Paradigm Shift in Indian Executive Education: Need of the Hour

Abstract In this article, the author draws a comprehensive comparison between pedagogies used in Indian and Western Education to opine that executive education in India needs to undergo an overhaul to stay relevant in today’s changing times. The author remarks that the teaching pedagogy in India should move away from the ‘knowledge-transfer’ and ‘theory-based’ model and adapt an ‘experiential and reflective’ learning method, which has been successfully adopted by the many Western business schools. Executive education in India needs to design an enriched and enhanced curricula to be at par with their global counterparts, and thus, the author thinks that it is a need of the hour to bring about a paradigm shift in the current business education in India