I read in Businessweek a while ago about the trouble many Indian institutions are having in keeping up with how many students are getting an MBA. Consider this, there are more than 1600 Institutions offering undergraduate Business Programs and MBA's. Many Indian students are doing their best to take advantage of explosive economic growth in their home country by getting a higher level degree. In the United States alone most MBA programs are seeing double-digit increases in the amount of Indian Students who apply for their programs.
With the large growth of forward looking students trying to take advantage of a hot growth period I wonder how many professors are actually equipped to be teaching this next generation of businesspeople to be leaders in the Indian Market. I recently wrote an article about the various types of authors that we learn from who have either have very bad experience, no experience, or excellent experience in the marketplace. Obviously the biggest danger is in having a negative person influence what we put in our minds.
Of the other two forms of teachers however, I am worried that too many teachers will come from the "no experience" category giving this country a high number of theoretically intelligent people who have little concept of how to actively work in the field. Strong decisions making and problem solving skills are important. A person who has no experience and personal insights should play a very limited roll in how much influence they have over future leaders. What do the masses think?
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