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Curiosity, when fueled with stimulating ideas in a non-judgmental and unbiased environment becomes knowledge. And knowledge coupled with action, creates change. Change can be challenging. It requires new ways of thinking about things that have become routine and comfortable. And that’s why, FLAME School of Business has not only embraced it, it is also striving to become it. We are doing this with new ideas, with innovative and timely programs. Programs that give students the insights and skills that enable them to lead, think strategically and manage change. Because, when it comes to change, you can either create it, or be swept away by it.

FLAME School of Business is rooted in liberal education. It’s anchored in knowledge. It’s a leap towards tomorrow. Because we understand that today, change is all around us. What once was a comfortable rate of change has now become fast-paced. Our program offers a curriculum that is tailored for the ever evolving, constantly changing globalized business environment of today. Throughout the program, students develop the fundamental skills and knowledge that managers need to lead complex organizations. The programs offered by the school cover all the areas in management sciences such as marketing, finance, organizational behavior, business policy and strategy, operations management as well as areas in humanities, social sciences, creative arts and sports for holistic development of the students.

Embracing Change,Changing Society

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6. Keeping the FLAME Alive5. Beyond the Classroom 4. Admissions1. Introduction 3. Business Education at FLAME2. The Guiding Light

FLAME Alumni

Alumni Speak

Invited Igniters

Awards & Honours

Extra-Curriculars

Life at FLAME

Infrastructure

Getting in

Eligibility & Criteria

Scholarships

Our Values & Philosophy

Our Vision

Our Mission

President’s Welcome

Dean’s Message

Our Pedagogy

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The Second Year

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We strive to kindle curious young minds with knowledge. We encourage them to challenge the status quo and to create the spirit of inquiry. We push them to freely exchange their thoughts and ideas. We aim to make them unafraid to apply their knowledge to every aspect of their field. We inculcate in them, an awareness that responsibility and accountability are two sides of the coin called freedom. We offer a platform for research in various fields and aim to improve the quality of education by promoting Faculty Development Programs.

Be the change you want to see. Our Vision

Our Values & Philosophy AhimsaNon-violence. Resolving differences through understanding.

Guru-Shishya ParamparaThe tradition of mentoring in the contemporary context.

Respect For Human DignityRespect for human dignity across all strata of society.

Ecological BalanceEco-friendly approach to all activities undertaken.

HumilityA deep commitment to the ideology of humility.

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IntroductionOur Values & Philosophy

Our Vision

Our Mission

President’s Welcome

Dean’s Message

Curiosity is an acorn; knowledge is the mighty oak. Information is a stream; intellect is an ocean. At FLAME School of Business, we wish to harness and tap into the energies of a symbiotic relationship between man and nature in a residential hermitage. We encourage intellectual dialogue, cultural exchange and research with Foreign Universities to bring forth a general renaissance of society. We strive to be innovative, creative, and are intellectually restless. We are always eager to cross boundaries and to experiment with new approaches to solving problems. We have created a stimulating environment of learning, where the mind can seek wider horizons.

It’s not who You are;It’s who You can be.

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FLAME School of Business is committed to develop management professionals who are competent in their chosen domain, sensitive to the environment and culture, responsible to the communities, ethical in all doings and global in their outlook and approach. FLAME School of Business achieves these objectives by having very rigorous academic processes, updated and relevant curriculum, global courses, extensive industry interaction, sports and vibrant student activities in a residential setting in its picturesque campus.

I take this opportunity to invite you to join the FLAME School of Business. This program beckons you to respond to newer challenges and discover the unlimited talent in you. With a “Liberal Education", FLAME School of Business program not only develops leaders for today, but also endows them with lifelong skills through imbibing the spirit of enquiry via case study method, taking winning and losing in their stride via mandatory sports, learn to respect fellow human beings via “Developmental Activities", strong all round resilience via "Elite Leadership Program" and build a culture of entrepreneurship via the unique year long “Entrepreneurship Program".

I welcome you to experience this unique Business Leadership Program.

Prof. Indira J. Parikh, Founder President, FLAME Prof. D.S. Rao, Dean, FLAME School of Business

(Former Dean, IIM - Ahmedabad)

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The Guiding Light

Bakul H. DholakiaEconomist and Former Director, IIM-Ahmedabad

Balkrishna V. DoshiArchitect, Philosopher and Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Seyed E. HasnainProfessor of Biological Sciences, IIT-Delhi and Former Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad

Sanjana KapoorTheatre personality and Director, Prithvi Theatre

Anand KarandikarChairman, Metric Consultancy Limited

Predhiman Krishan KawPhysicist, and Director, Institute for Plasma Research-Gandhinagar

Shreeram LagooTheatre and Film actor

R. A. MashelkarScientist and Former Director General, Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)

Ravi ParanjpePainter

Lt Gen S S Mehta, PVSM, AVSM**, VSM (Retd)Military strategist & Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry

Jayant NarlikarAstrophysicist and Founder-Director, Inter University Centre For Astronomy & Astrophysics

Yash PalScientist, Creator of Space Applications Center, Ahmedabad and Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Anirudha SeolekarManaging Partner, Oxford Properties

Ramadhar SinghDistinguished Professor, IIM-Bangalore andFormer Professor, National University of Singapore

Abhijit SenProfessor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Member, Planning Commission of India

Parag ShahFounder Director, Ex-Founder Chairman, FLAME

Vallabh Bhansali Founder Director, FLAME (Co-Founder and Chairman, ENAM)

Nemish Shah Founder Director, FLAME (Co-Founder and Partner, ENAM)

Anil SinghviFounder Director, FLAME Former CEO, Ambuja CementFormer Vice Chairman, Reliance Natural ResourcesPartner, I-Can Investment Advisors

Prof. Indira J. Parikh Founder President, FLAME(Former Dean, IIM-Ahmedabad)

Advisory CouncilAnu AgaFormer Chairperson, Thermax India Limited

Kiran DatarFormer Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi and Former Advisor, National Knowledge CommissionBoard

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LLB, PGDM and IMDR, Parag Shah is the Former Founder Chairman of FLAME. He has been teaching the Entrepreneurship Major at FLAME for the past four years and has taught marketing for the past 18 years. Mr. Parag Shah has been instrumental in setting up the department of entrepreneurship, which focuses on Entrepreneurial Leadership, Product Development & Innovation and Incubation centre. Mr. Shah teaches both the post-graduates and the undergraduates and has been responsible for helping many students in setting up their own ventures and arranging seed capital for them. Mr. Shah believes that mentoring is an extremely important component of any teacher’s responsibility and spends almost 10 hours every week on mentoring his students.

Mr. Shah is very excited at the prospect of setting up a full-fledged Product Development, Innovation and Incubation centre at FLAME, turning out a whole new generation of Innovative Entrepreneurial Leaders.

Prof. Parag C. Shah

Prof. Arvind Agarwal B.Sc. PGDM from IIM-Ahmedabad, Prof. Agarwal has over 26 years of industry experience across Marketing, CRM, Credit Risk, Business Strategy and Business Intelligence. He has worked with MNCs in the Financial Services industry (American Express, GE Capital, Visa International) in India and Singapore. He has deep domain expertise in the retail banking area.

Prof. I. Sridhar M.Com, MBL and CS, Prof. Sridhar is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the area of Corporate Governance from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He has more than a decade of teaching and administrative work experience with reputed business schools in the country. His areas of teaching & research are Corporate Governance, Financial Markets and Corporate & Economic Legislations.

Prof. R. G. NambiarDr. R. G. Nambiar was a Director of Nirma Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Director of Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research, Ahmedabad. He was also a Chair Professor, International Trade and Management at IIM, Ahmedabad. He has contributed several research papers in Indian and International Journals.

Prof. Danesh Gojer Danesh Gojer is a BA (Hons) from University of Warwick, UK and MBA from Clark University, USA. His work experience includes corporate banking with HSBC in Canada and India, consultant with CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) and authoring a book, "Demand Driven Training and Education". His teaching interests and specialization is in managerial decision making and communication.

M.Ed., Rochester, USA; Ph.D., Gujarat University, and the Founder President FLAME, Prof. Indira Parikh was a faculty at IIM Ahmedabad for over 30 years and Dean from 2002 to 2005. She has taught at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France) and Texas A&M University. She has designed and offered management development programs and has consulted national and international organizations.

Prof. Indira J. Parikh

Ph.D., University of Illinois, USA; the Dean of FLAME School of Business and FLAME Doctorate in Business Studies, Prof. Shingi taught for 32 years at IIM-Ahmedabad, where he was both Dean and the Officiating Director. He has maintained highest levels of interaction with national and international organizations, negotiated many policy directed research and consultancy projects and actively undertook research and outreach activities for sectors of national importance in India and South-East Asia.

Prof. P.M. Shingi

Prof. Vinod Vidwans Vinod Vidwans was a Senior Designer (Professor) and an Ex-Vice Chairman (Research) at National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. He also headed the Departments of New Media and Software Users Interface Design at NID, Ahmedabad. He is a visiting faculty at IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Kanpur, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, D.J. Academy of Design, Coimbtore, and Pt. Deendayal Petrolium University, Gandhinagar. Dr. Vidwans is a cognitive philosopher, a designer and a portrait painter. He has done his Ph.D. in Cognitive Philosophy and Mater of Design from IIT, Mumbai. He holds another Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Nagpur University. He teaches Philosophy.

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Prof. Ajay Kalra Prof. Ajay Kalra's credentials include a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology (The University of Texas at Austin), M.A. Liberal Studies (East Tennessee State University), D.M.R.D. (Lady Hardinge Medical College, University of Delhi), M.B.B.S. (University College of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi). He also completed a master's degree in liberal studies and contributed significantly to the Encyclopedia of Appalachia as assistant editor and writer. His areas of expertise are North American and British vernacular music; Countercultural music and constructions of space in recorded music and historical development of guitar styles.

