DNA continues the debate on the implications of the proposed IIM council as recommended by the RC Bhargava committee, for the autonomy of the IIMs, including IIM-A.
DNA continues the debate on the implications of the proposed IIM council as recommended by the RC Bhargava committee, for the autonomy of the IIMs, including IIM-A. Rama Bijapurkar, who is on the IIM-A’s board of governors, joins the debate today. She believes that government control and interference in the affairs of the IIMs are keeping these premier B-schools from realising the goals for which they were created.
The IIMs are on the threshold of some amazing opportunities, but they are also facing some serious threats that can marginalise them forever.
They can collectively provide a bouquet of offerings which can make India a world class management education hub and a knowledge capital of the world. This is because (1) the whole world is focusing on emerging markets, particularly India and China, and recognizes that they face new challenges and need new solutions, (2) there is no ‘from within’ knowledge being created as yet in the emerging markets, and (3) India, through the IIMs, may have a better shot at finding these solutions than China.
However, the competition (for the IIMs) is about to explode. Top management schools of the world will soon be in India, while many are already here in some form or the other. Singapore, China and
Dubai are aggressively attracting campuses of the world’s best management schools. The IIMs, with their current level of wide-ranging government control and interference in their operations, and very limited degree of strategic freedom, could end up being marginalised.
The poor pay scales and sustained attempts to ‘regulate’ faculty activities make it difficult to attract new faculty of high calibre.
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