What Is
PGP TBM?
The Post Graduate Programme in Technology and Business Management is a uniquely designed 16-months flagship programme that is led by real practitioners, driven by live projects and grounded in technology.
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schedule
Programme Length
16 months
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Programme Structure
8 terms of
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Term Schedule
5 courses in each
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assignment
Concentrations to Study
6 Core: 4
Area: 2 -
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Courses in Each Concentration
4-5 Skill Based: 1-2
Case Recitals: 3-4
Who Should Apply?
Highly Individualized
Curriculum
Students are continuously engaged, not only with classes but also through networking interactions, consulting projects, tours and tech boot camps.
Weekly Schedule
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Core Class: Negotiations
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Core Class: Negotiations
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Technology Bootcamp:
eCommerce Implementations
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Business Tour:
Adani Mundra Port
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Concentration Class: Corporate Fin
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Core Class: Building a Brand
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Concentration Class: Corporate Fin
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Core Class: Building a Brand
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Area Class: How Ola Fundraised $1B?
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Concentration Class: Derivatives & Financial Crisis
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Concentration Class: Derivatives & Financial Crisis
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Consulting Engagement: Facebook
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1-1
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StartUp School:
Business Implementation
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Centre for New Business Model:
Blockchain Research
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Consulting Engagement:
Facebook
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Guest Faculty Session Dr. RC Bhargava,
Chairman, Maruti
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Leadership Lecture Dr. Ritesh Agarwal,
CEO, OYO
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Networking Dinner
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Networking Dinner
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Concentrations
The PGP TBM is an extremely flexible programme that can be highly customized to meet the needs of each student’s career aspirations.
Core Concentrations
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Industry Concentrations
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Core Concentrations
Industry Concentrations
Classroom
Experience
Internship-Style
Curriculum
The course curriculum is carefully and meticulously curated to provide students with hands-on industry experience, largely using internship-style lectures.
1.Courses Curated for Hands-On Engagement
Each course’s curriculum is meticulously co-designed with the industry and contains a mix of the following pedagogical elements:
Read about a few sample consulting projects:
Help us tap into the power of referral networks
- Strategise to motivate current cardmembers to refer their friends to sign up.
- Make the incentives more relevant and tangible to the millennial.
Convince the public that whole grain snacks can be savoury, not sweet
- Propose a plan to drive trial of this new non-sweet whole grain oat cluster.
- Convince the public that whole grain based products make a great savoury snack
Create a business deck to pitch Cisco products
- Explain how the product or service creates value for users and changes how the world works, lives, plays, and learns.
What does your ideal convenience store look like?
- Conceptualise an ideal convenience store.
- Detail out the services/products the store would offer? Define the layout of the store
Make vehicle ownership more attractive to Millennials
- Propose a way to make vehicle ownership/driving your own car more appealing and attainable for young people.
Use social data to identify the drivers of online conversations
- Develop a repeatable process that identifies, classifies, and extracts the underlying drivers of consumer financial conversations and comments in social media data.
2. Core Technology Courses
40% of the courses are rooted in core technology fields like AI, ML and Blockchain.
Business Analytics Using Python
Information Systems for Business Leaders
The Frontiers of Machine Learning
Understanding Statistics for Business
Tech Tools for Managers
Tech in Finance
Mastering Data Visualizations
Algorithmic Trading
Cloud Computing and DBMS
Mobile Apps- Deployment and Maintainence
Neural Networks and Deep Learning for Business Decision
Data Driven Decision Making
Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
Big Data and Public Policy
3. Boot Camp-Style Courses
For specific industry insights, industry practitioners lead short boot camp-style courses. Here are a few boot camps from recent terms:
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How External Forces Impact an Industry /Organization
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Starting and Scaling a Company
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Ins and Outs of Retail
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How Startups are Changing the World
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Building Wai Wai
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The future of Electric Vehicles
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Cryptocurrency
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Transforming Business Leaders
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Banking
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Diplomacy and Communications
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Indian Pharmaceuticals Industry and COVID
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Consumer Marketing Insights
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Managing Wealth Management Business
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Understanding Oil & Gas Business
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Secrets of Consumer Healthcare Business
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Big Data and Public Policy
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4. Corporate Field Courses
Every quarter, students travel to prominent business sites for first-hand exposure to various industries.
Mundra Port, Gujarat
Extensive overview of the Oil and Gas industry supply-chain
Reliance Jamnagar Refinery
How Asia’s largest refinery is being managed
Bombay Stock Exchange
Learn what goes on inside BSE/NSE
Maruti Udyog, Gurgaon
Understand business challenges of an Automobile manufacturing unit
Film City Mumbai
An insider look into the business of Film making from Production to Distribution
Unique Career Development
Interventions
1. Masters’ Union Investment Fund
The Masters’ Union Investment Fund is a unique student-managed fund with a corpus of Rs 5 Crore that invests in real estate, capital markets etc, providing the cohort a hands-on experience of managing a fund, under the guidance of a Master.
