PGP YL curriculum
PGP YL
Curriculum
- Introduction
- Core Curriculum
- Global Perspective Term
- Electives
- Business in Action
- Expand your Global Vision
- Pedagogies
Introduction
Immerse yourself in our research-backed PGP YL curriculum designed to empower fresh graduates like you with enduring decision-making frameworks and interdisciplinary business knowledge, seamlessly blending essential management concepts with the latest technology, data, and analytics for career-long success.
Your development unfolds across four dimensions –
- Analytical foundations – Gain a firm grounding in the fundamental disciplines of business - economics, psychology, accounting, statistics and data science - to better define problems, ask questions and develop solutions.
- Functional Expertise – Integrate fundamental knowledge of business functions into an understanding of the total enterprise and the environment in which it operates.
- Leading Teams – Develop key skills of communication, presence, motivation and influence that will help you manage teams, lead and thrive in the workplace.
- Customised Learning Pathways – Choose from a diverse set of leading-edge electives that are relevant and build on the core curriculum to enable in-depth study of various fields and career paths.
Core Curriculum
The core curriculum develops three essential dimensions of effective business management. Master structured problem-solving methodologies that transform raw data into strategic insights, helping you navigate ambiguity and make evidence-based decisions in dynamic environments. Simultaneously, build a sophisticated understanding of market mechanisms and financial systems, equipping you with tools to analyse competitive landscapes, optimise resource allocation, and create sustainable competitive advantage. Complementing these technical capabilities, you develop frameworks for ethical decision-making and sustainable business practices, preparing you to balance stakeholder interests with long-term value creation in a complex global business landscape.
Critical thinking serves as the foundation for effective leadership in today's complex information landscape. This course develops students' ability to reason systematically, evaluate arguments objectively, and make sound decisions both with and without data. Through practical exercises and real-world applications, students master the analytical skills essential for navigating misinformation, assessing credibility, and building persuasive arguments that drive organisational success.
It provides an understanding of:
- The fundamental principles of logical reasoning, argument structure, and evidence evaluation in business contexts
- Advanced logical fallacies including ad hominem attacks, straw man arguments, false dilemmas, slippery slope reasoning, and appeals to authority
- Cognitive biases such as representativeness, anchoring, confirmation bias, and the Dunning-Kruger effect that influence executive judgement
- Methods for integrating data into arguments whilst avoiding manipulation, misrepresentation, Simpson's paradox, and survivor bias
- Experimental design principles including control, randomisation, and A/B testing for business applications
- Techniques for distinguishing causation from correlation using counterfactual reasoning and temporal precedence
- Systematic approaches to information evaluation, source credibility assessment, and effective utilisation of large language models
Data Science equips students with practical, cross-functional data science skills spanning data wrangling, statistical modelling, machine learning, causal inference, and text analytics to translate raw data into strategic business decisions. This seven-session course develops experimental and observational approaches using R/Shiny and Python/Collab platforms with AI-assisted code suggestions.
It provides an understanding of:
- End-to-end analytics lifecycle from data collection through prescriptive insights with method selection for business contexts
- Data preprocessing including cleaning, feature engineering using AI-guided Colab demonstrations, tokenisation, and TF-IDF techniques
- Linear regression variants including OLS, log-log, interaction models with diagnostics for ROI and elasticity insights
- Dimensionality reduction through PCA and factor analysis using eigenvalues, loadings, scree plots for customer personas
- Supervised machine learning with decision trees, random forests, ROC curves, confusion matrices for churn prediction
- Customer segmentation using k-means, hierarchical clustering with silhouette and gap statistics for marketing strategies
- Randomised experiments and A/B testing using Rubin causal model, power analysis, sequential monitoring, lift estimation
- Text analytics with LDA topic modelling, sentiment analysis, LLM integration addressing Simpson's paradox and survivor bias
Fundamentals of Economics develops critical decision-making skills through economists' structured problem-solving methodology. This comprehensive course equips students with essential tools for optimal business decisions across pricing, market dynamics, and strategic choices whilst developing intuition for analysing global business trends.
