Gear up to take your family-owned business to the next level with this power-packed programme designed for the future business leaders and entrepreneurs. Receive unparalleled proficiency in concepts and skills required to traverse the complexities of your business.
Through the Family Business and Entrepreneurship, you will learn:
The unique MBA FBE programme preps you to spearhead the most advanced business projects, and see them to their success.
From expanding your vision and understanding the business life cycle to improving your business acumen and acquiring necessary digital and analytical capabilities, this programme brings to life and encourages the true leader within you.
The only programme in Family Business and Entrepreneurship that offers the flexibility of two modes - PGD in FBE and MBA in FBE - this programme allows an immense choice in earning credits and structured learning based on individual career goals and business needs.
The programme offers a Blended Learning format with 18 months of intensive learning (on-campus) divided into Semester I, Semester II, and Semester III followed by Semester IV – Industry Internship/Entrepreneurial Venture Foundation/Family Business Expansion. Application Project on learnings will commence in Semester I and end in Semester III with mid-term evaluation in SEM II and final evaluation in SEM III.
Enjoy access to a plethora of activities and engagements under the NICMAR Incubation Centre (Upakram), and enhance your entrepreneurial skills and acumen while being a part of the ever-expanding NICMAR alumni network.
Seamlessly blending with Baner’s elite, cutting-edge lifestyle, our Pune campus will leave you enchanted with its state-of-the-art learning and living facilities.
Two years full time
The only programme in Family Business and Entrepreneurship that offers the flexibility of two modes - PGD in FBE and MBA in FBE - this programme allows an immense choice in earning credits and structured learning based on individual career goals and business needs.
Every semester of the MBA FBE programme is a blend of General Core, Programme Core, and Ability Enhancement courses. This ensures that you get a holistic understanding of both the core concepts as well as application-oriented learning under the domain of family business and entrepreneurship as a whole.
What’s more, you’ll also find a fleet of Massive Open Online Curriculum (MOOC) courses on Design, Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Business Models structured across semesters that help sustain your knowledge as a future business leader.
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Get introduced to a wide range of family business-focused courses blended with courses on general management and ability enhancement in this semester. From learning the legal aspects of managing your business; retaining, rewarding, and proactively managing family business employees, to understanding the specificities of managing business sales and using data effectively for business analysis, this semester equips you with a vast array of courses to enhance their knowledge.
This is also the final semester for those who want to move back to their Family Business and align their learnings to action armed with a Post Graduate Diploma in Family Business and Entrepreneurship.
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After an invigorating summer internship experience in other family business firms, this semester allows you to dive into domain-specific Construction Electives for those who prefer more technical depth.
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This is the final semester which is the phase of actually applying the learnings into the Real Business domain through a Work Based Learning (WBL) format of either a Corporate/Industry Internship or Family Business Internship or Entrepreneurial Venture Internship or International Internship. You also have the option of continuing your WBL in expansion of your own family business or setting up a new entrepreneurial venture that inspires your growth and success.
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1. Regular classroom sessions and assignments coupled with comprehensive assessment make this programme rigorous.
2. The students will be imparted training on state-of-the-art software used in construction like Advanced Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Microsoft Projects (MSP) and Building Information Modelling (BIM).>
3. Workshops on developing managerial skills towards enhancing entrepreneurial competency.
4. Experiential learning and application-based projects to help develop leadership potential and decision-making capabilities.
5. Case studies, group and individual exercises, class projects and simulation of business environment to enrich the overall programme delivery.
6. Mentors will be assigned to every work group of the programme. The idea is to support and incorporate the learnings into individual businesses and orient participants towards being future ready.
Apply NowBeing a niche and focused programme, graduates with a few years of experience in their family business operations make up for a majority of the batch.
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Soumi brings with her a combined experience of 23 years from the corporate sector and academia into her role as the Head. She has worked with the corporate consulting domain and across prestigious academic institutions like Symbiosis International University. She has worked on many prestigious assignments, including one with the Social Research Centre (WZB), Germany.
Soumi is a researcher in the field of leadership, entrepreneurship, diversity, generational and cross-cultural issues, having published numerous case studies, book chapters and research articles across reputed peer-reviewed national and international publications. She is also the recipient of NICMAR Research Excellence Award 2019.
Yes, but that’s not all there is! This programme is a niche offering that caters to an untapped need for expanding the family business horizon through better strategizing, innovation and application of leadership skills for growth and expansion/scale-up.
Every semester of the course has been carefully designed with a focus on developing managerial skills, leadership potential along with business, technical, and digital acumen.
As a next generation successor, this course will enhance and elevate your leadership, managerial and entrepreneurial potential, equipping you with the knowledge and tools to move upwards in your business domain.
Alongside the leverage of NICMAR’s brand value, a legacy of almost 4 decades and the vast alumni network will be an added advantage in crafting your business success story.
As the construction sector in a post-covid economy continues to deal with increasing challenges and complexity, family-run businesses, in particular, have to learn how to survive and compete within this dynamic business environment in the new world.
As a graduate of this programme, you can develop the necessary managerial and leadership abilities, and pass them onto your family members in the business as well. This allows you to effectively scan the business environment, forecast changes, be prepared for potential turmoils, innovate, and diversify too.
Through its comprehensive curriculum and action-oriented learning modules, the MBA - FBE programme seeks to support the professionalization, scaling up, growth, and expansion for the new generation of family business entrepreneurs and leaders through the following objectives:
i. Develop strategic thinking and alignment with business processes
ii. Foster creativity and develop an innovation mindset
iii. Apply analytic tools, digital tools, and functional expertise in business decision making
iv. Enhance leadership skills and interpersonal sensitivity for collaborative working
v. Developing excellence in managing a socially responsible and sustainable family business
Since this programme is specifically designed for the successors of already established family businesses, we don’t offer any placement opportunities.
We have designed the entire curriculum from an application-oriented perspective. Through individual and group projects, you’ll be encouraged to apply your conceptual learning and case-based understanding into your specific family business. This helps you understand and analyze the impact of your learning in the real business situational contexts.
Absolutely, we do! We have a vibrant and diverse student community that keeps the NICMAR spirit alive through a plethora of activities and events as part of the informal learning process. They promise to provide both cultural and interpersonal development while enhancing values like respect for all and attributes like tolerance to ambiguity, creative thinking, problem solving, and team empowerment.
As a student of MBA FBE, you can rest assured that you’ll receive a holistic environment that leaves no stone unturned in your overall development.
Take a look at our talented learners that transformed into lifelong leaders after passing out with flying colours.
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