The top
MBA colleges in Delhi NCR use a unique teaching methodology combined with an
academic curriculum that is updated regularly and enables aspiring mangers to
engage in river rafting. This involves learning to be exhaustive and exclusive.
This exclusivity stems from absorbing business knowledge from all possible
sources like a sponge not just from books only. At Ishan Institute of
Management & Technology, one of the top MBA colleges in Delhi NCR we tread
a path that mixes cautious discipline with sparks of unorthodox innovation that
gives the curriculum a much needed elbow room. Business movies are not just
about entertainment. Business movies are sources of information on how people
react and respond to situations and how these responses differ over business
geographies. In this piece we put together a list of business movies which we
have screened to students pursuing MBA and PGDM for different papers and yes
the outcomes have been very positive. Take a look.
Swades
There
are people who may raise an eyebrow or two and ask the rationale behind
including this movie in a list of business movies here. The answer is simple.
Across papers of total quality management, strategic management and also rural
management, we have felt the utmost necessity to enable a rendezvous between
students who hail from India
with the true face of Bharat. It has been more than a decade that this Shahrukh
Khan starrer directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar made it to the Oscars and then got
eliminated. The underlying themes make for a fabulous study of tracks and
themes like Gandhian innovation, jugaad innovation, bottom of the pyramid
market, digital divide, gender diversity, reverse innovation and rural
governance. In fact it has something for business environment as well. Probably
the enterprises that have the best rural market penetration are the Post &
Telegraph Department and utilities like electricity boards. Even today FMCG
companies have a lot to learn from these institutions. Yet again the context
pits Gandhian economics against the modernization and scientifically advanced
Nehruvian thoughts. The end result probably is that the protagonist brings
Nehru’s India
to Gandhi’s Bharat.
Boiler Room
Set in
the big bad world of financial brokers who take full advantage of greed this is
a movie for finance students as also for marketing people. The power of
influence that is evident in the movie is a strong weapon for business
development. The weird ways of the financial market are hard to get for the
common man and by the time realization sinks in, it is already too late. The
same goes for the protagonist of the movie who discovers that he is in a soup
even after achieving so much working for his enterprise with all his skill and
intelligence. The movie has some great takeaways for marketing students with
regard to closing business deals, mounting pressure on clients to squeeze out
every penny in their pockets and sell dreams even in the face of reality checks
that may be knocking at the door step. Finance students may not be able to get
into the technical aspects of their trade watching this movie but as most
finance people realize in the middle stages of their careers, success is more
about attitude than skill.
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Despite
Michael Fasbender getting an Oscar nomination this year for Steve Jobs, we
would rather include this one on the list of movies that enable learning. The
Pirate of Silicon Valley has many great lessons to teach. The best thing about
the movie is that it is set in the campus life of United States and shows the typical
David versus Goliath competition that sprung with Steve acknowledging IBM as
“big brother.” There are string lessons to be learnt on entrepreneurship and
moon lighting which assume so much importance in an age when many Indian youth
have goals of setting up junkyard start up firms, right from their student
days. The Bill Gates manual of management is also on full display. The
innovation of Steve Wozniak, the guile of Steve Jobs and the persuasion of Bill
Gates are probably character building lessons for boys who want to make it big
on their own.
Inside Job
In the
aftermath of the sub-prime crisis of 2008, investment banks, financial brokers,
credit rating agencies and even the Fed came into spotlight. This movie covers
literally all the aspects of the chain of characters who were involved in the
sub- prime crisis. It is a documentary that features the interviews of many top
economists, business leaders, bankers, financial brokers and members of global
policy institutions like the IMF. The entire movie is a collection of primary
data collected through the direct interview method. It is a must watch movie
for aspiring finance professionals. The concepts on securities market, reverse
mortgage, amortization and liberalization of the banking regime are lessons
worth learning indeed and the way these topics have been dealt with is
supremely lucid and easy to understand.
Pinball
Not many would associate Brad Pit with a
business movie. Pinball is a movie based on true events that occurred with a
famous baseball franchise in the