Pramath Raj Sinha: The classroom entrepreneur

Pramath Raj Sinha: The classroom entrepreneur Pramath Raj Sinha The first dean of the Indian School of Business and co-founder of Ashoka University on a new classroom for women, and trysts with chief ministers.

His most recent venture is the Vedica Scholars Programme for Women in Delhi, an alternative master’s in business administration (MBA) programme. This all-women residential programme tries to address the problem that far more women graduate from high school than men, but get left behind in careers. Sinha says he was inspired by institutions like Wellesley College of Massachusetts, US, where women get the confidence to express themselves. The Vedica curriculum includes subjects that many conventional MBAs neglects, like politics, sociology and history. The first batch of 36 Vedica scholars has just graduated and Sinha informs me that one student has received an offer from Google at a starting salary of Rs22 lakh.

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