Management Education - Is Pune doing a good enough job?

The winter of recession seems to be leaving us, and the global economy seems to be warming up. The "new economy" will be different, in the following ways:

• knowledge and "soft" power will be the prime drivers of the economy
• countries with the demographic dividend will have a greater leveraging ability.

India has much to gain from the emerging scenario. However, it will have to convert it's demographic profile into competent human capital. Education, especially management education, will be the most critical "game changer".

Pune - the so called Oxford of the East (??), is home to 200 or so management institutions. These institutions are churning out tons of "post graduates in management". But are these young minds really instilled with the "game changing" qualities that will be required? Are we as educators adding value? Or we letting the system & status-quo overcome us?

We will have to be more innovative. We will have leverage technology, knowledge management systems and teaching-learning methods so that we can transmit tacit & explicit knowledge to a large student population (mass education), in the shortest possible time. And all this must be done affordably.

After all, India is still a poor country. But with a large youthful population which has high aspirations. Their expectations from their teachers is also high!