Ahead Of The Curve

The new age business leaders expect a lot more from a business school than learning how to diagnose and solve business problems. For they know that the key to building sustainable and valuable companies in the 21st century is understanding the new and evolving technologies. For this, B schools, especially the leading ones, are working on offerings that go beyond the traditional route of adding more elective courses.

While some are coming up with niche programmes that meet today's needs, others are following a newer suite of case studies and bringing faculty learning from industry consulting engagements into the classroom. A typical business school curriculum has core subjects such as finance, marketing and strategy, and electives that are added, changed