With the passage of time our educational system has got heavily slanted towards scoring of marks to somehow pass the examination. While it encourages a few to come up in life, the potential of vast majority of intelligent minds is surpassed. Realising this need in mid-1994 and urged by Lt. Col. Satsangi VSM, Chairman, CSKM Public School and Ajit N. Haksar, Chairman Emeritus, ITC Ltd., Pankaj Saran, President, EMPI conceptualized a blueprint to set up an institution that would nurture giftedness in individuals to achieve excellence.

The concept gained momentum when former Director of BHEL, Sr. Management Consultant Commonwealth (UK) and President IEEMA, Gurnam Saran, then associated as Managing Director in an American Consulting Group, decided to return and stepped in as Founder President of Entrepreneurship and Management Processes International (EMPI Business School). EMPI has a number of distinguished people in its board who are well known leaders in their own respective domains. EMPI Business School Group, New Delhi was established in 1995, by a group of nation builders who have been highly committed and successful professionals and academicians in their own respective domains.

Creating Outstanding Professionals

EMPI is a ‘Modern Gurukul‘ of management and executive education – a melting pot of cultures, nationalities, ideas and diverse talent working and living together to actualise futuristic vision. As in a gurukul, EMPI lives by the philosophy that each learner – the ‘Shisya’ is unique, requiring personalised attention from the ‘Guru’ for individual growth, enabling them to become not only outstanding professionals, but also socially responsible citizens. The endeavour for individual nurturing is based on scientific and modern psychology concepts and tools. EMPI has been consistently ranked amongst the top 25 management institutions of the country.

Awesome Infrastructure and Facilities

EMPI Business School is based on a sprawling green, pollution-free, large residential campus in the picturesque South Delhi, Chattarpur area, adjacent to the Asola Wildlife Sanctuary. It is a pollution free vast green campus.

It has a vibrant 24*7 residential facility in Executive Development House with Internet, cultural centre and movie club. It is India’s first management institute with state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence Lab powered by IBM. It has an Executive Fitness Programme (premium multi-gym, lawn tennis, yoga, table tennis, badminton etc.)

EMPI Business School has a safe, secure campus with separate hostel for male and female students. It has a regular bus linked to the nearest metro station. It has a medical insurance coverage for students. It has a Personality Assessment Centre, Enhancement and Upgradation Programme (PACE-UP). The school also holds an Integrated Group Development Program with foreign students, researchers and academics. It includes GFP (General Fitness for Profession). It has a strict implementation of anti-ragging and sexual harassment laws.

Institution of Excellence

EMPI has been envisioned as an institution of excellence with key focus on capabilities building through:

• Comprehensive education for holistic development of each individual’s personality with a human and global outlook.
• Synthesising in its educational processes, innovation and entrepreneurship with management and vice-versa.
• 24*7 learning environment which nurtures, motivates and inspires development of managerial giftedness.
• To create innovative, inter-disciplinary, paradigms that transforms minds and impacts society.

Variety of Learning Opportunities

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Infused Management Programmes with AI Certification from IBM

• MNC Co-Created and Co-Delivered Curriculum
• Futuristic, Job-Oriented Management Programmes
• Live and Capstone Projects
• Opportunity to learn directly from industry experts
• Study and practice in industry simultaneously
• Go Abroad Program (Internship/Semester Exchange/Summer and Cultural Exchange)
• Continuous industry visits, field study, live industry projects and corporate connects
• Opportunity to launch own start-up with the help of Atal Incubation Centre – EMPI (Supported by AIM, Niti Aayog, GoI)

Learning Through Living

EMPI is committed to identify, nurture and enrich giftedness in individuals through continuous innovative pedagogy and distinctly different gurukul like learning environment to bring out creative, entrepreneurial and managerial capabilities keeping in sharp focus the need to promote meritorious, innovative, enterprising and intellectual potential of our youth and collectively showcasing Indian achievements. With the emphasis that management learning takes place primarily outside the classroom unique programmes have been designed and are carried out based on enriching team processes such as sensitivity training, unique psychometric profiling that maps each student for interventions and the Personality Assessment, Enhancement and Up-gradation Programme.

