Business school at liberal university

HAVELLS SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP

- VIKRAM CHAUDHARY

HAVELLS—the fast-moving electrical goods company—has set up a management school at Ashoka University, in Sonipat near New Delhi. It's called the Havells School of Management & Leadership, and the FMEG major has committed ₹250 crore endowment towards it.

Ashoka offers its UG students courses in management, business, and entrepreneurship through the InfoEdge Centre for Entrepreneurship, but didn't have a school of management. These courses will now be shifted to Havells School, which will be expanded over time—with new courses, more students, and new centres of excellence.

How is it different?

Pramath Raj Sinha, founder of Ashoka University, told FE that the school will complement Ashoka's focus on humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and computer science, and its management and leadership programmes will be fully integrated with Ashoka's liberal education approach.

What does that mean?