Category: Education

A PGP-DM, or a Post-Graduate Program in Development Management, is a course designed to teach students how to manage and lead Social Purpose Organisations. While the course is ideal for people who have some work experience in the Social Sector, it can also be pursued by freshers and people who wish to transition into the Social Sector. The first Development Management Program in India was created when the founders of ISDM, Ravi Sreedharan, Sharad Agarwal, Gaurav Shah, and Suparna Diwakar, realised that there was a need to teach people how to manage and lead in the Social Sector. This program fuses principles of management with the ethos of the social sector, to create a curriculum that is specifically suited for Development Sector needs. While this is a management program, it is different from an MBA in a few significant ways.