MADRAS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

One of the largest Management Associations in the country affiliated to the All India Management Association, the Madras Management Association (MMA) is a non-profit association serving the cause of management excellence since 1956.

Founded as the Madras Institute of Management (MIM) in August 1956 with the objective of furthering management development with Dr. A Lakshmanaswamy Mudaliar, the illustrious Vice-chancellor of the University of Madras as its president.  MIM was formally inaugurated with twenty institutional members on September 19, 1956.  Following the formation of the All India Management Association in 1957, the name was changed officially to Madras Management Association (MMA), in conformity with the names of other similar associations all over India, affiliated to the AIMA.

Nine distinguished personalities of the city got together to form the Madras Institute of Management and applied formally to the Registrar of Societies.  They were SLT White, Staff and Industrial Relations Manager, Burmah-Shell, NV Naidu, Custodian, Prithvi Insurance Co. Ltd., S Anantharamakrishnan, Chairman, Simpson & Co. Ltd., K Sadagopan, Chief Administrative Officer, Integral Coach Factory, GV Krishna Rao, Head of the Department, Business Administration, University of Madras, T Rogers, Managing Director, Best & Co (Private) Ltd., NK Aiyer, Secretary and Commercial Manager, TI Cycles of India, EFG Hunter, Director, Binny & Co. (Madras) Ltd., and AMM Murugappa Chettiar, Director, State Bank of India, Madras.

Dr. Sir A L Mudaliar, Vice Chancellor, University of Madras, was the first President of the MIM. He and the nine founder members along with V. Ramachandran, Industrial Relations Officer, Burmah - Shell, Madras constituted the first Managing Committee of MIM.

The Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) of the Madras Management Association was started in 1989.  Supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the cell assists small and medium entrepreneurs upgrade their business management knowledge and skills.  Since the inception of the project, a total of 1,026 training activities in 1,645 training days, with around 43,985 persons have been organised up to December 31, 2000.

The Executive Education Programme is another feather in MMA's cap.  In the last 45 years, around 2,800 programmes have been conducted with 1,62,000 participants.

The MMA Business Leadership Award is given to outstanding personalities in the field of business, once in every two years, in memory of the outstanding industrialist, the late S. Anantharamakrishnan. This award has been so far given to corporate and industrial giants like the late Dr J R D Tata, Arvind Mafatlal, Dr Bharat Ram, S L Kirloskar, Aditya Vikram Birla and Dr C Rangarajan.

The MMA has five categories of Membership - Institutional Membership, Association Membership, Individual Membership, Associate Membership and Student Membership.

In addition to the above classes of members, professional Individual Members of the All India Management Association will automatically become members of the MMA.

Over the years, the MMA has grown in stature. Its contribution to management development can be gauged by the growth of its membership strength from 20 to over 2,800 during the last 45 years.

Address: Madras Management Association, Chateau D'Ampa, IIIrd floor, 110, Nelson Manickam Road, Chennai - 600 029.
Phone: 2374 0446 / 853 / 950
Fax: 2374 0476
E-mail: mma@vsnl.com or mmachennai@eth.net

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