Advanced Program in Strategic Management (APSM)

IIM Calcutta

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Contents

• Salient Features

• Who Should Attend

• Unique Features of Program

• Program Modules

• Detailed Program Contents

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Salient Features

Program Directors :Prof. Sushil Khanna and Prof. Biswatosh Saha

Duration : 6 Months

Eligibility : Graduation and/or Post Graduation in any discipline with 50% marks (Aggregate) and 7 years of minimum professional Experience

Schedule : Friday, 6.30-9.30 PM

Program Fees : Rs. 1,02,000/- (Campus Visit Fees Extra)

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Who should attend?

Designed for Senior and Middle-level managers with more than seven years of work experience.

• Senior and middle level managers

• Profit Centre Heads

• Professionals who are currently in roles that require them to handle strategic issues

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Unique Features

Pedagogy• Designed with a mix of experience sharing, real life case discussions, assignments

and industry/research based projects besides the lectures in class

Strategic Leaders

• 150+ Senior & Middle Level Managers have already been transformed into Strategic Leaders by this program

Peer Learning

• Opportunity to Network and Learn from the best in the corporate world

Campus Visit • Eight Days of Campus Visit during the program

Certification • Certificate of Completion from IIM Calcutta

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Detailed Program Contents

# Session Title Assignment Reading/ Case Studies

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Conceptual discussion on Transaction cost, Information Asymmetry and Bundling

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Understanding cartels and other inter-firm horizontal agreements

a) Global Aluminum cartelb) EU Competition Commission indictment in elevator cartel case

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Transaction cost and inter-firm transactions: Understanding contracting

Case: Technology Licensing at Himont

4 Strategic Failures Case: Booz Allen and Hamilton

5 Organization Structure and Design Case: Texas Instruments

6 Strategic change Case: Whirlpool, A,B,C

6Tentative Session Plan based on APSMx03

Detailed Program Contents# Session Title Assignment Reading/ Case Studies

7Governance and the shaping of incentives of ecosystem asset holders

a) DNA of Toyota Production Systemb) Modularization in the auto industry

8 Merger and Acquisition:

9Risk distribution in ecosystem and handling of systemic risk

Apparel distribution in Japan

10 M&A; contd.. Case: “Conoco Takeover”

11 Enron Gas Services

12Understanding Venture Capital Contracting

a) Intel 64 Fundb)Property rights and new institutional

arrangements for product innovation in Silicon Valley

7Tentative Session Plan based on APSMx03

Detailed Program Contents

# Session Title Assignment Reading/ Case Studies

13 Coordination of Supply Chain Case: Medsource Technologies

14The Knowledge-Creating company Case: McKinsey and Company:

Managing Knowledge and Learning

15Paradox of Coordination and Control

Case: SouthWest Airlines - 2002: Airline Industry under siege

16Property Rights and governance over ecosystem assets

Reading: a)Political Economy of Open Source

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Linkage and governance of the finance world and nature of firm decisions

Reading: a)Focusing the corporate product-Zuckerman b)Leveraged buy-outs and Private Equity

18Concluding session: A Conceptual Review of what was discussed Case: Whirlpool, A,B,C

8Tentative Session Plan based on APSMx03

How to Apply

Application period

• Application for the Batch will commence in September 2010 and will close on November 9, 2010

Application forms

• Application forms can be obtained from www.niitimperia.com or at local NIIT IMPERIA Centres

Class would commence on or after Dec 2010

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Documents Required for Application

• 1 Passport size photo affixed [Latest photo with light backdrop]

• Proof of Date of Birth [DOB Certificate / 10th Std Mark sheet]

• Proof of Graduation Completion [Provisional / Degree Certificate]

• Proof of Graduation % [Graduation Marks sheets for all years]

• Proof of Experience [Experience Certificates as supporting documents for all the jobs mentioned in the form]

• Proof of Current Employment [Letter from the HR with current date / Latest Pay slip]

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About IIM Calcutta

• First national institute to be established for Post Graduate Studies and Research in Management in November 1961

• Ranked among the Top 3 B-schools by MINT C Fore Survey, Businessworld 2007, PagalGuy.com (People Vote) 2008, BT-NIELSEN 2008, Zee Business B-School Survey 2008, CNBC Ranking 2008, Business Today 2008, AIMA B-School Survey 2008, India’s Best B-Schools -BW 2007– Ranked among top two business schools in Employer’s Perception

(MINT C Fore Survey, CNBC Ranking 2008 and India’s Best B-Schools -BW 2007 rankings)

– Ranked among the top-three business schools in Course Content (ZeeBusiness B-School Survey 2008)

– Ranked among the top-three business schools by Young Executives(Business Today 2008 rankings)

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About Program Directors

Prof. BiswatoshSaha

• B.Tech (IIT Kharagpur), Fellow (IIM Calcutta)

• Assistance Professor in Strategic Management in IIM Calcutta

• Consultant to Planning Commission and Government of India

• For more information, visit http://www.iimcal.ac.in/faculty/facpage.asp?ID=biswats

Prof. Sushil Khanna

• B.Sc. (Allahabad University) & Fellow (IIM Calcutta)

• Professor of Economics and Strategic Management in IIM Calcutta

• Has more than 25 years of experience in teaching and corporate training

• Several years of consulting experience in Strategy and Corporate Restructuring.

• For more information, visit http://www.iimcal.ac.in/faculty/facpage.asp?ID=sushilk

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Sample Certificate

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SYNCHRONOUS LEARNING - NIITIMPERIA

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18 Classrooms in 17 cities Direct one-to-one interaction is ensured through individual ICT

systems for each student: High-performance PCs Webcam Audio system and microphone at each workstation,

connected directly to faculty at institutes Classroom interactions & ambience are facilitated by clusters of

student-stations and camera & projection systems that span the full classroom.

6 Synchronous Learning Centers created within corporate premises

Learning Management System (LMS):• supplementary e-learning• program-specific notices• online submission of assignments• reminder services• online testing• student records

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