Advanced Program in Strategic

Management (APSM)

IIM Calcutta
 Contents
• Salient Features

• Who Should Attend

• Unique Features of Program

• Program Modules

• Detailed Program Contents

 Salient Features

Program Directors :Professor Sushil Khanna and Professor Biswatosh Saha

Duration : 6 Months

Eligibility : Graduation and/or Post Graduation in any discipline with 50%

marks (Aggregate) and 5 years of minimum professional Experience

Schedule : Friday, 6.30-9.30 PM

Program Fees : Rs. 85,000/- (Campus Visit Fees Extra)

 Who should attend?
Designed for Senior and Middle-level managers with more than five years of
work experience.

• Senior and middle level managers

• Profit Centre Heads
• Professionals who are currently in roles that require them to handle
strategic issues
 Unique Features
• Designed with a mix of experience sharing, real life case discussions, assignments
Pedagogy and industry/research based projects besides the lectures in class

Strategic • 100+ Senior & Middle Level Managers have already been transformed into Strategic
Leaders Leaders by this program

Peer • Opportunity to Network and Learn from the best in the corporate world
Learning

Campus Visit • Seven Days of Campus Visit during the program

Certification • Certificate of Participation from IIM Calcutta

 Detailed Program Contents
# Session Title
1 Understanding cartel dynamics
2 Regulation theory and strategy
Vertical integration; contracting and
3 market relations; transaction costs
Organization: Notion of authority,
identity and fiat; difference between
authority and incentive as control
4 tool
Concept of modularity and its
strategic significance; notions of
5 coordination in networks
Assignment Reading/ Case
Studies
Aluminium industry
Anti-trust regulation and
contemporary technology
Apparel distribution in Japan
Case: Dansk Designs
Case 1: Modularization in auto
industry; Case 2 (in second session):
Open Source
 Detailed Program Contents

# Session Title Assignment Reading/ Case

Studies
Organization restructuring; incentive
theories; marketization of Case 1: Citibank; Case 2(second
6 organizations session): Enron
Intense coordination mechanism
7 designing Focal factories
8 Lobbying for novel turf creation Economics of Wireless
Governance of shared assets;
concept of dynamic expectation
9 coordination Intel Fund
Understanding financial
10 intermediation Google and Internet auction of IPO
 Detailed Program Contents –
Mergers & Acquistions
Session-wise Plan
• Mergers for Growth & Market Entry
• Motivations and Cost of Mergers
• Merger tactics and Anti-takeover defences
• Estimating Wealth effects of Mergers
• Growth and Crisis Through Acquisition
– Case: Conocco Takeover
• Valuation of Shares & Companies
• Valuation exercise
• Merger effects and market power
• Mergers and corporate restructuring
– Case: Beatrice
 How to Apply
Application period
• Application for the Batch will commence in August 2009
and will close on October 7, 2009
Application forms
• Application forms can be obtained from
www.niitimperia.com or at local NIIT IMPERIA Centres

Class would commence on or after Dec 2009

 Documents Required for Application
• 1 Passport size photo affixed [Latest photo with light
backdrop]
• Proof of Date of Birth [DOB Certificate / 10th Std Mark
sheet]
• Proof of Graduation Completion [Provisional / Degree
Certificate]
• Proof of Graduation % [Graduation Marks sheets for all
years]
• Proof of Experience [Experience Certificates as supporting
documents for all the jobs mentioned in the form]
• Proof of Current Employment [Letter from the HR with
current date / Latest Pay slip]
 About IIM Calcutta
• First national institute to be established for Post Graduate Studies
and Research in Management in November 1961

• Ranked among the Top 3 B-schools by MINT C Fore Survey,

Businessworld 2007, PagalGuy.com (People Vote) 2008, BT-NIELSEN
2008, Zee Business B-School Survey 2008, CNBC Ranking 2008,
Business Today 2008, AIMA B-School Survey 2008, India’s Best B-
Schools -BW 2007
– Ranked among top two business schools in Employer’s Perception
(MINT C Fore Survey, CNBC Ranking 2008 and India’s Best B-Schools -
BW 2007 rankings)
– Ranked among the top-three business schools in Course Content (Zee
Business B-School Survey 2008)
– Ranked among the top-three business schools by Young Executives
(Business Today 2008 rankings)
 About Program Directors
Prof. Biswatosh
Saha
• B.Tech (IIT Kharagpur), Fellow (IIM
Calcutta)
• Assistance Professor in Strategic
Management in IIM Calcutta
• Consultant to Planning Commission
and Government of India
• For more information, visit
http://www.iimcal.ac.in/faculty/facpa
ge.asp?ID=biswats
Prof. Sushil
Khanna
• B.Sc. (Allahabad University) & Fellow
(IIM Calcutta)
• Professor of Economics and Strategic
Management in IIM Calcutta
• Has more than 25 years of experience
in teaching and corporate training
• Several years of consulting
experience in Strategy and Corporate
Restructuring.
• For more information, visit
http://www.iimcal.ac.in/faculty/facpa
ge.asp?ID=sushilk
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