ASM brings Harvard Business School's HBX CORe to its students

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Audyogik Shikshan Mandal (ASM) and HBX, Harvard Business School’s digital learning initiative, have announced a new collaboration to bring HBX’s Credential of Readiness (CORe) to ASM students. This collaboration marks the first such agreement between HBX and a local Indian business school. 

Beginning in 2017, select ASM students will be offered the opportunity to participate in HBX CORe, a multi-week online program designed to teach the fundamentals of business. CORe includes coursework in business analytics, economics for managers and financial accounting taught using the Harvard Business School case-study method. Throughout the program, ASM students will engage with a global cohort of CORe participants on the HBX online platform, further enhancing the development of their business acumen.

To date, more than 12,000 students from around the globe have participated in HBX CORe. “HBX CORe is a program that provides future business leaders the skills and confidence they need to succeed,” said Professor V.G. Narayanan. “We are excited to welcome ASM students to the CORe program, and to share with them the Harvard Business School way of learning.”

Founded in 1983, ASM group of Institutes is a premier non-profit trust located in Pune and Mumbai providing quality education from Kindergarten to Phd with focus in the field Management & Information Technology. 

Dr. Sandeep Pachpande, Chairman ASM said, “ASM is excited and proud to be the first group of B-schools in India to bring world-class teaching from the best in the world to its students and business community in Pune and Mumbai though Harvard Business School’s innovative, student-centered digital learning platform. The HBX CORe program will also be incorporated along with MBA and PGDM programs at ASM’s flagship business schools IBMR, IIBR & IMCOST through a specially designed induction program. As per the agreement Harvard Business School will reserve fixed number of seats for ASM students for the Credential of Readiness Program starting from 2017”. 

Dr. Asha Pachpande, Founder and managing trustee ASM, is very enthused to have the best in the world, Harvard Business School to join hands with the best in the region, ASM group of institutes. This initiative will help achieve the common objective of both partners, “To create leaders who make a difference and make valuable contributions to all levels of the corporate world and society”. She believes this is a perfect example of leveraging technology, made available through this collaboration, to bring in world class leaning opportunities to the students of this region.