Live Sessions

Eminent 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 courses

Students 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.

Unique Development Management course offerings with a mix of Development and Business Management fundamentals

Courses 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 project

The 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.

Curriculum

The approximately 49-week PGP-DM is divided into 8 Terms. The courses offered over the year fall into six clusters:

Curriculum & Pedagogy

The 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.

Placements

Body

Students 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.