Core Courses
The core courses taught in the first four terms cover the basics of Finance, Strategy, Marketing, Operations and IT Management. You will have a full time course load of four to five courses, in each of the four core terms. These courses are taught by a combination of resident faculty and those visiting from international business schools.
The Core Courses offered in the current academic year are the following:
| Course Title |
Faculty & Affiliation |
| Term 1: April 25 - June 5, 2011 |
| Financial Accounting in Decision Making |
MaryLea McAnally, Texas A & M Shivaram Rajagopal, Goizueta Business School, Emory University Mohan Venkatachalam, Duke University |
| Managerial Economics |
Amit Bubna, ISB Tarun Jain, ISB Mudit Kapoor, ISB Bruce W Allen, The Wharton School |
| Marketing Management |
Russell Winer, NYU Stern Rajdeep Grewal, Pennsylvania State University Ajay K Manrai, University of Delaware Z John Zhang, The Wharton School |
| Statistical Methods for Management Decisions |
Amit Mehra, ISB Ravi Mantena, University of Rochester |
| Term 2: June 6 - July 17, 2011 |
| Competitive Strategy |
Naga Lakshmi Damaraju, ISB Raveendra Chittoor, ISB Prashant Kale, Jesse H Jones Graduate School of Management |
| Decision Models & Optimisation |
Sumit M Kunnumkal, ISB Milind G Sohoni, ISB |
Global Economics
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Sudip Gupta, ISB John V Leahy, New York University Krishna B Kumar, RAND Corporation |
| Marketing Decision Making |
Pradeep Bhardwaj, Sauder School of Business Jagmohan S Raju, The Wharton School S Sajeesh, Zicklin School of Business |
| Term 3: July 18 - August 28, 2011 |
| Corporate Finance |
Bhagwan Chowdhry, UCLA Anderson School of Management Suren Mansinghka, University of California, Irvine N R Prabhala, Robert H Smith School of Business Amit Bubna, ISB |
| Entrepreneurship |
Atul Nerkar, Kenan Flagler Business School Ramakrishna S Velamuri, CEIBS-China Rupert Merson, London Business School |
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Leadership Development Programme (One-Credit Compulsory Pass/Fail Course)
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Lalitha Maheswaran, ISB Rajeshwar Upadhyaya, ISB S Ramnarayan, ISB E S Srinivas, ISB |
Managerial Accounting and Decision Making |
Swaminathan Sridharan, Kellogg School of Management Mark Finn , Kellogg School of Management |
| Operations Management |
Aditya Jain, ISB Ram Bala, ISB |
| Term 4: August 29 - October 16, 2011 |
| Government, Society & Business |
Mudit Kapoor , ISB A K Shiva Kumar, UNICEF |
| Investment Analysis |
Ravi Anshuman, IIM Bangalore
Ramana Sonti, ISB
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| Management of Organisations |
Luis L Martins, Georgia Tech University Niro Sivanathan, London Business School Jonathan Pinto, Imperial College Jim Schmidtke, CSU Fresno |
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Strategic Analysis of Information Technology
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Nishtha Langer, ISB Deepa Mani, ISB
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