This diversified fund is being managed by 5 teams:
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Debt Fund
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Equities and Stock Fund
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![Profits of the fund to be divided among the student fund managers]()
futures and options Hedge Fund
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Venture capital fund for startups
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Real estate investment fund
2. One-on-One Mentorship Programme
Each student in the cohort is paired with a practising Master for regular counselling and career coaching. Check out some of our Master-Mentee pairs from Cohort’21:
3. Industry Immersion Programme
In the middle of the year, students break for 3 months to engage in one of the following programmes:
- Our students have been placed for internships at companies like
- Students get a ringside view of the work-life of top CXOs, and observe from close quarters what being an industry leader entails on a daily basis.
- Over 120 Corporates Participating including:
4. Startup School
The Incubator at Masters’ Union is uniquely designed to facilitate new ventures from ideation all the way to fundraising. Initiatives & resources include:
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Agency
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EIR
Mentoring
5. Research Centres
Masters’ Union houses India’s foremost research centres focussed on exploring the application of novel technologies to create new business opportunities and models.
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Blockchain Business Research Centre
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Centre for Applied Machine Learning
Using new discoveries in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to anticipate business and process disruptions. -
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Lab for Genetics & Bio-Tech Businesses
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Centre for Platforms
This research centre focusses on new business models emerging in the form of platforms like Uber, Airbnb etc.
Career Development
Journey
Over the eight terms of the programme, the Union will organise a series of activities including: workshops, trainings, panel discussions, group and one-on-one counselling sessions and will work on creating personalised career progression plans for each student.
Career Readiness Schedule
During Program
- KSA Assessment (One-on-One Diagnostic with the CS Team, Psychometric Assessment) Session
- 1-1 Mentor Allocation Session
- Résumé Format for Profile Building Session
- LinkedIn Profiling Session
- Professional Photography & Class Photos Session
- Institution of PlaCom Session
- Profile Book Session
- Batch Video Shoot Session
- Case and Business Plan Competition Workshop Session
- Finalization of Company Lists Session
- Company Outreach Plan Session
- Industry Immersion Drive Session
- Placement Rules Formation & Intimation Session
- Presentation Skills Workshop Session
- Industry Engagement Sessions Session
- Personal Branding Workshop Session
- Individual Video Shoot Session
- Storytelling Workshop Session
- Corporate Competitions Session
- Self Assessment Exercises (Tool Based like MBT, Big 5) Session
- Book Review #1 Workshop
- Domain Specific Seminars and Workshops Workshop
- Consulting Case Training Workshop
- Team Work & Conflict Management Workshop Workshop
- Industry-Specific/Functional/Role-Based Workshops Workshop
- Mock Interviews Workshop
- Book Review #2 Workshop
- Stress Management Sessions Workshop
- Contemporary Topics Workshop
- Domain-Specific Seminars Workshop
- Corporate Competitions Workshop
- Industry-Specific/Functional/Role-Based Workshops Workshop
- Mock Interviews Workshop
- Business Etiquettes & Grooming Session
- One-on-One with Director of Career Services Session
- Mock Interviews Session
- Peer Best Practices & Experience Sharing Session
- Salary Negotiations Workshops Session
- Mock Interviews Session
- Mock Interviews Session
- Placement Drives Session
- Placement Drives Session
Networking
Students stay on as Union members with access to coworking space, leadership lectures, daily dinners and benefits.
Union with the help of various student clubs, organising theme-based networking dinners to expose students to leaders and veterans from various walks of life.
As a student, you have access to any Master during their office hours. You can discuss ideas, evaluate proposals and get feedback on your tasks.
Each fellow is a verified business owner, intellectual or artist and is duty-bound to support each other throughout their lives.
Frequently Asked
Questions
No two days are the same at Masters' Union given the dynamic nature of the program. However, typically there are two to three 2-hour long classes scheduled from Monday to Thursday. Students are required to complete their assignments and group projects, attend career counselling sessions and other extra-curricular activities from Friday to Sunday.
Masters' Union gives you a chance to construct a tailor-made PGP TBM programme that fits your personal and career goals. You are free to pursue a generalist path towards management or specialise in a particular industry concentration. However, regardless of the path you decide to take during your elective period, everybody graduates with the same general PGP diploma.
Final course grades for most classes will be determined by a mix of class participation, projects and exams. For exams, Masters' Union grades on a Standard Normal Curve, also called a Z-Curve, with a mean of 3.0. There are no forced-to-fails. To graduate, participants must maintain a mean grade of 2.1 in core courses and electives.
No. Masters' Union adheres to a strict non-disclosure policy. Your grades will never be shared with recruiters, classmates or anyone outside of the Union's community. During on-campus interviews, recruiters are not permitted to ask about your grades, and you need not volunteer them. This policy allows you the freedom to challenge yourself and enhance the breadth of your knowledge by taking electives in unfamiliar subject areas without worrying that your grades will influence your job prospects.
The extra time taken at Masters’ Union helps you learn about setting priorities and make better choices about learning, socialising and personal time from the very beginning of the programme. This will make you an expert at decision making, which is one of the most valued qualities in a business leader.
