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

People and Color:

When one imagines India, the highlights are: People and Color. The B-School students including women are without exception dressed in dark ‘business’ suits. Where are the bright colors that India emits? Dark business suits perhaps announce one's arrival into an elite club. But throttling ties and stifling suits are also descriptions for the dark state of management education and of India in particular, but generally all over the world. The door must be closed on such closeted-thinking.

There is a lack of color and freshness in the thinking of the students. It just revolves around ‘theory’ rather than ‘practicality’. Not just the students can be blamed for this, but also the management educators are the ones who have brought this about. In India we seem to have forgotten the power of storytelling and the rich reserve we possess. In the Indian context there is a lack of out of the box thinking.