Management and IKS | Samvaad with Prof B Mahadevan (IIM Bangalore) |

In an interview session with the students at IIT Kharagpur, Prof. B. Mahadevan discusses on various aspects of Management and the Indian Knowledge System (IKS). Right from management in Ancient India to the modern application and relevance of the IKS in management and other related fields. How we can implement IKS at the current time and what solutions it can offer. Along with that other relevant topics have also been covered, like, Privatization vs Government ownership, high tax or tax cut, entrepreneur opportunities in India, etc. Listen to his thought provocating responses where he has offered answers from an Indian perspective.
About the speaker:
B. Mahadevan is a professor of Operations Management at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where he has been teaching since 1992. Professor Mahadevan has more than 27 years of wide-ranging experience in teaching, research, consulting, and academic administration at IIM Bangalore and other reputed institutions such as IIT Delhi and XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Professor Mahadevan’s research interests include researching the possibility of using ancient Indian wisdom to address contemporary concerns, spirituality in the workplace, and management paradigms from the Bhagavad Gita. He was the founder and Vice-chancellor of Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, a University for applied Sanskrit and Indian Wisdom during 2016 - 2018. He has also authored the books - "Operations Management: Theory and Practice" and "Introduction To Indian Knowledge System: Concepts and Applications"
00:00 Management in Ancient India
02:39 Indian Knowledge Systems: An additional burden?
05:17 Indian Knowledge system - academic application
07:43 Chanakya's Arthaneeti: still relevant
10:50 Will the Indian knowledge system replace the western?
12:41 Privatization vs Government ownership
15:31 India's entrepreneur opportunities: better or worse
17:12 High tax or tax cut?
20:02 Message to students
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