Initiative To Redesign Management Education Curriculum In India Progresses Further

Chennai, October 29, 2011 Directors from the countrys top management institutes and

eminent business leaders engaged in intense deliberations today to redesign the current MBA curriculum in India and infuse innovation and creativity into it at a national level workshop in Chennai today organized by IIM - Ahmedabad Alumni Association (AAA) Chennai Chapter and Anna University with IIM-Ahmedabad and IM-Calcutta as knowledge partners. Based on the bestselling book Rethinking the MBA; Management Education at a crossroad by renowned Harvard Professor Srikant Datar who was personally present and led the proceedings, the workshop titled Rethinking Management Education with Innovation and Creativity, saw some of Indias top academic personalities like Dr Samir Barua, Director, IIM-A, Prof. Shekhar Chaudhuri, Director, IIM-C, Dr Mannar Jawahar, Vice Chancellor, Anna University besides senior business executives like Lakshmi Narayan of Cognizant, Titan Industries Meera Harish & l R Natarajan and Dr Aravind Srinivasan of Aravind Eye Hospital.

The workshop part of a series organized across cities with Chennai being the fourth, is the first and most rigorous of the an initiative to bring together decision makers at Indias leading management institutes, corporate and policy makers in education under one single umbrella to evolve a clear path to arrive at a redesigned curriculum that shifts the emphasis from knowing to doing and being which then leads to development of competent and innovative leaders well equipped to manage uncertainty and diversity. The first in the series at IIM-Ahmedabad focused on corporate governance and ethics, second one in Mumbai had Leadership as the theme and globalization was the focus in Calcutta, the third in the series.

Dr. Srkant Datar, Harvard Professor and author of the best seller that inspired this initiative, said, The format has been kept as a workshop to ensure there are tangible takeaways and a plan for action is drawn post the days sessions and more is done than said.

In his remarks, Prof. Shekhar Chowdhuri, Director, IIM-Calcutta, said, The very fact that competing institutions like the various IIMs and other business schools have come together (incidentally for the first time) is indicative of the need and the seriousness attached to the need to change.

Commented Prof. Samir Barua, Director, IIM-Ahmedabad, The initiative is gaining momentum and the fifth event in this series to engage the stakeholders across India will now happen in January and we are looking forward to moving to action post receiving inputs and consulting all the stakeholders.

In his opening speech, Mannar Jawahar, Vice-chancellor, Anna University, said, The time is ripe or changing the curriculum for management education in India. And the perspective should include not only that of creativity and innovation from a students perspective but that of the various educational institutions as well.

In his comments, Muralidharan, President, IIM-AAA Chennai chapter said, The global recession with the exception of Asia or few emerging economies and the growing uncertainities across the business spectrum calls for newer skillsets more relevant in todays environment, in management graduates. The whole thinking and pedagogy needs to thus needs to be redesigned to be in alignment with this imperative. Dr.Srikant Datars research in this area is a path breaking one and offers a golden opportunity for business schools to build on and see what can be applied in the Indian context. The deliberations were diverse, intensive and useful. We at the IIM-AAA, Chennai Chapter are pleased that this prestigious event was successful and exceeded expectations.

According to Kandaswamy Bharathan, Visiting Professor at IIM-A & Chairperson of the Conference Organizing Committee, That the workshop happened in Chennai provides an opportunity for academicians, business executives and policy makers from the region to participate, provide their inputs and perspectives to the initiative to change management education in India. This is a region known for its high standards of educational excellence and of having highly renowned and visionary educators and the level of presentations and interactions were clearly indicative of that. The inputs and deliberations will be compiled and consolidated and then factored into the broader effort to get the curriculum changed in the medium term. Would like heartily to thank Prof. Srikant Datar of Harvard University for taking the time to come here personally and lead the discussion, Anna University for its support in making this a success, the two leading IIMs who were knowledge partners and Titan Industriesour principle sponsor.

Anna University has a long and successful history of promoting business education in its numerous affiliated colleges and institutions of higher learning in the state of Tamil Nadu. The students who have graduated from these colleges have made a significant contribution in their respective spheres. The university has always encouraged a spirit of Innovation and creative thinking through its various programmes.

About the IIM AAA Chennai Chapter:The Chennai chapter has been in existence for more than four decades. We have a rich pool of executives who are serving in the corporate/Govt/NGOs as Chairman/MD/CEO and in other senior positions. Many of our alumni have spent more than two decades in the corporate world and have acquired exemplary skill sets in their chosen domain. We have been harnessing this resource purposefully for betterment of management education in South India by conducting many relevant events.

About Anna University:

Anna University offers higher education in Engineering, Technology, Management and allied Sciences relevant to the current and projected needs of the society. Besides promoting research and disseminating knowledge gained there from, it fosters cooperation between the academic and industrial communities. It was established as a unitary type of University in 1978 and later made as an affiliating type and now has the distinction of the largest technical university with more than 500 engineering colleges and business schools under its control. Being one of the top ten institutions in the country, the university has the largest publication of research papers and award of Ph.Ds in one year. The University has always encouraged innovation and creative thinking through its various programmes in Engineering, Technology and Management. The Department of Management Studies in the College of Engineering Guindy campus of Anna University is imparting quality management education for the past 30 years. It is but natural that, Anna University which has produced a large number of management graduates over the years who have made a significant contribution in various categories of management career and as the one university which is going to design and decide the curriculum and regulations for the future programmes of management for more than 200 of its affiliated colleges offering management education , to join hands with the organizers of the conference on Innovation and redesigning the MBA curriculum to support and involve its decision makers in the process.

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