For the experts from the industry ...

We offer some intellectually stimulating and meaningful academic activities for management and functional experts with a good experience in managing businesses, offices, plants, departments, customers, vendors, employees, people, profits and business environment.

Our experience is that experts in the age group of 55+ age bracket may be in search of more meaningful and less stressful occupations for themselves - as compared to what the corporate life offers to them. Even a younger person is welcome but our experience is that younger people are in need of "corporate pay scales" and may find our compensations lower than their expectations.

In spite of this apparent handicap of lower compensation, we continue to attract and retain many senior level people ( General Managers, Vice Presidents, Directors and CEOs) because of

1. The youthful energy and atmosphere that prevails in the Institute
2. The scenic 47 acre campus with a 2 acre lake on it. There are 2 plant nurseries,  a temple and a yoga center. While you are here you may as well bring your walking shoes.
3. Dealing with the best and brightest executives - the "students" in our executive education center are the handpicked high-potential candidates chosen by their employers to be developed into future leaders. They have a functional degree ( engineering, accounting etc) and have at least 5-7 years of experience under their belt.  They have been through executive life and done well. You will enjoy interacting with them !
4. Most of the participating executives come from large and professionally managed companies with a turnover of at least Rs 2000 Crores. They come from a professional atmosphere with well defined structures, policies and systems. 
5. We believe in professional standards of international academic practice in terms of course planning, use of multiple pedagogies, customization depending on class profile, feedback and review mechanism.

None of the activities listed below require you to be full time in the Institute but all of them require you to come to the Institute at least once in a while. The extent of travel and physical attendance varies based on which of the 4 types of engagements you seek. These 4 types of engagements are described later. 

We are situated at Andheri West on a scenic campus of 47 acres and therefore we prefer to associate ourselves with people who stay in western suburbs from Bandra to Dahisar. We do not mind even those who stay beyond but then they should be knowingly be willing to commute the distance.

We offer 4 ways by which you can be meaningfully engaged in the academics  

1. Guest speaker : This needs you to come to the campus for delivering the session. The rest can be handled on the mail. There are about 6-7 guest sessions we plan every month for our Executive MBA program for various subjects.
2. Visiting professor : When Guest speakers get a good feedback from the students, we try to get them interested in delivering a part of the curriculum by asking one of the professors to co-opt them. Over a period of time such visiting professors become popular and become regular visiting professors who design and teach courses for us.Some of them even offer elective courses ! Being a visiting professor involves not only being here for delivery but a few meetings may be needed for coordinating with the concerned faculty. 
3. Project Guide : doing a practical project for the employer is a requirement of the course and the guidance is given to the participant by a mentor within the company and by a Project Guide from our side. You can become a project guide. This may mean coming to the Institute at the time of proposal defense and at the time of Viva for each project. Substantial work can be, however, done on e mail or telephone.
4. Resource Person : Our aim is to influence practice and not only to teach. That is why we give many application assignments whereby the participants are supposed to apply what the professor has taught in the class to his/her workplace.Obviously only seasoned people can evaluate such assignments and give useful comments. Most of this work can be done from home because the participants upload their assignments on the net and you can download them from your home and evaluate them. But you do need to come to the Institute once in a while to attend the professor's session to understand what is being taught to the batch so you can evaluate the application of the concepts.

If you need any clarification you may write to Prof S K Palekar at sk.palekar@spjimr.org