These interventions delivered in the gurukul setting promote ‘Learning through Living’. The gurukul atmosphere in turn promotes team learning under close mentorship of faculty. Further, based on the adage that fitness is a key to handling modern day managerial stresses, a unique executive fitness program aims to bring about balance of the mind and body.

Prioritizing Innovations

EMPI’s guiding philosophy of ‘Innovating Futures’ is a recognition that the 21^st century is being driven by the twin paradigms of ‘Innovation’ and ‘Futurisation’, dynamically reinforcing and building on each other, with manifestations from technology to social change. Not only is the process of creative destructive in all walks, imperative for the way forward but also the knowledge of ‘predicted’ future scenarios is also equally vital.

This DNA constitutes the basis for EMPI’s institutional ethos, wherein innovation is achieved, not only through academic study and research at its B-School, but also by incubating and spinning off various initiatives and entities that impact the future. These initiatives are emergent from the dynamic inter-play of technology, academia, public policy and civil society, leading to the birth of a series of ‘Firsts’ in the country like setting up India’s first Participative Public Policy Forum called ‘We Think for India, that created the manufacturing policy draft for the government of India using a decentralized process, which was released by the then Prime Minister of India, Shri. Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji. EMPI’s ‘Mission Innovative India’ which was flagged off by President, Hon’ble Shri APJ Abdul Kalam. Under this first in India initiative organizational innovations from various sectors including the Government, Corporate, Non-Corporate and Network of Organizations were recognized and awarded in one platform. Back in the year 2007, EMPI worked closely with the Knowledge Process Outsourcing industry, NASSCOM and the Department of IT, Government of India to identify their training needs and consequently launch the first programme on Research and Business Analytics in India. EMPI is the first institution that has floated the concept of an innovation city and have addressed so many issues that can impact the society and the country”.

Unique Incubation Centre to address High-impact Problems

EMPI Business School is approved by AICTE, Ministry of HRD, Government of India. EMPI was selected out of thousands of applicants by Niti Aayog, Government of India under their Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) to set-up a first of its kind Atal Incubation Centre. The aim of the centre is to create world-class incubation facilities with suitable physical infrastructure.

AIC-EMPI works with multiple stakeholders, to build intelligent ecosystems around entrepreneurs to create scalable and marketable high impact projects, products and solutions across diverse sectors. It works with international incubation centres, government, industry, NGOs in incubating programmes and solutions that shall address high impact problems through venturing. The focus areas are new mobility, energy, health, agri-tech, ed-tech etc.

Excellent Placement Record

Targeting to groom individuals to become winners in life, EMPI is putting larger effort on learning than mere teaching. Organisations visiting EMPI Campus Placement Centre have acknowledged the distinguishing qualities of the alumni. The placement centre activities are in regular contact with business and industrial houses, as also prominent NGOs (national/international).

Students take active part in driving the corporate connect activities and thus learn the fineries about corporate expectation. Necessary pro-active steps are taken to facilitate a variety of interactions with industry and business enterprises round the year to make them aware of the unique feature of the EMPI programmes. The school has an excellent record in placing our students for summer and final placements in various organizations with a 100% placement record.

Innovative & Futuristic Plans

• To develop a world class innovative centre of excellence that integrates academia, research, consulting for not only knowledge dissemination, but also for knowledge creation.
• To become a resource centre for adapting the best practices of universities in advanced nations to developing country and emerging economy contexts.
• To become a global centre for the study of innovation across sectors, themes and organizational contexts.
• To facilitate ‘Innovation in action’ within the institution and incubate ‘Entrepreneurial’ initiatives that will impact public policy and society.
• To apply, adapt and develop new technology-based learning pedagogies that promote experiential learning through participative inquiry.