Prof. Ganesh PoddarPhD, Political Science University of Pune, Ganesh Poddar graduated with a degree in Political Science from the Delhi University in 1989 and went on to.do his M.A from CPS, JNU, New Delhi and M. Phil in Humanities and Social Sciences with specialization in Planning and Development from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT [B]. His interest for languages saw him earn an advanced diploma in Spanish from the University of Pune. He has been working in the area of Spanish teaching and Spanish-English-Spanish translation and interpretation since 2002. He teaches Spanish.

Prof. Priya Joshi Priya is a MA, Dance (Pune University) and Nritya Visharad (Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth), M.Com. & has a Diploma in journalism (Pune University). She is trained in Pandanallur Bharatnatyam under Dr. Vasundhara Shreedharan and Guru Dr. Sucheta Bhide Chapekar for past 25 years. Priya is a founder director of Kalanilayam School of Dance (affiliated to Kalavardhini Bharatnatyam Institute) where basic and advance training in Bharatnatyam is offered. Along with her performances and choreography work she has a teaching experience of 15 years. She teaches Dance Appreciation & Movement and Choreography.

Prof. Sameer Dublay Sameer Dublay has a M.A. in Music from Lalit Kala Kendra, Pune University. He received the Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Scholarship in 1993 and was awarded a fellowship in Indian Music by The Government of India in 1997. He has composed music for several plays and is the Co-founder of “Society for Performing Entrepreneurs and Conscious Training towards Understanding Music” popularly known as SPECTRUM that conducts sessions on music appreciation. He teaches Music.

Prof. Chitra Dandawate Chitra Dandawate has done her post graduation in German from University of Pune. She has also done all the courses of Max Mueller Bhavan, Pune (Goethe Institute) and Oberstufe from Phillips University Marburg, Germany. She has been a recipient of the Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to do research in Germany. She has been awarded scholarships by the Ministry of External Affairs of the German government to do a comparative study and analysis of teaching methodologies in educational institutions in Germany and by Goethe Institute & the Austrian government to do advanced teachers' training courses. She has worked in Symbiosis, Fergusson College and Max Mueller Bhavan. She teaches German language.

Suniti holds a MA (Painting), SNDT, Pune; BFA (Applied), Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai. She has been the recipient of the prestigious National Ashok Jain Award from Bennett and Coleman (Times of India Group) and also, the Maharashtra State Art Award for Advertising. As an entrepreneur, she was the founder and Creative Director of an advertising agency, Cats’ Creatives, in Pune. She has been a visiting faculty in various reputed institutes in the areas of Design, Presentation Skills, and Exhibition Display. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in design. She teaches design, Typography, Calligraphy and ‘Fine Art’.

Prof. Vidyanidhee Vanarase A PG Diploma in Dramatic Arts (National School of Drama) V.S alias Prasad Vanarase is a graduate of the National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi. He has directed more than 50 plays and short plays in Marathi, Hindi, Konkani, Kannada and English. He has also translated and adapted plays in Marathi. He has gained proficiency in three interrelated areas Direction, Administration and Management of Arts and Applied Arts. He was associated with London International Festival of Theater (LIFT) and works is National Creative Co-coordinator of Project Phakama in India. Prasad Vanarase has been involved in theatre training for more than 18 years and has worked as visiting faculty/guest director at several universities and theatre institutes in India and abroad. He teaches Theatre.

Gauri Gandhi obtained graduation and post graduation in fine arts (sculpture) from M.S.University, Baroda with distinction. Trained in ceramics exclusively under Nirmala Patwardhan Pune, she worked in Garhi, Delhi in etching and metal beating. She also worked in Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal on lithography and etching & beginning of ceramic. She teaches Creative Sculpture & Sculpture Vocabulary and Sculpture material.

Prof. Gauri Gandhi

Ph.D. from Pune Vidyapeeth National Chemical Laboratory, Prof. Himanshoo is now Professor Emeritus at FLAME School of Liberal Education. After receiving a Ph.D. in 1967, he went to Switzerland as a post-doctoral research fellow, and, in 1969, moved to USA. He has, over the past forty years abroad, worked as a researcher in the field of Spectroscopy and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. He has taught at several high schools, colleges, and universities in the USA, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ CALTECH/ NASA in Pasadena, CA, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. He has also taught at the Al-Fateh University in Tripoli, Libya and at American Foundation high schools in Mexico and in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He teaches Urdu.

Prof. Himanshoo V Bhat Navangul

Prof. Nandita Wagle Nandita holds a MA, Research Masters in Modern French Literature (Sorbonne-Paris). After completing graduation with Political Science, Sociology and French in 1994, Nandita Wagle taught French for 12 years at Alliance Francaise and 2 years at Pune University. She is a professional French translator and interpreter for technical and non-technical domains and has translated literary works from French to Marathi and vice versa that have been published in India and France. She has also been subtitling India Films in French. She teaches French.

Prof. Suniti S Vadalkar

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Visiting FacultyProf. Anand KolharkarA Masters in Computer Management and Bachelors of Computer Science from University of Pune, Anand has 18 years of experience related to Business Intelligence and Data warehousing and over 12 years of international consulting expertise into US & Middle East. He has headed BI teams and IT Management in leading companies for over 5 years. He started consulting and training firm called Opine Group to share knowledge and build solutions for better decision-making. He has also taught and introduced Business Intelligence topic in major national and international universities. He is passionate about finding innovative techniques to share knowledge.

Prof. Arabinda Tripathy M.Sc. (Operational Research), London School of Economics, B. Tech. (Hons.) Mech. Engg., IIT Kharagpur, PGDBM, XLRI, Ph.D. (Operational Research), London School of Economics, Arabinda, former Professor at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, is currently the Dean, School of Management, IIT Kharagpur.

Prof. Archana DholakiaB.Com, M.S. University, Baroda with Accounting, Auditing, Mathematics and Economics, MA, M.S.University, Baroda in Economics with specialization in Econometrics, Archana did her Ph.D. from M.S.University, Baroda. She was a Freelance consultant and Visiting faculty at various Institutes like Mudra Institute Of Communications, Entrepreneur Institute Of Development, National Institute of Agri-Management Jaipur and FLAME. She worked On the Tribal Finance of Gujarat, for Gujarat Institute of Development Research.

Prof. Aruna Bagchi MS in Marketing, Texas University, MBA (Marketing) Symbiosis, Pune; she has held eminent positions and marketing research is her area of specialization.

Prof. Alla Zusman MS in radio physics from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia; Alla has over 14 years of experience in corporate R&D and also worked for 3 years as a patent agent. She is a TRIZ Master and has over 25 years of TRIZ experience with patent education. She is one of the main contributors to the development of TRIZ applications--specifically to ARIZ, the patterns of systems evolution, AFD and DE methodology, and the TRIZSoft® family of software. She is the author or co-author of 14 books on TRIZ and several patents and has conducted numerous seminars, workshops, and lectures. She is the Director of TRIZ products development at Ideation International Inc.

Prof. Anirban SenguptaProf. Sengupta holds a PhD from University of Pune, Masters in Management Studies from NMIMS, University of Mumbai and Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has nearly two decades of professional experience - evenly spread out between industry and academics. Over the years he has held leadership positions, in industry and academics, across various high-growth sectors – credit rating and financial services in the early 90s, retailing in early 2000 and healthcare in 2009.

Prof. Anita Basalingappa Ph.D. & MBA from Karnataka University, Dharwad; Prof. Anita has been a Pavate Fellow in Marketing at the Judge Business School, Cambridge, UK. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA). She has 12 years of academic experience and her teaching interests lie in Return on Marketing Investment (ROMI) & Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

B.Tech, IIT Kharagpur, PGDM (Marketing & Finance), IIMA, Dilip is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Ahmedabad. He has over 20 years of experience in IT, spanning sales and marketing, software architecting, project management, delivery management and resource management. He has worked with Wipro, HCC, UTC and Hexaware and also runs his own entrepreneurial venture providing software services and products to banks, corporates and software companies.

Prof. Gagandeep SinghGagandeep Singh is a Director and Principal Consultant with FLAME TAO Knoware Private Limited, an organization that anchors Organization Development and Transformation Interventions. He is a graduate from IIM Ahmedabad, having specialized in Finance. Having worked with organizations such as Tata Industries, he co-founded TAO Knoware in 1998. In the past 14 years of consulting experience, he has anchored OD interventions on transformation of culture, goal and throughput alignment, executive coaching & leadership, and change. As a consultant, he has worked with organizations such as Accenture, TCS, Ingersoll Rand, ITC Limited, Kotak Bank, Suzlon, TAS, and Texas Instruments. He has been a visiting faculty to well known management institutes including IIM Ahmedabad, IMDR, and FLAME at Pune, teaching organization theory, social theory and in anchoring process labs. He has also been a consultant to National Institute of Design (NID Ahmedabad). He is a Fellow with Sumedhas Academy for Human Context, and invests a fair amount of time into leadership roles with Indian Academy for Organization Development as well as Sumedhas.

Prof. Boris ZlotinMS in electrical engineering from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia, Boris has 20 years of experience working in corporate R&D. He is a TRIZ Master with over 35 years of experience in TRIZ and is widely recognized in the TRIZ community and considered one of the foremost theorists and TRIZ scientists in the world today. He is responsible for the majority of the advances made to the methodology to date. He facilitated solving of thousands of various problems, is the author or co-author of 15 books on TRIZ and multiple patents and has conducted numerous seminars, workshops, and lectures. He is the Chief Technological Officer and VP at Ideation International Inc.

