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Globsyn Business School: Exposing Students to Real World through Experiential Learning Programs

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 Rahul Dasgupta,  DirectorWith changing work nature, enterprises are nowadays looking for B-School graduates with real-world experiences who can show up and quickly contribute towards business. Many companies find difficulty in hiring highquality managers, as MBA graduates lack practical knowledge along with skill. Thus, hands-on experience of dynamic business contexts is becoming more and more of a 'must have' for employers and furnishing that experience has been at the top of the agenda at Globsyn Business School(GBS) since it first introduced its fulltime Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) programme in 2002.

With the cornerstone on preparing fast track management careers the B-School conducts PGDM, Post Graduate Programme in Management International Business(PGPM-IB) and Executive Education programmes wherein these courses not only give students a sense of strategic outlook and management problems, but also exposes them to a global view of the economic, technological, cultural, and political environment of the corporate world. Divided into four distinct sections, students are encouraged to take the Foundation Programme followed by General Management Programme and Industry Internship. After successful completion of training, students are admitted to one of the Schools of Excellence for their specialization. Students need to appear in and pass the Globsyn Aptitude Test (GAT) examination to take admission in aforementioned programs.

Modern Approaches
Moving away from traditional method of education, GBS fuses Experiential Learning into its curriculum that not just exposes students to application based learning but also gives them opportunity to work with corporates, thereby helping them to apply their academic learning into reallife business scenarios. Case based learning, live projects and industry visits, form a part of the Experiential Learning pedagogy at GBS. Besides exposing students to cutting-edge research, these sessions simulates real life business scenarios and familiarize them with actual situations that they might face in their future corporate careers. Classroom lectures and Experiential Learning sessions are delivered into the proportion of 2:1. “Activities, exercises and role plays are integral part of GBS’ curriculum, assuring that students develop cognitive, interpersonal and intrapersonal skills desired for the industry,” said Rahul Dasgupta, Director, Globsyn Business School.

Let me take this opportunity to inform you that in a bid to accentuate Globsyn Business School’s propensity towards innovation and dynamism in management education over the last 20 years, we are bringing to your ward the world renowned Harvard Business School(HBS) learning experience through our collaboration with HBS Online. With limited seats available, HBS Online offers a unique and highly engaging way to learn vital business concepts. These programs are designed to bring the Harvard Business School classroom experience & case studies to participants, and features renowned
Harvard Business School faculty. HBS online will help you join a community of like minded peers from around the world who are committed to furthering their education and careers.

The B-School also runs compulsory student led initiatives Corporate Connect program(integrates facets of reallife corporate experiences into the curriculum) and Boardroom Simulation that empowers the young managers to gain crucial leadership & intrapreneurial skills and become industry-relevant managers with technological bent of mind. Under these initiatives, students are given the chance to presume different senior management roles of an organization, solve simulated business crisis situations and interact with corporate managers who share their real-life corporate & business experiences with them.

GBS fuses Experiential Learning into its curriculum that not just exposes students to application based learning but also gives them opportunity to work with corporates


Renowned for innovation coupled with its philosophy ‘Learning Beyond Education’, GBS stands true to its vision of creating globally networked, corporate savvy, research driven management education system to deliver industry relevant managers. Practices such as Globsyn Annual Lecture Series, Globsyn Management Conference, Globsyn Alumni Engage Embryon, Kalyani Youth Leadership Forum and Serendipity are designed to impact every important stakeholders of the school(academicians, corporates, alumni and students). The B-School’s Entrepreneurship Cell Embryon incubates students’ ideas and renders them with various platforms to showcase their business plans to an independent expert panel, whose inputs help shape their ideas into successful ventures. On the flip side, Summer Internship Program (SIP) extended to all first year students, helps the young managers to experience reallife application of the knowledge acquired in classrooms, while working with reputed corporate houses.

Since its inception, GBS has achieved 100% placements for its batches, and has been associated with the best faculty, academicians, industry veterans, luminaries and practiced innovative learning models, such as Learn & Intern and Work & Teach. Every year, around 80 leading corporates like Amazon, Nestle India, PwC, Parle, TCS, ITC Limited amongst others, have visited the GBS Campus to recruit its students. Recently, GBS has received Education Excellence Award for ‘Best B-School in Placements’ by ASSOCHAM, India. “Corporate partners have not only recruited our students for SIP/Final Placement, but have also been an integral part of the management curriculum through the Corporate Connect sessions, and encouraged the young managers with their presence in the Beyond Education activities,” said Rahul.

Spread over 8 acres of land, GBS houses various state-of-the-art facilities including Wi-Fi enabled classrooms with projectors, lounges, cafeteria, sanitized toilets and library. On the other hand, study materials, presentations, faculty notes, pre/post study material and other knowledge driven components are available online. GBS uses technologies to not only supplement the knowledge dissemination system but also to make its students more ‘technology’ aware a must have condition for today’s corporate environment. Having forayed into education two decades ago, GBS stands on a strong scaffolding of technology that encompasses from getting enrolled in the MBA curriculum weaving a robust academic delivery mechanism and helping students track their own learning using a variety of assessment tools.

Alongside, GBS grants students a private and encrypted digital key linked to their diploma using Blockchain technology, which reduces the time and eliminates the use of traditional processes for documentation & verification of academic credentials. No wonder, GBS upholds a dedicated Research Cell that aims to bring together faculty, academic staff, and external experts to share research ideas involving various management fields of interest & expertise. Enriched with such features, GBS is on a mission to enable transformation of young minds to become responsible leaders with integrity through knowledge, innovation, research, technology and imbibe human values through care for society, aided with various partnerships and delivery models.

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Rahul Dasgupta, Director
Being an innovator, Rahul constantly suggests new ways & technologies, taking Globsyn to the

Courses: PGDM, PGPM-IB+MBA & Executive Education
Location: Kolkata