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LIBALoyola Institute ofBusiness Administration

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Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) is a premier B-school, established in 1979 within the premises of Loyola College, to form competent and committed leaders who are ethical, principle-centred, and socially responsible with a global perspective and entrepreneurial spirit. LIBA is managed by Jesuits, of the Loyola College Society well known for their outstanding contribution to higher education.

LIBA stands for excellence and ethics which are the hallmarks of Jesuit business education and all its programmes and activities embody these two elements. LIBA earnestly strives to inculcate in the students the values of excellence, justice, honesty and service to the society.

LIBA offers primarily a two-year full-time PGDM course, approved by AICTE and recognized by AIU. It also offers other programmes: Part-time PGDM (AICTE approved), Ph.D. (affiliated to University of Madras), and one-year executive diploma programmes. The Management Development Centre offers various customised programmes (short-term and long-term) with a focus on skill development.

LIBA focuses on the ‘holistic formation’ of students in all quotients, viz., intellectual, social, emotional and spiritual. The Institution works with an undeterred zeal to offer its students the best of the education, blending classroom and experiential learning.

About LIbA

To be a premier management school focusing on excellence and ethics.

LIBA, a Jesuit institution managed by the Loyola College Society, is committed to excellence and ethics. LIBA aims to contribute to national development by preparing world class leaders with professional competence, outstanding leadership qualities, personal integrity, sensitivity to ethical issues and empathy for the weak and less privileged.

LIBA, as a Jesuit institution is committed to the core values of honesty, integrity, excellence and service to society.

Its management, while maintaining these values, will constantly strive to uphold respect for individuals without compromising on its core values; it will conduct itself as a trustee of the faith and direction of Jesuit values.

Its faculty is committed to the acquisition of and imparting the best and latest knowledge and skills in management principles and practices, and transfer them to the students. While dealing with the students fairly and justly, the faculty will inculcate in the minds of the students the spirit of inquiry, innovation and scientific knowledge.

Its students are expected to be committed to learn, in a spirit of inquiry and humility, the latest managerial knowledge, develop highest levels of professional skills along with an attitude of positive thinking, leading to Magis (excellence in everything), high ethical values and service to society.

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tHE PRoGRAMMESLIBA’s prestigious programme in management, leading to the Post-graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM), spans over two years with six terms of approximately three months each.

LIBA’s Postgraduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) consists of 135 credits, including the summer project and workshops. The fi rst year of the course presents students with a comprehensive view of the management discipline and a broad perspective of the corporate environment. A sound foundation is laid for advanced learning in the second year. All the core courses off ered in the fi rst year are compulsory courses.

In summer, the students are required to spend ten to twelve weeks in an organization working on a project dealing with a signifi cant aspect or problem relating to a functional area. The aim of the summer project is to provide students with the opportunity to observe closely an organization in operation and relate what they have learnt in classroom to actual practice. This also prepares students to choose their electives in the second year.

The courses off ered in the second year expose the students to cutting edge technologies, novel techniques and recent innovations in various fi elds thereby helping them to apply theoretical concepts in the practical business world. In each term, besides one required course (or core course), students will have to choose six courses (or electives) from one or more of the following areas of specialization: Marketing, Finance, Human Resource Management, Operations Management, Systems, and General Management. Students, however, have the option to submit a Master’s-level dissertation in a chosen area of specialization, in place of an elective, as a part of the requirement of the Programme, normally in the last term of the second year.

The performance of students at the PGDM Programme is continuously evaluated and rigorously monitored in order to motivate them to excel. The grading system synthesizes, on a nine-point scale, the continuous assessment of learning outcomes and refl ects a student’s cumulative performance in assignments, reports, project work, fi eld work, class participation, quizzes and mid-term and end-term tests.

Course Plan

SECOND YEAR

FIRST YEAR

HUMAN RESOURCEIndustrial Relations (Pre. for Labour Laws (Core)Total Reward & Performance Management (Core)Learning and DevelopmentEmployee Taxation(Strongly recommended for HR specialization)Creating a Workplace

OPERATIONSSupply Chain Management (Core)Operations Strategy (Core)Inventory ManagementSustainable Manufacturing and OperationsSystems Thinking and Modelling

BUSINESS ANALYTICSIntroduction to Package: R (Core)Advanced Statistical Methods II (Core)Database Technology and Data Mining for Business Data Visualization (Core)

During summer, students take up project work in an industrial or business organization for a duration of 10 to 12 weeks.

MARKETING Consumer Behaviour (Core)Product and Brand Management (Core)Business to Business MarketingRetailingRural MarketingMarketing for MSMEs and Start-ups

SYSTEMSDatabase Technology and Data Mining forBusiness Intelligence (Core)IT ConsultancyBusiness Data VisualizationIntroduction to Package: R

OTHERSix SigmaInternational EconomicsIntegrated Approach to ManagementBusiness History and PoliticsDoing Business in East AsiaSun Tzu and Art of Business StrategyForeign Language - Mandarin Level I

TERM 1Financial Reporting and Analysis Business Communication Computer Applications Managerial Economics Marketing Management 1Foundations of Organizations & Management Logic

TERM 2Economic Environment of Business Human Resource ManagementCorporate Finance People and Organizations 1 Managing Operations Marketing Management 2Management Science

TERM 3Social Environment of Business Cost Management People and Organizations 2Management Information Systems Business and Corporate LawsIntroduction to Financial Markets Business Ethics 1Multivariate AnalysisResearch Methodology

FINANCEBanking (Core)Capital Expenditure and

Working Capital Management (Core)Financial MarketsMicro, Small and Medium EnterprisesDirect Taxation(Strongly recommended for Finance specialization)

TERM 5

MARKETING Digital and Social Media Marketing (Core)Sales Management (Core)Customer Relationship Management (Core)Services MarketingMarketing of Financial ServicesDistribution ManagementPricing

TERM 4International Business

The elective will be offered subject to minimum number of registration.

