Indian School of Development Management - ISDM

About Indian School of Development Management - ISDM

ISDM is a pioneering institute that moulds future-ready leaders equipped with real-world management and leadership skills, strong ethics, and a social conscience, who will lead and manage organisations with a social purpose, to deliver sustainable impact at scale for the benefit of our planet.

We have a full-fledged program on Development Management, with a holistic, values-based and innovative learning framework, and a growing research centre and body of knowledge that aims to create, strengthen and establish the knowledge and practice of Development Management.

9 SIGNATURE COMPONENTS OF THE CURRICULUM

• Personal Mastery for Development Leadership builds up the spirit of curiosity, courage and compassion in students by creating a safe space for teams to flourish and thrive.
• A 2 week immersive field component on Realising India to help develop the students’ understanding of people’s lives at the district level, preparing them to design interventions.
• A unique Context-Based Collaborative Learning (CBCL) pedagogy enables students to understand the contextual realities and complexities of the social sector through working one-on-one with experienced bricoleurs.
• 12 Harvard Business Publishing Courses covering management topics such as performance measurement, business plan development, strategy planning and execution, and more.
• Live interactions with eminent speakers from the sector all through the year to help the students debate, discuss, pause, reflect and learn.
• Specially curated workshops covering a range of topics from Group Dynamics, Radical Transformation Leadership (RTL) to future forward workshops on Networks, Partnerships, Fund Raising, Project Management, etc.
• The Development Management Writing Centre equips students with the skills to communicate effectively (write, tell and present) using language that is specific and appropriate for the social sector.
• A mix of courses in Development and Business Management Fundamentals like Financial Perspectives, Strategic Innovation for Social Change, Operations Management for Quality and Impact, Marketing Management, CSR, Behavioral Science, etc.
• Special capstone project during the final term which focuses on scale and sustainability and consists of live projects with client organisations, thereby integrating learnings of the previous terms.