Prof. B.K. Mohanty M.Sc.(Maths), Behrampur Univ; P.G.Dip (Maths) Ph.D. (OR) IIT Kharagpur; his teaching areas are Quantitative Techniques in Management, Multi criteria Decision Making, Fuzzy Logic in Software Risk Management, DBMS. His research areas are Multi criteria Decision Making, Fuzzy Set Theory, Software Reliability & Fuzzy Logic in Systems Management. His current consulting interests are Fuzzy Applications in E-Commerce, Fuzzy Logic in IT Enabled Organizations & Fuzzy Information Systems.

Prof. Chandrasekaran N.A Ph.D. in Economics – Financial Management, University of Madras, he is a Certified Supply Chain Management Professional, a professional certification process by APICS – American Association of Operations Management. His early decade of professional experience includes areas relating to Project planning in development sector, Corporate Planning, Strategic Initiatives in agro-based sector. His later decade of professional experience includes work with SMEs and startups in the areas of mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructuring, developing business models, fund raising and putting together key resources by working directly with the promoters. For the past fifteen years, he has also been teaching Strategic Management, Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring and Supply Chain Management at institutes of excellence.

Prof. Dilip Thosar

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Visiting FacultyProf. Ganesh RaoA chemical engineer and an MBA by qualification, Ganesh has over 14 years of experience in almost all aspects of the HR function. At DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd (DSCL), New Delhi, where he joined as a Management Trainee in 1998, he was instrumental in implementing SAP HR across the organization. As Head-HR of Hariyali Kisaan Bazaar (a rural retailing venture of DSCL) he was part of the core team at inception that gave shape to the new business and spearheaded the HR initiatives of the business that included rapid resource augmentation, training, personnel policies, compensation & rewards, talent management and organization development. He left DSCL in 2008 to set up his own consulting practice in Pune. He has executed assignments with include DSCL Sugar, Tata Motors,JP Morgan Chase, Kalpataru Ltd and an SME based in the US. Ganesh is a keen student of human behaviour; he is also a qualified administrator of FIRO-B and MBTI instruments and an advocate of the Enneagram system of personality. A prolific reader, he is also interested in history, mythology, music and films.

Prof. G. S. Gupta A BA, MA,(M.S. University, Baroda), Ph.D., Johns Hopkins; G.S. Gupta has been Bank of Baroda Chair Professor in International Banking and Finance at IIM Ahmedabad, full-time Visiting Professor of Economics at Illinois State University, Professor in School of Management at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Dean/Professor of Eminence at Institute of Management, Nirma University and Distinguished Professor at Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India. He is the Member of Indian Econometric Society and Gujarat Economic Association.

Prof. Hemant Tambde BE (Mechanical Engineering), MBA, CPIM, CSCP, APICS Associate Instructor. Hemant has more than 20 years of experience in large-scale production of precision mechanical components. He has rich and varied experience in the disciplines of ‘Production Engineering’ and ‘Supply Chain Management’. While working on various projects and assignments, he has gained valuable first-hand experience in Lean Management, Project Management, Manufacturing Process Development, Quality Management, Production Planning & Control, and Supplier Development and Outsourcing. He is regularly invited by leading B-schools and Business Organizations to speak on ‘Technology Management’ and ‘Supply Chain Management’. For four years till 2010-end, he has handled key project management responsibilities in ‘Materials Management’ at the Bosch’s Indian operations. Project teams working under Hemant’s leadership have got industry-wide recognition and have won many national level awards. Currently he is working with Bosch as Senior Manager – Manufacturing & Engineering at their Diesel Fuel Injectors plant at Nashik.

Prof. Janardana Mamtora PGDBA from IIM, Ahmedabad; AICWA, ACS, Janardana is Visiting Faculty in FINANCE at FLAME School of Business, Pune, Visiting Faculty (Finance) at IRMA (Institute of Rural Management, Anand). Before this, he worked for about 12 years in the FINANCE area in four companies, including two in Lagos, Nigeria. He has been conducting in-house corporate training programs at various companies, management associations for last 13 years. He has been conducting training programs on Wellness, Soft Skills and Retirement Planning besides finance subjects.

Prof. Girish Ketkar PGDM, IIM Ahmedabad, B.SC. (Applied) Comp Sc, University of Pune, B.Sc. (Statistics), University of Pune. During his more than 20 years, he has worked with companies such as Wipro, NIIT, Indus Software and Kale Consultants.

B.SC. Chennai, PGDM, IIMA, Prof. Krishnan has 40 years of extensive industry experience. Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Commodity Buying and Strategic Cost Management are his key focus areas and he has been a Vice President, Sourcing, Thomas Cook India Ltd., Head, Strategic Sourcing, Mahindra & Mahindra and Vice President, Purchasing, Pepsi Foods Ltd.

Prof. Mangesh Korgaonker B. E. (Mech. Eng.), University of Bombay, M. Tech, (Machine Tool Eng.), IIT Bombay, Ph. D. (Industrial Eng.); Mangesh was the Founder Director of Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Harihar & the ICICI Chair Professor and Head at Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay. He also served as Director General, National Institute of Construction Management and Research (NICMAR), Pune. He is an Adjunct Professor, Hoseo University, Korea since November 2001. He has also been a Visiting Professor, School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. He was a professor at IIM Ahmedabad. He has published and presented a large number of Research papers in National/ International Journals/Conferences. He has authored a book ‘Just in Time Manufacturing ’. His other previous assignments include Group Executive and Advisor – Bharat Earth Movers Ltd, Professor and Advisor – S.P. Jain Management of Institute & Research, Advisor –EPC group-L & T Ltd., Chairman – State Technical Education Council – Government of Goa.

Prof. Meena Sridharan MA in English Literature, Advanced Level Degree - Japanese Language, Advanced level Diploma – French language, Language Training, Teaching, Interpreting, Training the Trainer Education, BA (English) from Stella Maris College, Chennai, Advanced Level Diploma in Japanese, Naganuma School, Tokyo, Diploma from UNESCO Language School, Tokyo, Advanced Diploma in Japanese, Japan Foundation, Diploma in French CELTA (University Of Cambridge).

Prof. Mirza Saiyadain Ph.D. (Kansas, U.S.A.), M.A. (University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.), B.A. (AMU, Aligarh); Prof. Saiyadain has taught extensively at institutes and universities both in India and abroad. He was a faculty member at IIM Ahmedabad. He was the Chairperson of both the Post Graduate Program and the Doctoral Program at IIM Ahmedabad.

Prof. Kedar Kulkarni(MBA), BE, DME. Management Consulting, Assessments, Training Design & Delivery, Prof. Kedar has been working on designing and running Assessment centers for the last 1 year. One of his assignments has been an end-to-end assessment to training value chain implementation. He also designs trainings for organizations based on their needs and the capability they need to focus on. He is currently working on Management Consulting assignments in the areas of Process structuring, Business Risk, Employee productivity and training etc. He has written for US/UK universities, publications as a subject matter expert in Project Management/ Program Management and has taught Strategy, Business Case Studies, and Entrepreneurship to MBA students at SIBM. He is also involved in Corporate Planning, Change Management & Strategy. Kedar is a Certified SCRUM Master and Project Management Professional.

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Visiting FacultyProf. Nayana Shah Having an experience of about 25 years, Dr. Nayana Shah is the founder director of Manthan Centre for Human and Organization Development, Ahmedabad. Through this Centre, she has worked extensively with students, individuals and managers at individual, group and collective levels. Her focus of work is in the areas of teaching, assessment, career guidance, personal growth labs, developmental workshops and personal counseling. She is an Organization Consultant and Trainer in many Indian organizations. She holds a Post-Graduate Degree in Business Management (MBA) and has undergone intensive training in Behavioural Sciences, Counseling, Psychometric Assessment and Training. She is an accredited user of various psychometric instruments, such as California Psychological Inventory, Firo-B, MBTI, Thomas Profiling. Her expertise is in disciplines of Organization Behaviour, Organization Development, Sensitivity Training, Change Management, Communication and related disciplines.

Prof. Nishit KumarGCE'O' Level- Univ. of London, B.Sc. Univ. of Pune, B.C.J, Post grad in communication and journalism, Post grad in Management IMDR, Pune. Nishit is a gold medalist. He has been the youngest ever Fergussonian as he joined college at the age of 12. He has over 35 years of extensive industry and teaching experience- across 35 B-Schools in India and 7 abroad. He is also an Advisor to the Planning Commission of India and a Member of the Prime Minister’s Knowledge Management Commission.

Prof. Prasad Godbole B Com., LLB, MBA (IIM -A), AICWA and a Visiting Faculty at MET. Prasad Godbole has 30 years of industry experience. Presently he is running his own consultancy company focusing on strategic and financial organization and goal. Mergers/ Acquisition, Strategic Management, BPR Initiatives, Fund Raising & Management, Budgetary Control, Cost Management, Liaison, Legal & Secretarial Systems Development, Commercial Operation are his areas of specialization.

Prof. Premkumar M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry), Mumbai University, M.A. (Personnel Management & Industrial Relations), TISS, IIT Mumbai University and D.M.S.M.; he is an Independent HR Consultant and Trainer and Visiting Faculty to SP Jain Dubai, Welingkar Institute, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management, Mumbai, SIBM, Pune, TAPMI, Manipal, XIM, Bhubaneswar. He has worked extensively with corporates in their HR departments.

Prof. Naveen Bhatia B.E. BITS Pilani, PGDM IIM, Bangalore; Navin was Head of Finance Department, N L Dalmia Institute of Management and Visiting Faculty to S P Jain Institute, Dubai and Singapore. He has worked over a span of 10 years in the areas of investment banking, project finance, equity trading, equity valuation, and fixed income trading projects in association with renowned companies.

