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Course Starts
01st Febraury, 2026

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 or Master's degree by the application deadline.

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

Core Business Skills


Financial Reporting & Cost Accounting

  • Analyse financial statements, Report financial performance
  • Cost management
  • Financial performance metrics and their interpretation
  • Financial decision making and modelling

Marketing Management

  • Designing the marketing plan
  • Gaining customer insights
  • Brand Management
  • Managing products and services

Operational Excellence

  • Process flow analysis for analyzing and optimizing key business processes
  • Supply chain management
  • Operational performance and its impact on organization’s financial performance

Leadership and People Skills

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

Corporate Finance and Financial Markets

  • Strategic foundations of corporate finance: Value creation, discounted cash flow, cost of capital, and key financial decisions
  • Capital Structure and Funding Strategies
  • Financial Markets and Instruments

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Developing Managerial Perspective


Strategic Management

  • Understanding the organization’s strategy, its position vis-à-vis competition and industry
  • Evaluating commonly used strategies, specifically in the current digital, AI/ML era
  • Developing and successfully delivering the organization’s strategy
  • Strategic leadership in a digital era: frameworks and case studies

Business Decision Making

  • Tools for structured decision-making in the current VUCA environment
  • Decision-making with AI and data analytics
  • Leveraging big data for microeconomic insights

Market Economies and Macroeconomic Policies

  • Fundamentals of Market Economies
  • Monetary Policy and Central Banking
  • Fiscal Policy and Government Spending
  • Global Macroeconomic Trends and Business Strategy

Navigating Changing Business Landscape


Global Political Economy

  • Global power dynamics: nation states, blocs, multilateral institutions
  • Trade, Sanctions, and Supply Chains
  • Navigating Risk and Strategy in a Fragmenting World

Digital Transformation

  • Digital Transformation for competitive advantage
  • Technologies Powering Digital Transformation: Cloud Computing, AI/ML, Blockchain, IoT, RPA
  • Leading Digital Change & Capability Building

Business Analytics

  • Introduction to Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics
  • Exploratory Analysis, Visualization & Storytelling
  • Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning
  • Emerging trends in data analytics

Corporate Governance

  • Governance structures and models
  • Historical evolution and global perspective: Case studies
  • Corporate Social Responsibility and ESG
  • Corporate governance trends and emerging issues: Diversity, digital governance, AI oversight, climate governance and sustainability reporting

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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: 03:00 P.M – 06:00 P.M

Fees

Course Fees
₹ 7,02,000 + GST