From software to 17,000 students: How Akhil Shahani built an employability business through peer learning

In 1999, Dr. Akhil Kishore Shahani had a plan. With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1994 and experience in the US software industry, he aimed to build a software company worth billions, retire by 30, and settle in the Bahamas. He closed the company in 2004.Instead of asking how to build a start-up, Shahani asked what business education should truly teach. That question led him back to education, a family legacy nearly a…