Behavioural Sciences

It’s a war out there. A successful manager must out-think her counterpart. This makes the understanding of the underlying motivations and driving attitudes indispensable. The rules of the game are changing every moment of the day. Age old organisational set-ups are making way for the smarter and leaner structures. The smart manager thus can either be a structural designer or a “virtual” outcast.

Centre for Development and Environment Policy

The Centre for Development and Environment Policy researches policy issues in the field of Environment and Development.

Economics

Ever wondered why MBAs were paid so high or that how the $ commanded such a premium. It’s time you were exposed to the dynamics of demand and supply. This is just the beginning of a journey to understand the rational drivers of all economic activities. Accompanying you on this journey will be arguably the best faculty in the entire nation. Acquire the differentiator to pre-empt competition and demolish all existing monopolies.

Finance and Control

Here goes the call to all the number crunchers, all those wall street wannabes. When you talk finance, to put it simply, IIM Calcutta just cannot be excelled. The different courses take you through the ins and outs of audits and accounts. We make you value your assets, help you minimize the costs and plan the fund flow. At the end of the journey a company balance sheet would be worth a thousand words. An enabled corporate citizen you shall evaluate stocks, play around with the ratios and thus select your own cocktail of equity and debt instruments. As an empowered manager you shall acquire the power to turn-around any company.

Human Resource Management

No points for guessing what set the IIMs apart. The people-human capital, they harbour. The same holds true for any firm worth its name. This source of competence can neither depreciate nor be blatantly copied. To attain the same one needs an appropriate incentive structure that fosters a co-operative environment, where the goals of the employee and employer are in consonance. All this needs to be carried out in the backdrop of Indian labour legislation. Through these courses we strive to help you transform your business through a better understanding of human resources.

Management Centre for Human Values

The Management Centre for Human Values is the crystallization of two decades of aspirations and effort to hold up to the members of human organizations and institutions – in India and abroad – contemporary adaptations of the perennial corpus of Indian psycho-philosophical wisdom. It has taken up the mission of integrating the soft and subtle dimension of human values with the mainstream of skill-dominated management education.

Management Information Systems

At IIM-C we firmly believe that information is power. In the years to come the need for increased sharing of information will govern the changes in organizational structure. A basic understanding of information systems is thus mandatory. We endeavour to ensure that you drive the e-commerce revolution. These courses not only equip you with software tools but also impart an understanding of the hardware which will help you set design your own database. It’s time you started your own dotcom at IIMC.

Marketing

Are you market savvy? Soon enough this will be less of a matter of choice and more of a survival need. Be it an individual or an organization, marketing has come to be the driving function. Consumer orientation is the buzz word. Get an insight into consumer behaviour, find out all that has worked so far and all that hasn’t. Design your very own marketing strategy – choose a marketing mix that works the best. A dynamic mix of cases, lectures and projects to place you leagues ahead of the maddening crowds.

Operations Management

In the context of decision making in increasingly more globally competitive, complex and dynamic environments in the presence of uncertainty, the role and importance of the principles of quantitative analysis and management science are evident and universally acknowledged. In terms of the relevant background and expertise for such quantitative orientation in the context of Operations Management Group, the areas of Operations Research, Production Management including Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and the basic disciplines of Mathematics and Statistics are relevant and these are represented in the Group. The importance of the basic disciplines in forming the analytical core on which the foundations of Operations Research and Production Management rest, is realized and the activities of the Group will continue to reflect this by pursuing academic activities in the above mentioned areas.

Understanding the diversity in background of students, the courses give an equal emphasis on developing the basic modelling skills. The OM Group, thus, seeks to impart an in-depth understanding of problem solving methodology, the associated techniques and the necessary tools.

Strategic Management

In recent years, the group has provided new inputs through its research, teaching and consulting on corporate restructuring, merger activity, competitive strategies and international business. A few optional courses on these are offered and more are planned.