HYDERABAD: Satyam School of Leadership (SSL), the corporate leadership university of Satyam Computer Services Ltd has announced its partnership with Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP) and Universitas 21 Global (U21Global) to commence SSL's curriculum with advanced global business leadership learning for its senior leaders.

The programme termed as the Certificate of Global Business Leadership, will equip selected leaders with an MBA program to expand and deepen global strategic leadership capability. The core objective and focus of the programme is to boost the company's strategic leadership excellence.

Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University, and U21Global (the online graduate school established by the Universitas 21 network of globally recognized universities jointly with Thomson Learning) will collaborate in defining, selecting and delivering suitable learning content for the program.

HBSP will provide help in developing content, case studies, and online leadership modules while U21Global will deliver suitably integrated additional content, participant management, and assessment processes. SSL will facilitate the whole learning experience for the company's leaders by enabling policies processes, and systems at the organizational level.

SSL plans to enhance the global business leadership skills of more than 3000 company's leaders over the next three years. This program, fully sponsored by SSL, has been developed and designed exclusively for the company. The selection criteria for the leaders will be based on nominations and performance. U21Global will make the final eligibility decision with the SSL team based on a detailed evaluation process of each application.

Speaking on the partnership, B Rama Raju, co-founder and CEO of the company said, "Having recognized the need to grow global leaders, we have continuously taken initiatives to create an eco-system for nurturing this growth. It is also imperative to arm ourselves with current best practices from global innovators in education and training. The three-year tie-up today will enable us to draw upon the required learning's and thought processes from their knowledge base and experiences, and we are glad to extend the same to our Associates.”

The partnership will extend over duration of three years and have a faculty comprising a team of outstanding professors from throughout the world. The program will be delivered to learning communities virtually and supplemented with blended learning options and is expected to commence from May this year with the first batch of leaders.