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What would have Morpheus said if he had been a student of MBA Biotechnology? Perhaps he would have said  

“ No one can be told what management is, you have to experience it for yourself.” 

 MBA Biotechnology is sure undergoing a revolution and I couldn’t have thought of a better title as this blog is a  logical follow up of the previous one. With batch 2008 getting the highest ever package (just and inch more and it would have been the highest in PUMBA for year 2008) things are sure turning around. But why is it so? Read the following: 

Management is a continously evolving discipline because of the dynamic nature of business. With exponential growth in technology and information it has become all the more relevant. An MBA has been traditionally studied as the functional specializations of marketing, finance, human resources and operations. But with changing environment of doing business, management has acquired a new paradigm and an MBA program customized to suit the varied needs of the industry has become all the more relevant. Any new change is viewed as being against a tradition but MBA in Biotechnology program started by the University of Pune in the year 2002 is not iconoclastic it is just ahead of its time. The biotechnology sector is growing at a sustained rate of around 30% for the last few years and because of the different nature of its business it requires a different approach to management. Although the Indian Biotech industry is just worth $2 billion (in 2006-07 according to Biospectrum) compared to the worldwide figure of $70 billion but due to its skill and cost advantage it is gaining momentum.

            Faculty, course and the infrastructure apart its biggest strength of MBA-BT lies in its students. A management student is associated with paucity of time, always completing assignments in the nick of time and juggling between the various activities at a B-school. The student is an ideal example of the Parkinson’s Law—“Work expands to fill the time available.” But on the contrary for an MBA-BT student time expands to fill the work available. It is beyond scientific and logical reasoning but the students of the not so known course have successfully learnt to balance the dexterous act of managing time. It is evident from the fact that they are omnipresent. They can be found in the lecture room meditating over the chapter just taught, in the library desperately searching for books to make notes, in the canteen having a quick bite just before the session begins, in the auditorium asking questions to the guest speaker (although the first row is officially reserved for the guests the next two are unofficially reserved for the MBA-BT students), in the various cells deciding which company to follow-up next or the theme for the upcoming Nostalgia and Dhruv, in the computer lab giving finishing touches to presentations or just loafing around the campus. They are indefatigable. Every year the course is updated to keep up with the frenetic pace of change. Every year the current batch achieves a new milestone passing on the baton to the next to continue the journey. Success after all is not ephemeral, it is not a destination but a journey which is eternal, a process of continuous improvement as followed by the Japanese and popularly known as ‘Kaizen’. No one better than a MBA-BT student can understand it.