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Rethink B-school curricula amid AI, geopolitical risks: CEA Nageswaran

· Source: business-standard.com

In short

Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran urged business schools to place judgement, resilience, deep thinking and character at the centre of their curricula rather than simply adding AI courses. Speaking at the 16th Indian Management Conclave in Noida, he argued that the era of frictionless efficiency built on lean operations, just-in-time systems and single-source global supply chains is over, and that AI is eroding the junior-level work through which managers traditionally developed judgement. He also called on Indian business schools to build models suited to India's young, informal and resource-constrained economy instead of copying Western templates.

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