Pearl School of Business announces admission to

Second batch of Doctor of Business Administration Programme for Executives

DBA programme commences in January 2009

New Delhi: Pearl School of Business in partnership with Asian Institute of Technology's School of Management has announced admission to second batch of doctoral-level programme in India, Doctor of Business Administration(DBA), for Executives. Application to the programme can be made till 24th November, 2008 and programme commences in January 2009.

PSB-AIT DBA is a doctoral-level programme specially and exclusively designed for senior executives. On completion of the programme, successful students would be awarded DBA degree of Asian Institute of Technology.

The PSB-AIT DBA offers the art and craft of management research to the professional managers, administrators, owners and entrepreneurs. It aims to enhance their knowledge of advanced management theories and build their research skills to significantly improve their intellectual capabilities, strategic thinking and ability to investigate complex managerial issues for generating innovative ideas, leading to their organizations' superior competencies, performance and corporate leadership. The PSB-AIT DBA is developed and delivered by world-class internationally reputed faculty.

The doctoral programme (DBA) aims at building rigorous research skills in experienced managers who have exposure to significant managerial issues.  With the research competencies, the participants can turn the experience into useful knowledge of business and management that has direct relevance to business challenges in the emerging economies.

The DBA programme has two academic parts. First, it comprises research methodology courses and advance courses in management. Second, each participant, after successfully completing course work, is require to work on an applied research topic to write a dissertation and defend it.

The PSB DBA is an international programme of the highest quality, designed in collaboration with AIT School of Management which was ranked third best among the business schools of South-east Asia in 2004 survey by Asia, Inc. AIT is Asia's leading postgraduate institution and conducts its DBA programme in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Taiwan.

In the first batch there are 8 participants from various backgrounds, including COO, Director-Business Development & Consultant, General Manager, E-governance Head from World Bank and entrepreneurs. Three of the participants fly from Mumbai, Banglore and Hyderabad every weekend to attend the DBA classes.

As said by Mr. Sameer Prasad,COO,Planet Retail, a present DBA particiant

"Realizing the importance and usefulness of the DBA programme, the students opine that the AIT-PSB DBA curriculum is interdisciplinary and integrative. The required course work is structured into three perspectives of Research Methodology, Knowledge Building and Research Specialization including Dissertation writing. There is perhaps no other programme that can equate this programme".

"The PSB-AIT DBA Program is a doctoral program for senior managers with a multidisciplinary approach. The program blends management theory and case studies with applied research which is based on application of knowledge and experience. This course offers a unique opportunity to study locally under the guidance of world-class faculty", adds Mr. Shashank Ojha, Senior e Government Specialist, Policy Divison – Global ICT Department, World Bank, a current DBA participant.

Applicants to the programme should be MBA or Executive MBA from recognised academic institutions with a minimum of 10 years work experience. Non MBA/E-MBA 's with 15 years work experience may be considered for admission .The course fee for the entire programme is Rs. 10,00,000.

The programme has a very convenient timing of weekends i.e. Saturday, Sunday which ensures that the executives do not have any loss of working days. 

About Pearl School of Business:
Pearl School of Business (PSB) is set up by the Little People Education Society (LPES), which is promoted by the House of Pearl as a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. PSB, founded in 2007, has already started functioning from the academic year 2007-2008 out of its facility in Sector 32 Gurgaon, Haryana. Developed in partnership with leading international business schools [Babson College, USA, Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK and Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand] and delivered by world class faculty, it blends entrepreneurial mindset, international outlook, innovation, social responsibility and ethics.