B-SCHOOLS MUST RISE TO THE CHALLENGE OF AI FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK

INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATIONS CAUSED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEMAND THAT INDIAN BUSINESS SCHOOLS ABANDON OLD PEDAGOGIES AND EMPHASISE MERGING HUMAN CREATIVITY WITH MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

- VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN

TODAY, THE MANAGEMENT LANDSCAPE IS SHIFTING MORE RAPIDLY THAN AT ANY OTHER point in recent memory as AI, demographic changes and geopolitics reshape our industries at breakneck speed. With this, I see an unprecedented opportunity for Indian management education to leapfrog old models and shape a new paradigm for inculcating innovation in future leaders.

Historically, business schools functioned as repositories of knowledge—organising, codifying and transmitting management wisdom. But in an era wherein AI delivers high-quality analysis in seconds, the true value of such education is in how students learn to integrate human creativity with machine intelligence. As more analytical tasks are automated, our judgment becomes the differentiator, shifting the premium to asking the right questions, understanding context, exercising values-driven leadership, building trust and managing cultural dynamics.