Unique Features

Building The Brand

Future group has already been able to establish a distinguished academic brand based upon the following factors :

  • Strong Research Focus
  • In Depth Teaching Orientation
  • Competitive Faculty Resource & Staff
  • Governance System with a focused structure
  • Dynamic Board of Governors
  • Innovative Program Structure
    and Delivery
  • State-of-the-art ResidentialTraining
    and Convention Centre
  • City Annexe with full-range academic
    and computing facilities

Student Enrichment

A special intensive curriculum is followed for Personality Grooming and Student Enrichment consisting of the following:
  • Presentation Workshops
  • Language Labs
  • Open Group Discussion Sessions
  • Role Plays and Simulation Excercises
  • Seminar Courses
 
  • Industry Visits
  • Reading Courses
  • Research Projects and Term Papers
  • Assistance in Foreign Language Skills
 

Emerging Areas

Emerging and innovative teaching areas like the following are constantly added to the academic repertoire:

  • Environmental Management and Regional Development
  • NGO Management
  • Retail Management
  • Real Estate Management
  • Agricultural Clinic and Rural Management

  • Health and Hospital Management
  • Transport Management
  • Knowledge Management
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Social Ethics

Teaching pedagogy

Teaching pedagogy and methodologies include:

  • Lecture
  • Sessions
  • Case Studies
  • Assignments
  • Business Games
  • Film Reviews
  • Business

  • Reviews
  • Term Papers
  • Seminars
  • Open Book Examinations
  • Self Study
 

Blank Page Orientation

 

  • Notion of Quasi - Compulsory Courses
  • Faculty Member Leads the Course instead of the Course Leading the Faculty Member
  • Focus on Specialized Scale - Risk
    Management, Ethics, Intellectual
    Property Rights, Business Strategy and Portfolio, Public System Management, etc.
  • Content Delivery by in-house Faculty and a great deal of involvement invited from Industry Experts and Leading Personalities in the Academia
  • 'Windows' of Knowledge

Industry Academics Interface
  • Industry - Academic partnership
  • in all major
  • thrust areas - Course Design
  • Curriculum Development
  • Content Delivery
  • Projects and Term Papers
  • Personality Grooming
  • Course Reviews

Faculty Development
  • Bi - monthly Faculty Seminar Presentation
  • Occasional Student-Faculty Talk shops
  • Faculty Research Paper Publications
  • Faculty Research Paper Presentations in National and International Conferences
  • Faculty participation in Faculty
    Development Programs (FDPs) in
    Reputed Institutions
  • Knowledge Sharing Culture

Faculty Publications
Prof. Udayan Basu
  • 'A consistent way towards Investment
    Decisions'
  • 'Banking in India: Interest Rate, NPA,
    and Financial Fragility'
  • 'Fund Management by Banks in India'
  • 'How Random is the Walk: Efficiency of
    Indian Stock and Future Markets'
  • 'Risk Management and Capital Adequacy
    Norms for Banks'
  • 'Trade Cycle and Catastrophe
    Theory'


  • 'Unleashing the New Vision in
    Performance Management:
    An Escalation Towards Betterment'
  • Aligning Peoples Strategy for
    Competitive Advantage:
    Configuring Activities,
  • Optimizing Human capital through
    Restructuring Ethics ( Accepted)
  • Enhancing Organizational Competitiveness:The Change Management Way {Abstract)
Prof. Manodip Ray Chaudhuri
  • 'When Employee Privacy Matters Most'
  • 'Laying the Foundations of Learning
    Organizations'
  • 'Working Together for Job Synchronization'
  • 'Inculcating Inspiration through
    Motivating the Self
    : Some Myths and Specifications
  • 'Maneuvering Change in Organizations:
    Contexts, Skill and Reactions'
  • Paradoxes,Responses and Knowledge
  • Tracking Employee Performance
    for Business Excellence

     Prof. Sudeep Chatterjee

      'Consumer Research - A Vital Link in
       the Entrepreneurial Decision Path'

     Journal Publication
  • Publication of a bi-annual journal titled
    'Bhavishya - Journal of Future Business School'.

  • The journal would cover research papers
    in management and allied disciplines,
    case studies and book reviews.

Special Events
  • Bhavishya, the Management Game Challenge held on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th August 2005 at
    the Club House, Tollygunge Club,
    Kolkata 700033
  • 87 participants representing 23 teams
    from 19 Corporate
  • Houses and 3 Business Schools
    participated.
  • 26 participants from 13 banks,
    3 Corporates and an individual
    participated in the programme

 
  • Program on 'Project Appraisal & Infrastructure Financing' held on 16
    - 20 January 2006 at the Campus,
    jointly conducted by Future Business
    School - Future Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata and Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Development Banking
    (JNIDB), Hyderabad (an unit of IDBI).


Guest Speakers

FIEM organizes special lectures by distinguished Guest Speakers from India and
abroad, in order to keep its students in close and continuous touch with the latest concepts and developments in the professional world around the globe.

The following Guest Speakers addressed FBS students under this programme:
Dr Jagdish Seth


Dr. Pradip Kakkar

Mr. H S Wadhwa

Mr. Sunil Sood

Mr. Biswadip Gupta -


Dr. P. Bhattacharya


Dr. Madhubani Ghosh

Mr. Hemant Kanoria

Mr. P K Dutt

Mr. B Mitter

Mr. S Chand

Mr. Shiloo Chattopadhyay
Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, Goizueta
Business School, Atlanta, Georgia

Consultant, World Bank

Chairman, National Insurance

CEO, Hutchinson Telecom East Ltd.

President, BCCI, Managing Director, Vesuvius India

Joint Managing Director, Usha Martin


Adjunct Faculty, Boston University

Vice Chairman & MD, Srei International

Former MD, Bata India Ltd, Lipton India Ltd

Former Director Finance, ITC Ltd.

Director, Exide India Ltd.

Head, Mode-Sofres