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Mumbai: MISB Bocconi in its Second Year

, by Tomaso Eridani, translated by Alex Foti
The Post Graduate Program in Business of Mumbai International School of Business has just started its second edition with a week of orientation activities. In September, the first edition's students will arrive in Milan for their curricular semester at Bocconi

The second edition of the PGPB (Post Graduate Program in Business) was launched in Mumbai last week. It is the flagship program of MISB Bocconi, theMumbai International School of Business, opened by Bocconi last year through its business school, SDA Bocconi School of Management. The program is designed to offer postgraduate education in business administration to Indian students, by merging an Indian background with a strongly international outlook.
PGPB is an international management program focusing on Indian markets and businesses. It has just offered its new students an orientation week to improve their acquaintance with the teaching methods used and the career development services that are available.
"This new class of Indian students," says Stefano Caselli, Bocconi Dean for International Affairs and MISB Bocconi's academic director "emerges out of a tough selection process, supported by the School's staff, which has identified candidates having extremely good profiles who are likely to achieve important goals".
Orientation week opened with an introductory lecture by Dean Caselli, followed by Veronica Vecchi (SDA Bocconi) and Anjana Grewal, Senior Professor (MISB), who proposed the first business cases and organized the first work teams. "The start of the second edition", went on Caselli, "represents another step toward strengthening the visibility of MISB Bocconi on the Indian market for higher education".
Next week, pre-classes will start. Just as in the previous edition, professors Carlo Altomonte, Laura Zoni and Maurizio Poli will be the instructors. By the end of July, actual first-year classes will start, and the following Bocconi and SDA Bocconi faculty member will teach courses in Mumbai: Nando Pennarola, Robert Grant, David Bardolet, Sandro Castaldo, Boris Durisin, Anjana Grewal, Antonio Marra, Marco Merelli, Vincenzo Capizzi, Massimo Magni, Mikkel Draebye, Leonardo Etro, Markus Venzin, Cinzia Parolini, Massimo Aielli, Gabriella Lojacono, Veronica Vecchi, Stefano Gatti, Paola Bielli, Marco Sampietro, Andreina Mandelli and Fabrizio Castellucci, as well as the two visiting professors, Bala Balachandran (Kellogg School of Management), and Uday Karmarkar, (UCLA Anderson School of Management).
In the meantime, PGPB's first edition has concluded the first academic year of this two-year program. All students have done internships in one of the firms that have collaboration agreements with MISB Bocconi and will be involved in job placements at the program's end. In addition to internships, some MISB students are taking part in the summer edition of the Bocconi Campus Abroad Exchange program, joining the flows of Milano-based students leaving for international academic destinations, while others are doing summer projects within firms or at the Center of Excellence on Finance & Insurance, launched by MISB Bocconi and supported by India's largest insurance companies.
In September, the first edition's class of students will reach Milan to start the Bocconi semester module of the program, by attending courses at Bocconi Graduate School.

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