Prof. Neelkanth Athaley B. E. (Mechanical). Nagpur University and PGDM, IIM Ahmedabad, he has been GM, Mohsin Haider Darwish LLC, Muscat. Nearly 40 years in various areas of Business e.g. Marketing, Project Management, Finance, Manufacturing, Quality Control, Business Development, Strategy and Planning, Product Development, Demand Forecasting, MCS, HRD, etc. in INDIA and in the MIDDLE EAST.

Prof. Rachna Gupta Rachna Gupta graduated with a degree in Electronics from the Jiwaji University, Gwalior (M.P.) after which she did her MBA from the Jiwaji University, Gwalior with specialization in Human Resource. She was awarded PHD degree by the Department of Management, Jiwaji University, Gwalior. She has been working in the area of Human Resource Management.

Prof. Rajesh ManjrekarCA, India, M.sc in Finance from USA (J Mack Robinson), Rajesh has 20 years of industry experience and has developed MIS concepts that emphasized on the concept of “probability of perfect information in an organization”. He Developed Risk management awareness primarily for trading companies, emphasized on implementation of Integrated Accounting, enhanced Treasury Management functions using Excel Tools, developed Financial models that addressed the business issues and financial issues, conducted a training program for a KPO emphasizing on the creation of Industry Primers, conducted research on the Mutual Fund Industry for an Educational Institute that was published in the Economic and Political weekly. He introduced the concept of modeling in the MBA course of several management institutes

Prof. Ravindra Kowadkar B.E. (Elec.), MMS, Prof. Kowadkar has 20 years of industry experience at high positions in renowned companies. Currently he works as visiting faculty, consultant and trainer. His areas of interest are Marketing Management, Physical Distribution, Global Logistics, Sales Management, Marketing Research, Marketing of Services and Principles of Marketing.

Prof. Preeta Vyas Ph.D., M.B.A., (Gujarat University), B. Com. Dr. Preeta Vyas holds MBA (Marketing) and Ph.D. in Business Management from Gujarat University. She received a Gold Medal for scholastic performance in B. Com. She has worked for more than 3 decades in the Marketing Area at IIMA. She has taught courses like Marketing Management and Advertising & Sales Promotion Management at IIMA and also at other B-schools in India including IIM Indore as Visiting Faculty. She has written a number of case studies in marketing, which are registered with IIMA case unit. She has participated in several international conferences and presented research papers in US, Singapore and IIMA. She has many publications in the area of sales promotion, loyalty programmes and mobile advertising. Her research interests include marketing communication practices of Infrastructure Sector companies, applications of marketing principles and development of case studies in marketing & business development. She is a faculty member at Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management.

Prof. Priyesh BalakrishnanA Brand Professional with experience of over a decade, Priyesh Balakrishnan‘s career cuts across the fields of marketing, advertising, strategy, filmmaking and design. He has handled strategic brand building for some of the biggest brands in the country such as Titan, Unilever, Future Group, Reliance and Bharati Airtel during his time with agencies including Lintas, JWT and O&M. Currently he is the Founder and Chief Strategist of Open Circle Communications, an Ahmedabad based Brand Strategy and Design Agency. Priyesh is also a visiting faculty at several leading institutions including IIMA, FLAME, MICA, SEMCOM, and AMA where he specializes in topics covering Strategy, brand management, creative communication & film making. His book “Advertising, Branding and Communication Techniques” is prescribed for students of Brand Management at MICA and AMA.

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Visiting FacultyProf. Ravindra MenonB.SC (Physics), Qualified CAIIB, Computer Programme for Executives at CMC Ltd; Ravindra served in various branches of Indian bank, all over India. Presently he is functioning as a finance/forex consultant and also as a visiting faculty, after taking premature retirement from the bank. He teaches at the B schools of Symbiosis International University, Pune, PUMBA (university of Pune), IBS (ICFAI business school) and national institute of bank management (NIBM) in the areas of international business, international banking & finance, retail banking & wealth management, foreign trade policy & export-import documentation.

Prof. Satish Chinchorkar B.E. Mechanical, Industry Engineer from IIT, Powai, MMS, Pune University, Certified Quality Analyst (QAI); Satish worked with HAL, Nasik & is working in the IT industry at present.

Prof. Satish Ratnaparkhi MSW(HR), Ph.D. (HR)T.l.S.S., Satish has 21 years of experience in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations, Labour Legislation and Labour Welfare. He has worked with various reputed organizations like Nocil, Greaves Cotton, Bajaj Auto Ltd., NRB And Barware Polyester Ltd., in Human Resource Development and was with University of Mumbai's Institute of Career Education as a Director.

Prof. Shirish Sharangpani M.S. (Earth/Geological Sciences), USA and M.S. (Environmental Sciences/Management), USA, Prof. Sharangpani has played key roles as Consultant, Environmental Management, Proprietor Geo Enterprises, Resource Faculty, and Environmental Management. He is a visiting faculty at Sinhgad College of Science, Pune, also at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Pune and Guest Speaker, Executive MBA Programme, PUMBA, University of Pune.

Prof. Shrikant BhagaliM.Sc., CAIIB and Professional Member of ISISD/ISABS; Shrikant retired as the Chief General Manager, State Bank of India. He was also the Principal, SBI Officers’ Management College at Hyderabad and Head of Project Finance SBU. Presently he is a Trainer & Consultant in Banking Management and OD, Project Management & Finance, Competency Assessment, Entrepreneurship Development.

Prof. Rohit DubeyUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, California, Ph.D., Political Science, IIM, Bangalore, MBA Operations Research, IIT, Kharagpur, India, B. Tech, Mechanical Engineering; Rohit has over seven years experience in the development of Quantitative Tools for Credit Risk Management, Portfolio Management and Structured Finance & over ten years in Software Engineering. He is knowledgeable in the theory underlying credit risk models and modern portfolio theory, experienced in the creation of models for estimating Credit Risk & has strong understanding of Credit Derivatives pricing. He has a strong understanding of the theoretical issues and best practices in Fixed Income Investment Analysis, Corporate Finance, Accounting, Quantitative Methods and Research.

Prof. Sanjay DalviSanjay is a PGDM from IIM, Ahmedabad, B Com from MS University, Baroda, Programme on General Management from London Business School, Advanced Management Programme from Ashridge School of Management, UK. Sanjay has over 29 years international experience in financial and general management. He effectively managed multi-location units, implemented and worked on FI/CO, MM, PP and SD modules of SAP.

Prof. Soniya Yadwadkar Holding a Ph.D. in HRD Dr. Soniya has 20 years of corporate experience in handling strategic HR covering diverse organizations from manufacturing & service industries to consulting. Dr. Soniya runs her own Strategic HR & OD Consulting firm, CerveauSys Strategic Consulting Pvt. Ltd. She is an expert in the areas of Organizational Development, Competency modelling, competency based HRD processes, psychometric assessments, HR Processes/ systems and employee engagement/satisfaction assessments and initiatives. She has an enriching experience in deployment of strategic HR initiatives and processes in global locations such as U.S, U.K, Germany and Singapore. She has been instrumental in implementation of Balanced Score Card in various global units in her corporate career. She is a certified consultant for psychometric tools such as MBTI and Workplace Big 5 from Centre for Applied Cognitive Studies, U.S.A. and Asia Pacific. She is passionately interested in making available simple yet strategic management solutions to the growth-oriented companies. She aspires to enable business growth and create a culture committed to excellence in her client organizations.

Prof. Shital Chandra Kulkarni Prof. Kulkarni has completed Supreme Grades in his Institution teaching. He is handling music instruments for the last 20 years. Having been a music producer, composer, and teacher for around 2 decades now, he has his own studio, and has recorded over 200+ albums of various genres. He also plays and teaches the piano and keyboards, mandolin, bass guitar, and the drums.

Prof. Shyam Lal Prof. Lal is B.Ed., M.Sc., MBA-Indore, and Ph.D. (HR)-Indore. He served the Indian Army for 35 years in various assignments & has been a war veteran of 3 wars. His subject is comparison between Army and Industry. He has been teaching in a number of management Schools, Army and Industry. He is presently conducting workshops on transactional analysis, leadership, dynamics of success and Emotional Intelligence.

Prof. Sujay joshiSujay is a Post Graduate from IIM Ahmedabad and a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years of experience in fund management, corporate finance and in general management in the manufacturing sector. He has initiated, developed and implemented strategy for many corporate houses with a view to enhance shareholder value. He was associated with the Oppenheimer India Private Equity Fund for over six years. He has also worked with Price Waterhouse in their Consulting services division and as CFO at companies i.e. Sinar Mas, Thermax. Sujay has served on the Board of Directors of companies.

Prof. Waman JawadekarHe has a Masters degree of Bombay University in Statistics with Operations Research and MBA (Systems and Marketing) from Stanford University, USA. His experience focuses on the application of technology to management process. During thirty years career in the industry, he worked with different business organizations like Sandvik, Asia Ltd., Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd., Thyssen Krupp Industries Ltd., Mastek Ltd, Systime Computer Systems (India) ltd and a CMS group company for J.D. Edward ERP package. He is a consultant in IS and IT, advising corporates on IT Strategy for business impact.

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Our PedagogyLearning at FLAME School of Business happens both in classrooms and outside. Our pedagogy is distinct and different from other business schools in India. We believe in case study methodology and research based projects; not just rote learning. Our students are kept on their toes with regular presentations. Learning happens through group discussions just as much as it happens through internal journeys at our Experiential Lab. Our students are never passive listeners during lectures. Lecture discussions are a norm at FLAME School of Business. The school is a living network of ideas – one that challenges students to think rigorously and encourages them to put their thinking into action. FLAME School of Business’ eclectic and international curriculum gives students a fantastic opportunity to meet new people, share experiences and view the world from different perspectives. We believe in moulding students for tomorrow. Workshops that teach social skills and values of life are an integral part of the curriculum. Students also take active part in sports – from golf to indoor sports – ensuring their holistic development.

