Students from the first batch of the one-year 3-Continent Master of Global Management programme pose for a photograph. Telegraph picture

Bhubaneswar, Jan. 8: Twenty-three managers-to-be are set to embark on the second phase of their “intercontinental” journey at the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB), from Monday.

These students from the first batch of the one-year 3-Continent Master of Global Management programme, which started at Antwerp in Belgium last September, would spend four months at this premier institute for their second term classes.

“After spending four months in Belgium, the bright young students from the international community have reached our campus for the uniquely designed, multicultural and interactive curriculum,” XIMB director, Father P.T. Joseph said, adding that the batch comprises two American, 17 European, and two Chinese students. “One of them is from India as well,” he said.

The management programme was the result of an alliance of XIMB with Antwerp Management School, Belgium and Fordham Graduate School of Business, New York last year. During the course, the students are required to stay and study in three different continents for four months each. The aim is to develop students into “borderless managers”, who combine global exposure with local perspectives.

Each school would give the budding managers a unique view of the region it is located in, integrating culture and local business models to inspire them and help them evolve as “future leaders of change”. Dual degrees would be awarded by the two international B-schools to the students, enabling them to work anywhere in the world.

XIMB authorities said the programme aimed to provide interesting insights into the international business scenario. “At Antwerp, the students learnt how to manage diversity in a multicultural society. Here, in India, they would get an understanding of how social entrepreneurship and innovation operate at the bottom of the pyramid to achieve sustainable growth in emerging markets,” said the director, who is also one of the deans for this programme.

“In the last trimester in New York, the students will be exposed to diverse financial spectrums as well as a perspective on global media,” he said.

Some of the key elements of this course syllabi include global strategy, integrated performance management, global finance, international marketing, innovation management, global HR management, international business law, and business perspectives in the European, Indian and American contexts.

The second batch of the 12-month course would start from this September. Freshers as well as persons with work experience can apply. The course fee is around 39,750 Euro or Rs 30 lakh.