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The Indian School of Business will be imparting executive education to Pakistan corporates soon.
The Hyderabad-based premier school has signed a memorandum of understanding with Karachi-based Institute of Business Administration in this regard here on Friday.
As part of the agreement, ISB and IBA would jointly conduct executive education programmes in IBA campus in Karachi.
ISB would be responsible for design and delivery of the courses, Mr Deepak Chandra, Deputy Dean, ISB told newspersons here on Friday.
“Pakistan is one of the countries that have growth potential and we are always looking towards working in those markets,” he said.
The environment and challenges in offering executive education programmes were also similar in both the countries, he added.
Beginning from June this year, ISB is planning to run about 10 programmes for senior management executives in Pakistan industry.
Family business, entrepreneurship, business leadership and strategy, Mr Deepak Chandra said.
“Going forward, we will also extend this to exchange of students and faculty and also public/government sector in Pakistan,” Dr Isharat Husain, Dean and Director, IBA said.
The history, culture and environment were similar in India and Pakistan. Referring to difficulties in Visa, communication and logistics between the countries, he said:
“Our Government has assured us help. We will try making this collaboration more fruitful.”
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