Personal Mastery for Development LeadershipRead more about Personal Mastery for Development LeadershipSpread over 7 terms, this is a family of sessions and workshops such as the Personal Mastery for Development Leadership course, Radical Transformational Leadership and Group Dynamics. This is anchored in the need to build the spirit of curiosity, courage and compassion in students while they work in teams, communities and design interventions.
Live SessionsRead more about Live SessionsEminent speakers and established leaders from different walks of life are invited all through the year to help the students debate, discuss, pause, reflect and learn through these interactions.
Harvard Manage Mentor coursesRead more about Harvard Manage Mentor coursesStudents are required to complete Harvard Manage Mentor Courses covering management topics such as Team Creation, Team Management, Budgeting, Project Management, Business Plan Development, and Negotiating. These are self-paced courses offered during terms 5-7 that are an opportunity to enhance the management practice.
Special curated workshopsRead more about Special curated workshopsThese cover a range of topics and are future-forward workshops on Networks, Partnerships and Alliances for Scale, Perspective on Organisations, Knowledge Management Systems and FundRaising.
Unique Development Management course offerings with a mix of Development and Business Management fundamentalsRead more about Unique Development Management course offerings with a mix of Development and Business Management fundamentalsCourses include Financial Perspectives, Operations Management for Quality and Impact, Behaviour Change Communication, Marketing Management, Human Development in an Unequal World, Technology and Management, Corporate Social Responsibility. Some of the core courses will be available to the students as Electives as an opportunity for deeper engagement.
Special capstone projectRead more about Special capstone projectThe final term project focuses on scale and sustainability, providing the students with a frame of reference to work on live projects with SPOs, thereby integrating their learnings of the previous terms with a real, viable and scaling strategy for the SPO.
CurriculumRead more about CurriculumThe approximately 49-week PGP-DM is divided into 8 Terms. The courses offered over the year fall into six clusters:
Curriculum & PedagogyRead more about Curriculum & PedagogyThe present curriculum reflects contemporary thought in management education as advocated by Srikant Datar, David Garvin and Patrick Cullen who proposed that a right balance between the skills of knowing, doing and being is essential in management.
PlacementsBodyStudents at ISDM have access to a range of unique and diverse career opportunities in national and international social purpose organisations, in thematic areas varying from health and education to water, sanitation and gender, working in a wide variety of roles such as research, advocacy, social impact consulting, communications and partnerships.Read more about PlacementsPlacement ButtonRead More