The Hindu Business Line : What B-school should teach...

Mr Nikhil Chengappa passed out of ICFAI Business School, (Bangalore) in 1997, and is currently working as Senior Manager, in TCS, Bangalore. He says B-schools must teach what the world needs now — entrepreneurship.

On what B-school taught him...

Being analytical, pursuing detail and putting it to use has been a vital part of my learning at B-school. Taking a break from work to join Icfai Business School, Bangalore, was a very refreshing experience.

Interacting with freshers, peers and seniors and seeing the perspective of people from diverse backgrounds, cultures and competencies was all the more exciting. The entire experience at IBS-B, especially interacting with faculty who have rich industry as well as academic experience, discussing a variety of cases in teams, pursuing a variety of courses as electives, group presentations and honing one's soft skills with the help of specialists was immensely helpful for managers like me, in managing aspirations and ambitions of personnel in a multi-skilled corporate structure.

On what B-school must teach...

Entrepreneurship is what our country and perhaps the rest of the world need today in order to progress. Introducing a course to inculcate the basics of this and how to identify and improve entrepreneurial skills and traits would go a long way in making our world self-sufficient. Good books to have as courseware: Rich Dad, Poor Dad, The Cashflow Quadrant and The Rich Dad's Guide to Investing. We definitely need more people like the Ambanis, Bill Gates, Narayana Murthy and Richard Branson.

One defining moment in B-school...

Learning and working in groups, enjoying pressure to the hilt in analysing and presenting case studies on time, exposure to a variety of cultures and competencies made the experience at IBS-B a memorable one.

On applying what he learnt at B-school...

The training received, to study a situation in totality, divide things into work structures, activities and events and analyse both financial and non-financial aspects has helped me in managing projects effectively. Asking smart questions, listening to other points of view and a team approach in completing assignments in B-School days have been very useful in my work.

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