IIM B One Year MBA Students All Set To Fly To Yale, USA & IE, Spain

A cohort of six students from the One Year Full Time Residential MBA (Executive Post Graduate Program in Management – EPGP) at IIM Bangalore will be leaving this week for Yale School of Management, USA and IE School of Business, Spain to participate in the Global Network for Advanced Management program (GNAM). Krithika Sriram, a current student at IIM B, shares details of the journey ahead.

In an increasingly inter-connected world, it is vital for any business school to expose its students to a widely diverse cultural group in order to foster better peer learning and develop a multi-dimensional global perspective on various aspects of business.

IIM Bangalore provides this unique opportunity to a select set of students to be part of a truly global group and learn from some of the best minds at leading universities of the world.

The Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM) was started in 2012 as a consortium of business schools from around the world to connect and address the leadership challenges facing business and society.

This global network brings together twenty seven business schools such as Insead, Yale, HEC and LSE from twenty five countries across five continents and prepares the leaders of tomorrow for the challenges of working in a globalized world of growing complexity.

The program is an intensive one-week module that takes advantage of localized expertise in a global context and gives students an opportunity to travel to a new country.

I am truly excited about the module at Yale School of Management. It would give me the opportunity to work on projects in a diverse multi-cultural group with students coming together from 27 different business schools across the world

The EPGP students have already completed their core courses and this has given them a strong grounding in the fundamentals of business and positions them perfectly to grasp advanced management concepts taught in the program.

The course at Yale will focus on Behavioural Marketing, Economics and Finance and will expose them to advanced decision-sciences concepts as propounded by experts like Daniel Kahneman and Dan Ariely.

The students hope to learn the science of decision making which would help them make strategic choices in complex and uncertain business scenarios. Further, they would work on assignments which will enable them to apply their learning in a practical context.

The program includes industry visits to companies like Credit Suisse, Hearst Corporation & Lincoln Centre at New York where students get to connect with business leaders and gain real-life insights that build on their classroom learning.

The students leaving for Yale are very excited at the prospect of learning at an Ivy League university and building an international network of peers.

“From Bangalore to Yale – IIM B’s EPGP program is truly global. The opportunity to be part of an Ivy league programme at Yale is the highlight of year’s effort”, says Sourish Ray, a student with 5.5 years of work experience at KPMG where he worked as a technology consultant.

“I come from an IT background and my macroeconomic classes in IIMB taught me to understand how dollar fluctuation and global slowdown affected Indian IT industry. The European economic crisis is one of our favourite topics to discuss and debate with our professors. I chose IE Business School, Madrid for this reason. I want to understand the European economy and the steps they are taking to recover from the crisis. I’m eagerly waiting to interact with the thought leaders and professors of IE to see which policies are getting implemented to bring the European Union back to its growth path”, says another student, Karthik Ramanathan, who has 10 years of work experience in IT Product development and management.

What am I kicked about? Coming from a digital marketing & strategy background, I am truly excited about the module at Yale School of Management as it would be a perfect blend of academia and practical learning.

It would give me the opportunity to work on projects in a diverse multi-cultural group with students coming together from 27 different business schools across the world. The advanced concepts on Behavioural Marketing, Economics and Finance would be an invaluable addition to my learning as an MBA student and would help me prepare to work at a global organization. Joining this elite global network would provide a life-long benefit in my career.

Authored by Krithika Sriram, MBA (EPGP) Class of 2015-2016, IIM Bangalore. Prior to pursuing her MBA, Krithika was a marketing professional. She has 8+ yrs of work experience at Google and e-commerce portal Koovs.com