Tagore International Business School has maintained its reputation as one of the best B-schools in India for the past several years. In spite of the fact that it is located in Coimbatore, an erstwhile small city, the institute has achieved great laurels for itself. Dr. Navneet Dubey, the Director of the institution had recently visited the University of California in the US. He observed that the management graduates from the B-schools of California University were better trained as compared to their Indian counterparts.
As he observed, one important reason for this was the curriculum of the MBA programme in the US. Dr. Dubey was highly impressed with the pedagogy and the curriculum of the University of California, and therefore,he undertook the challenge of redesigning the MBA programme of his B- School on the same pattern. However, he found that the industry needs for management graduates in India were slightly different than the US; therefore, the re-designing of the programme was a herculean task. His search for the right person for such an important task ultimately ended with Prof. (Dr.) Gagan Batra, the recently appointed the Academic Co-ordinator of Tagore International by the Board of Governors. Prof. Batra was delegated with the responsibility to redesign the MBA curriculum, the flagship programme of the School. Dr. Dubey said," I have lots of hopes from you Prof. Batra, as you are a highly talented and an experienced professor you will definitely come up with a newly designed curriculum. Now, the onus is on you to make our MBA programme better than any other B School in India". Prof. Batra responded positively and sought permission to commence the task.
The purpose was to launch a new programme in the field of management based upon the needs of the industry. The new programme would offer specialized knowledge to the students and help them in their job selection at various management levels. Though Prof. Batra was positive and enthusiastic about the task he needed inputs and suggestions from some of the experienced professors of management over the same.
This story is from the November 2016 edition of Human Capital.
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