Interview place: Puroshottam Sen’s Office at IIM Calcutta
Interview Date: 20th February 2012
Table of contents:
• Childhood; early education.
• St. Edmund’s, Shillong; BITS Pilani.
• Coming to IIMC, thesis topic, informal environment.
• Faculty in the Accounting department.
• Sitangshu Chakraborty; Management by Objectives; Goodricke’s tea house.
• Transition from a British culture to a more local culture in the functioning of industries like Birlas.
• Importance of references in the job-market.
• Birla-Raheja Combined; MIS.
• Teaching as visiting faculty at IIMC at various times; Exide, Chloride.
• Wilfrid Laurier, Canada; American University of Armenia.
• Faculty teaching Finance and Accounting.
• Case study method versus theory; methods of teaching.
• Experience at Armenia and its impact on teaching at IIMC.
• Loss of interaction between students and faculty; growing numbers.
• Understaffed Finance department; industrial environment as determinant of doctoral student inflow.
• Industrial environment of the state.
• Change in the culture of publishing; Finance Lab.
• Academic culture; publishing as incentive.
• Character of the Institute; Role of economics and sociology in management education.
• Mintzberg on management; Living up to the description of the Institute.
• Changing composition of students and faculty at IIMC.
• Aspirations for the Institute; Conclusion.
2012-02-20
IIM Calcutta
