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Kolkata , March 7

THE Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) is launching a one-year course for senior and top management executives from the academic session beginning July.

The Global Managers Program will be spread over five semesters and cover areas such as practising business in emerging markets, in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Russia and Eastern Europe, global competition and strategy, organisational and cross cultural issues in international business and international contracts and agenda for global managers.

Prof Ranjan Das, Strategic and International Management at IIM-C, told newspersons here on Monday that the course was tailored to meet the professional requirements of "those who work abroad, those who face competition from global majors in the domestic market and those who feel the need to move out of the country."

While the first semester will be held in Kolkata, the remaining would be held in cities in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, which are among the emerging markets across the world.

The sessions outside India are for providing an insight into different socio-cultural, economic and business environments.

Prof Das said IIM-C has been conducting seven long-duration programmes for 415 top, senior and middle management executives. From the next academic session, three more long-duration programmes, including the Global Managers Program, will be launched. "We believe Indian corporate managers require knowledge and ambition," he said.

The fees for the Global Managers Program is $4,000 for overseas participants and Rs 1,60,000 for resident Indians. Thirty senior and top management executives will be enrolled for this course.

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