Academics at FLAME School of BusinessFLAME School of Business PGDM program is a full-time, two-year, residential, post-graduate program. The program has six trimesters over two years which also includes a 8-week summer internship.

YEAR 2 Trimester 4 to 6

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Summer Projects

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BusinessEducationat FLAMEOur Pedagogy

The First Year

The Second Year

Curricular Innovations

Placements

International Partnerships

Attributes

Teaching And Educating

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CORE COURSES

Human Resource Management 1Finance 1Marketing 1Managerial Accounting 2Quantitative Methods 2Operations Management 2Economic Environment and Policy 1Spoken Business CommunicationBasic Concepts of Philosophy

TRIMESTER 2Finance 2Marketing 2Management Information SystemsWritten Analysis and Communication 2Organization Structure and DynamicsSales Management Creativity and Innovation Environmental Management and Sustainability

TRIMESTER 3Quantitative Methods 1Operations Management 1Managerial Accounting and Control 1Economic AnalysisIndividual and Group ProcessIntroduction to Managerial ComputingWritten Analysis and Communication 1*Exposure to Excel

TRIMESTER 1 Acoustic Guitar - IIBasic FrenchBasic GermanBasic SpanishBasic UrduIntroduction to DanceIntroduction to Film Making (Understanding Cinema – I)Introduction to Music AppreciationIntroduction to SculptureIntroduction to TheatreIntroduction to Visual Art

GLOBAL COURSES

*A student is required to take Exposure to Excel in one of the Trimesters A student is required to take any one of the Global Electivesin each TRIMESTER

3 Courses9 Credits

27 Courses69 Credits

First year courses in FLAME School of Business are divided into Core and Global Elective courses.

Core courses are mandatory. They form a strong foundation essential for life ahead. They cover all areas of management: Finance, Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Economics, Statistics and Accounting.

Global Electives comprise courses in foreign languages, arts, humanities and social sciences. These courses are meant to enable students to broaden their world-view and examine their own cultural heritage through wider lenses.

In the first year, students have to take a minimum of 30 courses, which earn them 78 credits. Though a course typically carries 3 credits, some courses may carry 2 credits. Out of the 30 courses, students have to opt for three Global Elective courses, one in each of the first three trimesters. The remaining 27 courses form the Core of the first year.

The First Year 78 Credits

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In the second year, students have to choose a total of 21 courses earning them three credits each. Of these, 8 are mandatory core courses spread across the three trimesters of the second year. In Trimester 4, students have to study Strategy Formulation and Implementation, Legal Aspects of Business & Rural Marketing Fair. Trimester 5 consists of Corporate Governance & Discovering Realignment Initiatives of Visionary Enterprises Rising Sectors & Exploration in Life Space and Identity (LAB). Trimester 6 has Rural Entrepreneurship Appreciation Program. In addition to these, Current Affairs is common to all three trimesters in the final year.

During the second year, students also have to choose a major which they can specialize in. They may choose their specializations from: marketing, finance & accounting, human resource management, business information technology, production & operations, international business and entrepreneurship. To earn a major, a student has to complete six courses from a particular field of specialization.

For the remaining seven courses, students can opt for a minor in a particular field or choose electives from different fields as per their interest.

Students may also opt for an independent research project, stretching over two trimesters of their second year under the guidance of a faculty member.

Examples of Specialization Courses

The Second Year

CORE COURSES

SPECIALISATIONCOURSES

MINOR /ELECTIVES + +

8 Courses24 Credits

6 Courses18 Credits

7 Courses21 Credits

International BusinessInternational TradeCommercial and International Banking Financial Modeling Module -1Working Capital ManagementInstitution Building and ODSoftware Development ProcessFinancial Modeling Module -2Life Space, Life Roles & Career ChoicesInternational Organizational BehaviorDesigning Strategic MISManagement of Intellectual Property RightsInternational Marketing

Finance and AccountingTechnical AnalysisFinancial Markets and InstitutionsCorporate FinanceFinancial Risk ManagementFinancial Statement Analysis & EvaluationInternational TradeFinancial Modeling Module -1Working Capital ManagementCommercial and International BankingDerivatives & Risk ManagementProject FinanceCorporate TaxationFixed Income SecuritiesFinancial Modeling Module -2Mergers and AcquisitionsWealth Management & Security Analysis Wealth Management

Information TechnologyUnderstanding ITInternational Business StrategySoftware Development ProcessInformation TechnologyDesigning Strategic MISSoftware Risk ManagementManagement of Intellectual Property Rights

MarketingDistribution ManagementRetail ManagementMarketing ResearchCreative Ideation for CampaignServices MarketingConsumer BehaviorBrand ManagementDecision Sciences: Uncovering Hidden InformationAdvertising and Sales Promotion ManagementB2B MarketingMarketing of Luxury productsPricing ManagementInternational MarketingBranding of NationsCustomer Relationship ManagementMARKSTRAT

Production and OperationsSupply Chain ManagementServices OperationsInitiation & Management of Business InnovationLogistics ManagementProcurement ManagementProject ManagementInternational Trade Logistics Cold Storage and Warehousing Management

Human ResourceEmotional IntelligenceLabor WelfareStrategic HRMRecruitment and SelectionHR Planning & CompensationAppraisal & Performance ManagementIndustrial Relations & Labor Welfare Institution Building and ODStress ManagementHR Audit

Negotiation SkillsLife Space, Life Roles & Career ChoicesTraining & DevelopmentInternational Organizational Behavior

EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship - 1Language and Communication SkillsPublic Speaking & Debate - 1Creative Thinking - 1Product Design & Development - 1Culture Studies - 1Entrepreneurial StrategyEntrepreneurship - 2 RCW – 1I TrizCreative Thinking - 2Product Design & Development - 2Negotiations & DiplomacyEntrepreneurship - 3Valuations in BusinessProduct Design & Development - 3Ethics Power & Politics

Entrepreneurship MinorEntrepreneurship - 1Public Speaking & DebateCultural StudiesEntrepreneurship - 2Creative Thinking - 1RCWEntrepreneurship - 3Creative Thinking - 2Family Business Governance and Succession planning

Green PGDMEnvironmental EthicsDeep Ecology The Future of Energy and water The State of the Planet: Forests

63 Credits

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Curricular InnovationsThe IOC - FLAME Rural Marketing FairEvery year, the students of FLAME School of Business organize The Rural Marketing Fair as a major initiative to bolster Indian Industry’s potential to understand, tap and serve the ever-growing rural markets. As a field-based course, this fair was organized twice at Jalgaon and once in Buldhana in Maharashtra. The course emphasizes that rural markets, with increasing purchasing power and changing mindsets, have been projected to have more than 50% of the total market share by 2015. The time is therefore right to encourage the current management students or future leaders to get exposed to the rural market realities. The fair is in the format of stalls organized by FLAME students. Over 350 companies with suitable products for rural consumers but mainly focusing on urban segments are approached. Progressive and prosperous families from nearly 100 villages are specially invited in consultation with the local agricultural authorities to participate in the fair on a given day. In the past the fair has attracted approximately 2,400 participants, including farmers and their families as opinion-leaders.

Rural Marketing Fair's aim is three fold:

To assist selected villagers as rural consumers to get exposed to a range of products, which at present primarily focus on urban segments.To help participating as well as non-participating companies to conduct necessary market research, i.e. to identify the users and non users, undertake sales promotion and product testing activities, conduct focus interviews, display sample products, and most importantly understand and appreciate rural buyer behavior. To facilitate the management students of FLAME School of Business to have firsthand experience with the rural consumers of tomorrow.

Rural Entrepreneurship Appreciation Program (REAP)

Societies now recognize that entrepreneurs create and provide significantly more job opportunities than any other economic agency, more so in the rural areas. Besides, entrepreneurs have proven capability to bring about changes in the lifestyles of consumers by keeping, offering, and promoting products of interest. Entrepreneurs try to optimize competitive advantages by skillfully capitalizing available resources, people, and opportunities.

In Jalgaon and Buldhana during the Rural Marketing Fair, students have seen how the rural consumer is neglected although he is the future of Indian business houses. They also have an opportunity to see the other side, by working with or under a person who is immediately close to that consumer and serves him day and night. He is called a retailer, a shop-keeper or a dealer, but most importantly he is the rural entrepreneur with outstanding abilities to add value to the rural customers. He plays a very important role than merely selling products. Unfortunately, not withstanding their professionalism, very few companies realize, appreciate, or even recognize that role. Customers and entrepreneurs cannot remain isolated.

While in the rural shops, the students do every task the owner asks them to. That gains them his respect and social acceptability which is very essential for their learning. There are many such things that students learn, which they do while doing a study of these rural entrepreneurs and preparing case studies.

Discovering Realignment Initiatives of Visionary Enterprises and Rising Sectors (DRIVERS) Realizing that improved industry interface offers many benefits to the learner as well as knowledge institutions, a new course on DRIVERS has been introduced. It focuses on improving industry interface. This is a two trimester course, mandatory for all second year students. At the end of the course, students develops expertise in selected sectors and promising companies.

