24548: Changing the Paradigm: Impact-Focused MBA Program Designs

Saturday, July 26, 2025

09:00 - 11:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall C- C3-m10

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Teaching,Practice,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/XKyadD

Organizer(s)

NS

Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam

Duquesne U., United States

Panelist(s)

DB

Dharm Prakash Sharma Bhawuk

U. of Hawaii at Manoa, United States
IK

Indu Rao Kaveti

Pandit Deendayal Energy University, India
TK

Tanvi H. Kothari

San Jose State U., United States
AP

Ashish Pandey

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
AR

Aarti Ramaswami

ESSEC Business School, Singapore
RS

Robert Sroufe

Chatham U., United States

The primary objective of this PDW is to provide Academy Members with the opportunity to work together to address the challenge of designing a new, impact-focused MBA program that breaks free of current approaches to MBA program design. The MBA, as a degree program, is over one hundred years old, and current design approaches may not be adequate to address the challenges facing businesses and business schools today. By addressing the challenge from multiple perspectives and knowledge traditions, this PDW hopes to broaden our understanding of the challenges facing graduate management education, explore innovative and paradigm-shifting models of program design, and better inform future research and practice of management education.