Apropos Subrata Chakraborty's straightforward commentary on Indian B-schools ("What they don't teach you at B-schools", May 30) that their curricula are out of step with corporate demand for innovation-led and creative thinkers, some introspection is also warranted on our submission to the Western model of management thinking and curricula building. Unless we have an Indian version of management stream, we will remain captive to irrelevant management models, which Chakraborty aptly describes as starting with disciplines, moving to functions and ending with an integration of topics. Having taught numerous MBA courses at premier B-schools, I have seen how students who score impressive CGPAs (or cumulative grade point average) are often ignorant about their social surroundings and institutional challenges, which form the bedrock of innovation. Such students, thus, remain in rational analysis mode of understanding business. It's time for a fundamental change in the thinking process on the part of B-schools.
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