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Placements & OpportunitiesPlacements at FLAME School of Business List of Participating CompaniesFLAME School of Business prepares its students for the modern dynamic and complex business environment. Faculty members at FLAME have extensive linkages with industry, as well as with the best of Indian and global educational environments. Through this extensive networking with the industry, FLAME has been able to arrange excellent placements for its students. As teachers, mentors, consultants, entrepreneurs and researchers par excellence; they combine their multi-disciplinary exposure and diverse experience into rich streams of knowledge. It’s not surprising that the biggest conglomerates have students from FLAME School of Business. Students from FLAME School of Business get placed in the biggest corporate firms, and with the right guidance from our faculty, many start off on their own too.

Number of Participating Companies

International PartnershipsFLAME has partnerships with the following unsiversities:

Suffolk UniversityState University of New York (SUNY-Fredonia)Kent State UniversityVirginia Commonwealth University

Americana Group | Antique Stock Broking | Ashok Piramal Group | Abhipray Securities Ltd. | Adani Enterprises Ltd. |Adani Power Ltd. | Anvil Share & Stock Broking Pvt. Ltd. | Arvind Mills Ltd. | BNP Paribas | Balaji Telefilms | Berger Paints India Ltd. | Biochem Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. | Café Coffee Day | Camlin Ltd. | Capgemini | Claris Life Sciences | Colt Technology Services Pvt. Ltd. | Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd. | D-Mart | Dalmia Cement Ltd. |Development Band of Singapore – DBS | Dhanlaksmi Bank | DHL Express India Pvt. Ltd. | ENAM Holdings Ltd. | ENAM Securities Pvt. Ltd. | Financial Technologies | FEI Cargo | Fiserv India Pvt. Ltd. | Future Group | Greenpeace India |Greenply Industries

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Class of 2010

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Industry wise placements

Finance32%HR

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IT2%

Marketing50%

Operations6%

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HDFC Asset Management Co. Ltd. | HDFC Bank Ltd. | Hindustan Construction Company | Hindustan Unilever Ltd. | HSBC Software Development India Pvt. Ltd. | ICICI Securities | Infosys Limited | Jalan Kabeera | Jones Lang Lasalle | Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd. | Kirloskar Oil Engines | Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. | Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. | KPIT Cummins |KPMG | KSK Energy Ventures Limited | KTA ASSOCIATES | Larsen & Toubro Ltd. | L & T Infotech | LG | Mahindra Forgings Ltd. | Mahindra Finance | Mastek | Mitsui Osk Liners | Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (MCX) |May Fair Housing Pvt. Ltd. | Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd.

Network 18 | National Stock Exchange Of India Ltd. | Naukri.com | Nirmal Bang Securities Ltd. | Outlook Profit | Oxford Properties | Pantaloons Retail India | Persistent Systems | Reliance Broadcast Network Limited | Reliance Mutual Fund | Rubamin Ltd. | Safal Realty | Sharp Business Systems | Smita Exports Pvt. Ltd. | Sterlite Indsutries Ltd. (Vedanta) | Syntel Inc | Supreme Petrochem | Television Audience Measurement-TAM Media Research Pvt. Ltd. | TATA Industries Ltd. |Team Global Logistics Pvt. Ltd. | Tulip Telecom | Varun Radiators Pvt. Ltd. | Videocon | Wealth Managers Pvt. Ltd. | Yum Restaurants Pvt. Ltd. | Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.

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Our Faculty often collaborates well beyond the boundaries of their core research, embracing the value of multiple approaches to problem- solving, teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Renowned International and National Faculty

FLAME School of Business aims to create a well-rounded student with holistic development. We encourage and develop entrepreneurial and leadership abilities that help students look at context scientifically, take decisions more critically, and transcend mere knowledge into socially conscious decisions.

Holistic Development

We are an innovative and entrepreneurial school that has transformed management education with practice-oriented programs, where students aren’t passive passengers in the journey of knowledge, but also active drivers. FLAME School of Business encourages participative learning. Its faculty encourages students to question, to probe and to continuously challenge given norms and exceed them.

Participative Learning Training and developmental activities at FLAME School of Business introduces students to the industry, helping them understand and tackle problems of the real world in real time. Students are exposed to the industry through Rural Marketing Fairs at the district level. They also participate in a field-based Rural Entrepreneur Appreciation Program. Industry interface keeps the students attuned with the current business environment.

Interface with Industry

We equip students with conceptual and interpersonal skills that help them to respond effectively to the fast-changing world. Apart from nurturing curiosity and creativity within a student, we nurture standards for professional excellence, integrity, honesty and fairness.

Nurturing Minds

FLAME School of Business believes in contexual teaching with practical relevance.We have managed to develop a curriculum that will broaden students’ management and leadership skills. We have a strong commitment to diversity with an entrepreneurial mindset. We aim to create leaders, not just managers.

Contextual Teaching with Practical Relevance

Being rooted in liberal education, FLAME School of Business focuses on broadening students’ perspectives by offering students’ courses in a range of disciplines - from pure sciences to humanities and social sciences to performing arts. Our fundamental aim is to expose students to different analytical frameworks and enable them to think critically through issues. Most often, teachers rely on the Socratic dialectical method, which emphasizes learning through questions and discussions rather than lectures. Our students are also encouraged to take courses outside their business curriculum. Students are free to choose between courses offered by all four FLAME programs (FLAME School of Business, FLAME School of Communication, FLAME School of Liberal Education and FLAME School of Performing Arts). This freedom results in intellectual interactions between our postgraduate and undergraduate students. A postgraduate student of business, an undergraduate student of physics, a postgraduate student of journalism, and an undergraduate student of theatre could be sitting together in a philosophy class, interacting with each other.

A Mixed Bag

At FLAME School of Business, we understand curiosity and knowledge are a potent mix. But in today’s fast changing world, if students have to become tomorrow’s leaders, they need more. We seek diversity in both faculty resources and student profiles because we aim to create leaders who are unafraid in undertaking different roles rather than becoming a managerial rung in the corporate ladder.

We know one can touch the sky only if one starts at the roots. Which is why, FLAME School of Business is anchored in the concept of liberal education. Education that doesn’t just teach, it enlightens and opens the mind with a multitude of programs across areas in management sciences - such as marketing, finance, organizational behavior, business policy, strategy, and operations management, as well as areas in humanities, social sciences, creative arts and sports.

Liberal Roots

Attributes

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Eligibility & Criteria

FLAME ensures opportunities for all, through scholarship programs that support motivated individuals from all the strata of society. FLAME is committed to supporting students who show outstanding academic and extra-curricular achievements. The scholarship programs enable FLAME to attract students of exceptional caliber and promise. The Scholarship Committee reviews the potential of the candidate and then awards the scholarship. FLAME offers scholarships on the entire cost of education as well as scholarships on certain portions of the education cost. The receiver of the scholarship agrees to work on campus for a minimum number of hours per week, during the trimesters in which the scholarship benefit is received. The Scholarship Committee reserves the right to review, reduce, modify, change or withdraw the amount of scholarship granted based on the student’s performance.

Equal OpportunityScholarships

Getting into FLAME School of Business

FLAME School of Business has a rigorous selection process that is designed to ensure that students who have the ability to explore and achieve, succeed.

Candidates applying to the FLAME School of Business will have to appear for CAT conducted by IIM’s* and / or any of the mentioned national level tests: XAT, MAT, JMET, ATMA or MHCET. This as per the Supreme Court directive.

Our Institute uses the above mentioned tests for short-listing the candidates for our Post-graduate Programmes in Management.

Apart from the scores of the above mentioned tests, the selection will be through a comprehensive admission process that consists of an internally designed admission assessment, application rating, personality test, group discussion and personal interview.

Candidates should have completed their bachelor’s degree in any discipline with a minimum of 50% in aggregate at the degree level from a university / institution recognized by the UGC or its equivalent. Those in their final year can also apply provided they would be completing their final degree examination before May 30 and should produce their final certificate / mark sheet before September 30. While selecting students, we look for certain specific qualities.

Basic logicCompetency in EnglishAbility to convey ideas, opinions, feelings with reasonable accuracy and fluencyMotivation levelAbility to work in a groupAbility to spot opportunities and convert them into results through an optimal planThe ability to observe, identify and understand complex forces operating in the Universe and human societySense of vision and purpose that allows thought beyond the known

For latest updates on admissions, fees and scholarships, please visit www.flame.edu.in

To apply please visit apply.flame.edu.in

SECTION 4

AdmissionsGetting in

Eligibility & Criteria

Scholarships

Admission Process

*IIM’s have no role either in the selection process or in the conduct of the programme.

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Sports at FLAMEAt FLAME, students can pursue their academic and sporting interests just as well. Sports is mandatory for all first year students. FLAME encourages its students to compete, to taste victory, to swallow defeat and to grow as individuals.

FLAME has a football ground, international size cricket ground, tennis courts, basketball and volleyball courts, a martial arts dojo and an outdoor swimming pool. It is one of the few campuses in India with access to a golf course. FLAME has a floodlit indoor sports hall with facilities for badminton, snooker and table tennis.

Sports facilities are provided free of charge to students, except for horse riding, martial arts and golf. The charges for these are highly subsidized and offer the students an opportunity to learn the sport.

Coaching may be provided for sports such as swimming, badminton, basketball, football, martial arts, horse riding, volleyball and fitness gym.

Every year FLAME hosts a number of special sports events, including both intra and inter-collegiate sports competitions, seminars from top sports instructors and coaches, and a martial arts tournament involving teams from across India.

SECTION 5

BeyondtheClassroomExtra-Curriculars

Life at FLAME

Infrastructure

Extra-Curriculars at FLAME School of Business

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Mentorship, Counseling & Guidance

This is a unique concept that exemplifies the idea of the institute’s Guru-Shishya values. Students are provided guidance in understanding the contents of the various courses and in assessing their own skills, abilities and interests through a scientific process carried out with the help of appropriate aptitude and assessment tools. Career guidance through 1:1 sessions helps in understanding the nature and world of formal systems and institutions. Students gain perspectives and develop strategies towards the achievement of personal goals.

