Mr. Amit Agnihotri, Dr. Bakul Dholakia, Mr. Salman Khurshid, Dr. Debashis Chatterjee and Mr. Manish Sabharwal
Conclave Inaugural Address
Mr. Salman Khurshid
Honorable Minister of State (Ind. Charge) for Corporate Affairs, Govt of India
“I am glad that the management education fraternity has felt the need to relook at the MBA education in our country. And it is important that we attempt to enrich management education through forums such as the Indian Management Conclave.”
Topic : From Expertise to Excellence:
Rethinking the Future of MBA
Dr. Debashis Chatterjee
Director, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
“Indian management education needs to focus on Excellence. We should not copy the western models, but evolve our own unique thinking process. Our education has to be rooted in our context.”
Dr. Bakul Dholakia
Former Director, Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad and Padma Shri awardee
“As a participant and keen observer of Indian MBA education sector for the last four decades, I feel that MBA education sector in India is at the cusp of a major transformation. Today, Indian B-schools are facing formidable challenges, but they have great opportunities as well. With focus on quality, we need to reinvent our MBA education.”
Topic : What Indian employers want an
MBA to be and have
Mr. Manish Sabharwal
Chairman, TeamLease and Member of Prime Minister's Skill Development Mission
“Policy makers after Independence got many things right about human capital, particularly higher education. But our schools and vocational training system not only do not have the capacity to handle the massive demographic growth, they also do not prepare our youth to hit the ground running in workplaces.”
