DMS Pondicherry University

The Department of Management Studies, School of Management, Pondicherry University (DMS SOM) is a department in Pondicherry University, India. for MBA studies. It was established in 1986.

History

DMS SOM established the MBA program of the university in 1986. It caters for MBA teaching, Management research, Organisational management, government officers training, industrial consulting and management extension, with a team of three professors, nine associate professors and two readers.

Location

Pondicherry University is located in a campus spread over 780 acres (3.2 km²), facing the Bay of Bengal on the East Coast Road. It is accessible from Chennai (168 km) and Banglore (300 km). The School of Management (SOM) is the first academic entity of the university established as a centre of Excellence and a stand alone school in 1986. Then in 2005, SOM was reconstructed which includes the Department of Management Studies as the parent department and five other departments.

Profile

DMS SOM is funded and supported by the University Grants Commission (India) (UGC) and accreditation from National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)

MBA program

The two-year (four semesters) full-time MBA in DMS SOM prepares student for a professional career in management. While the first year is devoted to foundational course, the second year enables the students to gain breadth and depth of different areas and specialize in the selective fields. The students have choice to choose one major and/or one minor as specialization.

Evaluation of the students is on the basis of their performance in assignments, participation in departmental activities, projects, tests, classroom presentations, quizzes, case studies and end semester examinations.

Annual Events

• Synapse : It is an industry interface event where CEOs, entrepreneurs, leaders and corporate people are invited to speak on different management related topics.

synapse 2014

it is sechduled on oct 31,2015.

Electives offered

• Finance
• Marketing
• Human Resources
• Operations

Recognitions

• Recipient of STAR NEWS Outstanding B-School( south) of the year 2010
• Rated #6 among Top 10 B-School in South India by INDIAN EXPRESS 2010
• Rated #19 in the category of top B-Schools of excellence in India (CSR-GHRD Survey, 2010)
• Rated #3 in the country among the government universities B-School (CSR-GHRD Survey, 2009)
• Ranked #1 in the country among all the B-schools considering the fees paid by students (CSR-GHRD Survey, 2008)
• Rated A+ (Business India survey 2008)
• Rated #4 in the country among the government university B-Schools (AIMA Survey, 2008)
• Accredited by NAAC-UGC
• Approved by the AICTE

List of faculty

• Dr R Paneerselvam – Operations Management & Systems
• Dr R P Raya – Human Resource Management
• Dr M Basheer Ahmed Khan - Human Resources Management, Marketing Management & Economics
• Dr T Nambirajan – Productions and Operations Management
• Dr Chitra Sivasubramanian – Human Resource Management
• Dr Uma Chandrasekaran – Marketing
• Dr B Charumathi – Finance Management
• Dr S Victor Anand Kumar – Marketing and Information System
• Dr R Kasilingam – Finance, Business Law and Business analytics
• Dr R Venkatesakumar – Marketing and Quantitative Methods
• Dr L Motilal – Business Environment and Public Systems Management
• Dr K Lavanyalatha – Human Resource Management & Marketing
• Dr S Riasudeen – Human Resource Management/Management Group Dynamics
• Dr B Rajeswari – Marketing Management, Operation Management, Strategic Management
• Dr G Madan Mohan- Managerial Economics And Financial Management

Notable Alumni

A

• Anand Chidambaram - Delivery Owner at TCS
• Anand Subramanian - VP & Associate Director, Mashreq Bank
• Anil Menon - Executive Director, Business Partners, Marketing & Inside Sales at IBM Software
• Anu Sriram - Co-Founder and Joint Managing Director, Integra Software Services
• Ashwin Mahesh - Politician, Social Technologist, Former Astronomer, Former NASA scientist and a leader of Lok Satta Party

B

• Bala Sundar - Co-Founder, President and CEO of SyApps, LLC

D

• S Dilli Raj - Chief Financial Officer, SKS Microfinance Limited

G

• Gopi Krishnaswami - Managing Director, IDEO and Founder Director, Insight Instore

H

• Hemant Srivatsa - Partner, Murray & Co.

K

• Kaveri Rangan - Investment Advisory Head at ANZ

L

• Lakshmiprabha Anandan - Entrepreneur, Founder Director, Quality Thara Solutions

M

• Mohamed Pervaiz - DGM, Andaman & Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation Limited

P

• Priya Mouttou - HR Director, Amadeus Benelux

R

• Radhika Ittiel - Business Development Unit Manager at AMES
• Raja G D - Consumer Solutions Manager, Visa International
• Raja Ganapathy - Director of Marketing, Sequoia Capital
• Brig (Dr) P Raj Kumar - Principal at School of Post Graduate Studies in Management, Engineering Staff College of India
• Rexzcy Williams - Corporate Business Manager, UTI International

S

• Sakthi Kumar Govindarajan - Whole Time Director at Schwing Stetter India Pvt Ltd
• Samuel Victor - Partner, Studio Ebony
• Sandhya Arun - Service Area Leader, Smarter Commerce & Interactive Solutions at IBM
• Sanjay Subramanian - Vice President Application Development, Financial Services, InComm Inc
• Saundarya Rajesh - Entrepreneur & Columnist. Founder-President, AVTAR Career Creators.
• Shyam Madhavan Sarada - Writer, Illustrator, Designer, Art Director, Photographer & Filmmaker. Founder&CEO, Wannabe Studios
• Srividya Krishnaswamy - Technical Advisor, TNS Global
• Sunil Varughese, Director at Brand Indigo FZ LLC
• Swaminathan S B - Entrepreneur. Co-founder and Director, DJS Golf

T

• R Thirumagal - AGM at Steel Authority of India Limited

V

• Vaasu Gavarasana - Head-APAC Business Marketing, Yahoo Asia Pacific
• Vijayakumar AP - Functional Consultant, TCS

References

• http://www.pondiuni.edu.in
• http://dmssom.com/

External links

• Pondicherry University
• Department management