Development Activities Program

The Development Activities Program (DAP) has been designed with the principal objective of focusing on holistic intellectual development of the students. Development activities give the students an exposure to ground realities by bringing them into direct contact with the underprivileged, inculcating in them the values of empathy, humility and compassion. Development activities are mandatory and are scheduled for three hours each week. Students are encouraged to design their project proposals, strategies and implementation plans, which allow them to practice and experiment with the skills, ideas and concepts that they learn in their academic courses. They focus on taking up small projects connected to environment protection, resource conservation, income-generating enterprises and developing market models. The underlying purpose of these initiatives is to foster a spirit of social enterprise in the students and to encourage them to aim at maximization of sustainability.

Discover India Program

The Discover India Program is FLAME’s unique flagship program that combines research and creativity. After a trimester long research-intense module, during the break between two trimesters, students embark on a field trip of 8-12 days along with their faculty mentor. The students visit a place of their choice. During this field trip, they gather primary information about their place of visit. The students receive pre-field trip training through online interactions.

Students use all the resources they have gathered in the field trip to study their subject further in order to put together a comprehensive analytical report accompanied by other submissions, such as films, recordings, photos, authentic documents collected on site, diaries and sketches pertinent to their experience. The program culminates in a ceremony wherein student groups present their findings to an external jury in a public environment.

Elite Leadership Program

Elite Leadership Program is designed to complement classroom learning by providing students with an opportunity to participate in an intense leadership training program. This program offers intellectual stimulation, provides individualized support and exposes students to models of leadership and governance considered fundamental to any organization. Some activities include: Poetry, Film Making, Music, Entrepreneurship, Base Ball, Sculpture, Photography, Personal Grooming, Etiquettes, Calligraphy, Public Speaking, Creative writing & Book writing, Comedy, Salsa, Trekking, Para Gliding, Social Initiatives, Sessions on Ethical Leadership, and an intensive Army Boot Camp.

Students’ performance is evaluated using an evaluation matrix with weightage for Attendance, Personal Interview, Blog Entry, Writing Skills and Psychometric Test.

This program has consistently been recognized with multiple awards:

DNA Award for Leadership Training in 2007 – 08 Devang Mehta Award for Best School for Leadership Training in 2007 – 2008Devang Mehta Award for Best School for Leadership Training in 2008 – 2009

COGECenter for Organizational Growth and Excellence The FLAME Center for Organizational Growth and Excellence (COGE) has a unique approach that is anchored in Liberal Education. It focuses on the growth of an organization, excellence in every sphere of work, enhancing the performance of every individual and energizing industry and organizations. COGE draws faculty from the FLAME School of Business, FLAME School of Communication, and its Integrated Liberal Education Program. In addition to the open enrolment programs, COGE designs and conducts customized organization, industry and sector specific training and development programs in areas such as Organization and Leadership Mapping; Organization Design and Development Interventions, Team Building, Mentoring, Organization Cultural Transformations and Sensitivity Training. 39

Entrepreneurship LabThe aim of the Entrepreneurship Lab is to give the students hands-on experience about the creation, inception and management of an entrepreneurship venture by providing them initial seed capital. The Lab aims to prepare students to become competent in the areas of management viz. finance, accounting, marketing and production. The Lab helps build students’ capacity to think and develop an entrepreneurial idea for a micro enterprise. It also strives to develop effective teamwork abilities in students.

FLAME Investment Lab The FLAME Investment Lab (FIL) aims to provide its student members skills to help them improve their understanding of the financial markets. It is a medium that bridges theory with practice. FIL tries to mimic and show, as closely as possible, how investment decisions are made in the real world.

FIL organizes interactive sessions with investment gurus like Nemish Shah, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Madhusudan Kela, Ramesh Damani, Raamdeo Agrawal and Chetan Parikh. This forum gives students the unique opportunity to interact with giants in the investment world and benefit from their insights.

Given the importance of investment in today’s world, students of all majors and NOT only finance are encouraged to attend so as to bring intellectual diversity and multi-disciplinary viewpoints to the lab. The FIL program entails classroom learning, book reviews, case studies, presentations, industry interactions, investor conferences and most importantly the stock market challenge. Even though classroom content includes topics like financial statement analysis, valuation, behavioral finance and technical analysis, the emphasis of the FIL is on personal initiative and sharing content with other members for mutual and inclusive growth.

Exploration and Dialogue SpaceExploration and Dialogue Space is an initiative that provides students with opportunities to introspect and self-identify areas for development. Students get advice on day-to-day dilemmas and are provided a forum to share their personal experiences. Exploration and Dialogue Space plays a supporting role by enhancing opportunities for learning and personal growth.

Reviewing investment-related classics, analyzing successful and unsuccessful company case studies, participating in investor conferences and competing in research challenges enables members to apply academic learning to the investment world.

Once equipped with these tools, student members channelize it to the stock market challenge. The challenge allows members to invest in the stock market from a corpus made available to them. Investment recommendation presentations are made to a committee who judges the rationale of the investment and decides whether the particular investment should be made. The profit generated from these transactions would be credited and transferred to the respective students who generate such profits. Loss, if any, will be borne by the lab and not by the members.

The FLAME Investment Lab is a platform to harness a student’s investment acumen, help them understand risk, and analyze the market as a whole before they become active participants.

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Student Activities The Office of Student Activities (OSA) serves as a liaison between the academic and campus life of a student. It promotes student interaction at multiple levels.

OSA encourages its students to go beyond the conventional education system and engage in various co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. FLAME students are assigned to five different houses at random, which encourages interaction between students and enables overall personality development. The house Captains and Vice-Captains, which are democratically elected, form the Student Council. The Council plays an important role in the academic and non-academic proceedings at FLAME.

FLAME FestFLAME Fest is a three-day inter-house cultural fest. It includes competitions like quizzes, debates, dramas,

Speaking many TonguesFLAME believes in giving strong intellectual and socio-cultural inputs to its students with the aim of making true global citizens. Today, the possibility of working in any country across the globe is a very real one. The world is flat and hence FLAME makes it mandatory for students to complete courses in languages in their first year. At the end of this period they are encouraged to take the CECR A1 levels in the respective languages of their choice.

The CECR is a comprehensive document that aligns all European Languages on an equal footing. It creates a normative structure for teaching, learning and evaluation of European Language Learning in Europe and the world. All premier institutions and networks have today formulated their language learning programmes along these lines. The CECR also confers certificates on candidates from across the

Just-a-Minute, shipwreck, Ad-Mad contest, painting, creative writing, poetry writing, variety entertainment program, and fashion shows. The winners of the performing arts events perform on the final day to an audience of board members, parents, faculty, and staff. FLAME will be hosting its first inter-collegiate cultural fest, “Creo,” organized by students, in 2011.

Student ClubsFLAME is home to various student clubs such as Rock Club, Hikers Club, Photography Club, Movie Club, Books Club, Theatre Club, and Nature Club. Clubs are student-led groups formed around common interests. They hold various activities throughout the year.

world through a common evaluation process held at periodic intervals. This certification makes students eligible for various study programmes abroad, scholarships to international institutions and direct access to language learning programs all over the world.

Along with courses preparing students for these certifications, FLAME also has customized courses for specialization requirements such as Business World courses or Media World courses. FLAME has developed a Video Simulation Method for rapid learning of Business French for students of the Flame School of Business. All these courses are conducted through a variety of methodologies using state-of-the-art teaching technology, multimedia resources and novel language learning tools.

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Life at FLAMEFLAME offers 75 acres of tranquil space, just 13 Kms. from the Pune University main gate. It is an eco-friendly campus with water harvesting, water recycling, and solid waste management systems. Its academic spaces include a performing arts studio, a visual arts studio, a sculpture studio, Physics, Chemistry & Biology Labs and an amphitheatre. Some of the other amenities includes cafes, guesthouses, student dormitories, wi-fi connectivity, provision store, photocopying facilities, an infirmary, an ambulance and a shuttle bus service. At FLAME, we provide students with a fulfilling education and an active social life all underpinned by a network of people and organizations offering help, advice and support. Students grow, interact, learn in a stimulating yet unbiased and inspiring environment.

A city within the city, the campus has everything you would expect from an international school: lecture theatres, libraries, laboratories, computing facilities as well as a bookshop and medical facilities. Given that the campus is not too far away from the bustling city of Pune, students experience the best of both worlds; a friendly, campus community and a vibrant city only a few miles away.

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AccessFLAME issues Access Control Cards or Smart Cards to every member of the FLAME community. The Smart Card enables access to various places on the campus and can also be used as an Identity Card. Students are expected to carry this Card at all times.

Connect Students and faculty members have 24-hour Wi-Fi Internet and intranet access. At the time of registration, each student is given a unique e-mail and login ID. Students can access the internet through the FLAME network, which is equipped with the necessary firewalls.

TransportA Shuttle Bus Service is available for students between the Campus and City (up to Ferguson College Road) four-times a day.

Health ServicesFLAME houses infirmary and health service facilities on campus. Trained medical staff provide first aid and emergency care to all students. A doctor and nurses are available on call 24/7. While basic illnesses can be treated on campus, in order to deal with serious ailments and emergencies, FLAME has tie ups with several reputed hospitals in Pune.

Just in Case An ambulance service is available 24/7 to deal with any medical emergencies.

EatFLAME has state-of-the-art dining and kitchen facilities. FLAME serves only vegetarian food. Students are issued plates for food only upon flashing their Smart Cards at the counter at the entrance to the dining hall.There are several food-stalls managed by students themselves functioning on campus. These serve vegetarian snacks and soft drinks. FLAME also has a Café Coffee Day outlet on the campus.

