Dr. K Raghu N Prabhakar, Director

Corporate misanthropes are nothing new, but Martin Shkreli is a special case. He became one of the most disliked men when he gained the rights to a lifesaving drug and then increased its cost to 200 percent, basically because he could. That wasn’t illegal, just casually cruel. Shkreli got an undergraduate business degree and some see him as a model for millennials to learn what not to do in business. But what lessons do business students learn from such instances where corporates behave without any considerations. The answers lie in the current initiatives accepted by business schools, which are embracing Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, and Social Commitment in their courses.

Driving this shift, Hyderabad-based Aurora’s Business School (ABS) is surging ahead to mould the young business and management minds by imbibing curriculum which offers the right balance of social commitment in addition to professional competence. No wonder, the institute not just places 90-100 percent of its students in National and International organizations (packages between Rs.5.10-7.30 lacs) well before the completion of their PGDM course, but has successfully created entrepreneurs who have brought a shift from the grass root level.

Responsibility Meeting Business
This 2005-founded AICTE approved institute provides two-year full time management program (fee of Rs.570,000 without hostel). Aurora’s provides dual specialization in Marketing, Finance, IT, HR, Business Analytics, NISM, and Digital Marketing. Its curriculum strives to endow

students with all the requisite features that are needed in a prestigious institute of national renown. Aurora’s curriculum is designed in a way that fits the current ever-changing needs of the industry, and its rich intellectual capital (Wi-Fi enabled campus, library with 50,000 books, 260 computers, and 26 industrial visits for the session 2017-2019). Apart from such vast pool of knowledge-resources, Aurora’s offers an open platform for the student to interact with the CEOs, Presidents, VPs, HR Heads and other high-profile dignitaries from various industries just to provide them the sneak peek of how holistic talent runs the business. “This endowment basically consists of combining professionalism with ethics through giving a hands-on experience by allowing students to venture beyond the syllabus. This helps them build their confidence and competence to suit the ever-changing needs of the industry and market expectations while also perfecting them to start their own businesses,” states Dr. K Raghu N Prabhakar, Director, Aurora’s Business School.

"Aurora’s curriculum is designed in a way that fits the current ever-changing needs of the industry, and its rich intellectual capital"

Additionally, Aurora’s also offers add-on certification courses like Business English certification in association with Cambridge University in the first year of the PGDM course, and NISM certification by Ascend Academy, Digital Marketing certification by Adonai Advertising, Mission HR certification by HUSYS Consulting Ltd. and more in the second year. These add-on courses further fine-tune students’ communication skills while also making them certificated recruiters and certified payroll professionals, thereby enhancing their chances of employability.

The Backbone
Aurora ensures a result-oriented and globally competent curriculum to its students that features live case studies from the industry, seminar presentations, group discussions, debates, role plays, and quiz programmers to instill leadership qualities

among the students. It also provides a state-of-the-art infrastructure which offers ample opportunities to improve and utilize their life and communication skills. While strong curriculum and innovative approach are always the crux of any training, experienced faculty members always act as the backbone of any institution. Hence, Aurora’s has 36 full-time faculty and 28 visiting faculty carrying years of experience (from two years to above five years of experience) and several books, articles, and papers to their credit.

As such, these attributes have catapulted Aurora’s to consistently feature itself as a top-rated B school in National Business Magazines, where it is listed among India’s Top 100 B-Schools in 2017 by Dalal Street Journal. The Business Standard recognized Aurora’s as one of the top 30 Business Schools in South India based on its all India survey of business schools 2016. Further, Business India accorded A++ rating in its best B-schools 2016 survey. It also stood in the first place among the top private B-Schools of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in the prestigious survey undertaken by the Times of India, ‘The All India B-Schools’ survey 2017, apart from being selected as ‘Management College of the Year – 2016’ by Higher Education Review and recognized by siliconindia in 2016 as ‘College of the Year’.

Key Management
Dr. K Raghu N Prabhakar, Director
A result oriented academic executive with specialization in marketing, Dr. Prabhakar heads the institute, in the capacity of Director.

Location:
Hyderabad

Courses Offered:
PGDM in Marketing, Finance, IT, HR, Business Analytics, NISM, and Digital Marketing apart from add-on certification courses like Business English certification in association with Cambridge University in the first year of the PGDM course, and NISM certification by Ascend Academy, Digital Marketing certification by Adonai Advertising, Mission HR certification by HUSYS Consulting Ltd. and more in the second year