PGP PRO Curriculum
PGP PRO
Curriculum
- Overview
- Cross Functional Learning
- Global Immersion Courses
- Electives Overview
- International Immersion
- Graduate Degree Requirements
- Pedagogies
Overview
At PGP PRO, you will master a rigorous curriculum designed for mid-career acceleration without career interruption. Through purposeful cross-functional themes—from data-driven decision making to digital transformation—you will develop leadership capabilities and strategic insights for navigating complex business environments.
Your transformative 18-month journey begins with an immersive campus residency, followed by alternate weekend classes in your city, supported by strategically placed online sessions. Midway, you will gain a global perspective through an international immersion week.
The learning experience spans 24 integrated courses across preparatory, foundation, core, and advanced modules, culminating in specialised electives and a final campus residency. This carefully orchestrated progression ensures you advance your career while applying new knowledge directly to current professional challenges.
PGP PRO's curriculum is architected around six integral themes that form a comprehensive framework for business leadership. This blueprint transcends traditional subject boundaries, creating interconnected knowledge pathways that mirror the complexity of modern business environments. Each theme equips you with specific capabilities essential for navigating today's disruptive marketplace while preparing you for tomorrow's challenges.
Uncover how global economic and geopolitical dynamics shape business strategy.
Managerial Economics
Develops fundamental microeconomic frameworks that empower managers to analyse firm and market dynamics. Students master principles for optimising resource allocation, strategic decision-making, and competitive positioning across diverse market structures.
Global Economics
Examines how macroeconomic forces shape business opportunities and risks in the global marketplace. Students analyse economic shocks, recovery patterns, and long-term growth drivers to navigate complex international environments with strategic foresight.
Corporate Governance and Business Ethics
Explores the corporation's evolving societal role through multiple conceptual lenses—ethical, sociological, political, and economic. Students evaluate governance mechanisms and develop frameworks for responsible corporate leadership in complex stakeholder environments.
Master the time-tested principles of marketing and cultivate a customer-centric approach.
Decision Making under Uncertainty
Transforms intuition-based management into systematic decision processes. Students develop frameworks to recognise cognitive biases, apply utility theory, and leverage analytical models to make superior decisions amidst ambiguity and risk.
Marketing Research
Equips future executives with critical frameworks to commission, design and evaluate research that drives strategic marketing decisions. Students develop structured approaches to market analysis supporting brand management, consulting and entrepreneurial ventures.
Marketing Management
Develops strategic marketing frameworks for creating customer value and competitive advantage. Students master techniques for market segmentation, product positioning, pricing strategy, channel selection, and integrated communications that drive business performance.
Elevate your financial acumen-drive value creation, manage risk, and navigate trade-offs to meet stakeholder expectations.
Accounting Analysis and Information
Provides analytical frameworks for translating financial statements into actionable business insights. Students develop skills to evaluate organisational performance beyond numerical literacy, enabling data-driven strategic decision-making.
Corporate Finance
Delivers quantitative and conceptual tools for value-creating investment and financing decisions. Students master discounted cash flow methodologies and risk assessment frameworks essential for maximising shareholder value in dynamic markets.
Financial Statement Analysis
Develops critical frameworks for evaluating financial performance, detecting accounting manipulation, and assessing investment merit. Students master ratio analysis, earnings quality assessment, credit evaluation, and valuation methodologies essential for informed investing, lending, and strategic decision-making.
Design robust structures, processes, and systems that enhance transparency and accountability across the value chain.
Management of Organisations
Develops evidence-based frameworks for optimising human capital performance. Students master techniques for motivation, influence, team building, and change management that create environments conducive to organisational excellence.
Operations Management
Delivers frameworks for achieving competitive advantage through operational excellence. Students develop capabilities for process design and improvement that simultaneously enhance customer satisfaction, cost efficiency, product quality, and market responsiveness.
Supply Chain Management
Examines how logistics decisions impact enterprise-wide performance and competitive positioning. Students develop frameworks for aligning supply chain structure with strategic objectives across organisational boundaries.
Managing Teams
Integrates cutting-edge research on group dynamics with practical leadership techniques. Students develop competencies for team composition, coaching, and performance management through experiential learning and rigorous analysis.
Negotiation Analysis
Develops sophisticated frameworks for navigating complex negotiation environments. Students master preparation methodologies and execution strategies that achieve superior outcomes in diverse contexts—from internal resource allocation to global partnerships.
Cultivate forward-thinking strategies, foster innovation, and lead your organisation towards future-readiness.
Competitive Strategy
Equips executives with frameworks for creating and sustaining competitive advantage. Students analyse industry structures, resource allocation decisions, and capability development processes that drive performance in dynamic competitive environments.
