MYRA School of Business
MYRA School of Business is a business school established in 2012 at Mysore under the aegis of the Mysore Royal Academy.The school’s campus was inaugurated on 4 November 2012 by Padma Bhushan Deepak Parekh, Chairman of HDFC.
Programs Offered
MYRA offers 4 different programs:- Post Graduate Diploma in Management
- Global MBA from Dalhousie University, Canada
- PhD
- Executive Education Programs
Flagship Program
PGDM Students take 32 courses - 16 core courses, 12 electives, 4 projects - totaling 96 credits. Each course is worth 3 credit points.
Partner Schools
Partner Schools:- Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, Portugal - PGDM Global Exchange Partner
- Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany - PGDM Global Exchange Partner
- Dalhousie University, Canada - Global MBA, Twinning Partner
- W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, USA - Founding Academic Partner
- University of Washington Bothell School of Business, USA - Founding Academic Partner
PhD Program
- Management Sciences
- Information Systems and Management
- Statistics
- Development Studies
Centres of Excellence
- Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Business Innovations
- Centre of Excellence for Data Analytics and Business Insights
Milestones
- 4 November 2012 – MYRA Campus Inauguration by Shri Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC.
- 17-18 December 2012 – Workshop on Governance and Political Economy in association with Warwick University.
- 6 January 2013 – Launch of Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Business Innovations and Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe Distinguished Professor, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, US.
- 24 June 2013 – MYRA Founding Batch Inauguration by Mrs. Meera Sanyal, Chairperson, Royal Bank of Scotland.
- 16-17 December 2013 – Second International Conference on Big Data Analytics.
- June 2014 – Recognition by University of Mysore as Research Center.
- 31 May 2014 – Graduation of founding Batch Post Graduate Program for eXecutives. Chief Guests: Dr.Ramadhar Singh, Distinguished Professor, IIM, Bangalore and Mr. Ashok Mathur, MD, Madura Coats & Regional Chief Executive, South Asia, Coats Plc.
- 9 May 2015 – Graduation of founding Batch of Post Graduate Diploma in Management and 2nd Batch of Post Graduate Program for eXecutives. Chief Guests: Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Indore and Mr. R Gopalakrishnan, Non-Executive Director, Tata Sons
- 9 March 2016 – Launch of Centre of Excellence for Data Analytics and Business Insights by Mr. David J Kasik, Senior Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington.
- 28 March 2016 – MOU with Dalhousie University, Canada, Mr. Greg Giokas, His Excellency Consul General of Canada to Bengaluru and Dr. Carolyn Watters, Provost & Vice President, Academic, Dalhousie University, Canada.
- 20 June 2016 – Graduation of the 2nd batch of Post Graduate Diploma in Management & 3rd batch of Post Graduate Program for eXecutives. Chief Guests: Dr. M G Parameswaran, Founder, Brand-Building.com and Shri Ranjan Mathai, Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India
- 30 July 2016 – Inauguration of Devaraj Urs Centre for Development Studies by Shri. Jairam Ramesh, Honourable Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Former Minister, Government of India.
- 30 May 2017 - Signing of MOU with Cambridge Judge Business Executive Education to offer Executive Education programs in India.
- 24 June 2017 – Graduation of the 3rd batch of Post Graduate Diploma in Management & 4th batch of Post Graduate Program for eXecutives. Chief Guests: Shri Santosh Desai, MD and CEO of Futurebrands, author & columnist and Dr. Ramasastry Ambarish, Managing Director of RA & Son Pte Ltd., Singapore and Member of Governing board, MYRA
- 13 May 2018 - Graduation of the 4th batch of Post Graduate Diploma in Management & 5th batch of Post Graduate Program for eXecutives. Chief Guest, Dr. Viral V Acharya, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India & C.V. Starr Professor of Economics, New York University Stern School of Business, USA
- 1 July 2018 - University of Mysore approved Master of Business Administration 5 years integrated course
- 29 June 2019 - Graduation of the 5th batch of Post Graduate Diploma in Management & 6th batch of Post Graduate Program for eXecutives. Chief Guest, Mr. MD Ranganath, Additional Independent Director, HDFC Bank
- 6 January 2013 - Distinguished Lecture 1 on "Reverse Innovation" by Dr. Vijay Govindarajan, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, USA
- 25 November 2013 - Distinguished Lecture 2 on "Using Frugal Innovation to create market disruption" by Mr. Suneet S Tuli, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Datawind Limited
- 19 February 2015 - Distinguished Lecture 3 on "Journey of Excellence-Beating Benchmarks and Scaling New Heights of Performance" by Lt Gen SK Gadeock, AVSM, Commandant, Defence Services Staff College
- 29 November 2015 - Distinguished Lecture 4 on "The Enduring Value of Management Education" by Dr. Dipak C Jain, Director, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Chulalongkorn, University in Bangkok, Thailand
- 18 November 2016 - Distinguished Lecture 5 on "Economic and Social Change and Growth of Indian Business" by Dr. Sanjaya Baru, Distinguished Fellow, United Service Institute of India, New Delhi; Consulting Fellow for India International Institute of Strategic Studies, London; Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
- 26 December 2017 - Distinguished Lecture 6 on "From Research to Action: Using Evidence to Inform Policy" by Mr. Iqbal Dhaliwal, Deputy Executive Director, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
- 18 January 2018 - Distinguished Lecture 7 on "My Journey" by Mr. Arjun Malhotra, Co-founder, HCL Technologies, Former Chairman and CEO, Headstrong
General references
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