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
