A cohort of students from the Executive Post Graduate Program in Management (EPGP - 1 year residential MBA), IIM Bangalore will be leaving this week for the Yale School of Management, USA and IE School of Business, Spain to participate in the Global Network for Advanced Management programme (GNAM).
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 select students to be part of a truly global group, and learn from some of the best minds at leading universities of the world.
The 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 globalised world of growing complexity.
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. The programme 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. The 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 programme.
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. They would also work on assignments which would enable them to apply their learning in a practical context. The programme includes industry visits to companies like Credit Suisse, Hearst Corporation & Lincoln Centre at New York where students are given the chance to connect with business leaders and gain real-life insights that build on their classroom learning.
What other 2015-2016 EPGP students say
“Coming from a digital marketing & strategy background, I am really excited about the Global Network for Advanced Management programme at the Yale School of Management as it will be a perfect blend of academia and practical learning. It will give me the opportunity to work on projects in a diverse multi-cultural group of students coming together from 27 different business schools across the world. The advanced concepts on Behavioural Marketing, Economics and Finance will be an invaluable addition to my learning as an MBA student and will help me prepare to work at a global organization. Joining this elite global network will provide a life-long benefit in my career.” — Krithika Sriram (Marketing professional with more than 8 years of experience in Google and e-commerce portal Koovs.com)
“I come from an IT background and the macroeconomic classes at IIMB taught me to understand how the dollar fluctuation and global slowdown affected the Indian IT industry. The European economic crisis is one of our favourite topics to discuss and debate with our professors. I chose the IE Business School in Madrid for the same reason — I want to understand 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 EU back to its growth path." — Karthik Ramanathan (IT professional with 10 years experience in IT Product development and management)
“From Bangalore to Yale - IIM B’s EPGP programme is truly global. The opportunity to be part of an Ivy league programme at Yale is the highlight of a year’s effort.” — Sourish Ray (Technology Consultant with 5 and a half years of work experience at KPMG)