Click to play videoAhmedabad: A few people crack the tough tests for Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) but even they won’t learn the lessons of real life management. IIM Ahmedabad is correcting just that.
IIM Ahmedabad has a course called ‘Learning What Is Not Taught’ and its aim is to take students beyond theory. "Learning What is Not Taught; the name sounded very interesting, so I took the course. It is something that's away from mainstream courses,” says Amit Gupta, an IIM-A student who has enrolled the course
The anecdotes and experience of managers, charts and video clips will be used over six sessions to teach 47 students enrolled for the course about how companies and business managers work.
R Gopalakrishnan, lead instructor of the course and executive director of Tata Sons, says his teaching material is his own experience. "Management education does need to change and I hope that this will be a small effort in that direction," he says.
Course instructor Atanu Ghosh wants to “scale up” the programme. "At the end of the programme, if we find that everybody is impacted with the programme, we'll have to find ways to scale it up," says Ghosh.
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