Columbia School hosts 11 IIM-A students

As part of its new partnership with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), Columbia Business School is hosting 11 students from the former's Post Graduate Programme for Executives (PGPX) for one week of dedicated classes and industry visits.

The courses include 'introduction to business negotiations, a marketing module' and 'credit risk and fixed income markets.

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

The courseware 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.

The students are currently participating in the 'international immersion' segment of their programme. Following their week in New York city, they will work on consulting assignments across the country, before returning to India in December.

Columbia Business School and IIM-A announced their partnership in January of 2007.

The programme envisages exchange of students, faculty and ideas between the two institutions.

Other students will be working with international universities like the University of British Columbia, and Columbia Business School.

They would also intern on projects with leading firms like Unilever, Microsoft, Cummins and Cisco. Last year, 2-3 students received job offers from the companies they had interned with.