Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai, today inaugurated its PGWPM – Post Graduate Working Professional Program in Management.

This new program is designed to cater to the needs of the working professionals who want to learn while they earn without quitting their jobs and will have the same academic rigor as that of the institute’s flagship one-year, full-time residential program – PGPM. The program is spread over 52 alternate weekends, thus making PGWPM an eight term, 2 year academic program. It will deliver 36 classroom courses supplemented by an intensive 12-credit full-year project.

More than 40 students from various cities like Coimbatore, Bangalore and Chennai have admitted for the program that commenced on the 10th of July 2010. Classes will be held at the Great Lakes Campus at Manamai. School’s Business Advisory Council headed by Ratan Tata, the Board of Directors by Jamshyd Godrej and the Academic Advisory Council by Prof. Bala V Balachandran, Founder & Honorary Dean.

On a side note, Jamshyd Godrej, in reference to Triple Bottom Line (TBL) and its implications on corporate India, said that it is a reality and that sustainable growth is a challenge that can be turned into business opportunity.