First things first! Studying in a B-School is rarely a dream that a person nurtures right from his/ her childhood days. Nobody plays core business level games during childhood. The closest to business game a child plays is called “Vyapari”. So a natural question arises, how come every year we see a surge of MBA aspirants who compete against each other like Spartans in a battlefield?
The answer probably lies in the fact that the decision to go for an MBA attributes to either self-exploration process or a spontaneous decision, both of which happen generally during the period within under-graduation and 2-3 years of work-experience in a real industrial environment.
If you talk about me, it was the first option. I was one of the first guys to get placed (July 2012) in one of the leading core companies in India, TATA Motors. At that point of time, I used to look at some of my peers who seemed to be like crazy for MBA (and I must say they were becoming crazier day by day). And the thought came to my mind – why struggle for a dream wherein if you get a chance to explore, one even doesn’t have time to dream anymore. You lose sleep, you feel like 48 hours a day may also be not enough? Then why rush for such a course in your life? By this time, you must have guessed that I didn’t have any plan to carry on with any further study. MBA…definitely not!
Then came the first day of my job. Our training for one month was planned with utmost care. The moment I saw the plan for our training, I started to realize so much of thought would have gone behind preparing this plan. HR specialization of MBA became apparent to me. Days passed and we were made aware about the supply chain at TATA Motors- how a product gets planned through market research (marketing and strategy became apparent to me), how it gets developed (operations) through feedback mechanism processes, the stages involved (again operations) and how sales and services get operated. I tried to put myself in the shoes of the people involved in industry building process and then I started realizing the importance of education in a B-School.
And thus here I am, at IIM Ranchi. My two weeks of induction here made me realize how correct was my decision to go for an MBA. Group activities that occurred here pointed clearly to the process of industry building and sustenance. Each and every part of an MBA has some or the other role to play in long standing of any organization and I feel really excited about being part of such an enriching journey.