Kumar Mangalam Birla, Aditya Birla Group
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India will need more globally benchmarked educational institutions as the country grows, Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla said, stressing on the importance of preparing students for a rapidly changing world.
Speaking at the fifth anniversary of BITS School of Management (BITSoM), Birla said the project was launched with the ambition of creating a global business school from India. Birla said this required taking decisions on faculty, curriculum and pedagogy that were sometimes more expensive but necessary to meet international standards.
Nearly 190 faculty members from leading universities around the world have taught at BITSoM over the past five years, he said.
The school has graduated 579 students from 21 States and 123 cities, with its students and alumni now spread across more than 300 companies.
Updating curriculum Birla said the curriculum was designed not only around traditional business disciplines such as finance, marketing, strategy and operations, but also around critical thinking, learning agility, self-awareness, communication and decision-making amid uncertainty, he said, would remain relevant even as technology changes.
The rapid emergence of artificial intelligence has reinforced that approach. Birla said BITSoM was regularly updating its curriculum to help students understand how AI could transform businesses and workflows.
The school has introduced courses focused on deploying technology against real busines
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