From being a team leader / project leader, its time to

become a thought leader

How? Join Executive Fellowship program of IIMs

IIMs are on the look out for you.. But why?

Bring in real industry insights into academia

Thereby improve research quality and quantity

Through increased research output, improve their global ranking

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Team leader to a thought leader

A doctoral program offered by IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore,

XLRI / MDI

An excellent executive (part time) program

Requires insights from industry

Targeted at professionals (engineers, post graduates and professionals like CAs)

Excellent program that can bridge gap between academia and industry by producing Academic leaders (Directors/deans)

Thought leaders (Faculty at top Institutes)

Corporate thinkers (senior business leaders)

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What is a Fellowship program?

Thousands of businesses, with millions of data

points, over time building up big data

Some familiar examples

Stock prices of firms over time

Mergers and acquisitions of firms

Profitability of firms over time

Effectiveness of economic reforms

Effectiveness of ICT in team and firm performance

Research in Management

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Investors like Buffett for investing

Stock Analysts for rating firms

Investment banks for making deals

Consultants for improving businesses

Researchers/ academicians for understanding concepts

Entrepreneurs for building businesses

Senior Managers for leading their businesses

Research is required by

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Need to bridge industry and academia gap

IIMs more importantly need insights from the industry, which can enrich academia

Therefore the need of starting Executive FPM program

Wear your thinking caps and embark on your thought leadership career

Its time to enrich your career and contribute to academia

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Industry Academia interaction

IIM Lucknow and IIM Indore offers this program

Minimum work experience: 7-10 years

4 years program

Continue your job along with Fellowship program

No requirement of CAT for admission into the program

Opens up your career avenue big time

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Executive Fellowship

Academic eligibility B.E with 60% Any post graduate with 55% marks

Entrance exam: If no CAT / GMAT scores, then WMP test of IIM L to be taken

Age: Not more than 55 years Work experience: At least 7 Years of work experience for Post Graduates and

professionally qualified (CA/CS) At least 8 years if you are an engineering graduate

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IIM L - Exec FPM

Any Master’s degree, with at least 55 per cent marks

Professional qualifications like CA, ICWA, CS with at least 55 percent or equivalent grade point average

4 years/8 semester bachelor’s degree with at least 60 per cent marks or equivalent grade point average

Work experience not less than 10 years (out of which at least 05 years must be in Industry)

Entrance exam: If not having CAT / GMAT scores, then Research Aptitude Test =RAT conducted before interview

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IIM I FPM (Industry)

Investment ? Around 6 lakh Rs for the entire program

Salary foregone ? Nil. You continue to work as before!

Time spent ? Around 4 years on the best campuses

Social life ? IIM life = Study hard and party harder

Degree received ? Fellow of IIM

Future career path ? Senior corporate, academics or entrepreneurship. The sky opens up

Cost Benefit analysis for you

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Due to technology advances in:

Database access

E-Library creation

Statistics software

• Life made easy, research cycle time cut short easily by 2 years, that too with less pain!

Research made easy

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Literature Review

Research gap/research question identification

Hypothesis generation

Data collection

Data analysis and testing

Results and outcome

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PhD process overview

A few decades ago Present state Physical library E-library, at the click of mouse

Manual data collection for months Ready database accessible online

The much dreaded survey process Online : “Survey Monkey ”

Qualitative research : More painful than survey, travel for interviewing and transcribe later on for months..

Online, audio recording, auto convert from voice to word software..

Statistical analysis, months of work, finding error & rework

Faster than fast food.. 2 minutes sufficient for analysing 10,000 dataset. Eviews, SPSS & excel

Enriching and painful process Enriching and fun filled process!

End up as a professor Be an educator, executive or entrepreneur !

Doctoral process comparison

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Output of “research process is publication”

Publication is communication with

Peers/scholars (scholarly journal)

Managers (practice oriented journal)

This is a sign of your research capability, exactly what the top rung PhD programs like IIMs look for

And this is where eMBArkers steps in to help you!

Research as a communication process

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But why should IIMs admit you?

Entry barriers: Admit only those candidates with “research capability” i.e those having

i. High focus on specialization area of his / her choice

ii. Research interest (ask in-depth relevant questions and try to find answers objectively, backed by data)

iii. “Think out of the box” attitude

Conference or journal publication = signal of your research capability How to get there? Ask us!

Where is the catch?

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Promoted by alumni of IIMB Doctoral programme with rich corporate & academic experience

Aim:

Enable your entry to FPM programme by informing, mentoring & handholding potential candidates

Be one step ahead of the curve, make a start by publishing in Indian journals before joining IIMs.

Who are we?

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Services offered: (in brief)

Exposure to doctoral process at IIMs

Mentoring: individual hand holding by providing focus on area of specialization and research interest

RAT/WMP and interview preparation

In sum: bridge course and preparation for & publication even before entering the IIMs !

Service offered

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Online classes: Virtual classroom (Linkstreet offers service

to IIM B also) http://linkstreet.in/ Only IIM doctoral students / alumni as faculty members Class Videos are recorded (unlimited revision and

reviewing is made possible) Forum for discussion among students / batches Access to database for corporate data & journals Phase I: Theory & concepts of doctoral process (3 months) Phase II: Mentorship for paper writing Tangible output: “Research paper” that helps you to

strengthen your candidature at the FPM interviews

How does it work?

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Phase I to start in May 2013

Classes: Weekday & weekend options available

Mode of delivery: Live online as well as recorded

Application deadline: (tentative)

IIM Indore: Dec end 2013

IIM Lucknow: Feb 2014

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Timelines

Need more information about us?

Visit us at: www.embarkers.in

Write to us at: director@embarkers.in

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Thank You!