Indian MBA & Engineers
That the premium B-schools in India have a bias towards engineers is a known fact .Was reading an article in Rediff which talks about this phenomenon and subtly questions the method of Selecting "the 'brainiest' and then grooming them towards a management career rather than selecting the brains best suited for the purpose".
I know engineers will find this argument quite difficult to accept .There is no doubt that engineers are very good at math & quantitative analysis. But the flip side is that engineers have "Boxed" thinking and in most cases poor Social skills (Btw, I am an engineer doing an MBA too).The article (Though not in great detail) analyses this trend. The author herself is an IIM-A Alumnus and runs a cool website (and a youth magazine) called JAM.
That the premium B-schools in India have a bias towards engineers is a known fact .Was reading an article in Rediff which talks about this phenomenon and subtly questions the method of Selecting "the 'brainiest' and then grooming them towards a management career rather than selecting the brains best suited for the purpose".
I know engineers will find this argument quite difficult to accept .There is no doubt that engineers are very good at math & quantitative analysis. But the flip side is that engineers have "Boxed" thinking and in most cases poor Social skills (Btw, I am an engineer doing an MBA too).The article (Though not in great detail) analyses this trend. The author herself is an IIM-A Alumnus and runs a cool website (and a youth magazine) called JAM.
posted by Cogito at
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
2 Comments:
Arun,
i was planning to blog about this , nee mundhikina :)
i agree with her on a lot, just cos my math and quant are good i did engineering, now just for the same skills shd i get into mba ?
hari
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Srihari SN, at 1:39 PM
Yeah.My Batch here has only 40% engineers which brings a healthy diversity to the Class.
By
Cogito, at 6:06 PM
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