Managing the MBA

Updated on: Wednesday, December 07, 2011

The unfathomable popularity that the notion of a MBA degree entails has captured the ambitions of India's youth. However it is also a process which has certain risks involved in it such as admission into an institution of repute and then only can the course add some considerable value to one's educational repertoire.

Thus in an age, where the United States has emerged as the undisputed location of choice for the vast majority of the Indian students, then it is only befitting that they be allowed to take up MBA courses here and be made aware of the distinctive advantages that can be availed.

This certainly was the thought that was functioning behind the rationale of arranging this symposium. As Partha Pratim Mazumdar, president of Advent Education said, “It is a rewarding process which has certain unpleasant truths which need to be tackled.”

Having Samrat Ray Chowdhury the director of Marketing and Admission of Webster University as the chief speaker on the occassion, Mazumdar presented a succint presentation wherein he outlined some of the basic concerns that doing the MBA programme in India entails.

Students were introduced to the two types of business schools prevalent in India Type A and Type B and how a vast majority of India's MBA's emerge primarily from the second category which results in an overall reduction in the quality of the graduates.

This leads them to undertake professions of very little importance and undermines their potential. It certainly was revelatory when Mazumdar compared the standards set by the MBA programmes in the US to those available here.

The highlight of this occasion was certainly the way Chowdhury conducted his presentation. He embodied the spirit of interactive and inclusive education which the US is acknowledged for. He demonstrated through some rather intuitive games how the art of management is imbibed into the student in a process which is liberating and entertaining and certainly educational.

As the students came up with pertinent questions, he answered them all the while praising the efforts of Advent Education as well as highlighted the uniqueness of Webster University in this regard. It was an effort which certainly went down well with students expecting to pursue the course.

Managing the MBA

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