Interview place: Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata
Interview Date: 20th February 2012
Table of contents:
• Early years; educational background; joining IIM Calcutta in 1974.
• Campus of Emerald Bower; professors at IIM Calcutta.
• Working environment of IIM Calcutta; student numbers in the 1970s.
• Atmosphere on campus; the commute to IIM Calcutta.
• The Naxalite movement in Bengal.
• Competition from IIM Ahmedabad; coming from an academic background into IIM Calcutta; the influence of the MIT structure on IIM Calcutta.
• The “Ahmedabad” model of case studies.
• The Emergency period; personal and professional beliefs; globalization; long-time friends and colleagues at IIM-Calcutta.
• Changes at the IIMs due to the liberalization policy of 1991; the Sociology group at IIM Calcutta; the introduction of computers on campus.
• The students strike; the floods of 1978.
• Characteristics of Joka campus; comparisons with Delhi University campus.
• Student freedom at IIM Calcutta; difference in vision between IIMs and American business schools.
• Differences between IIM Calcutta and the other IIMS.
• The advantages of doing a PhD in the USA.
• Joining the Heritage Institute; being visiting faculty abroad.
• The advantages of being IIM-C alumni; choosing to return to India after the PhD.
• Institutional culture at Emerald Bower; the tubular structure.
• Student reunions at IIM Calcutta; changes in student behavior over the years.
• The quality of students; the facilities available at IIM Calcutta.
2012-02-20
IIM Calcutta
