The Higher Education Review

Gone are the days when innate abilities, domain knowledge, and experience were enough to run a business. Today, the world is becoming more and more complex and needs 'management' in all of its essence to function effectively as effective management has become the soul of every business today. Furthermore, globalization and industrialization have made the business world all-powerful and everchanging. As a result, the size and complexity of businesses today are demanding more and more professional skills and pure practical knowledge of the domain. As a result management education is becoming the center of attraction and bridging the gap among today's entrepreneurs and established businesses. ITM Business School is one of the distinguished names in the B School segment established with a vision to provide students with a vital global edge, towards bringing a revolution in becoming a global leader in the business education sector. The business school aims to produce business leaders rather than just management graduates ensuring a novel learning experience with day-to-day pressure of the real world.

ITM Business School has created an ecosystem across for Innovation including research, technology and other innovations for creation and transfer of knowledge. "The knowledge gained by the students in the classroom is application oriented. ITM has created an ecosystem for innovation & learning by adopting different teaching pedagogy like business simulations, live projects, hackathons and learning through digital, trading and retail labs. In these activities, students get insight into business operations and they learn problem-solving techniques for real business. Faculties are encouraged to involve students for research, projects, creativity, and integrated learning. Coupled with innovative

teaching pedagogy and by creating their own internal assessment tools such as management games, role plays and quiz, our Faculty make the PGDM journey very interesting for the students," says Dr. Lakshmi Mohan, Director, ITM Business School.

Providing a Competitive and Professional Learning Approach
Incepted in 1991, by our visionary Chairman Dr. P.V. Ramana, ITM is one of the most respected institutions in the country. Further, the Institute also conducts Management Development Programmes (MDPs) for industry executives, middle and top management as per the current management & technological trends and needs. One of such MDP was organized for SBI Mutual Fund, the topic 'SBI-Mutual Fund management program, wherein the entire syllabus of such MDP was designed and developed by faculty members after having an interaction with industry.

"ITM Business School has created an ecosystem across for Innovation including research, technology and other innovations for creation and transfer of knowledge"

The Business Institute has also achieved various recognitions, awards and status such as NBA Accreditation, AIU Accreditation, Times Education ICONS Award 2018, Best B-school award 2018, CSR Awards 2016 to name a few.

ITM offers 10 specializations and each one is unique in its offering. This year we have added tech-based programs like Business Analytics, Fintech, and Digital Marketing and Transformation. Our innovative culture and unique teaching pedagogy are differentiators. We have more than 350 companies on campus to select our students, such kind of industry recognition is our largest motivator.

"The business school has a healthy placement policy which fulfills their professional commitment to their students and corporate clients. With a strong corporate relations department, the college has been successful to maintain good placement records of 94% and above consistently. ITM also provides five months industry internship to the students which are mutually beneficial to the recruiters

and the students. Recruiters get a decent time period to be sure if the interns fit their organization. For students too, a long period of 5 months helps them gain practical knowledge about the market and corporate culture, thus enabling them to be industry ready. ITM focuses on highly qualified faculties and gives students more of practical exposure through visiting faculties from corporate. An exclusive in-house team called Talewind has been set up for grooming the students and preparing them for the transition from campus to corporate.

The Entrepreneurship cell at ITM popularly called E-Cell does commendable work in fostering entrepreneurial mindset. Success & Failure stories of entrepreneurs, workshops on idea generation, business plan, funding and most importantly encouraging students to set up campus ventures. Business Choupal is a Marketing simulation carried out on campus that provides experiential learning of sales and marketing. Realizing the importance of digital marketing, the students were put through online experience through business choupal. At ITM we take pride in continuous transformation and blending learning to the business environment.

Dr Lakshmi Mohan, Director
Dr Lakshmi Mohan, Director of ITM Business School, Navi Mumbai is a professional with two decades of academic and half a decade of corporate exposure. She has worked with ICFAI, Times, Elbee Logistics and DHM. Dr Lakshmi is a recipient of the "Apeejay Karmaveer Chakra" in 2014 for inspiring youth to contribute towards society. She was an awardee for 'Woman Achiever' from NSA and Dr Lakshmi Mohan, Director Higher Education Forum bestowed on her the `Best Emerging Director' Award in 2015. In 2017, Fine Arts Society bestowed FAS Stree Ratna Award which was presented by Dr Rajashree Birla to Dr Lakshmi in recognition of her illustrious contribution and achievement in the field of Education and on 8th March, 2018 on the occasion of National Women's Day Awards, National Foundation For Entrepreneurship Development (NFED) conferred the 'Outstanding Woman Professional Award' to Dr Lakshmi Mohan.