It provides an understanding of:
- Economists' methodology using controlled thought experiments and models to analyse business situations
- Microeconomic fundamentals including demand analysis, cost determination, supply dynamics, market equilibrium, and efficiency principles
- Market structures spanning perfect competition, monopoly, price discrimination, and government intervention effects on operations
- Macroeconomic principles covering national output measurement, consumption patterns, investment dynamics, money, and inflation impacts
- IS-LM model applications for understanding income and interest rate determination affecting corporate decisions
- Open economy macroeconomics including exchange rate impacts on international business strategy
- Externalities and market inefficiencies with applications to environmental economics and sustainable business practices
Financial Accounting for Managers develops essential skills for understanding corporate financial statements as the primary source of performance information for investors and stakeholders. This comprehensive course equips students with analytical capabilities to read, interpret, and analyse financial statements effectively.
It provides an understanding of:
- Basic financial accounting terms, concepts, and the "language" of business essential for financial literacy and enterprise management
- Financial statement construction processes including balance sheet mechanics, income statement preparation, revenue recognition principles, and cash flow analysis
- Key accounting areas including accounts receivables management, inventory evaluation, property plant and equipment accounting, and intangible asset treatment
- Advanced topics covering intercorporate investments, operating and financial liabilities, time value of money applications, and shareholders' equity structures
- Financial statement analysis techniques using simple ratios to capture key performance elements and identify integral relationships among items
- Integration of financial data with business models, strategy development, and ethical decision-making frameworks for responsible management
Statistics provides fundamentals of statistical inference essential for managerial decision-making grounded in firm understanding of business facts. This course develops critical and integrative thinking through exploratory analysis, sampling principles, statistical inference, and regression analysis for specialised data scientists and generalised executives.
It provides an understanding of:
- Exploratory data analysis techniques using graphical plots, numerical summaries, and normal distribution properties for business insights
- Sampling distributions and Central Limit Theorem concepts with implications for statistical inference and decision-making frameworks
- Confidence intervals as statistical inference methods for population mean estimation with known and unknown variance parameters
- Hypothesis testing including null and alternative hypotheses, type 1 and type 2 errors, one-sided and two-sided tests
- Least squares fit methodology for estimating linear relationships, interpreting coefficients, and evaluating goodness of fit measures
- Simple linear regression assumptions, hypothesis testing for coefficient estimates, prediction techniques, and residual analysis applications
- Multiple regression frameworks extending to multiple explanatory variables, significance testing, and categorical predictor coefficient interpretation
- Model selection addressing collinearity issues, impact on estimation accuracy, and nonlinear transformation techniques for enhanced precision
This course develops strategic frameworks for creating competitive advantage at both business and corporate levels. Students’ progress from industry analysis and positioning to addressing complex challenges in portfolio management, global competition, and strategy implementation. The curriculum examines how firms create value, allocate resources, and build capabilities in dynamic environments.
It provides an understanding of:
- Analytical techniques for evaluating industry attractiveness, competitive dynamics, and strategic positions that yield advantage
- Methods for identifying distinctive capabilities that enable superior performance and sustainable positioning
- Corporate-level frameworks for resource allocation, portfolio management, and creating synergistic value
- Approaches for formulating global strategies that balance integration with adaptation to local environments
- Strategic considerations unique to diverse organisational forms, including family-owned businesses and emerging market business groups
- Techniques for evaluating how strategic investments and organisational design contribute to sustainable advantage
- Implementation frameworks that translate strategic intent into action through aligned systems and processes
Students learn to conduct rigorous competitive analysis, develop strategic positioning aligned with market conditions, design value-creating corporate diversification strategies, formulate international expansion approaches, address governance challenges across ownership structures, respond effectively to technological disruption, and implement systems that support strategy execution and enhance long-term profitability.
This module explores how organisations make optimal investment and financing decisions to maximise shareholder value. Students develop analytical frameworks to evaluate strategic financial choices, understand capital structure implications, and align financial policy with corporate objectives in diverse market conditions.
It provides an understanding of:
- Capital budgeting techniques for evaluating investment opportunities using discounted cash flow analysis and strategic assessment frameworks
- Capital structure decisions and their impact on firm value, cost of capital, and financial flexibility
- Dividend policy formulation and share repurchase strategies to optimise shareholder returns
- Risk management approaches using financial instruments to mitigate exposure while supporting strategic corporate goals
This module provides a comprehensive foundation in securities valuation and portfolio management principles. Students learn to evaluate different asset classes, understand risk-return relationships, and develop strategic investment approaches that balance financial objectives with market conditions and risk tolerance.
