Columbia Business School hosts IIM-A PGPX students

Columbia Business School is hosting IIM-As studentsfor one week of dedicated classes and industry visits. The IIM-A students arrived on Columbia campus on November 5 and will depart on November 9.

At Columbia Business Schools, courses for IIM-A students include Introduction to Business Negotiations with Professor Elke Weber, a Marketing Module with Professor Gita Johar and Credit Risk & Fixed Income Markets with Professor Suresh Sundaresan.

The coursework will be complemented by industry visits to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Booz Allen Hamilton, a global strategy and technology consulting firm.

Over the course of the week, the students will also have the opportunity to interface with other faculty members, staff from Columbias Chazen Institute of International Business, Chazen Society Fellows, the student-led South Asian Business Association and EMBA students.

As reported on this portal earlier, IIM-A students are currently undergoing the international immersion segment of their program. Following their week in New York City, they will work on consulting assignments around the country before returning to India in December.

Columbia Business School and IIM-A announced their partnership in January of 2007. The program is designed to allow for the exchange of students, faculty and ideas between the two institutions.

Led by noted management educationist Dean R. Glenn Hubbard, Columbia Business School is a leading B-school with a curriculum that bridges academic theory and practice, equipping students with an entrepreneurial mindset to recognize and capture opportunity. The school offers MBA and Executive MBA (EMBA) degrees, as well as non-degree Executive Education programs.