An academician and researcher, Dr. Anirban Sengupta is currently working as Assistant Professor at IIM, Bodh Gaya, Bihar. With research areas including open Economy Macroeconomics, Growth Theory, Energy Economics and International Economic Relations, he is a NSE Certified Market Professional and has cleared all the levels of Financial Risk Management (FRM). Besides publishing and presenting several research papers in international journals and conferences, he holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Indian Institute of Management, Indore. 

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What do you think are your roles and responsibilities towards the students?

“A comprehensive professional leadership to enhance their growth”

 An MBA to be a corporate leader, he/she should be able to take optimal business decisions in corporate life. Also, an MBA should be in a position to evaluate the current economic scenario prevailing in the country, both as a corporate leader and a responsible citizen. With this mindset, we frame a well-structured curriculum and deliver the course to the MBA participants in the most efficient manner. Our endeavour is to help MBA students think critically and become a responsible citizen. Moreover, I always try to think from the students’ point of view to understand them better and create healthy relations to boost their growth at a personal level. 

How do you try to bring a practical approach towards subjects? 

“Expert sessions and constant industrial exposure”

We are in constant touch with the corporate honchos. We are in regular touch with them while creating the syllabus as well as many a time including them in the lecture series and special talk sessions. We give preference to the industry relevant topics, demanding more practical knowledge and technical skills. By including case study methodology and inviting industry experts to help students relate the concepts, we align them with real life corporate scenarios. 

What are the best practices offered to help students gain necessary skills?

“Influential industry interactions and better preparation”

We encourage lots of student participation in the form of student activities in the class as well as in competitions outside the campus. A significant part of our curriculum is devoted to understanding real life issues in the corporate and industry interaction. This makes the horizon of the student broader than a typical bookish guy. The emphasis of IIM-Bodhgaya is to have industry interaction as much as possible; thus gives students a competitive edge among its competitors. The academic environment and level of competition is very rigorous at our institute, making aspirants mentally strong to face competition outside. We, as a faculty fraternity, make the curriculum very rigorous and instil highest standards of discipline.

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How does the curriculum of your department ensure best practice of the industry?

“Practical training with industry experts and case study process”

Our department tries to teach the current trends in the industry rather than teaching archaic theoretical concepts. We make the curriculum extremely industry oriented and invite industry experts to teach a significant part of the curriculum giving students an opportunity to relate concepts with the industry scenario. Also, we follow case study methods to instruct and to train MBA participants and groom them as future consultants and business marketers. 

What do you see as the institute’s greatest strengths?

“Enhanced corporate relations and extensive faculty”

At, Indian Institute of Management, Bodhgaya, we have faculties who have completed their PhDs from leading IIMs, IITs and foreign universities and have decades of experience in corporate. The research output of every department is very promising and remains updated with the recent industry. We follow up regular industry interactions and have wonderful interactions with corporations, and this is the key which will further help us to achieve further glory in years to come. Moreover, the management development programmes further enhance the industry-faculty relationship subsidising a better teaching pedagogy. 

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What valuable advice would you like to give to the students?

“Know your strengths and decide for yourself”

Every student should do a self-introspection and honestly decide what he/she should do, based on his interests and passion. Think about this mindfully and authentically. Never think what your friends are doing and follow the mass; you yourself must decide what you want to do in life. Your success will be very near to you by then only.