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Leading Businesses Through Macroeconomic Uncertainty – A practical Playbook [Batch-1]

   Program Dates
   Start Date: 23 July, 2026
   End Date: 25 July, 2026

 

 

Venue/Deadline

IIMB Campus
Early Bird Deadline: 2 July, 2026
Register By: 13 July, 2026
 

Program Fees (excluding GST)

Residential: Rs.1,06,500
Residential Early Bird: Rs.95,850
Non-Residential: Rs.90,000
Non-Residential Early Bird: Rs.81,000

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Important Deadlines

Venue: IIMB Campus
Early Bird Deadline: 2 July, 2026
Register By: 13 July, 2026
 
 

Who should attend?

This programme is designed for: 

  • Executives and business heads with P&L responsibility 
  • CFOs, finance directors, and treasury leaders seeking a clearer macro perspective 
  • Strategy and corporate development professionals 

Contact Us

Mr. Gourav Kumar
Landline No.:+91-80-26993816
Mobile No. +91-8951281609
Email: gourav.kumar@iimb.ac.in

Mode
In-Person
Starting In
July-Sep
Level
CXO, Senior Leaders
Duration
Short Duration
International Travel
No
Alumni Status
No

Programme Overview

This executive education programme is designed specifically for professionals who do not have formal training in finance or economics, but who increasingly face decisions shaped by interest rates, currency movements, and global financial shocks. Rather than teaching economics as an academic subject, the programme focuses on building intuition, confidence, and practical judgment. Participants learn how to interpret macro signals, understand how these forces affect firm performance, and respond strategically at the boardroom level. 

 

Programme Objective

The programme follows a simple, intuitive learning journey: 

  1. Understanding the macro environment
  2. Translating macro movements into firm-level impact
  3. Choosing practical strategic responses

Programme Contents

The programme is delivered over three days, with each session combining conceptual discussion and applied business examples.

 

Day 1: Understanding the Macro Environment 

Focus: What is happening in the global and domestic economy, and why it matters for business leaders. 

 Key themes: 

  • Growth, inflation, and financial conditions: what these terms really mean for firms 
  • Interest rates and central banks: what policymakers control and what markets decide 
  • Exchange rates and global capital flows: why currencies move and why they are hard to predict 

Participants build a simple macro monitoring framework using a small set of indicators they can realistically follow. 

 

Day 2: How Macro Shocks Affect the Firm 

Focus: Translating macro movements into balance-sheet and profit-and-loss impact. 

 Key themes: 

  • Viewing the balance sheet as a map of risk rather than an accounting document 
  • Interest rate risk explained through refinancing, maturity mismatch, and margin pressure 
  • Currency risk beyond exports and imports, including hidden and indirect exposures 

Examples of Indian companies and past crisis episodes are used throughout to anchor learning in real-world experience. 

 

Day 3: Strategic Responses and Decision-Making 

Focus: What leaders can realistically do in response to macro uncertainty. 

 Key themes: 

  • Practical approaches to managing interest rate and currency risk 
  • Understanding hedging choices without product complexity 
  • Designing simple treasury and risk frameworks suitable for board oversight 

The programme concludes with an applied exercise where participants reflect on their own firm or sector.

 

Key benefits/takeaways

By the end of the programme, participants will be able to: 

  • Understand what drives interest rates, currency movements, and global financial risk in plain language 
  • Interpret central bank actions and market signals without relying on technical models 
  • Identify how macro shocks affect revenues, costs, funding, and profitability 
  • Ask sharper, more informed questions of finance teams, bankers, and advisors 
  • Communicate macro-related risks clearly and confidently at board and senior leadership forums 
Pedagogy

Intuition-first, narrative-based instruction 

  • No equations or technical modelling 
  • Business language rather than financial jargon 
  • Continuous use of real-world examples and lived crisis episodes 
  • Peer discussion and executive-level dialogue

Programme Director

 

Professor Chetan Subramanian joined IIM Bangalore in the Economics area in May 2010. Prior to joining IIM Bangalore, he was a faculty member at the University Of Buffalo, New York (SUNY). He served as the Dean (Faculty) at IIMB between April 2020 and April 2023. His research interests lie in the areas of monetary economics, financial markets and international macroeconomics, and his work has appeared in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Economic Theory, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Health Economics and the Journal of Law and Economics.

Professor Subramanian currently teaches Macroeconomics and International Macroeconomics to MBA students and Advanced Macroeconomics to Doctoral students. He has also conducted executive education programmes for leading companies such as HUL, L&T, TCS, HSBC, HDFC and KPMG.

Programme Charges

Programme Fee
INR 1,06,500/- Residential and INR 90,000/- Non -Residential (+ Applicable GST) per person for participants from India and its equivalent in US Dollars for participants from other countries.

Early Bird Discount
Nominations received with payments on or before 02-July-2026 will be entitled to an early bird Discount of 10%.
Early Bird Fee (Residential) INR 95,850/-(+ Applicable GST)
Early Bird Fee (Non-Residential) INR 81,000/-(+ Applicable GST)

Group Discount
Group Discount of 5% percentage can be availed for a group of 3 or more participants when nominations received from the same organization.

Please Note

  • All enrolments are subject to review and approval by the programme director. Joining Instructions will be sent to the selected candidates 10 days prior the start of the programme.
  • The programme fee should be received by the Executive Education Office before the programme commencement date.
  • In case of cancellations, the fee will be refunded only if a request is received at least 15 days prior to the start of the programme.
  • If a nomination is not accepted,the fee will be refunded to the person/ organisation concerned.
  • A certificate of participation will be awarded to the participants by IIMB.

Participant Benefits

As a participant of this Short Duration Programme, you will be able to enjoy some exclusive benefits other than the outcomes such as skills and knowledge enhancement and building specific competencies that can help shape your career growth.

Some of the exclusive benefits of attending this programme are listed below –

  • Receive Executive Education eNewsletters
  • Invitation to share articles to the EEP blog (subject to a shortlisting process)
  • Participate in EEP webinars on various topics
  • Invitation to curated events and programs by the EEP office

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