Strategic Innovation Management
Provides systematic approaches to innovation management in rapidly evolving technological landscapes. Students develop capabilities to anticipate technological trajectories, organise innovation processes, and leverage intellectual property for competitive advantage.
Extends competitive strategy frameworks to complex multinational environments. Students develop capabilities for navigating cross-border challenges and capitalising on global opportunities that transcend traditional market boundaries.
Provides frameworks for driving growth and innovation within established organisations. Students develop capabilities for internal venture development, strategic partnerships, and corporate venturing that overcome institutional barriers to entrepreneurial action.
Deepen your expertise through a focused specialisation in either Finance or Marketing. You will select four advanced courses in your chosen domain, developing nuanced capabilities that complement your core business acumen and position you for leadership in your selected functional area.
Marketing Strategy
Challenges conventional wisdom about service organisations through a critical examination of modern service systems. Students develop frameworks for strategic alignment between service creation, transformation, and marketing that transcend traditional product-centric models.
New Product Development & Marketing
Transforms product development thinking through systematic analysis of innovation opportunities. Students master integrative frameworks for evaluating, launching, and scaling new products that create sustainable competitive advantage. Pricing & Distribution Business Models
Delivers analytical frameworks for converting customer value into optimal revenue and profit. Students develop sophisticated pricing strategies that balance market position, customer perception, and financial performance objectives.
Customer Behaviour & Branding
Examines how successful brands create differentiation in saturated marketplaces. Students develop frameworks for building, measuring, and leveraging brand equity that drives customer preference and enterprise value.
Capital Raising Strategies in Corporations
Examines sophisticated financing approaches across corporate lifecycle stages. Students analyse transactions from multiple perspectives—corporate treasurer, investment banker, and investor—to optimise capital structure decisions.
Capital Control, Merger & Acquisition
Investigates corporate scope decisions and implementation through strategic acquisitions. Students develop frameworks for evaluating diversification logic and executing transactions that overcome the typical failure patterns in M&A activity.
Options and Futures
Develops advanced valuation frameworks for derivative instruments. Students master analytical techniques for options pricing, volatility estimation, and risk hedging applied to diverse financial instruments.
Portfolio Management
Explores fundamental principles of investment management and asset allocation. Students develop capabilities in portfolio construction, factor analysis, and performance evaluation that optimise the risk-return relationship across asset classes.
International Immersion
You will expand your global vision through a transformative week at a leading international business school, developing strategic insights and influential networks that accelerate your leadership impact across international markets.
Graduate Degree Requirements
The Post Graduate Programme for Working Professionals (PGP PRO) delivers a transformative leadership experience designed specifically for mid-career professionals seeking career advancement. Our innovative 18-month modular structure, featuring alternate weekend classes, online sessions, and two campus residencies - enables you to develop executive capabilities without a career break.
To graduate, you must successfully complete 24 credits distributed across:
- Core Courses: 20 credits through twenty comprehensive courses covering essential leadership and management domains
- Specialised Electives: 4 credits through four focused courses that deepen expertise in your chosen functional area
Academic Performance: You must maintain exemplary performance throughout your journey by achieving a minimum cumulative GPA (CGPA) of 2.50, earning at least 23 successful credits (defined as 'D' grade or higher), and not receiving an 'F' grade in more than one credit.
Return and Retake Policy: Participants with CGPA between 2.20 and 2.50 may improve their standing by retaking up to four credits after completing all required coursework.
Your journey encompasses preparatory coursework, immersive campus week at ISB's Hyderabad or Mohali campus, one international immersion for global perspective, and final campus residency - ensuring you develop visionary capabilities for organisational impact whilst maintaining career momentum.
Our multifaceted teaching approaches create an immersive learning environment where concepts transform into capabilities, preparing you for strategic leadership challenges while delivering immediate professional impact.
Forge leadership capabilities through 'International Immersion', transforming classroom knowledge into decisive action skills amid real-world business challenges.
Distinguished industry leaders engage with you through curated speaker series and organised visits, bringing practical perspectives to management theories. These interactions—covering international growth, corporate ethics, entrepreneurship, and more—complement classroom learning with real-world business insights.
Sharpen analytical thinking through immersion in real business dilemmas faced by global organisations, developing the critical reasoning capabilities and judgment essential for leadership in ambiguous, high-stakes situations.
Simulations replicate complex market scenarios, enabling you to apply theoretical frameworks to high-stakes decisions with immediate feedback, bridging the gap between classroom concepts and real-world leadership challenges.
Role-playing exercises, Live cases and projects foster skills in decision-making, teamwork, and leadership.