The AI-Native MBA Roadmap
The full Indian B-school curriculum — pre-term to capstone, every core term and all ten specialisation tracks — with the AI layer stitched into every course. Click any node to see what it covers, where it comes from (IIM / ISB syllabi), and exactly how to use AI while studying it.
Learn from 134 subjects — every one opens a full 50-lesson course, marked ▶ below.
What every IIM assumes you already have before Term I begins. IIM-C runs it as 'Qualifying Mathematics'; ISB runs it as a Digital Head-Start module.
Quantitative bridge
Language and reasoning bridge
This is what the top schools mostly still teach as separate electives (IIM-B: Generative AI, Responsible AI, AI Applications for Managers; IIM-A: AI & Marketing, AI & HRM). Here it is a spine that touches every other node on the page.
Fluency
Judgement
Building
Production
Compulsory for every student. Titles here follow IIM-A's Term 1 slate, cross-referenced with IIM-B Term I and IIM-C's credit structure.
Numbers
Markets and people
IIM-A adds costing, macro, corporate finance and IT here; IIM-B pairs Corporate Finance with Competition & Strategy; IIM-C introduces Information Technology & Systems.
Money and cost
Customers, systems, people
Strategy, research method and the business environment. IIM-A adds flexicore choices here; IIM-B lets students take their first two electives.
Integrative core
Environment and enterprise
IIM-C makes the summer project a graded credit; ISB runs an Experiential Learning Programme as live consulting. This is where the AI layer either proves itself or does not.
Field work
Reflection
The deepest elective pool in the country: IIM-A offers 22 finance electives, IIM-B another 20. Grouped here by what the work actually is.
Valuation & corporate finance
Markets, instruments & risk
IIM-A runs 26 marketing electives including AI & Marketing and Neuroscience & Consumer Behaviour; IIM-B adds Agile Marketing, Omnichannel Retail and Marketing ROI.
Customer & brand
Go-to-market
IIM-A's Production & Quantitative Methods area plus IIM-B's Operations electives — the track where AI's returns are easiest to measure.
Flow & network
Improvement & projects
IIM-A's Strategy area (18 electives) and IIM-B's 21, including AI Strategy, Platform Business Models and Learning from Corporate Failures.
Corporate & competitive
Technology & platforms
XLRI's home turf, plus IIM-A's OB and HRM areas — which already include an AI and Human Resource Management elective and Leading the Digital Transformation.
People systems
Leadership & change
IIM-A carries 21 economics electives and a 23-course Public Systems Group; IIM-B's Centre for Public Policy adds another 15. India-specific and badly under-chosen by students.
Applied economics
Policy & public systems
IIM-A's Information Systems area and IIM-B's — the closest existing home for AI, currently offering Generative AI, Responsible AI, AI Applications for Managers and Digital Product Management.
Data & platforms
AI in practice
IIM-A's Production & Quantitative Methods electives and IIM-B's Decision Sciences group — including Sports Analytics, Analytics for Cross-functional Excellence and Spreadsheet Models.
Method
Application
IIM-A's CIIE courses and IIM-B's NSRCEL-linked electives including Lean Launch Lab, New Age Business Models and Venture Capital.
Building
Scaling & alternatives
IIM-A's Communication area runs 11 electives; both schools deliberately include philosophy, history and the Indian Knowledge Systems. In an AI-saturated programme this track gets more important, not less.
Persuasion
Judgement & context
IIM-A ends with a Strategy Capstone; ISB with the ELP; IIM-B with a capstone simulation. This programme adds one more requirement that none of them yet has.
Integration
Credential