Become a data-driven leader
in the Age of AI

Senior Management Programme inBusiness Analytics

A business analytics programme for professionals with
8+ years of experience, designed to elevate strategic
thinking and sharpen analytical acumen to drive business growth.

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  • STARTS Dec 2025
  • DURATION 8 Months 25% Live online sessions with
    75% in-person learning on campus
  • PROGRAMME FEE ₹6,00,000 Plus GST
  • ELIGIBILITY Minimum 8 years of
    work experience    Any Graduate/Diploma holder

The 4X Learning Advantage

  • IIM Calcutta
    Prestigious Certification
    • #1 in FT 2025
  • Unique learning path
    for leaders
    • 3 campus visits spread across 8 months
    • Data-first approach focused on business outcomes
  • World Class
    Faculty
  • Executive Education
    Alumni Status
    • 33,000+ Alumni
    • Networking opportunity and peer learning with senior leaders

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Become an Executive Education
Alumni of IIM Calcutta

  • Get an IIM Calcutta email ID after course completion
  • Access the IIM Calcutta Alumni Portal
  • Join a 33,000+ Executive Alumni Network
  • Network with all IIM Calcutta Exec Ed alumni
  • Receive updates on jobs, projects, and alumni news
  • Avail 5% fee discount on other IIM Calcutta executive programs

Trusted by Leaders from Diverse Industries

The programme is ideal for

  • Senior leaders seeking to drive strategic initiatives and make high-impact
    decisions using business analytics.
  • Executives aiming to solve complex challenges and leverage data to scale
    and optimize performance.
  • Entrepreneurs and startup founders looking to apply analytics to make
    smarter, faster business decisions.

Eligibility

  • Graduate with a minimum of 8 years of work experience
  • Minimum 50% in Graduation/Post Graduation

Immersive Learning Approach

A very thoughtfully designed balanced approach empowers busy professionals to learn, reflect, and apply in the real-world effectively.

  • Campus Connect for Hands-on Learning Three 5-day on-campus classes at IIM Calcutta offer an opportunity to reflect and elevate your learning with top faculty and cross-industry peers.
  • Online Learning during Weekend Live online sessions on selected weekends to ensure continuous progress with zero disruption to your workweek.
  • Apply Concepts as You Learn Drive immediate value at work by applying concepts to
    real business scenarios and engage in 2 capstone projects

Why business leaders can’t afford to ignore analytics?

  • 91% say data-driven decisions are critical, but fewer than 25% are truly data-driven organizations. forbes-logo
  • 67% executives admit their organizations lack the skills to translate analytics into strategy. pwc-logo
  • 30% organizations capture the full value of their analytics and digital investments—most struggle to scale impact.
  • 23X more likely to acquire customers, 19X to be profitable, 7X to retain when analytics drives decisions in organizations.

Programme Curriculum

Built for senior leaders, the curriculum develops strategic analytics capabilities
to turn data into business decisions to create scale and impact.

Coverage: 75% In-person campus connect 25% Live online sessions

Campus Connect 1: December 2025

Learning Outcome: Drive enterprise-wide data adoption by assessing maturity, shaping strategy,
and embedding analytics into core operations.

  • Assessing analytics readiness in your business
  • Building high-performance data science and analytics teams
  • Competing with data and analytics
  • Building a data-driven organization

Learning Outcome: Strengthen decision-making under uncertainty by applying
statistical thinking and risk assessment frameworks.

  • Applying statistical thinking to business decision-making
  • Using applied probability for managing uncertainty
  • Inferring population insights through data sampling
  • Capturing variable relationships with regression analysis

Learning Outcome: Transform complex data into business clarity to influence
strategic outcomes and guide stakeholder decisions.

  • Identifying data sources and filtering raw data for modelling
  • Extracting, cleaning, analysing outliers and reducing dimensionality
  • Performing exploratory data analysis for insight generation
  • Creating effective data visualisations for decision support
  • Designing experiments and preprocessing for analysis and testing
  • Applying causal inference to interpret observational data
  • Interpreting statistical summaries for business relevance

Campus Connect 2: April 2026

Learning Outcome: Forecast change and stay ahead by using AI and predictive models to anticipate market trends and customer behaviour.

