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About
Unitedw rld
The lear ning arena for tomorrow's managers
The global economy has dramatically changed the rules of the game at work. Today's global business climate demands both astute business skills and a keen understanding of the worlds diverse business cultures. As we are witnessing a unique moment in our countrys history when it is poised to soar and join the league of developed nations, a talented pool of managers with competence and character is needed to address emerging global business and social challenges. Unitedworld School of Business was conceived in 2008 with just this objective in mind. A group of top professionals, renowned academicians, economists and management stalwarts put their cumulative efforts to build this pan-Indian management institute. Unitedworld enrols students with strong leadership potential and high intellectual ability. The curriculum offers its students a variety of new subjects to choose from while focusing on enhancing business knowledge. The institute has also taken a scientific approach with its unique Career Coaching program to empower future managers and unleash a distinctive breed of dynamic professionals to face the challenges and opportunities in an open economic environment. Unitedworlds PGPM (Post Graduate Program in Management) is thus more than a business management program preparing managers for the ever evolving global economy.
Director's Communique
Prof Tridibesh Bandyopadhyay, Director
Prof Bandyopadhyay, an engineer from Jadavpur University and PGDM from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), has a mix of professional & entrepreneurial experience of over 20 years in Project Management, Strategic Consulting, Advertising, International Trade, Insurance & Education. He received the 'SmithKline Beecham Award' for Excellence in Marketing at IIMC. As a Strategy Consultant, he has worked with clients from Australia, Japan, USA, UK, Germany, Singapore & Saudi Arabia. He has held senior leadership positions in academic management & delivery.
Dear Recruiter, Knowledge is now universally recognized as the true strength of a nation. In the quest for knowledge and with a mission to empower the youngsters of today in their becoming excellent human resources of tomorrow, Unitedworld has taken a pledge to play its role. To contribute meaningfully to the growth of the nation, Unitedworld School of Business has made a collaborative effort with eminent business leaders, entrepreneurs and academicians. From the day of its inception, Unitedworld nurtured a dream to become a leading management institute with a global vision, where every achievement motivates to set the bar even higher. Hence Unitedworld's academic offerings are continuously updated in keeping with the ever changing global business environment. It ensures that the curriculum is contemporary and relevant to the industry's needs. The school aims to stand tall on the foundation of a pool of committed and deeply knowledgeable academic resources from in-house world-class faculty coming of top International B-Schools, such as MIT, Yale, London School of Economics etc. besides premier Indian ones like IIM, IIT, XLRI, ICAI, etc. The students get ample opportunity to hone their skills and potential, to deliver the best. Unitedworld is committed to value based education and providing a conducive environment for overall personality development of students using innovative pedagogy. The Centre for Career Coaching (CCC) at Unitedworld enables the recruiters to take better hiring decisions and also actively supports students in making strategic career decisions. Our objective has been to create a breed of qualified, innovative and dynamic professionals for corporate sectors as well as for self-employment and entrepreneurial pursuit. Unitedworld aspires to inculcate human values and professional ethics in the students, which help them make decisions and create path that are good not only for them, but also for the society and the world at large. We aim at preparing a knowledge workforce which is ready to face the challenges of tomorrow and deliver great value. It gives me immense pleasure to introduce you to the vibrant PGPM batch of 2011. Let us join hands in providing the best possible opportunity to these young minds which will be responsible for shaping the future of our nation.
Career Coaching
A distinctive tur n in talent grooming.
Unitedworld's unique Centre of Excellence (CoE) is the academic Centre for Career Coaching (CCC) the first of its kind in India to support both students and professionals. It is a student-centric development innovation where performance enhancement is accomplished through administration of assessment instruments followed by individual coaching conversations. CCC does contemporary research and consulting with its team of psychologists & trained HR professionals. Our Coaches understand students' true potential, help them clarify their career goals, and develop as well as implement a strategy to achieve them. The Career Coaching process and the conversations between the client/student and the Coach is kept confidential.
Prof Chatterjee, Coach, accredited MBTI trainer & founding Dean, Centre for Career Coaching, has a rich and diverse work experience in consulting, education and banking sectors. He underwent his executive coaching and leadership development training from Ashridge, UK and the Centre for Creative Leadership (CCL), Brussels. As the former Head-HR & Training, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), he led its India operations and talent management efforts. He also had a long stint at Deutsche Bank AG. He is an alumnus of the London School of Economics, UK where he studied as a British Chevening Scholar. He holds a PGDM (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), India.
