Great Lakes Term 3

A very tiring yet the most memorable and eventful is Term is over.

Great Lakes Term 3 (10th Aug to 25th Sept)
Course Name	Facilitator	Positives	Delta (No negatives)	Any Comments
Human Resource Management	Dr. PVR Murthy,a Product of IIMC (FPM) with close to 30 Years experience in HR- currently CEO, Exclusive Search Recruitment Consultants, Chennai Mr. R Shantaram, XLRI Product with close to 20 Yrs rich HR Experience Ms. S Vijayalakshmi, a product of XLRI, currently with Unilever Ms. Vidhyaa M, a product of XIMB, currently with Orchid Pharma Mr. David Nallathambi, a product of XLRI, currently VP HR with Standard Chartered Mr. V Balaji,Head HR with HCL -BFSI	The course has been experimented first time at Great Lakes in which 7 HR managers/heads from top companies of India were invited to give session on Human Resource Management. The sessions were full of practical knowledge about industry HR practices through the vast experiences of the industry experts. Most of the sessions were like open session - "coffee breaks" where any kind of question was welcome.	Due to many facilitators, the course was not well organized. Lectures were not well connected with each other. Less Student connect due to less time available with each facilitator.	The course was a big time experiment. However, the course was successful to let student take-away the experience of HR experts. I liked the lecture of V. Balaji and Orchestra video showed by him in his class
Investment Analysis	B Venkatesh, Founder of Navera Consulting	Among the best course of the Term 4. The facilitator is just awesome. He doesn’t deliver you the bookish knowledge instead gives you the practical insights about what really happens in the market. His personality, voice, tone and expressions all are in complete alignment of his ideas and thoughts that he deliver.	Bigger class size	Awesome facilitotor. Very professional. The kind of person you would like to be.
Information Technology for Managers	Prof . Sunil Rai (NMIMS)/Prof. Sundar Raj	Didn't get much problem due to my IT background. The presentation system was good to make all 262 participate.	The second half of the course was highly research oriented and theoretical, which made course tiring to study. For non-IT, the course was incomprehensible.	Research studies could have been avoided instead the future of IT in simple term and language could have been introduced.
Market Research	Dr Bharadwaj	Great course and the facilitator. Practical and interesting. Smaller class size	Slept sometimes due to information overflow.	Good course. Lot of information in last few quant lectures.
Organizational Behavior	Prof Jayavelu (IIMK)/Prof Irudayaraj (XLRI)	The course was full of common organization/leadership/team issues and operations. It’s exciting to see that intellectuals have done so much about human and social psychology. What all thought process happens has been penned down by people already.	Prof Jayavelu was not able to establish great rapport with students. Conflicts happened into the class. First half of the course just went without much learning.	Prof Irudayaraj is a great facilitator for the course. This XLRI professor could motivate and mesmerize from is simple yet effective small lecture. Great learning from him. His way of teaching just makes subkect like Org Behavior so interesting. Hope to have complete course by him next year. Feedback has been given.
Strategy	Prof Sriram	Fun to read varied strategies of top business honchos and resolve the complex business issues just by simple but out of the box thoughts. Prof Sriram is a great speaker. All cases what we discussed were on tips.	The cases were too old and did not bring the vision of the future changes and strategies which is about to come. Few strategies are obsolete to follow in current scenario.	Actually my expectation from the course was a lot more. How the strategy are created from scratch? how to select strategy out of many option?
Mandarin (Chinese)	Prof. Devakunjari	Great teacher. Should write a book - "Chinese made easy" from his written hand-outs. Lot of material collected to master Chinese anytime.	The course has become boring due to same pattern of pedagogy from last 2 terms.	Teaching style is too motherly and caring. Highly lovable teacher. The pedagogy should have many flairs like videos, Chinese guests to keep the interest level high among students. Anyways I can proudly say that I know Chinese.

Great Lakes Term 2

Yet another term over within no time. A fair feedback.

