from India’s commercial capital - Mumbai. KIAMS has smartly put together a beautiful, efficiently equipped and vibrant new campus for post graduate management studies. Pune, the city, of course needs no introduction. It is the land of learning and has a lively young population from all over the country and abroad. This seventh largest metro in India possesses a unique vibrancy which is an open invitation to education because this is the land where many young minds develop into formidable professionals who can think on their feet while blossoming into socially responsible individuals.

A new option for those aspiring to soar straight away into brilliant careers, KIAMS offers their MBA students hands on experiences right form their first year, thanks to a spectrum of industries the Kirloskar group has under their banner. The institution aspires to quickly rise to the position of being one of the best B-schools in the western region, thanks to its well rounded and carefully thought out curriculum that includes all aspects of Management.

Location

Students from the western region can avail of this fabulous new opportunity happening virtually next door, as Pune is a well connected hub with its entire infrastructure in place. It is a city almost on par with Mumbai minus the crowds, overpowering heat and pollution.
The rather quiet and serene surroundings of KIAMS, with its scenic location on the banks of river Thungabhadra make it an ideal place for concentration, thinking and learning.

Faculty

Adding to the infrastructure and the location, what makes KIAMS complete is the hand-picked faculty. Each one of them is an expert in their subjects. They come with deep understanding, commitment and an inbuilt adaptability to rapid change. Their most important attribute is their ability to understand, guide and instruct the youthful minds of their students, helping them blossom into global managers any company would be proud of.

Brand KIAMS

KIAMS opened its first management institute in Harihar in 1995 is promoted by the Kirloskar Group of Companies. It is seen as a force to reckon with in the B-school arena as KIAMS, Harihar has built a formidable reputation for itself.  Seeing the huge demand and the need for quality managers, KIAMS developed the Pune institute on par with international standards to develop and train managers with a global perspective.

KIAMS strengths:

-KIAMS is a corporate sponsored business school. It has the century old Kirloskar brand behind it
-Recognition from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
-Pune is the seventh largest metro city in India
-Campus placement from world renowned companies
-Industry related internships from the first year onwards
-Facility see classroom learning in practice almost immediately, giving students a wholesome exposure from the initial stages
-Indian sensibilities with a global perspective
-Six acres of landscaped and natural surroundings on the banks of the Tungabadhara
-Various co-curricular activities to enable students discover talents and nurture existing ones.