Course PlanFINANCEFinancial Modelling (Core)Derivatives (Prerequisite for International Finance & Trading Strategies using Financial Derivatives) (Core)Security Analysis and Portfolio ManagementIndirect Taxation(Strongly recommended for Finance Specialization)Mergers and AcquisitionsStrategic Management Accounting

Venture Capital and Private Equity

HUMAN RESOURCELabour Laws (Pre.: Industrial Relations) (Core)HR Analytics (Core)Organisational Change and DevelopmentUnderstanding Organisations: Structure, Design and StrategyPsychometryContemporary Trends in Leadership (Seminar Mode)

OPERATIONSServices Operations Management (Core)Sourcing and Supply Management (Core)Supply Chain Risk ManagementHeuristics in Decision MakingStrategies for Product and Services Development

BUSINESS ANALYTICSAdvanced Analytics Using R (Core)Machine Learning Concepts Using R (Core)Big Data & Hadoop (Core)

SYSTEMSCybersecurity (Core)Software Project ManagementIT Infrastructure ManagementPython ProgrammingM Commerce

OTHERConsultancyProject ManagementTechnology StrategyIntroduction to International Relations forBusiness LeadersManaging Family BusinessCosting fro Non-FinanceForeign Language - Mandarin Level II

TERM 6MARKETING Integrated Marketing Communication (Core)Strategic Marketing ManagementInternational MarketingRetail AnalyticsSales and Marketing AnalyticsDigital Marketing - Web AnalyticsStrategies for Emerging MarketsSocietal Marketing - Best Practices (Seminar Course)

FINANCE International Finance (Pre.: Derivatives) (Core)Credit Risk Analytics - Measurement, Techniques & Applications Trading Strategies using Financial Derivatives (Pre.: Derivatives)Behavioural FinanceFinancial Technical Analysis & Global Inter-market AnalysisValue InvestingInvestment Banking

HUMAN RESOURCE Strategic Human Resource Management (Core)Talent ManagementInter-Cultural ManagementCounselling and Emotional IntelligenceKnowledge Management

OPERATIONS Logistics Infrastructure (Core)Total Quality Management and Lean ProductionPricing and Revenue OptimizationSupply Chain AnalyticsDemand Planning and ForecastingInternational Transportations and Logistics

BUSINESS ANALYTICS Sales and Marketing AnalyticsDigital Marketing - Web AnalyticsCredit Risk Analytics: Measurement Techniques & ApplicationsRetail Analytics

SYSTEMS Cloud Computing (Core)IT StrategyIntellectual Property Rights

OTHER International StrategyLeading Change and Organizational RenewalSocial EntrepreneurshipSustainability ManagementInternational Negotiations for Business

GRADE POINTS SIGNIFICANCEo 9 outstandingA+ 8 Very good

A 7 b+ 6 Good

b 5 C+ 4 Average

C 3 D+ 2 Poor

D 1

F 0 Fail

I Incomplete

THE OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONSIn today’s fast changing world where globalization and privatization are part of everyday lingua franca, LIbA strives to expose and prepare its students for the global arena. In that context, LIbA has many international exchange/collaborative programmes with institutions in Asia, Europe and uSA. these programmes offer students an opportunity to visit many countries and get exposed to diverse cultures. LIbA encourages students from abroad to visit LIbA and students from LIbA to take courses in universities abroad. the office of International Collaborations is the single point of contact for all international students planning to study in LIbA and for those LIbA students planning to go abroad. Dr. S. Chellaiah, Professor of Systems is the chairperson of the office of International Collaborations.

ACCOMMODATIONLIbA has many fully furnished and air-conditioned guest rooms with attached bathrooms. Each room can accommodate 2 students of the same gender. the rooms have a refrigerator, microwave oven, toaster, hot pot, plates, cups and cutlery, internet cable access and Wi-Fi connectivity. there is also a washing machine available common to all rooms. these are located right in the campus.

DIRECTIONS TO REACH LIBA FROM AIRPORTthe distance between Chennai Airport and LIbA is around 13 Km and It would take approximately 45 minutes to reach the LIbA campus by taxi assuming normal traffic during day time. both Prepaid and Postpaid taxis are available in the Airport.

VISA INFORMATIONAll foreign students are required to get visas to study in India. Please contact the Indian Embassy or Consulate in your country to apply for visa.

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Uber CabsOla Cabs

Utoo CabsFastrack Call Taxi

Apollo Hospital Miot Hospital Malar Hospitals St Isabel Hospital Sankara Nethralaya Sri Ramachandra Hospital

PVR Ampa Skywalk MallExpress AvenueForum Vijaya MallPhoenix Marketcity Mall

Mainland ChinaWang’s KitchenPizza HutSigreeAbsolute BarbequeAdyar Ananda Bhavan (Veg)Sangeetha (Veg)KFCMc Donald’s

IDBI BankIndian Overseas Bank

Indian BankHDFC Bank

State Bank of IndiaBank of Baroda

Government MuseumMarina Beach

Kapaleeswarar TempleArignar Anna Zoo

Dakshin ChithraMahabalipuram

Muttudadu Boat House