  • Applying forecasting techniques for business planning
  • Using supervised learning and classification models
  • Applying unsupervised learning and clustering to discover patterns
  • Conducting time series analysis for forecasting
  • Enhancing decisions with supervised ML models
  • Leveraging neural networks and deep learning for business intelligence

Learning Outcome: Optimise business outcomes through simulations, decision science, and competitive strategy tools.

  • Using simulation models to explore decision outcomes
  • Applying decision analysis for individual and group choices
  • Solving complex problems using optimisation models
  • Understanding strategic behaviour with game theory and network effects

Learning Outcome: Deliver measurable impact across functions by applying analytics to people, marketing, finance, operations, and supply chains.

  • Applying people analytics for workforce planning
  • Using marketing analytics to optimise engagement and ROI
  • Leveraging financial analytics for forecasting and cost decisions
  • Improving operations with analytics-driven insights
  • Enhancing supply chain performance through data

Campus Connect 3: July 2026

Learning Outcome: Lead confidently in an AI-powered world by understanding GenAI’s role in business transformation and responsible leadership.

  • Exploring the business impact of GenAI and agentic AI
  • Using GenAI for storytelling and advanced insights
  • Generating and refining visualisations with GenAI tools
  • Designing agentic AI systems for decision automation
  • Presenting final capstone projects and receiving certification

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Key Outcomes of the Business Analytics Programme for Leaders

Professional Impact
  • Strengthen boardroom leadership
  • Reshape business models with analytics
  • Lead with AI-enabled transformation
  • Bridge theory with practice
  • Engage through participatory learning
Organisational Impact
  • Create a data-driven organisation
  • Drive enterprise-wide transformation
  • Enable cross-functional alignment
  • Compete in a connected world
  • Transform organizational decision-making

Leverage Unique Campus Connects
for Deeper Learning

Campus connect provides an opportunity to consolidate insights
and reflect on key concepts gained through online learning.

Leverage the expertise of IIM Calcutta’s renowned academia

Prof. Uttam Kumar Sarkar Professor, Management Information Systems,
IIM Calcutta

Expertise: Data-driven technologies, Social Network Analysis, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Discrete Optimization

Prof. Uttam Kumar Sarkar is an esteemed academician with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering....


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Prof. Peeyush Mehta Professor, Operations Management,
IIM Calcutta

Expertise: Analytics, Decision science, Operational excellence

Prof. Peeyush Mehta is a professor of Operations Management at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta since 2012.


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About IIM Calcutta

The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta was established as the first national institute for Post Graduate Studies and Research in Management by the Government of India in November 1961, in collaboration with Alfred P. Sloan School of Management (MIT), the Government of West Bengal, The Ford Foundation, and the Indian Industry. Over the years, IIM Calcutta has grown into a mature institution with a global reputation, imparting high-quality management education. It has been playing a pioneering role in professionalizing Indian management through its Post Graduate and Doctoral level Programmes, Executive Training Programmes, Research and Consulting Activities. For more information, please visit www.iimcal.ac.in.

  • Triple Accreditation First B-School in India to get accreditation by EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB
  • Member of CEMS Only Indian B-School to be part of this global alliance of leading business schools, multinational companies and NGOs
  • Ranked #1 BT-MDRA Best B-School 2023, Fortune India Best B-School Survey 2023, Open Magazine's Best B-School Survey 2024
  • Ranked #1 in FT 2025
  • Ranked #65 QS Global MBA Rankings

How do I enroll for this programme?

