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• The Need

• The Mission

• The Advisory Board

• The Program

• The Curriculum

The Need – Placement data: non-core job offerings

• On an average 230 job offers per year (for BTech and around same numbers for DD) classified as non-core, over the last four years.

• Usual recruiters:

  • Financial Institutes (JP Morgan, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Axis Bank, ICICI, etc.),
  • Consulting (Mckinsey, E&Y, Boston Consulting, Auctus Advisors, FN MathLogic Consulting, FinMechanics, etc.),
  • e-Comm (Flipkart, Amazon, etc.).

• Job profiles: Analyst, Business analyst, Management trainee, Business finance, Manager, Consultant, etc. AmEx job profile: “risks and information management for all financial services operations…”

• Mercari (Tokyo): “Engineering Manager… strategic decision making, …conceive and develop new products… contribute towards global expansion…”

• Allstate solutions: “Analysts… responsible for building products for our businesses, using next generation technologies and methodologies…”

• Flipkart: “Financial analyst… financial planning and budgeting, reporting, Market/sector analysis…”.

• E&Y: “… Candidate should have… strong financial modelling and analytical skills…”

• Ola: “Prior experience or significant interest in working on probabilistic models, optimization…”

• Rivigo services: “business analyst – develop technical solutions to business problems, identify areas of improvement through innovative use of information technology…”

• PhonePe: “Analyst – You will be responsible for defining, developing and communicating key business metrics and trends…”

Program Mission

The TechMBA program for engineering/technology students aims to provide:

• Knowledge of business functions and strategies;

• Mastery of analytical decision-making and computational tools; and

• Expertise on technology management and innovation.

in order to prepare them for today’s careers.

Representative Career Options:

• Engineer-Managers (Management Innovators)
• Management Consultants (Thought Leaders)
• Technopreneurs (Trailblazers)

The Program Advisory Board

Advisory Board members added so far:

• Ambi M G Parameswaran, Brand Strategist, Founder Brand-Building.com
• Prof. Marti G Subrahmanyam, Stern School of Business, NYU
• Padmanabhan Balasubramanian, Goldman Sachs, NY, USA
• Prasad Setty, Google Inc.
• Prashanth Vasu, McKinsey Consulting, Chennai
• Srinivas Guddanti, Ex-Amazon Inc.
• Ramesh Srinivasan, McKinsey Consulting, NY, USA
• Director, IIT Madras
• Dean, Academic Courses, IIT Madras
• Dean, Global Affairs, IIT Madras
• Head, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras
• techMBA program Coordinator, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras

Course categories

Performance Analytics (PA) 25%

Expertise in business analytics and its role in growth, productivity, and competitiveness, and enhancing firm value

Transformation Technologies (TT) 25%

The role of technologies and innovations in transforming enterprises, economies and societies

Functional Core (FC) 50%

Gain insights into business functions from operational and strategic perspectives in domestic and international business contexts

Tech-MBA Course Matrix

Note: Semester course (9 cr); Quarter Course (6 cr)

V-year (Qtrs 3 and 4) credits can be earned through the Exchange Program with Foreign Universities

Salient features

• Since the program starts in the third year of the BTech curriculum, there is an opportunity for the student to take up management related summer internship at the end of the fourth year.

• The last (5th) year of the program can be used for exchange program and/or internship in a new geography.

• The courses for the last (5th) year includes elective courses, only some of which are listed in the previous slide. We can provide a diverse set of choices for the students wishing to major in specific domains.