I just put up a post over at the CIO Weblog entitled, "OEM Software Supplier Balance To Shift Towards India". The shifts occuring with India have really peaked my interest from at least two areas: 1) how the changes will affect my children, and 2) how the changes will affect the business school communities.
Although it's hard to read the tea leaves on this stuff, here's a summary of some of the forces:
- financial skills and other skills getting commoditized
- offshoring to India growing
- offshoring of business skills to India growing
- offshoring of IT to India changing from offshoring to original manufacturing
- lower, historical concentration of management skills in India
- demand for MBAs in the US in decline
- concentration of the best business schools remains in the US
- US business schools under pressure (e.g., enrollment) and in decline
- MBA want to do management
- Signs of MBAs forgoing Wall Street for India internships (NY Times article)
To put light on the difference in demand, my sources tell me that MBA recruiting in India is very, very hot. As I understand it, MBAs go through an intense one day of recruiting, and at the end of that one day each person has 5-6 offers in hand. Compare that recruiting environment to the MBA environment for US students. No comparison.
So what are the opportunities? Probably any of the following:
- Opening of satellite campuses for US b-schools in India
- Maybe some entrepreneurs will start some new universities in India (like the venture when starting the INSEAD b-school)
- Growth of executive housing and relocation services for India
- High-end real estate targeted at international executives
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