Silicon India’s Utkarsh was a platform to hear and interact with the leaders of Samsung, Symphony, Adithi, and Citrix on how Executive MBA will add value to ones career and it has successfully enlightened around 240 working professionals. This was an interchangeable platform for colleges to know what working professionals look forward through an Executive MBA and also for the professional managers and executives to find out what are the tangible benefits that they take away from their experience in Executive MBA.

C Mahalingam, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, symphony opined, “It is not just a ladder to be a leader but a result oriented leader. I suggest all the middle managers to take a break and go for an executive MBA. If you look at all the global CEO’s, the successful ones do not have an MBA. It is a myth to believe that an Executive MBA can make you a CEO. You need to have much more than that. But an MBA can transform and add value to you.”

With the growing importance of Executive MBA education, there are so many institutes in the country that are offering executive MBA programs. These programs have been highly successful in imparting leadership and highly qualified managerial skills in executives. “Five years from now people will not find job through newspaper advertisements. The organizations have a great role, it should have a brand name otherwise people won’t hire and the candidates should be focused in what they want to do,” said Mohan Gopinath, Professor, HRM Alliance Business School.

The event also included sessions where industry experts, who pursued executive MBA and have successfully made a mark in their respective domains, spoke about the challenges of today's business environment and the scope of executive MBA in such a scenario. A discussion about the standards that the industry is demanding from their managers, when it comes to efficient management of resources also took place.

Munwari Padmanabhan, Head HR Broadcom India said that a college degree is not an end in itself. It is but one milestone in a lifelong learning process. It does not guarantee success, but it provides a solid foundation where we can build our future. Take Bill Gates, for example. In spite of his phenomenal success behind Microsoft, still admits the partial education he got from Harvard is invaluable. He’s the most successful among Harvard’s drop-outs. However, what we have failed to see is that Gates has an unquenchable thirst for learning new things, trailblazing on new technologies, and outwitting his business competitors by getting ahead in acquiring or even inventing new knowledge when there is none.

However, while selecting the college there are certain things to keep in mind. Professor Pankaj Gupta, