Equip students with the required skills and knowledge in consultative and quantitative problem solving; and socially responsible ethical decision making.
Develop leadership capabilities to act as agents of change in promoting and developing social and commercial entrepreneurial activities.
Nurture business professionals who are aware about the globalised nature of contemporary business, culturally sensitive about managing business networks and relations, and understand the relationship between self, society and business environment. This is achieved by specifically designed activities and courses that encourage students to learn act and reflect.
Paying special attention to generating new ideas and synthesizing and integrating existing ideas for applying them to solve real world problems.
Faculty use various pedagogical tools like case discussion and analysis, flipped classrooms, video interventions, problem-solving, in-class tests, tutorials etc. for a more engaged teaching and learning process. The brighter students are encouraged to play an important role in teaching and learning process by taking over the class in any case discussion or flipped classroom setup. For most core course of three credits there are two lecture classes and one tutorial class every week. Students are divided into smaller groups for the tutorial class. The tutorial class allows the faculty to revise the concepts taught in the lecture class and do extra problems with the students to improve their understanding of the concepts. The weaker students get a chance to raise their doubts and queries in the small group tutorial classes.
Some of the innovative teaching practices introduced by faculty members are given below:
LM Thapar School of Management offers a two-year full time program with six specializations. Our program goal is to develop globally sensitive, scholarly practitioners with social entrepreneurial mindset.
In a world increasingly driven by digital ecosystems, organizations are looking for professionals who can leverage both analytical insights and information systems to solve real-world business challenges. The Business Analytics and Information Systems (BA&IS) specialization at LM Thapar School of Management is designed to equip future-ready professionals with the dual capability of interpreting complex data and understanding the technological infrastructure that supports modern businesses.
This specialization blends the power of data analytics with the functionality of information systems to help students navigate today’s digital-first landscape. It empowers students to make informed decisions using data, design IT-enabled business processes, and implement data-driven strategies across functions.
Students pursuing BA&IS will gain an in-depth understanding of how to transform raw data into strategic business assets, while also appreciating how information systems can be leveraged to enhance performance, agility, and innovation within organizations.
We offer the following specialized courses in Business Analytics and Information Systems (BA&IS) Specialization.
S. No. | Name of Course | Credits |
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1 | Big Data for Managers | 2.0 |
2 | Social Media and Web Analytics | 2.0 |
3 | Advanced Excel and VBA | 2.0 |
4 | Information System Audit | 2.0 |
5 | Data Visualization with Tableau | 2.0 |
6 | E-Commerce Analytics | 2.0 |
7 | Financial Modelling & Analytics | 2.0 |
8 | Credit Risk Analytics | 2.0 |
9 | HR Analytics | 2.0 |
10 | Marketing & Retail Analytics | 2.0 |
11 | B2B & Supply Chain Analytics | 2.0 |
The finance specialization has a rigorous curriculum and a good mix of theory and practice. The focus is on applied theory; using the principles of finance for real world application to business challenges. We strive to create dedicated, tenacious, and innovative students with an endless curiosity for uncovering savvy financial solutions. Students are groomed to be able to spot the key challenges and understand the dynamics of various financial issues and be able to provide a sound integrated solution. We build leaders in Finance who are able to come up with financially sound, creative and innovate solutions, within the given constraints. Students are provided with sound financial principles, with special emphasis on managing the finance for enterprises. The faculty provides behind-the-scenes perspective from the established theories and their extensive industry experience.
Finance specialization has a variety of courses covering topics from Behavioral Finance to Capital Markets to Banking to Entrepreneurial Finance to Strategic Cost Management to Wealth Management, to name a few of them. Advanced courses in cost management, corporate valuation and financial statement analysis are offered to deepen the understanding of corporate finance and accounting functions. We offer a whole range of courses related to BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance) industry, to cater to one of the fastest growing industries in India. We also encourage cross discipline courses, such as Behavioral finance where behaviour of various kinds of investors with regard to their financial decisions is studied. In line with the start-up initiative of Indian Government and LMTSM’s focus on social entrepreneurship, we are offering a course on entrepreneurial finance with special emphasis on social finance. Courses on security analysis and financial derivatives enhance the comprehension of working of the Capital Markets. We prepare students to address a whole range of issues related to finance by offering the following courses in finance specialization.