Dear Recruiter, Greetings from Unitedworld School of Business. I extend a warm welcome to you to our campuses for conducting your recruitment process leading to placement of our PGPM students, the batch of 2009-11. As Dean, I lead the Centre for Career Coaching (CCC), where we have taken a distinctive turn in talent grooming. Take your pick from this group of 328 bright students across our 3 campuses at Kolkata, Mumbai & Ahmedabad who have come from diverse academic and experience backgrounds. They are on their way to complete their PGPM (MBA) program by early 2011, keen to learn and have a lot of potential. For more details, you can study their individual profiles. I am confident that after going through their profiles, you will be eager to meet them. Career Coaching is a student-centric development innovation. It is a small step... in a big direction to discover students' true potential. I am confident that this unique and intensive institute-student effort i.e. every single student having had multiple sessions with our in-house Career Coaches on clarifying career goals and how to achieve them, will also help corporates as they recruit students who are industry-ready and focussed. I now invite you to read this recruitment brochure and participate in the placement process at Unitedworld. Should you require any further information or assistance regarding our placement process, please contact us.
Campus Cornerstones
Unitedworld has set up its campuses in Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi & Hyderabad. It has the privilege to have a few of the most successful professionals and academicians from different walks of life to guide the organizational growth. The stalwarts act as pillars of the pan - Indian management institute.
Prof Jayanta Sengupta PGDM, IIM Calcutta Dean - Academic Affairs Mumbai An alumnus of IIM Calcutta, he is a professional with more than 35 years of experience in Advertising, Brand Building, Consulting, Training and Academics. He has worked for renowned advertising agencies like DraftFCB-Ulka, Contract, R e d i f f u s i o n - Y & R and Lowe. He has handled assignments in advertising, marketing, training and brand building from Tata Sons, Eveready, SRF Limited, Zicom, RK SwamyBBDO, Mastek and others. Prof Sengupta brings to Unitedworld a rich wealth of experience across industry and academia.
Prof B S Bhatia PGDBA, IIM Ahmedabad Dean - Academic Affairs Ahmedabad An alumnus of IIM
Dr Ravi Srinivasan Fellow, IIM Ahmedabad Dean - Academic Affairs Delhi An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, he has 30 years of expertise in achieving strategic business growth across Asia-Pacific and Japan. He has an excellent executive track record with HP Asia-Pacific as Director and IDC as Executive Director (India) and GM (South Asia). P ro f S r i n i v a s a n w a s engaged in India and Singapore e.g. IIT Delhi, MDI - Gurgaon, SIM, ERC Institute and S P Jain (Singapore). He has been invited to participate in leadership forums of companies like McKinsey, Bain & Co., and Boston Consulting Group and other International conferences.
Prof K V Iyer PGDBA, IIM Ahmedabad Dean - Academic Affairs Hyderabad An alumnus of IIM
Ahmedabad and Fellow of East-West Centre, Honolulu, he has a rich experience in academics as well as in the professional world. He has served as a visiting faculty at International Space
Ahmedabad, he has over 35 years of professional experience at top management positions in leading Indian companies. During his illustrious corporate career, he served Murugappa Group as President & Director HR, TVS Motors as General Manager Marketing. He has also been Managing Director, Chambal Agri-tech Limited. Prof Iyers last association was with ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad as Director, International Division & Executive Education. 7
University Strasbourg, France. Prof Bhatia has also been closely associated with setting up distance education systems for IGNOU and UGC. He was the Director-DECU at ISRO, Ahmedabad and has been the Former Advisor, Media Lab Asia. He is the Consultant to and Member, Governing body, CEMCA of Commonwealth of Learning.
Matchless Mentors
A highly qualified management faculty delivers a cutting-edge curriculum along with a comprehensive skills development program that enables students to develop the managerial prowess necessary to compete effectively in a global business environment.
Advantage UNITEDWORLD
Unitedworld integrates management education with international studies to impart an enormous breadth of knowledge required to rise and stay at the top in business. Its innovative business technologies flanked by individualized development program help students compete in a complex global environment.
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Global Faculty
The pride of our campuses is built around global faculty led by Deans, who are all IIM alumni. Unitedworld faculty is a veritable pool of knowledge gleaned from institutions like MIT, Yale, London School of Economics, IITs, IIMs, XLRI, ICAI, DSE et al. This repertoire of global faculty helps us to offer our students an unparalleled academic experience.
