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Careers 360
|November 2025
This year, Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad made its “most significant” course launch in years – a Postgraduate Programme for Young Leaders – in line with the trend of more leadership positions going to the young.
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It follows a widespread change in curriculum that gave students more flexibility and brought them closer to industry, even as the job market changed. ISB dean Madan M Pillutla spoke to Sheena Sachdeva about curriculum revision, AI, placements, fees, student well-being and more. Edited excerpts:
Q. What new courses and departments have you started recently? Any in the pipeline?
A. The most significant launch is our twenty months Postgraduate Programme for Young Leaders (PGP-YL) launched in 2025. This is for people with zero to two years of experience. It will be similar to the “no experience” two-year programmes that are usually taught in B-schools in India. The first 130 people were also inducted in July this year.
If you look at the bulk of the Indian market, most people go for postgraduation just after undergraduation. However, in our usual courses, we ask for at least two years’ experience where they join classrooms after having created a small niche. This has served us well with our alumni and students have done extremely well. But a lot of young people in the world, not just in India, are looking to do their MBA immediately after their undergraduation. Due to this, the world over, a lot of masters in management courses have been introduced in the last seven to eight years. We thought, if this is the trend and we have the capability in terms of postgraduate education, why not start something similar.
Also, people are getting into leadership positions much younger these days than they were in the past. So, moving to a younger group of people and educating them did not seem like a very bad idea.
Further, ISB is quite big in executive education.
Q. How have the placements been over the last two years? Many have struggled.
This story is from the November 2025 edition of Careers 360.
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