S. No. | Name of Course | Course Code | Credits |
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1 | Securities Analysis & Portfolio Management | FN6209 | 2.0 |
2 | Corporate Valuation and Restructuring | FN6212 | 2.0 |
3 | Banking and Financial Servicesg | FN6213 | 2.0 |
4 | Insurance and Risk Management | FN6206 | 2.0 |
5 | Wealth Management and Personal Financial Planning | FN6205 | 2.0 |
6 | Strategic Cost Management and Control | FN6208 | 2.0 |
7 | Behavioral Finance | FN6203 | 2.0 |
8 | Project and Infrastructure Finance | FN6204 | 2.0 |
9 | Advanced Financial Statement Analysis | FN6214 | 2.0 |
10 | Financial Derivatives and Risk Management | FN6207 | 2.0 |
11 | Fixed Income Securities | FN6216 | 2.0 |
12 | Financial Econometrics | FN7201 | 2.0 |
Operations management deals with optimization of processes transformation of inputs into outputs to suitably meet customers’ expectations. This specialization therefore, deals with mapping of functions such as, flows of information, materials, and funds throughout the supply chain of goods and services. The specialization on Operations Management provides an insight to the theories and mathematical techniques for solving problems in the design, planning, and controlling of manufacturing and service operations and quality. It concentrates on the technological & operational issues of business activities in the competitive industrial scenario and presents a systematic study of behavioural and quantitative methods for managing operational challenges to meet organisational goals. The subject also develops students’ understanding of issues and skills related to global operations management in complex organisational scenarios. This domain aims at developing the competencies amongst future managers to:
S. No. | Name of Course | Course Code | Credits |
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1 | Project Management | OP6204 | 2.0 |
2 | Supply Chain Management | OP6203 | 2.0 |
3 | ERP Management | IS6202 | 2.0 |
4 | Technology and Innovation Strategy | IM6206 | 2.0 |
5 | Operations in Service Sector | OP6208 | 2.0 |
6 | Total Quality Management | OP6206 | 2.0 |
7 | Operations Strategies | OP6205 | 2.0 |
8 | Warehousing & Maintenance Management | OP6207 | 2.0 |
9 | Advanced Operation Research | OP7201 | 2.0 |
10 | Business Process Simulation | OP6209 | 2.0 |
11 | Global Operations Strategy | IM6208 | 2.0 |
Most of us can expect to spend many years of our lives working in organizations of various kinds. All organizations require people to make the goods or provide the services, and therefore an understanding of how to effectively manage people in the workplace is of great importance and value. HRM analyses the employment relationships and the way people are managed in the workplace. It explores these issues not only in the context of individual employee and their employer, but in the context of wider workplace, the labour market, and economic forces shaping the world of work, technological changes, employment regulations and social trends. The world of work is fast changing, so an understanding of how all this affects the way people are manged in the workplace is of tremendous significance, both theoratically and practically. Human resource managers take on the challenges of aligning individual needs with organizational requirements using HRM tools and models.
S. No. | Name of Course | Course Code | Credits |
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1 | Organizational Change and Development | HR6210 | 2.0 |
2 | Employment laws | HR6211 | 2.0 |
3 | Performance and Compensation Management | HR6203 | 2.0 |
4 | Human resource metrics and analytics | HR6212 | 2.0 |
5 | Management across Cultures | HR6213 | 2.0 |
6 | Negotiation Strategies | HR6215 | 2.0 |
7 | Strategic Human Resource Management | HR6202 | 2.0 |
8 | Human Resource Development | HR6214 | 2.0 |
9 | International Human Resource Management | HR6208 | 2.0 |
10 | International & Strategic Human Resource Management | HR6216 | 2.0 |
Marketing is the essence of business as it focuses on creating and delivering “value proposition for the customer” and marketing professionals play a key role in chalking out and shaping the business model. This exciting discipline comprises of different domains of identifying consumer behaviour, selecting right target market, developing product as solution in line with the needs of customers, crafting strategic positioning and then promoting the solution to targeted set of customers and finally delivering the solution to customers through sales, distribution, digital marketing and establishing relationships with customers through CRM in order to retain and engage them for obtaining customer life time value.
This domain aims at developing the competencies amongst future marketing managers to:
S. No. | Name of Course | Course Code | Credits |
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1 | Customer Relationship Management | MK6202 | 2.0 |
2 | Digital Marketing | MK6209 | 2.0 |
3 | Sales and Distribution Management | MK6203 | 2.0 |
4 | Consumer Behaviour | MK6204 | 2.0 |
5 | International Marketing | MK6206 | 2.0 |
6 | B2B Marketing | MK6205 | 2.0 |
7 | Marketing Research | MK6207 | 2.0 |
8 | Services Marketing and Retail Management | MK6208 | 2.0 |
9 | Advertising and Brand Management | MK6210 | 2.0 |
10 | Marketing Analytics | MK6211 | 2.0 |