The
Department of Management Studies is
a result of an evolutionary process
of growth from an idea floated in
1963. What was then a seed gradually
came to life. Through 1974, 1975,
various expert committees worked to
launch the first ever postgraduate
management programme in 1976.Prof.Sudhir
Kakar was the first coordinator of
this programme. In 1993 the Management
Area acquired the status of a statutory
Department of IIT(D) with Prof.Vinayshil
Gautam as the first Head .IIT(D) was
the first IIT to have a regular Department
focused just on ,'Management Studies'.
In 1997 the postgraduate programme
in Management was formally christened
an MBA programme.
The
Legacy and The Credentials:
The
Department has made its mark through
its alumni; its reseach and publications;its
contribution at the policy level of
governance and to the corporate world.
Several of the alumni have risen to
the highest level in bureaucracy where
they have held the rank of a secretary
(Dr. Lata Singh) or advisor (Dr. S.
Narayan) in the Prime Minister's Office.
In the corporate world they have served
as CEOs both in the private and the
public sector enterprises.The faculty
of the Department have been invited
as visiting professors in the Americas,
Europe, Asian countries and elsewhere.
They have been members of the highest
policy planning committees of the
Government and been invited as consultants
to some of the biggest and finest
corporate enterprises in India and
abroad. The Department has been instrumental
in the launch of two IIMs one at Khozikode,
where Prof.Vinayshil Gautam was the
founder director and IIM- Shillong
where Prof.Vinayshil Gautam was the
leader of the consulting team and
Prof. S.S. Yadav a member of the consulting
team.Prof. P.K. Jain has been a visiting
professor in Slovania and Prof. D.K.
Banwet in Asian Institute Of Technology
(Bangkok). Prof. Sushil has similarly
visited USA and Canada. The Department
has to its credit being the home to
the first ever and till this date
the only series on Researches in Management
in Asia. Ten volumes have been published
as a part of this series.
