"WANT TO BE AMONG TOP 10 B-SCHOOLS GLOBALLY BY 2030”

Manoj Kohli, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Masters' Union, on management education

- BY GEORGE SKARIA

MANOJ KOHLI, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Gurugrambased Masters' Union, a modern technology and business school, has had an enviable and impactful career of more than four decades. Former CEO and Managing Director of Bharti Airtel, he also led SoftBank Energy and SoftBank in India. Edited excerpts:

What are your priorities as chairman of the Masters' Union board?

At the board, we support Masters' Union founder Pratham Mittal in five major areas. One, to help him build a strategy for the long term based on a clear vision and mission to be among the top 10 business schools globally by 2030. Two, help create a unique differentiation by focusing on entrepreneurship; we would like all our students to become entrepreneurs. It blends with the vision of the PM to create entrepreneurs and employers and not just employees. Three, review and discuss new programmes like that of family business management, technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning. After review, some of these we hold and, others, we expedite. Four, we believe that content and faculty knowledge need to be constantly refreshed. After the MBA, when a student enters the corporate or industrial world, he or she should be acclimated to the real world. Finally, we believe that technology will be core to the personal or business life of a manager and that we should help each student blend business aspects with technology: for better, faster, more efficient, and profitable business outcomes.