Intelligent Campus
Unitedworld is the first B-School in India powered with the Intelligent Campus concept. Apart from an ERP application that allows students and faculty to interact in an open technology platform, all Unitedworld campuses are wi-fi enabled and closely connected with one another through Virtual Private Network (VPN), Video Conferencing and Webcasting. The uniqueness of Intelligent Campus enables students to access all kinds of knowledge resources and allows the faculty to monitor individual student's growth.
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Corporate Connect
Unitedworld students don't just study the world from the classroom. They take the classroom to the world. The students get rich exposure to CEOs from companies around the world through the CEO lecture series. Members of Unitedworld's Board of Governors, a veritable who's who globally, also visit our campuses to share and discuss their rich experiences.
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Board of Governors
Mr Partha S Ghosh Former Partner, McKinsey; Visiting Professor, MIT & Tufts University, USA Mr S K Gupta Former CMD, VSNL; Telecom Advisor, TATA Group Dr Sujit Kumar Basu Former Director, MDI Gurgaon; Former VC, Viswabharati University Dr D Nagabrahmam Former Director, TA Pai Management Institute Dr Malay Mahadevia Director (Projects), Adani Group Mundra Port & Mundra SEZ Dr Arun Nigvekar Former Chairman, UGC; Ex. VC, Pune University; Founder Director, NAAC Mr S C Jain Former CEO, LIC Housing Finance; Chair Professor, National Insurance Academy Mr Rajul Awasthi Mr Anuj Agarwal
Economic Advisor, World Bank; Former OSD, Dept. of Finance, Govt. of India Director, Global Operations, Vishal Inc.
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Cutting-edge Curriculum
The PGPM curriculum is designed to empower students to apply management theories into practice and develop lateral thinking alongside innovative strategies.The Foundation Program offers a holistic view of the functional areas and the Summer Internship involves exposure to organizational working. The Advanced Program entails specialization in functional areas besides covering advanced modules in management.
PGPM - Foundation
Term 1
Fundamentals of Marketing Financial Accounting Behavioural Sciences Microeconomic Theory Management Principles and Practices Information Systems for Managers
Term 2
Advanced Marketing Management Management Accounting People in Organization Macroeconomic Theory History of Indian Business International Business Fundamentals Quantitative Methods 1
Term 3
Market Research Methodologies Financial Management Human Resource Management Indian Economy Entrepreneurship Enterprise Resources Planning Quantitative Methods 2 Marketing of Financial Services (NC)
PGPM - Advanced
Term 4
Operations & Supply Chain Management Legal System in Business Major Specialization 1 Major Specialization 2 Major Specialization 3 Minor Specialization 1
Term 5
Business Policy & Strategy Business Ethics & Corporate Governance Major Specialization 4 Major Specialization 5 Major Specialization 6 Minor Specialization 2
Term 6
Dissertation
Major Specialization 7
Minor Specialization 3
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Financial Services
Management of Financial Institutions Financial Products Insurance Strategic Financial Management Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management Risk Management Corporate Banking & Project Analysis
Human Resource
Strategic HR Management Performance Management IR & Labour Legislations Organizational Development Training & Management Development Compensation & Benefits Management International HR Management
Retail
Introduction to Retail Management Shopping Patterns & Destinations Building Retail Brands Category Management Retail Operations - I Retail Operations - II Customer Relationships & Experience Management
International Business
Foreign Trade Policy International Marketing Trade Processes International Finance and Banking Trade Documentation International Business Law Commodity and Energy Trading & International HRM
Agri Business
Agricultural Finance & Microfinance Futures and options in Agriculture Agricultural Marketing and Strategy Agriculture Policy Global Agri Business Operations in Agri Business Sales and Distribution Management
Financial Services
Basics of Financial Services Wealth Management Introduction to Financial Institutions & Project Appraisal
Retail
Fundamentals in Retailing Branding & CRM in Retailing Retail Operations
International Business