It provides an understanding of:
- Security analysis techniques for valuing equities, fixed income instruments, and derivatives using both fundamental and quantitative methods
- Modern portfolio theory and asset allocation strategies to optimise returns for a given level of risk
- Risk measurement frameworks and performance evaluation metrics to assess investment decisions
- Market efficiency concepts and behavioural finance principles that influence investment opportunities and pricing anomalies
This course equips students to understand and leverage emerging technological paradigms that are fundamentally reshaping business landscapes across sectors. Through case studies and interactive discussions, students develop frameworks for strategic decision-making in environments characterised by technological disruption and digital transformation.
It provides an understanding of:
- How frontier technologies—including artificial intelligence, blockchain, Internet of Things, and others—are creating new market opportunities while disrupting established business models
- The economic principles underlying technology platform businesses and their distinctive competitive dynamics
- Methods for evaluating technological investments and innovations in high-uncertainty environments where traditional financial metrics may be insufficient
- Organisational capabilities and structures needed to harness technological change and drive digital innovation
Students learn to analyse how emerging technologies impact competitive landscapes, develop strategies that exploit technological capabilities for sustainable advantage, implement digital transformation initiatives that enhance customer value, and lead organisations through periods of technological disruption with confidence and vision.
This course examines how marketing drives organisational value through strategic customer focus. Students master market analysis fundamentals and integrated marketing mix implementation—connecting consumer needs with profitable solutions through disciplined segmentation, positioning, brand building, and analytical decision-making in both traditional and digital environments.
It provides an understanding of:
- Marketing planning frameworks for identifying attractive segments, developing targeted positioning strategies, and analysing consumer behaviour patterns that reveal profitable opportunities
- Approaches for creating and capturing superior customer value through brand development and strategic marketing programmes that establish sustainable competitive advantages
- Pricing methodologies that balance value delivery with long-term profitability, including techniques for setting, communicating, and adjusting prices across product lifecycles and market conditions
- Distribution channel strategies for efficiently reaching target customers, including selection, management, and optimisation of intermediaries across diverse market contexts
- Integrated marketing communication approaches that build brand equity through coordinated messaging across traditional and emerging platforms
- Digital marketing strategies leveraging data analytics for personalised customer experiences and maximised engagement
- Customer relationship management systems designed to enhance lifetime value through loyalty programmes and targeted retention initiatives
Students learn to conduct rigorous market analyses, craft positioning strategies, design cohesive marketing programmes, implement data-driven initiatives, measure marketing performance effectiveness, build customer loyalty mechanisms, and integrate decisions across all marketing elements to create maximum market impact aligned with organisational objectives.
This course examines psychological and social forces shaping behaviour in organisational settings. Students explore evidence-based frameworks that explain motivation, decision-making, leadership, and team performance to enhance managerial effectiveness in diverse work environments.
It provides an understanding of -
- Psychological principles underlying individual behaviour, including motivation theories and cognitive biases that influence workplace performance
- Group dynamics and team effectiveness, exploring how social processes impact collaboration and decision-making
- Leadership approaches grounded in behavioural science, examining how different styles influence engagement and organisational culture
- Organisational structures and systems that shape workplace behaviour and communication patterns
This course develops the essential verbal communication capabilities required for effective leadership in complex business environments. By combining theoretical frameworks with practical application, students cultivate the verbal skills necessary to influence, persuade, and lead across diverse organisational contexts.
It provides an understanding of:
- The principles of compelling verbal communication and how masterful communicators effectively influence organisational outcomes
- The architecture of powerful business narratives and the critical role of storytelling in leadership
- Advanced techniques for audience engagement, including the strategic deployment of rhetorical devices to clarify complex concepts
- Methods for communicating numerical data effectively, recognising that presentation structure often determines impact
Students learn to craft and deliver high-impact presentations, organise thoughts coherently in high-stakes situations, build persuasive narrative structures, adapt communication approaches to diverse audiences, and develop a repertoire of essential business stories that drive strategic outcomes.
