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IIMs & ISB aim to break B-school stereotype.

Management colleges have long been seen as the playground of men and engineering students. But years of efforts to inject diversity into student pool appear to be paying off.

Vibha Kagzi, CEO of ReachIvy.com, a Mumbai-based management consulting firm, said diverse classrooms have become the need of the hour and Indian institutes are catching up. 

“Business schools were conventionally feeder schools for finance and consulting. Although they largely still do that, tech has now replaced them. At the same time, they also see the shift towards design- and art-based products, which need a diverse set of managers,” she added. “In order to remain relevant, business schools feel the need to increase diversity in their classrooms in order to bring out a set of managers who can run diversely skilled businesses,” said Kagzi.

She added that the foray of students from unconventional backgrounds into management courses will lead to a new generation of entrepreneurs who, apart from being skilled in niche fields, will also have management skills accumulated from the country’s leading B-schools.

“Professionals such as doctors, actors, social workers, and government officers are now looking at becoming entrepreneurs in their niche fields,” Kagzi added.

Management colleges have long been seen as the playground of men and engineering students. But years of efforts to inject diversity into student pool appear to be paying off.

Vibha Kagzi, CEO of ReachIvy.com, a Mumbai-based management consulting firm, said diverse classrooms have become the need of the hour and Indian institutes are catching up. 

“Business schools were conventionally feeder schools for finance and consulting. Although they largely still do that, tech has now replaced them. At the same time, they also see the shift towards design- and art-based products, which need a diverse set of managers,” she added. “In order to remain relevant, business schools feel the need to increase diversity in their classrooms in order to bring out a set of managers who can run diversely skilled businesses,” said Kagzi.

She added that the foray of students from unconventional backgrounds into management courses will lead to a new generation of entrepreneurs who, apart from being skilled in niche fields, will also have management skills accumulated from the country’s leading B-schools.

“Professionals such as doctors, actors, social workers, and government officers are now looking at becoming entrepreneurs in their niche fields,” Kagzi added.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

ReachIvy.com is a premium education and career advisory that helps aspiring students get accepted into top tier educational institutions globally. We have successful admits at MIT, Columbia, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, London School of Economics, University of Michigan, Oxford, University of Chicago amongst others.

Vibha Kagzi, Founder and CEO, ReachIvy, holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University. She has also pursued courses at the University of California, Berkeley, the London School of Economics and the Indian School of Business.

Our global team of counsellors have also acquired their degrees from premier institutes and are passionate about sharing their experiences with students worldwide.