Saturday, September 18, 2004
The Spring Of '66
The earliest IIM batchers recount what a management course meant in the 1960s.
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Roy sat for the seven-hour entrance examination in 1963 despite his family insisting that he join the ias, a dream nurtured by most middle-class parents of the time. But he got attracted to IIM after seeing an advertisement stating its association with several US B-schools. Forty years later, he has no regrets. Says Roy: "If I hadn't been there, I would be a different person. I owe everything to IIM-C." After graduating in 1966, he joined the DCM group in Delhi. However, he couldn't adjust to the prevailing corporate culture in family-owned companies and quit in 1969. He then got into academics, joining the Xavier Labour Research Institute (XLRI) in Jamshedpur as assistant professor, where he stayed till 1980 before joining IIM-C. At 59, and close to retirement, Roy feels he has enough expertise to forward the cause of management education in India.
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Roy sat for the seven-hour entrance examination in 1963 despite his family insisting that he join the ias, a dream nurtured by most middle-class parents of the time. But he got attracted to IIM after seeing an advertisement stating its association with several US B-schools. Forty years later, he has no regrets. Says Roy: "If I hadn't been there, I would be a different person. I owe everything to IIM-C." After graduating in 1966, he joined the DCM group in Delhi. However, he couldn't adjust to the prevailing corporate culture in family-owned companies and quit in 1969. He then got into academics, joining the Xavier Labour Research Institute (XLRI) in Jamshedpur as assistant professor, where he stayed till 1980 before joining IIM-C. At 59, and close to retirement, Roy feels he has enough expertise to forward the cause of management education in India.
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