What They Don't Teach You at Indian B-Schools

Bangalore: What is it that Indian B-schools don’t teach? In an opinion article in The Hindu written by Baba Prasad, President & CEO, Vivekin Group & Visiting Professor of Management, IIIT-Hyderabad, highlighted the issue with certain valid points that Indian B-Schools lack. He pointed out the grey areas in the teaching system of the Indian business schools.

Lack of original Indian thinking:

Prasad quoted a personal experience and said that in a conference on operations management that he was to attend but failed to do so, it was brought to his notice by a colleague that both in methodologies and in applications, the conference was completely West oriented. The only presentation that had Indian “roots,” was a paper that discussed how to optimize scheduling idli-cooker operations in a Bangalore Darshini restaurant. He added that it is sad that even after a decade, the same disease plagued our B-Schools and, also our management thinking in the business world; a lack of original Indian thinking. That raises a question, whether students are being taught to reject a language they know well and instead put on a voice and idiom that they only half-know?