Leading from the front - Bibek Banerjee, IMT Ghaziabad Director takes us through a research based future of B-School Education
Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad has a sound legacy of 31 years, bringing about freshness in business education in India.
- (1888PressRelease) August 31, 2011 - The management school has been ranked consistently as one of the top institutes in India and has achieved yet another hallmarked success on its listing for 2011. The Economic Times listed the school as amongst the top ten after a rigorous research with the top 500 companies in India. Spearheading this incubation hub for business leaders is the man who plans to steer education in India towards research and development. Dr Banerjee is the current Director of Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad (IMTG) and Academic Mentor of Group-IMT (India).
With Dr. Banerjee's experience as a Professor of Marketing and Economics at IIM Ahmedabad and as one of the key architects of the collaboration between IIM Ahmedabad and Duke Corporate Education, his foresight into the business education in India, ratifies many concerns. His focus on building intellectual capital rather than just polishing and preparing students for the business world has brought about a sea of change in the outlook amongst other leaders as well. He insists that the school needs to focus on honing the creativity and ingenuity of students, rather than guiding 'corporate target chasers'. This is a widely appreciated progressive thought and marks the beginning of a new viewpoint towards those who see India as a hub for churning out B-school graduates, who are not necessarily world class leaders.
His efforts are not only directed towards the students alone, but also the faculty. In this day and age, teaching is just a nuance of being the faculty in a reputed school. What Dr. Banerjee wants, is to scale up research facilities of IMT, where faculty can find infrastructure to conduct their own research and provide fruitful results. As a result of this, many IMT professors are now doing collaborative research with foreign schools, thus creating resolute liaisons and exposing the students to new avenues as well. This works for all parties involved - the students, the faculty and the business school.
Even though there is huge encouragement towards research, Dr. Banerjee clarifies that the school needs to measure research productively almost accurately. Only attending conferences and preparing white papers will be not enough. Tangible results have to be shown in order for this to be a success.
With Dr. Banerjee's expertise in designing management executive development programs for organisations like, such as Ericsson, Coca Cola, the Aditya Birla Group, Genpact, Microsoft, the Citigroup, INFOSYS, TATA group (TAS, TML, Tata Steel, TCL, TMTC), Unilever India (HUL), HDFC Bank, TVS Group, BPCL, IOC, GAIL, ORG-MARG, Maharaja Group (Sri Lanka), Comcraft Steel (Kenya), Bajaj Auto, Asian Paints, Crompton Greaves, Mahindra & Mahindra, ABB (India), Greaves India, OTIS India, and many more, he is set to lead IMT as a research based success story.
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