This course bridges analytical thinking with persuasive communication, establishing the foundation for strategic business decisions. Students develop methodologies for transforming insights into compelling narratives that influence stakeholders across organisational contexts.
It provides an understanding of:
- Analytical frameworks for systematic business problem examination
- Logical argument construction that connects claims with evidence
- Methods for avoiding reasoning fallacies in business writing
- Approaches for crafting various document types tailored to specific objectives
- Strategies for adapting communication to diverse audience needs
Students learn to analyse business scenarios using structured frameworks, translate findings into strategic recommendations, craft compelling documents, tailor approaches for various stakeholders, and apply these skills across different business contexts.
Global Perspective Term
Gain valuable exposure to international business practices, enhancing your understanding of diverse markets and cross-cultural competencies. You will learn from renowned faculty at top international business schools, who will share their global experiences and perspectives in the classroom.
Electives
Navigate tomorrow's business landscape with leading-edge electives with an extensive focus on digital innovation, analytics and AI. Our electives deepen your expertise in specific domains while building on core foundations, offering the flexibility to specialise in Entrepreneurship, Finance, Information and Technology Management, Marketing, Operations Management, and Strategy and Leadership.
Courses like Digital Innovation Strategies, Business Analytics for Finance, Prescriptive Analytics for Decision Making, Generative AI, Digital Transformation and Innovation in Manufacturing, AI in Organisations, Analytics for Marketing Decision Making and Strategy Analytics equip you with advanced skills that help you discern and redefine how businesses operate. These future-focused specialisations do not just complement your core education—they position you at the forefront of industry innovation and technological advancement.
Business in Action
Engage in real-world, complex business challenges, applying classroom learning to gain hands-on experience and refine problem-solving skills in diverse professional settings
- Innovation through Design Exploration and Actionable Solutions (iDEAS): A transformative business design lab that goes beyond traditional coursework, immersing you in real-world challenges while fostering a user-centric mindset. iDEAS empowers you to become visionary problem solvers and impactful leaders, equipping you with the skills to drive innovation and modern leadership.
- Mandatory Summer Internship: The mandatory summer internship at the end of year 1 provides a valuable opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a corporate setting. This immersive programme enables you to apply knowledge to real-world challenges while developing essential managerial and teamwork skills. Through the internship, you can explore potential career paths and gain insights into the operational dynamics of businesses.
- Platform for Innovation and Venture-Oriented Thinking (PiVOT): At PiVOT, you will learn integrated design thinking, advanced business strategies, and cutting-edge technologies to develop a unified entrepreneurial framework. You will create a comprehensive business plan, validate business models, devise scalable pricing strategies, and formulate growth-driven plans for long-term success. PiVOT offers a groundbreaking experience that prepares you to lead, innovate, and thrive in a world that is constantly changing.
Expand Your Global Vision
Broaden your horizons and embrace diverse perspectives with invaluable exposure to international business practices. The programme offers a unique opportunity to gain insights into global markets and enhance cross-cultural competencies while understanding how they play out in local contexts. Learn from esteemed faculty at top international business schools, as they share their global expertise and experiences, enriching your understanding of the interconnected world of business.
Our innovative teaching methodologies propel your transformation from learner to leader. You will develop strategic decision-making, analytical thinking, and practical leadership capabilities while building invaluable industry connections. This dynamic learning approach prepares you to navigate complex business challenges with confidence, creativity, and sound judgment for the evolving global marketplace.
Move beyond theory into action through iDEAS, Summer Internships, and PiVOT—transformative experiences that develop your problem-solving capabilities, entrepreneurial mindset, and leadership skills while creating tangible business impact in real-world settings.
Develop strategic decision-making prowess by navigating complex business scenarios through advanced simulation tools, allowing you to test frameworks, analyse outcomes, and refine approaches without real-world consequences.
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.
Cultivate crucial professional capabilities through role-playing exercises, live projects, and structured debates that transform classroom dynamics into training grounds for leadership, negotiation, and collaborative problem-solving.
Enhance your professional outlook through meaningful interactions with industry leaders and immersive organisational site visits, nurturing practical insights and networking opportunities that highlight evolving industry trends and practices.