Interviewed by: Swati Sengupta
Interview Place: IIM Calcutta
Interview date: February 2012

Table of Contents:

• Introduction; Context of joining IIMC
• General environment at IIMC
• Changes after liberalisation; pressures to professionalise management education
• Pressures of accreditation and accountability of the Institute
• Student recruitment; quota and Murli Manohar Joshi
• Two decades at IIMC; notions about IIMC
• Administration; relationship between faculty and administration
• Life on campus
• First day at IIMC; other professors at the time
• Interview for the position at IIMC; the Board of Directors
• Campus culture; extra-curricular activities
• Entrance exams
• Retirement of other colleagues; Chairman of PGP; Decision
• Journal, publications and editing
• Inter-disciplinary courses; government support for business; role of social sciences in management education
• Curriculum change
• Life and learning at IIMC
• Commonality of academic language and life
• Adjusting to Calcutta and the Institute; local politics; government support
• Political culture, student councils in business schools versus universities

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     IIM Calcutta

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