Aspire introduces MBA-Pro in association with HBP

Updated on: Wednesday, December 08, 2010

ASPIRE, engaged in embedded employability education and skills development, announced the signing of a 5-year agreement for India with Harvard Business Publishing (HBP,) USA, a subsidiary of Harvard University, Boston, MA (USA).

Aspire will introduce a 4-course, 4-semester program, MBAPro, embedded in two-year MBA programs across India to provide students with the legendary case-study methodology and Harvard Business Publishings world-class content. The high-quality, practical, decision-based management education will improve employability, management and leadership skills of Indian MBAs in small towns.

The joint social entrepreneurial initiative from Aspire and HBP will allow the powerful case method pedagogy that is used in Harvard Business Schools curriculum to have a broad impact in India, so the nation can reap its demographic dividend and MBAs across the nation can aspire to access and experience the same high quality content as their peers in esteemed Indian institutions like IIMs.

Aspires 4-course, 2-year MBAPro program gives a leading edge to MBAs across Tier 2, 3 and 4 cities in India and provide students in Indian heartland with Ivy-League magic dust for enhanced employability.

MBAPro will be made available by Aspire through its embedded employability education format. Aspires staff in 20 cities will start offering this with immediate effect.

Speaking on this occasion, Mr Amit Bhatia, Founder & CEO, Aspire Human Capital Management said, "Aspires model of embedded employability education is truly unique for addressing Indias employability and skill-development challenges. We are proud to be using in our program, cutting-edge and leading management content and course materials from Harvard Business Publishing, subsidiary of Harvard University. Aspire will take these offerings, based on HBP content, across India through embedded education that significantly enhances learning outcomes using world-class curriculum, leading technology and faculty training. We expect to take these courses to over 100,000 students in the next 5 years to both fuel Indias growth and deliver the India growth-story to youth at their door-steps, inside their school and college campuses, in Tier 2, 3 and 4 cities."

Mr. Vinay Hebbar, Managing Director, Harvard Business Publishing (India) said, "The focus of HBP has always been to take our course materials and Participant Centered Learning pedagogy to schools around the world. We are delighted to support Aspire MBAPro program which will enable students and schools even in smaller Indian cities to access the same high quality resources available to other schools globally. This employability initiative by Aspire is consistent with Harvard Business Publishing mission to improve the practice of management and its impact, while supporting Indias efforts to reap the demographic dividends through our workforce."

Aspire works with educational institutions across India through its offices and staff in 20 cities and 12 states (Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi & NCR, Dehradun, Hyderabad, Jalandhar, Indore, Jammu, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Mysore, Pune, Srinagar and Trichy).

Currently more than 25,000 students across 40 institutions across the country are associated with Aspire. Aspires flagship products ProHire and EnglishPro have helped students enhance knowledge, skills and attitude since July 2007 through embedded employability training including focus on aptitude, communications, industry knowledge, job skills, personality development, conversation ability, fluency, comprehension and speech clarity.

Aspire introduces MBA-Pro in association with HBP

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