The PGP-BL design seeks to encourage and train students to embrace ambiguity, align to reality, focus on sustainability, and reflect and aspire to wholeness. In an approach that resonates with IIMK's mission of "Globalizing Indian Thought", the program design will also draw upon some of the fundamental principles underlying ancient Indian thought to nurture a genre of exemplary leadership talent.

The programme will encourage students to cut through confusion to develop clarity, appreciate the whole rather than the discrete, and understand the links across different functional areas. In leveraging a talent pool that has the right mix of work experience, mental agility, fundamental disciplinary grounding and positive attitude, the PGP-BL curriculum will have a three-pronged approach to:

• Develop a deep familiarization about the demands of a VUCA world - a business environment that is rapidly evolving and uncertain- and the ability to sift through complexity to recognize the critical core.
• Nurture discernment and informed decision-making through not only the understanding of appropriate tools, frameworks and processes, but also by centrally ingraining the principles of sustainability.
• Holistic thinking that enables the vision of the bigger picture and a fine understanding of the links across different functional areas.

Apart from foundational and core courses, and optional elective courses, the PGP-BL curriculum comprises special leadership-themed modules, seminar series and workshops

Foundational and Core Courses*

• Managerial Economics and Business Environment
• Data Analysis and Statistics for Business
• Organization Design and Behaviour
• Corporate Financial Accounting and Analysis
• Value Chain Management
• Marketing Management
• Financial Management
• Talent and Performance Management
• Strategic Management
• Law, Public Policy and Business
• Society and Business
• Effective Leadership Communication
• Negotiation
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Design Thinking
• Capstone Simulation

Leadership-themed Modules

• The Global Leadership Module: This will be a specially designed, core-theme series structured to run through the duration of the programme. This compulsory module will introduce different courses in different terms that will include*:
• Authentic Leadership / Leadership 4.0
• Managing Global Business
• Leading in a VUCA world
• Emerging Market Leadership
• Enlightened Capitalism
• Globalizing Indian Thought
• Boardroom Seminars Series: Interactions with series leaders drawn from the world of business on emergent management themes and leadership challenges.
• Guru-Speak Seminar Series: Interactions with eminent academics/scholars to bring interesting and insightful research findings that can impact the world of practice.
• Stakeholder Seminar Series: Interactions with eminent thought leaders drawn from the wider society, to sensitize and inspire students to a path of transformative leadership
• Practice of Holistic Living Module: This is a multi-dimensional and experiential module aimed at instilling in the students a holistic approach to life, living and leadership, and will include themes such as stress-management, yoga, happiness, holistic living, management of self, and reflective analysis.
   

Electives

The PGP- BL recognizes that leaders would need to operate in the mould of "general managers" rather than as domain specialists. Nevertheless, organizations would typically require potential leaders to be able to delve into specific domains with a certain expected degree of familiarity that is usually afforded by structured knowledge inputs and practical domain exposure. While leadership potential would shine through irrespective of domain, natural affinity for a domain often varies across individuals. Therefore, in the PGP-BL, even as all students are equally exposed to foundational courses and topical themes, it allows for a range of special courses that the student can elect for from the 3rd term of the programme. Some of these topics are traditionally aligned to certain functional areas; however there could also be cross-functional courses and other emerging thematic courses facilitated by specialists/practitioners. These courses could vary in their associated credits, typically between 1 and 3.0.

The following are an indicative list of proposed electives. This course list may be modified based on student interest and specialist faculty availability.

• Business and Government
• Public Private Partnerships
• Mergers, Acquisitions, Corporate Restructuring and Valuation
• Project Finance and Management
• Management of Financial Services
• Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management
• Globalization and Culture
• Cross Cultural Communication
• Social Media Analytics
• Sales and Distribution Management
• Digital Marketing and eCommerce
• Agile Management
• Spirituality in Leadership
• Industry 4.0, Blockchain, AI and Machine Learning: Strategic Perspectives
• Ecosystem Management
• Systems Thinking
• Consumer Behaviour
• Product Policy & Brand Management
• Retail Management
• Managing Luxury Business
• Integrated Marketing Communications
• Rural Marketing
• Hospitality and Tourism Marketing
• Negotiation & Conflict Management
• Transformative and Inclusive Leadership
• Management of Self in Organizations
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management
• Project Management
• Environment, Society and Governance
• Economics of Strategy
• Managing Alliances and Acqusitions
• Strategic Business and Risk Analysis
• Strategy Implementation
• Managing Change and Digital Transformation
• Corporate Entrpreneurship
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Enterprise Risk Management

* Course title and contents are subject to change depending on curriculum and customization needs

In its bid to inculcate leadership competencies, the PGP-BL will rely significantly on experiential learning and balancing insights from both practice and research. A module on 'The Practice of Holistic living' will provide students the necessary space for reflection and discovery and encourage them to challenge status quo.
Live projects, structured as an extended but punctuated engagement, with a panel of partner firms will be an integral feature of the programme. This will facilitate action research, continued live engagement on managerial problems and help develop stakeholder management skills. Students will engage and grapple with topical and developmental issues such as sustainability and humanistic leadership in a digital era. PGP-BL students will also benefit from a rich exposure to eminent Indian and International faculty and leaders from diverse domains.