Its okay that no school can teach you common sence. How about ethics? My businessmen friends are worried about the future of their business. The reason of worry is like this. They are worried about, how to imbibe Indian values in their children. The family values, the family business vlues and all that. Can somebody guide him/them? To which school the children must be send right from the early childhood to make his/their business successful even in the future generations? Dr. Ashish Urkude February 9, 2005.
yes b-schools are doing a great job in developing skill among the students. india is a large reservaior for human resources. if our strenths are rised in the area of bussines thenwe will learde the oworld.
Your article titled "Common Sense Not from B-schools" does not represent a full picture of Indian B-schools.
I agree that work experience teaches you a lot of things , but it also makes a person lax and forbids him in trying new ideas.. In most companies the middle and upper management try to do the same thing over and over again.. It is the mind of a fresh, newly appointed grad that drives innovation in a company..
And that is where the MBA grads of today fit in. An MBA degree teaches you how to structure your thougts so that your ideas can yield optimum business results..
Finally yes "People Management" is perhaps the most important thing, but you can't expect an MBA degree to teach you that, it comes from within...
Work experience has its advantage as the candidate is able to relate the teaching with his experience and able to gain maore. However MBA is also about imparting personal skills like group behaviour, positive thinking,leadership skills, communication skills, strategic thinking etc etc and here fresher always have an advantage. The younger you are the easier it is to change your personality trait.
Some issues are well-stated - others exaggerated,yet others ignored. Their linkage with the solutions proposed is uniformly weak. Some aspects of the business environment change. Other mutuate in form, but are similar at the core Yet others remain constant. Learning needs to thus reflect each of these three aspects - and only some of it needs to or can be in the class room There are similar issues with B-School inputs, as also regulatory and governance mechanisms One thus needs to examine faculty profile, pedagogy and learning material within this context. This is what Business Policy or Strategic Planning is all about. This has apparently been taught poorly at FMS - otherwise an alumnus with prior both pre and post MBA experience would not write in this manner. A thought - almost none of the top 100 B-Schools globally (in which FMS does not figure) - have all faculty as visiting managers. Are they all dumb? Perhaps less dumb than rediff which allows such trashy columns to be published.
I fully agree, i am planning to do part time MBA but i was worried whether the said course will be put me par with full time MBA candidates. But after going through this write up I am confident to take part time MBA. And hope that after completing part time MBA industries recognize part time MBA degree almost equivalent to full time MBA.
yes salil ,I do agree with your opinion .But in a country like India where there is limited number of oppurtuinty and resources one can't hope to first hand trianing from industries especially when you are different stream of science.More over our syllabus or circullum is not updated with changes in industry, more over there is cut throat competitiion among B-school for geting maximum number of students rather than imparting quality education.Even our industries are like those in farm sector,paper and allied industies are under the protected shield govt.We should try develop a more investor friendly environment for FDI.Every time a new proposal is put supporters of leftwing has an in born quality of opposing .If this is what happening in political feild how can our industries,other sector progress .it is high time we should wake and do something to revitalise our sprits.
i am in agreement with ur assertion but tell me how many of managers of today would like to interact with the students who are the managers of tomorrow. according to them teaching in management institutes is not as lucrative and challenging a proposition as working in the corporate world. moreover with the industry working 24x7 where is the time for these managers to coach the management students of various b schools. the only solution i can see in this conundrum is for industries to sponsor some institutes and encourage their staff to teach the students of that b school. in whis way they will be doing a social service to the society by bringing forth effective managers and also giving condidence to their staff an opportunity to go back to their books albeit for a consideration. i feel this should be resorted to and moreover staff of industries who teach at b schools should be given special incentives by the industry.
A language teacher can teach how to make sentences . It is upto the learner to write articles and books , getting them published and marketing them . Managment is not as much a Common Sense as it is projected . Each role , like Individuals , is different and there is no way how Each Role can be taught . Neither business was waiting for Managment Graduates till now . It,s a matter of 'Not repeating the past mistakes' and Making use of available information whether science , art , specializtion or Generalities . The eyes which observe ( practitioners ) do not have words and the Mouth which speaks ( teacher ) does not have Eyes . Studies are just pathways , the basic information , on which one has to build up . Are the students making full use of whatever is being taught . Are they making full use of Campus . More than that is it not the challenge inside Industry which they are not willing to Cope up rather what tools the B or A scools are offering . Please do not take it as a rejoinder but a hint from a Teacher .
