Ahmedabad: Premier B-School Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad(IIM-A) will now be offering
its students an unique elective course 'Learning What is Not
Taught'(LWNT), which will bring corporate leaders to the
institute's classrooms, an release said here on Tuesday.
The course being offered to a batch of 45-50 students
PGPX (post-graduate programme for executives) and PGP
(post-graduate programme) students during their final term,
will have lead instructors such as executive director of Tata
Sons R Gopalakrishnan, Chairman Rallis India, Vice Chairman
of Tata Chemicals and others, it said.
The co-instructor for the course is Prof Atanu Ghosh,
a visiting professor, business policy area of IIM-A.
"The objective of the course was framed with the
realization by Gopalakrishnan that there are several aspects
of real life that are seldom taught in the class rooms of
management institutes," an IIM-A statement said.
Such perspective building through experience sharing
and relevant and useful lessons from some of industry leaders,
and senior professionals may facilitate the process of
preparation to be an effective manager, it further added.
The learning from this course will be through
interaction with an industry leader, during six live sessions
on January 23 and 24th.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 00:06