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Course Starts
03rd August, 2025

Duration
12 Months

Programme Overview

The business world is ever-evolving, and it demands executives who are mentally prepared and ready to take on the future. The Executive Programme in Business Management (EPBM) will equip you with the skills and knowledge required to transition from being a functional expert to a business expert. This 12-month programme ensures that participants are equipped to adapt to the fast-paced technological and organisational challenges faced today while constantly evolving and adapting themselves.

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The contemporary curriculum aims to prepare managers of the future by offering practical and industry-ready skills that can be used to guide them in their business decisions through a better understanding of the complex socio-economic, environmental, and ethical challenges faced by a firm. Additionally, participants will undergo profound personal and professional change as they get exposed to an eclectic mix of learning techniques, experiential activities, business simulations, skill development, peer-to-peer discussions, and guest speaker insights.

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Eligibility

Work Experience:
A minimum of 5 years of full-time work experience after completing a Bachelor's degree by the application deadline, or a minimum of 3 years after completing a Master's degree.

Academic Qualification:
Applicants must hold a recognised Bachelor's degree or a recognised Master's degree (with a minimum of 50% aggregate marks) from a UGC/AICTE accredited institution.

Course Highlights

31st Batch of EPBM – IIM Calcutta's flagship business management programme

IIM Calcutta Executive Alumni status

2 campus immersion modules of 5 days each

Peer-learning & networking opportunities

Course Content

Perspectives and Foundations


The Business Environment

  • Global economic trends and their impact on businesses
  • Economic, political, regulatory, and social environment
  • Macroeconomics: Policies and Impact

Managerial Decision Making

  • Decision-making with AI and data analytics
  • Leveraging big data for microeconomic insights
  • Quantitative Techniques for Decision-Making

Leadership and People Management

  • Organizational behavior in the digital era
  • Leadership and human resource management
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Leading high-performance teams including remote teams and managing digital workspaces

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Core Business Skills


Project Management

  • Operations and supply chain management
  • Agile and Scrum methodologies
  • Digital project management tools (e.g., Jira, Asana)

Managerial Financial Reporting and Cost Consciousness

  • Analyze financial statements, Report financial performance
  • Financial modeling with Excel and Python
  • Blockchain and cryptocurrencies in financial strategy
  • Financial Decision Making

Financial Management

  • Strategic financial decision-making
  • Optimizing capital allocation
  • Capital markets functions – Short and long-term financing
  • Capital Budgeting including cash flow, NPV
  • Business Valuations
  • Mergers and acquisitions

Marketing Management with Simulations

  • Brand Management, Customer relationship management
  • Pricing and advertising strategies
  • Digital marketing strategies including SEO, SEM, and content marketing
  • Utilizing social media analytics for customer insights

Communication and Presentation Skills

  • Effective communication in virtual environments
  • Storytelling with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)

Managing Into The Future


Digital Transformation

  • Information technology for competitive advantage
  • AI ML applications in the business
  • Applications of digital technologies such as social media, machine learning, blockchain
  • AI for predicting business opportunities and growth areas

Design Thinking, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Mindset

  • Business in innovation management and innovation processes
  • Design thinking and its relationship with developing sound business models
  • ESG

Strategic Management

  • Competitive environment, analyzing the internal organization, evaluating strategies
  • Develop a strategic mindset
  • Strategic leadership in a digital era: frameworks and case studies
  • Competitive strategy using AI and ML insights

Business Analytics & its Applications

  • Emerging trend of data analytics
  • Tools for new business opportunities, future trends, increasing revenue

Corporate Governance

  • Models and theories of corporate governance
  • Case Studies
  • Earnings management, Corporate Social Responsibility, and ESG

Capstone Project

  • As a group activity for the participants, where the project proposal will be presented by the groups and mentored by faculty members. The final presentation will be evaluated as a part of the programme learning outcomes, assimilating the learning from the various modules in the programme.

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*Courses are subject to change.

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Past Participants Profiles

Top Industries

  • Management Consulting
  • Automotive
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • GreenTech
  • Oil and Gas
  • Renewable Energy
  • Solar Energy
  • Retail

Top Job Profiles

  • Head/Lead
  • Director
  • CEO
  • COO
  • General manager
  • Director
  • Product Designer
  • Senior Managers
  • Functional Managers
  • Software engineer

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Testimonials

Programme Director

Professor Ritu Mehta
Marketing, IIM Calcutta

Professor Ritu Mehta is a faculty member in the Marketing group at IIM Calcutta. She holds a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, where she achieved a perfect GPA of 10.0. She also earned an MBA from Nirma Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (with distinction), and a B Tech (Chemical) from L.D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad (with honours).

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Her research interests include marketing management, marketing research, and pricing decisions. She brings valuable industry experience as a former Product Manager at Vadilal Enterprises and Engineer at Reliance Petrochemicals.

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Professor Megha Sharma
Operations Management, IIM Calcutta

Megha Sharma is a faculty member in the Operations Management group at IIM Calcutta. She holds a Fellowship from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and a Bachelor of Technology from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur. Her research interests span Operations Research, Risk Management, Supply Chain Management, and Data Analytics.

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With experience in both academic and executive training, she contributes extensively to the development of key management practices and decision-making frameworks.

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Class Schedule

Sundays
Session: 03:30 P.M. – 06:30 P.M.

Fees

Course Fees
₹ 7,02,000 + GST