Great Lakes Term 1 (22nd June to 7th August)
Course Name	Facilitator	Positives	Delta (No negatives)	Any Comments
Financial Management	Prof.  Narendar Rao, Professor of Finance, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, USA	The course has been taken very systematically and in a well organized manner from the Prof. The slides are really useful. Prof Rao is also a great motivator and thinker of life. His inspirational thoughts were really good.	Most of students were just beginners in the finance. The lectures were too sleepy sometimes. Prof should have added some spices in the course to make it interesting.	I like the motivational style of the Prof. Especially, a very old song “Hum hindustani” played in the last lecture was just awesome. Hats off
Managerial Accounting	‘Padmashri’ Dr. Bala. V. Balachandran Professor Emeritus of Accounting Information & Management, Kellogg School of Management, Founder and Dean, Great Lakes Institute of Management	Who else could teach the course better than the Uncle Bala who is among the highest echelon of the Accounting. No more words.	Bigger class size	The energy level of Uncle Bala is just unmatchable. His each and every word motivates you to the core and puts so much confidence in you.
Marketing Management II	Dr Krishna Ram/ Prof Paul Prabhaker	Great course. Taught in a great way. Krishna Ram is just straight and he knows what should be relevant for the experienced people. Prof  Prabhakar is a genius of marketing fundas. The beauty of such Professor lie to create the interest for the course rather than just delivering the course.  Prof Prabhakar poured in amazing principles and new dimensions of thought which no book speaks about till now.	Bigger class size in Prof Prabhakar lectures	Great course and facilitator. Wished there could have been more time with you.
Micro Economics	Prof. Mankad/Dr. Rakesh Singh	Dr Mankad is has been the Prof of Economics for Dr Rakesh Sing. So anybody may understand the stature of the person. Each and every word out of him is like a pearl. Excellent speaker. http://kwlvarun.blogspot.com/2009/07/dr-harkant-mankad-economics-is-life.html Dr Rakesh Singh has been the facilitator in term 1 as well http://kwlvarun.blogspot.com/2009/06/dont-jump-to-conclusion-too-early.html	Bigger class size.	I perfectly enjoyed the classes. I remember that Micro Economics end term was with one more subject. I planned to give more time to other subject but end up in reading Economics just in the sheer urge of knowing more what have been taught in the class.
Operations Management I	Prof. Vaidy Jayaraman,  University of Miami, School of Business, Florida, USA	A great facilitator and a great actor. I loved his pedagogy and interest he developed among students. His tones changes, dashing style and teaching everything on board helped a lot to absorb most out of the course. I think if everyone teaches in his way then I am sure any course could be successful in giving most out of the sessions. Hats-off	Bigger class size	Great teacher. Best take away course of term 2.
Quantitative Methods	Prof. P K Vishwanathan	Lot of knowledge and practical insights of solving real world problems through statistics. Loved his funny style of teaching with lots of "Googlies"	Bigger class etc. Did not grasp very long and confusing sentences spoken to understand the concept by prof.	Fun to study. Would like to study the subject deeply.
Mandarin (Chinese)	Prof. Devakunjari	Great teacher. Should write a book - "Chinese made easy" from his written hand-outs. Lot of material collected to master Chinese anytime.	The course is slowly losing its charm because of study pressures of other subjects.	Teaching style is too motherly and caring. Highly lovable teacher.

Bid Adieu Dr Suryasekar

Dr Krishnamurthy Suryasekhar – School of Accounting, Florida International University

Sometimes you meet with people who in just a small span of time put a great influence upon you. You just never forget the person. Well I must say Dr Surysekar is one among of those unmforgettable people with whom I met in my life. He is the visting faculty for 20 hours, for financial accounting at Great Lakes, Chennai andhe started with his course in 1st week of May, 2009. He is super cool and his attitude and ways of teaching are just awesome. The Best thing of Dr Suryasekar was that he take each and every question of student with complete sanctity and ensures that not even a single question MUST not remain unanswered. His ways of teaching made accounting a lot more simple (not that simple though ;)) than my expectations. He don't teach through any book, rather put his experience and his fundas of accounting directly into real application which makes subject far much easier to comprehend. It was disappointing to let Dr Surya go after completing his course but it's all business, honey. In a rush, I managed to get a snap the HERO with me after his last class. He is the HERO of Term 1 at Great Lakes and everybody at Great Lakes misses him.
Thanks Dr Suryasekar to come at Great Lakes. It was a privilege to be your student and part of your wonderful and knowledgable sessions.