PGPM - Family Business & Entrepreneurship Curriculum

Curriculum

The PGPM Family Business & Entrepreneurship curriculum is made to cater specifically to the requirements of next gen business leaders, allowing you to harness your experience and knowledge during the course. The curriculum is designed to empower you with key skills required to manage a business. It aims to enable you to take decisions across verticals and departments and explore best opportunities to expand/scale your business. The course has 7 terms, term 1 to 3 having core courses and terms 4 to 7 having elective courses. The curriculum also includes impact skill labs which provide hands-on practice in Innovating, Formulating Strategies, Networking with VCs and CXOs, Working with Data, Storytelling through Data and Communicating Strategies and Business Value.

Course Architecture

TERM 1

  • Micro Economics
  • Statistical Methods in Decision-making I
  • Financial Accounting
  • Strategic Marketing & Customer Focus I

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING LABS

  • Succesful Family Businesses' strategies
  • Communication Lab
  • Making Sense of Data

TERM 2

  • Principles of Operations Management I
  • Statistical Methods in Decision-making II
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Strategic Marketing & Customer Focus II

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING LABS

  • Networking with Entrepreneurs, VCs and Business Leaders
  • Storytelling with Data

TERM 3

  • Business Analytics
  • Corporate Finance
  • Strategic Management
  • Managing Self and People
  • Principles of Operations Management II

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING LABS

  • Innovation Sandbox

TERM 4

  • Professionalizing the Family Business
  • Family Business Succession
  • Innovation Strategies for Family Business
  • Internationalizing Family Business

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING LABS

  • Knowing Self, Family and Business
  • Assessing & Setting Business Goals
  • Developing the Business Plan

TERM 5

  • Managing Intergenerational Conflicts
  • Designing and Managing Family Offices
  • Scaling the Family Business

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING LABS

  • Networking with Industry and Government Stakeholders
  • Developing the Business Plan
  • Business Launch
  • Karma Yoga/Social Impact Project

TERM 6

  • International Immersion

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING LABS

  • Growth Hacking
  • Karma Yoga/Social Impact Project

TERM 7

  • Negotiation & Influencing
  • Law and Taxation
  • General Elective 1
  • General Elective 2

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING LABS

  • The Great Pitch - Business Pitch to Investors
  • Karma Yoga/Social Impact Project

Note:

  1. The Curriculum is subject to revision periodically with approval from the Curriculum committee. Courses may be added, substitude or removed as may be deemed necessary for enhancemnt of the learning experience in line with the program objectives
  2. In case of international immersion, the courses listed in the term will be subsituted by courses offered at the partner school during the immersion for equivalent credits.

The Great Pitch

The Great Pitch is a distinctive module within the PGPM-FBE curriculum designed to foster entrepreneurial spirit and innovation among students. It offers participants a platform to develop and pitch their business ideas, receive feedback from industry experts, and compete for resources and funding to kickstart their ventures. Through hands-on experience and guidance, students gain valuable insights into the intricacies of launching and scaling new ventures.

Dr Umashankar, Professor, Marketing talks about the PGPM - FBE curriculum

Associations

  • Cornell University
  • Chicago Booth
  • Skema Business School
  • Universite Bordeaux
  • IESEG
  • Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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