Management Indian Institute of Science

Overview

A management education has to do three things: build methodological foundations, develop an understanding of how organisations work, and connect both to the external environment — markets, policy, and public systems. The Master of Management at IISc is designed around all three, with a particular emphasis on analytical rigour. Students complete a hard core in economics, statistics, probability theory, and finance; draw from a soft core of courses across the institute in optimisation, machine learning, and systems modelling; and spend up to six months working on a real problem inside an organisation or policy institution. When AI can run the model, the scarce skill is knowing which model to run, whether to trust it, and what to do when it fails. That is what this Management programme from Indian Institute of Science teaches.

Core Objectives

In the recent years, the Department has received sponsorship for research and consultancy projects

• Train students to identify the right analytical approach for a problem and understand how the assumptions built into any model shape the decisions that follow.
• Develop the ability to move between the messiness of real organisational situations and the rigour of formal analysis.
• Produce graduates who can take responsibility for both the framing of a problem and the quality of the answer.