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Stoa school is riding on the wave of cohort based courses in online learning with the promise of getting a business education, a salary hike, a job at a shiny startup and the confidence to hold your own in a room full of MBAs. But taking a look at the business and its courses, it’s unclear just how it all works as a system. While some fellows have a serendipitous success story with the disruptor, is one year old Stoa really ready to challenge the decades-old MBA system?

Story originally reported by Olina Banerji ‘Stoa School’s open challenge to the IIM MBA’

Read it for free: https://the-ken.com/podcastoffer/

Hosts: Anushka Chhikara & Olina Banerji.

Guests: Raj Kunkolienkar, co-founder of Stoa.

Stoa fellows: Aashutosh Joshi, Adithi*, Ankit Ruparel, Pranav Manie (*name changed to retain anonymity).

Music and editing by Sameer Rahat of Baqsa Studios.

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