About Us

SDA Bocconi Asia Center is a pan-Asian hub in Mumbai that has been deploying Executive Education and Postgraduate Programs designed and implemented by SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy, since 2012. SDA Bocconi Asia Center strives to deploy and disseminate innovative business knowledge to contribute to the overall development of individuals and organizations. A unique approach is offered, by promoting knowledge through SDA Bocconi School of Management industry-relevant research and teaching. It spreads SDA Bocconi School of Management expertise and excellence in design, branding innovation and entrepreneurship to build soft and managerial skills and share practices across borders to empower people.

SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy has been a leading institution in management training for over 50 years. The School’s mission is to help individuals, companies, and institutions grow by promoting managerial culture, knowledge, and innovation. MBA Programs, Executive and Specialized Masters, Executive Programs, Custom Programs, Applied Research, Research Labs and Knowledge Centers all contribute to this – a wide offering aimed at professionals from all over the world and from all sectors of the economy. SDA Bocconi is among the leading Business Schools in Europe and is among the few to have gained the triple accreditation – EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB – which puts it in the élite of Business Schools worldwide

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Mission

“Designed for your world”
We develop responsible and thoughtful leaders by generating and disseminating innovative managerial knowledge.
We empower people through learning experiences designed to meet their real needs.
We value research to create rigorous knowledge and develop innovative education programs.
We help to interpret and manage complexity in professional environments and in the global arena.

Values-

• Independence from any cultural, political and economic influences for a real free thinking.
• Critical thinking to open new perspectives of analysis and research
• Scientific rigor to constantly guarantee quality and reliable results.
• Imagination and creative passion to promote a truly relevant innovation
• Entrepreneurship to seize business opportunities and win new competitive challenges.
• Responsibility in the social, ethical and environmental fields to set up a sustainable development.
• Centrality of people to unleash their professional and human potential and create long-lasting and valuable relationships.
• Pluralism and global vision to understand and enhance the value of cultural diversity.

SDA Bocconi School of Management
A long-lasting and life-changing experience

Decisions are made in an instant. But they often come at the end of a long process, and mark the start of a new journey. The moment you choose SDA Bocconi School of Management, you choose to enrich your knowledge and imagination, and therefore transform the rest of your life. You choose to invest in education, research, creativity and commitment, which will have an impact on you as a person and as a manager. You start thinking bigger, and you re-design your objectives, driven by passion and enthusias

Dean’s message- Professor David Bardolet, Dean SDA Bocconi Asia Center, Mumbai

Welcome to SDA Bocconi Asia Center

SDA Bocconi Asia Center has been a place for people to start their careers or reorient them in exciting new directions. But most of all, it has been a space for reflection, where rigorous academic work meets corporate practical experience in order to create innovative and impactful knowledge.

Over the years we have grown together with our students, our alumni from Bocconi community and our corporate customers. Leaning on decades of SDA Bocconi research and teaching, we are constantly exploring the challenges and opportunities that Indian companies and their managers face in this era of disruptive change. Our SDA Bocconi programs , following a unique characteristic of SDA Bocconi, are intensely customised to the specific context of individuals and companies. Thus, we work hand in hand with our corporate customers to co-create training programs with lasting impact. In that effort of offering high quality educational experiences of SDA Bocconi, we have gone from national champion to global leader

Here at SDA Bocconi Asia Center, we emphasize rigorous inquiry, quality of teaching, independence and respect for individuals. Our global SDA Bocconi faculty and staff ensure that we bring the best of Western and Eastern worlds in every program, with deep knowledge of India’s corporate reality as well as of international best practices in every industry.

I look forward to meeting you in SDA Bocconi Asia Center, where we will start a stimulating journey of knowledge and imagination together

Programs

International Master in Business

The International Master in Business (IMB) is a specialized master program fully equivalent to a postgraduate program that brings to India the expertise and the international standing of SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy. The program is built with a combination of solid theory, case-study methodology, international experiences and corporate exposure. It is specifically designed to create responsible, reliable, and effective business leaders.

It comprises of two 11-month modules, which includes a 4-month specialization semester spent at the Bocconi main campus in Milan, Italy in the second module. It is an intense experience that maximises learning opportunities in a limited scope of time. It allows students to specialize while offering the experience, the international outlook and the multicultural environment essential for a successful career in a global economy. Upon completion of the program, participants are awarded “International Master in Business” by SDA Bocconi School of Management in Italy.

International Executive Master In Business

IEMB is a rigorous, challenging, global and compact program for mid-senior level professionals, who want to accelerate their careers. It is designed to sharpen leadership skills and close the knowledge gap, providing the means to turn ideas into action and achieve goals.

The Program gives you the opportunity to expand your horizons, learn from experience and interaction with the others participants and the faculty. The learning path is empowered by the opportunity to immediately apply concepts, skills, and know-how acquired through assignments, drawn from business and current managerial challenges.

This provides immediate benefits and allows the development of the necessary competencies and attitudes to navigate the worldwide business arena and to become a Global Leader.

The program offers deep global exposure, thanks to its international faculty, the immersion weeks in Milan, and the ongoing interaction with international participants attending global programs hosted by SDA Bocconi Asia Center.

IEMB is a Specialised Master Program with credits under ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) according to the Italian university law.

Executive Open Programs

SDA Bocconi Asia Center Executive Open Programs are created to suit your job-related development needs. All our programs are on an international top level, taught by renowned faculty from SDA Bocconi School of management, Italy.

Our aim is to prepare you for your next career step, your next career challenge, or to simply update your knowledge and skills for your current working environment. We offers a wide range of programs and courses for large, medium and small businesses, public administration, healthcare, banks and financial institutions, and also for professionals who wish to develop their managerial knowledge and skills.

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