LiveThe students live in apartment blocks or in 2 storied units. These units have three or more bedrooms each. Rooms are allocated to students on a double or triple occupancy basis. Every room is equipped with a locker and students have to be responsible for their own valuables. DTH TV facilities are available in some of the dormitory areas at additional cost.

Help At FLAME, help is always one phone call away. Through the “Help Desk” hotline students can request for assistance in various aspects of campus life.

The Repository of Knowledge - LibraryFLAME Library has evolved into a reservoir of knowledge. It houses sufficient reference and reading material for students of the four residential programs. It has a collection of almost 7000 books. 20 specialized journals and a Media Library of CDs, VCDs and DVDs of films of Foreign and Indian origins line its shelves. The library houses a multimedia cell in its premises where students and faculty members can browse varied databases such as CMIE and PROQUEST and other online resources. The conference room attached to the library provides enclosed interaction space for those wishing to hold formal or informal discussions. FLAME is in the process of expanding its library space to enhance the students’ education experience.

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I can easily say that the best times of my life were the two years that I spent in FLAME. Nowhere else would I have found such a perfect combination of work and play, the best of professors, a huge variety of subjects and a plethora of co-curricular activities to choose from! I will always remember the beauty of the campus, all my friends, and most importantly the faculty whose constant efforts pushed all of us to dream bigger, work harder and achieve more than our own expectation!Sonal Rajapurkar (Gold Medalist, Class of 2010)

FLAME for me was a platform to learn, an opportunity to explore, environment to question and a space to reflect. With a palette of these opportunities I discovered a new self in me backed by its reputed faculty and state-of- the- art infrastructure. Being at FLAME has taught me the importance of discipline and the beauty of freedom. It has shown me good times and bad, achievements and failures, friends and foes - but through it all, it has always taught me to do the right thing.Miten Vora (Silver Medalist, Class of 2009)

FLAME has given me two years full of learning, self-improvement, motivation, inspiration, bonding and friends for life. Be it ELITE or FLAME Rural Marketing Fair or a lecture taken by our prestigious faculty- each experience took me to higher level of growth and helped me become a better leader and a human being. FLAME has made me what I am today.Bani Anand (Gold Medalist, Class of 2010)

There was a time when education was to be re-defined. The answer to this was FLAME.In extremely simple terms, FLAME is family. It is like waking up one morning and realizing that everything around you is fresh, jubilant and green.From lake side classrooms, holistic development, state of the art infrastructure and customized courses, FLAME had so much to offer me. This was the valley where I learnt what it was to succeed with humility. It is true that professors became my friends. However, it is also true that they taught me that Corporate Social Responsibility is a right and not a choice.Today, when I look back at my Alma Mater, I look at these critical moments that have shaped me to a leader of tomorrow and feel extremely proud to be a part of this growth!Varun Prasad (Class of 2011)

The FLAME Alumni Network is an association that serves as a professional and personal networking channel for our alumni, thereby enabling them to stay in touch with each other and the institute. The key role of the FLAME Alumni Network is to provide a platform that will facilitate and enable former students to continue to be interested and involved in the life of the institute. It serves as a vehicle that will strive for continual improvement of alumni on an individual and collective basis through the process of networking and role modeling.

We’re a new institution and our alumni network is not the largest. But the earnest efforts involved are really large, as is the initiative.

We always ensure the alumni is always informed of and invited to upcoming graduations and other special events. A quarterly Alumni Newsletter helps alumni to stay abreast of the happenings at the institute they once called home.

Although geographical and work constraints don’t let all those who wish to attend come for the events, for some, we feel it is a step to ensure our alumni feels like a part of their alma mater. We also host an alumni lunch that’s attended by the alumni and their families as well as the upcoming graduates. This helps rekindle old connections and contacts but also establish new ones.

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Keepingthe FLAMEAliveFLAME Alumni

Alumni Speak

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A few of the guest speakers at FLAME:

01. Mohandas Pai02. Amitabh Bachchan03. Ramesh Damani04. R. Gopalakrishnan05. Madhusudan Kela06. Uddhav Thackeray07. Dilip Shangvi08. Jayant Narlikar09. Vivek Chand Sehgal10. Yash Pal11. Rahul Bose12. Virender Sehwag13. Chetan Parikh14. Sudhir Kapadia15. Arun Bhatia16. Srikant Datar17. R Madhavan18. Anurag Kashyap19. Deepak Parekh20. Sharad Powar21. Kiran More22. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala23. Kiran Datar24. Satyabrata Pal25. Atul Kulkarni26. Y.S.P. Thorat27. Subhash Chandra28. Harsha Bhogle29. M.S. Dhoni30. Piyush Goyal31. Shubha Mugdal32. Sunil Singhania33. Raamdeo Aggrawal

INVITED IGNITERSFLAME School of Business strives to foster intellectual diversity on campus. To this end we invite guest speakers to deliver lectures and interact with our students on a regular basis. The guest speakers come from varied backgrounds ranging from sports to media, politics to finance. Some of our guest speakers have been Mr. Deepak Parekh, Mr. Dilip Shangvi, Mr. Mohandas Pai, and Mr. Vivek Sehgal.

- R. Gopalakrishnan Executive DirectorTATA Sons

The FLAME School of Business is about the right brain, it’s about emotion, It’s about space, it’s about design. It’s not just about studying accountancy, strategy and going out into the world of business. It’s a different kind of school.”

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- Ramesh DamaniInvestor and Founder Ramesh Damani Financial Pvt. Ltd.

Thank you for inviting me to your wonderful campus. It is my first visit here and I am certain it will not be my last.”

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- Kishor ChaukarManaging DirectorTATA Industries

I was truly impressed with the approach FLAME is following for a holistic education in the field of management. I truly believe that a narrow ‘business’ oriented curriculum with emphasis on tools and techniques of improving performance is not adequate for building a competent manager and a durable business; and certainly not for improving the well being of the communities and the nation at large. Education which encourages independent thought, creativity, as well as offers experiences in a variety of vocations, skills and activities, contributes substantively to the making of a proficient manager and at times an entrepreneur. Besides this multi-faceted approach, the issue of corporate governance and ethics is also an extremely important aspect that needs to be incorporated while training candidates for successful careers in management.

I was encouraged to see that FLAME tries to incorporate all these aspects, including experiences in movie-making, fine arts, developmental work and adventure sports in their training programmes for holistic education; besides of course the fact that they have accomplished faculty from various professions, and of course a very pleasant campus ambience.”

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The pioneering and rich variety of liberal courses at FLAME aim to develop the ability to ‘join the dots’, the essential quality of leaders. In any case, even to survive one needs this ability in loads in today’s hyper ‘cyber’ world.”

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A Pat on the BackHONOURSAWARDS

Just as FLAME School of Business never forgets to push its students to achieve their maximum potential, it also always remembers to reward them for it.

MedalsEvery year FLAME School of Business announces two gold medals and one silver medal based on the academic performance of the students. The Chief Guest gives these medals at the time of the annual Convocation. The recipients of these medals for the previous three Convocations were as follows:

Dean’s Roll of HonourFLAME School of Business Dean’s Roll of Honor is awarded to 10 students every Trimester based on their CGPA ranking. These students also receive certificates along with appropriate Scholarships at a function specially organized every year.

2008Dewang Mehta B-School Awards:

Leadership Award for Prof. Indira Parikh

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For Individual Category:Prof. Indira Parikh – Exemplary Leader AwardP.M. Shingi - Best Teacher in Marketing Management

For School Category:Business School that encourages Leadership as a part of the CurriculumBusiness School with Best Academic Input (Syllabus) in Marketing & International BusinessBusiness School with Best Industry InterfaceBusiness School Leadership AwardBest Placement Brochure

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Awards from Dainik Bhaskar B-School Leadership Awards and DNA & Stars of the Industry Group’s Innovative B-School Awards:

Asia’s Best B-School Awards at Suntec, Singapore:

Awarded to Prof. Indira J.ParikhBest Teacher of the Decade Lifetime Achievement Award

For Individual Category:Parag Shah, Former Founder Chairman, was conferred with Visionary Leader AwardP.M.Shingi was conferred with award for Best Marketing Teacher

For School Category:Outstanding B-School (West) with Excellent Industry InterfaceB-School with Industry Related Curriculum in Marketing, Communications & Retail

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Stars of the Industry Group & DNA Awards:

For Individual Category:Prof. Indira Parikh - Visionary Leader AwardPrasad Vanarase, Dean, FLAME School of Performing Arts - B-School Professors who continuously Innovate in Style & Substance for Academic Excellence

For School Category:B-Schools who Innovate in Teaching MethodologyInnovation in Building Academic & Industry InterfaceB-School Leadership Award

STAR NEWS National B-School Awards:

Outstanding B-School (West)B-School with Industry Related Curriculum in Marketing & Retail

BATCH First Gold Medal Second Gold Medal Silver Medal 2007 - 09 Rupali Samat - Miten Vora 2008 - 10 Bani Anand Sonal Rajapurkar Aakash Pahwa 2009 - 11 Devanshee Sanghavi Minesh Doshi Nirja Kanuga

CRISIL B-School Grade : National A | State A

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FLAME (Foundation for Liberal and Management Education) was founded in 2004 with the concept of liberal education as its corner stone. Its unhurried, verdant and contemporary 75-acre campus is a sanctuary for curious young minds. FLAME celebrates ideas, cherishes diversity and strives to deliver an academic experience that fosters in its students an intellectual curiosity, a critical thought process, leadership and teamwork skills, a sense of commitment and professionalism and a heightened sensitivity to one’s socio-cultural environment.

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