  • Apply for
    programme
  • Submit
    documents
  • Selection by
    IIM Calcutta Committee
  • Join
    programme

Learn from Experts, Beyond Theory

...
Learn from experts
  • 8-month programme
  • Live interactive sessions
  • In-person learning on campus
  • Taught by IIM Calcutta faculty
...
Immersive leadership format
  • Case studies
  • Group work
  • Simulations
  • 3 Campus connects at IIM Calcutta
  • 2 Capstone projects

Programme Fee

What is My Investment?*

Application Fee*
₹2,500

Installments Amount* Schedule
Registration fee ₹20,000 As per selection email
1st Installment ₹1,80,000 As per selection email
2nd Installment ₹2,00,000 Feb 5th 2026
3rd Installment ₹2,00,000 May 5th 2026
Total Fee* ₹6,00,000
*18% GST extra as applicable

*Fees paid are non-refundable and non-transferable.

Special Program Fee for Corporate Nominations** **Applicable only for enterprises nominating their employees as a group

Modes of payment available

  • Internet Banking
  • Credit/Debit Card
  • UPI Payments

Easy Financing Options

EMI as low as ₹25,419/Month

EMI Options

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Frequently Asked Questions

Analytics is no longer a back-office function — it’s central to how modern businesses compete. For leaders, analytics:

  • Informs strategic choices with real-time, evidence-based insights
  • Challenges intuition with facts, reducing overconfidence or bias in high-stakes decisions
  • Helps frame the right questions instead of just reacting to data outputs
  • Enables better resource allocation by identifying high-impact opportunities
  • Supports performance visibility across departments and outcomes
  • Drives alignment between business goals and execution, especially in complex environments

In today’s data-saturated world, leaders can’t afford to delegate critical thinking about data. Upskilling now enables leaders to:

  • Stay relevant in a rapidly digitising and AI-enabled economy
  • Effectively guide data teams and evaluate insights with a strategic lens
  • Ask sharper questions that steer analysis toward business priorities
  • Drive innovation by integrating analytics into product, process, and people decisions
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives with confidence in data-backed planning
  • Build a data-first culture that starts at the top of the organisation

The SMPBA is designed to empower senior professionals to translate analytics into business outcomes. It prepares leaders through:

  • Blended, application-first learning on-campus immersions and real-world case work
  • Curriculum aligned with leadership challenges not just technical execution
  • Exposure to cross-functional analytics in marketing, operations, HR, finance, and strategy
  • Focus on strategic tools like forecasting, simulation, and optimization
  • Integration of GenAI and agentic AI, preparing leaders to adopt future-ready tools
  • Leadership reflection and peer learning in a structured, immersive environment

Data-driven leaders are better equipped to navigate uncertainty. This programme helps reduce risk and bias by enabling leaders to:

  • Use statistical reasoning to uncover patterns and validate assumptions
  • Replace gut-feel decisions with evidence-backed frameworks
  • Model future scenarios to weigh possible outcomes and trade-offs
  • Detect cognitive biases such as confirmation bias or overconfidence
  • Align decisions with business goals, not just anecdotal inputs
  • Create accountability structures using dashboards and performance metricst

This programme is ideal for senior professionals, business heads, and entrepreneurs with 8+ years of experience who want to drive growth, solve strategic problems, and lead transformation using analytics.

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IIM Calcutta Senior Management Programme in Business Analytics
Course Overview

The Senior Management Program in Business Analytics by IIM Calcutta Executive Education is a 8-month immersive course tailored for senior professionals seeking to lead with data-driven strategies. Designed by the first IIM to establish a dedicated analytics centre, the program reflects IIM Calcutta’s deep expertise and global recognition through triple crown accreditations (AMBA, EQUIS, AACSB).

This senior management program blends strategic insights with practical application emphasizing business outcomes over technical depth. With 75% on-campus learning, three 5-day campus immersions, and case-driven sessions, participants benefit from high-touch peer learning and faculty engagement.

The curriculum equips leaders to solve real-world business challenges, scale impact using analytics and GenAI, and drive enterprise transformation. Entrepreneurs, business leaders, and senior executives will emerge with the tools to make confident, insight-led decisions. Graduates earn the prestigious Executive Education Alumni Status from IIM Calcutta.