B Schools

When I was in college in my final year, I had one dream. To be in one of the best management schools in the country. It was a hype maybe that everyone followed, or maybe I was really destined to one.

But when I got deeper and deeper into thinking of a prestigious MBA degree and my future, there was somehwere some disconnect. I always wanted to be an entrepreneur, someone who is indepepndent from the boss, someone who can decide what he wants to do and which 20 hours to work in a day.

As i learnt more and more about the education pattern and the demand for B schools, I just learnt that majority of the B schools in the country, the good ones, teach us students to be an employee. They teach us how to be an employee, how to communicate to the peers, how to market a soap, how to make a balance sheet of a BIG company, how can you manage a small operation in a Huge production House.

No one teaches you to be an employer. For there may be some courses who does deal with Family businesses and all, but then they are not as recognised as an MBA degree.

India has been and still is the country to produce the largest number of entrepreneurs. Though there may not be so many names unlike the west who have big names, but the fact of the matter is that even a small pan wallah on the nook of the street is an entrepreneur.

In my view, the focus has totally been shifted because of placements in B schools. Students want to get into big companies and giving up a brilliant idea they may have for they dont want to take any risk.

Students are getting lucrative salaries and a 8 hour job that they dont want to try their dream which could be n times more profitable (income generator) and which could be more enjoyable.

There should be a change in the attitude, the way people think. There are too many jobs. Companies will hire you because they know that they would not find a better person and a cheaper skilled person that him.

"My message was that follow your dream, think about entrepreneurship and don't just let your dream die. It just needs some courage from your side, a couple of failures and you will make Big".

PKC