International Trade and Marketing Trade Processes and Documentation Issues in International Business
Agri Business
Agriculture Policy Operations in Agri Business Sales and Distribution Management
Information Systems
Database, Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Business Analysis ( Project & Software Quality Management including Testing) ERP In Practice - Tools & Components
Entrepreneurship
Creating and starting a New Venture Business Plan - Executive Summary Managing New Ventures
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We are thankful to the following Organizations for giving opportunities to our students to do their SIP in 2010:
ABB Limited ABG Terminals Limited Acclaris Business Solutions Private Limited Aabhushan Jewellery Adani Wilmar Limited Aditya Birla Chemicals (India) Limited Air India Limited Albert David Limited Amrit Hatcheries (P) Limited Arvind Mills Limited Asian Titles Limited Aspirations Software Atul Auto Limited Avon Corporation Limited Axis Bank Limited Balrampur Chini Mills Limited Ban Labs Bank of Asia, Nepal Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited Big Bazaar Business Standard Group Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited Collegefest.in CRY Cryobanks International (I) Private Limited Deutsche Bank DGCI & S Dhanvi Informatics Dominos India e-Call Process Eco Recycling Limited Emami Limited Eureka Forbes Essar The Mobile Store FPSB Limited Giriraj Glass Industries Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (AMUL) GSFC Global Indian International School HDFC Standard Life Insurance Hindustan Unilever Limited Hitachi ICICI Prudential AMC Limited IFFCO TOKIO General Insurance India Infoline Limited IndusNet Technologies InfiBeam ISRO ITC Limited J D Financial Services Jindal (India) Limited Johnson Controls Limited Karmick Stock Broking Limited Karvy Stock Broking Limited Kotak AMC Kotak Mahindra Bank Kredent Group Lohia Securities Limited Mahindra Finance Limited Mahindra & Mahindra Limited Megamind Communications Pvt Ltd Mother Dairy Calcutta My FM Namah Capital Resources Private Limited Neelkamal Limited Nirmal Bang Securities Private Limited NIC Bank, Nepal Opulence Business Solutions Pvt Ltd P D Kunte & Company Paras Webcot PMC Projects P S Group of Companies PricewaterhouseCoopers Limited PROMART Pune F C Putzmeister Concrete Machine R N S Private Limited Raymond Apparel Reliance Communications Reliance Mutual Fund Religare Enterprises Limited Sagar Group Sahayatas Careeristics Sangya Brand Solutions Shree Laxmi Transport Company Shyam Ingots Siemens India Standard Chartered Bank Steel Authority of India Limited Strategic Marketing Group TATA Motors Limited TATA Steel Limited The Grand Bhagwati Thane Municipal Corporation The Ranchi Khunti Cooperative Bank Limited Time Technoplast Limited Two Paridian Infotech Private Limited Ultratech India United Telecom Limited, Nepal Union Bank of India Universal Sompo General Insurance Co Ltd Versine Technologies Private Limited Vishwanath Cold Storage v-Care Foundation vMukti Solutions White Collar Tours & Travels Witness Real Estate Private Limited Zydus Cadila
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Placement Point
Placement Schedule
Final Placement Program (FPP) commences : November 1, 2010 Summer Internship Program (SIP) commences : November 15, 2010
Campus Location
Infinity Benchmark, 10th Floor, G-1, Block EP & GP, Salt Lake Sector V, Kolkata - 700091 Ph: +91 33 3949 5000 E: placement.kol@unitedworld.in Gold Line Centre, Link Road Malad West (near Inorbit Mall) Mumbai - 400064 Ph: +91 22 3949 5000 E: placement.mum@unitedworld.in 100 Drive-in Road, Opposite Gurukul (Near Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute) Ahmedabad - 380052 Ph: +91 79 3949 5000 E: placement.amd@unitedworld.in
Kolkata : Infinity Benchmark, 10th floor Plot No. G-1, Block EP & GP, Salt Lake, Sector V, Kolkata - 700091 Ph +91 33 39495000 Mumbai : Gold Line Centre, Link Road Malad, West (Near Inorbit Mall) Mumbai - 400064, Ph +91 22 39495000 Ahmedabad : 100 Drive-in Road, Opposite Gurukul, (Near Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute), Ahmedabad - 380052 Ph +91 79 39495000
Delhi : Sector 44, Plot No. 7, Arya Samaj Road (near Huda City Centre Metro Station), Gurgaon - 122003, Ph +91 11 23345001 Hyderabad : Muncipal No. 8-2-120/112/A/15 & 16, Road No. 9, Jubilee Hills Hyderabad - 500034, Ph +91 40 64605000 Singapore : 3, Tampines Central 1, # 06-01, Abacus Plaza, Singapore - 529540 Ph +65 6786 7002
Website : www.unitedworld.in