# MYRA School of Business

The MYRA School of Business is a business school established in 2012 in Mysore under the aegis of the Mysore Royal Academy (MYRA). The school and its campus were inaugurated on November 4, 2012.

## Programs Offered

* Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) (Two-year AICTE-approved MBA equivalent)
* Management Development Programs / Executive Education Programs

## Flagship Program

PGDM (Post Graduate Diploma in Management) has
* Data Analytics using Spreadsheet
* Case Methodology
* Introduction to Business Processes and Decisions
* Financial Reporting and Analysis
* Managerial Accounting
* Business Statistics
* Information Systems
* Managerial Economics
* Business, Government and Society
* Project 1
* Organization Development and Behavior
* Strategy
* Market Research and Analytics
* Corporate Finance
* Entrepreneurship
* Operations Management
* Marketing Management
* Macro Economics
* Business Law
* Human Resource Management as core courses
PGDM Students take 32 courses - 16 Core Courses, 12 Electives, 2 Career Services Courses, 3 Projects, and 1 Internship Research Project - totaling 102 credits. Each course is worth 3 credit points.

## Partner Schools

Partner Schools:
* Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics (CLSBE), Portugal - PGDM Global Exchange Partner
* Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany - PGDM Global Exchange 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

## Centres of Excellence

MYRA has set up 2 Centres of Excellence:
* Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Business Innovations (CESBI)
* Centre of Excellence for Data Analytics and Business Insights (CEDABI)

## Campus

The campus buildings have been called 'avant-garde' and showcase state-of-the-art architecture.

## Milestones

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 (CESBI) 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 the University of Mysore as a Research Center.
* 31 May 2014 – Graduation of founding Batch Post Graduate Program for Executives (PGPX). 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 (PGDM) and 2nd Batch of Post Graduate Program for Executives (PGPX). 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 (CEDABI) by Mr. David J Kasik, Senior Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington.
* 28 March 2016 – MOU with Dalhousie University, Canada, Mr. Greg Giokas, 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 (PGDM) & 3rd batch of Post Graduate Program for Executives (PGPX). 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, 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 (PGDM) & 4th batch of Post Graduate Program for Executives (PGPX). 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 the Governing board, MYRA
* 13 May 2018 - Graduation of the 4th batch of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) & 5th batch of Post Graduate Program for Executives (PGPX). 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 (MBA) 5 years integrated course
* 29 June 2019 - Graduation of the 5th batch of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) & 6th batch of Post Graduate Program for Executives (PGPX). Chief Guest, Mr. MD Ranganath, Additional Independent Director, HDFC Bank
Distinguished Lecture Series:
* 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 (Dean), 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 (J-PAL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
* 18 January 2018 - Distinguished Lecture 7 on "My Journey" by Mr. Arjun Malhotra, Co-founder, HCL Technologies, Former Chairman and CEO, Headstrong