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Companies also queried candidates on mental health awareness, cryptocurrency, blockchain and innovative and effective vaccination strategy, unlike before when the discussions largely centred around career goals
Read more about Management by algorithm? How businesses should work in the AI era on Business Standard. It is time we reimagined management education in a way that students build an understanding of AI, its usage and application in business, all the while honing their soft skills
There has been an ongoing debate on the need for B-schools to rejig what and how they teach. From being just a glorified placement services cell for top companies, they were being asked rather pointed questions about what they were really imparting as education. This debate is not specific to India, though Indian B-schools, at least the top ones have had a ride of their lives for the last decade or more. In the article "The Buck Stops (and Starts) at Business School" Joel Podolny points towards several serious issues B-schools need to address starting with a greater emphasis on values-base...
Management education in India has evolved considerably over the past 70 years. The economic liberalization era of 1990s and the consequent rapid economic development witnessed substantial demand for MBA education. This paved the entry of large number of public and private institutions to offer MBA programmes across the country. Thanks to MBA emerging as a preferred (read “glamourous”) qualification, it is widely perceived as a panacea to address all business challenges. However, the mushrooming of MBA schools has left their own structural weaknesses around resulting in a plethora of chall...
The MBA degree as we know it has been in the doldrums for a while. Increasingly, as jobs across both traditional and new-age industries place less emphasis on graduate programmes, online courses become easily available, and specialized short-duration certificates gain popularity, young people question the value and need for what is almost always an expensive degree. Furthermore, as the effects of Covid-19 accelerate ed-tech adoption, it is clear that traditional education will require a re-think. In particular, MBA programmes that were already seeing a decline in applications in many countr...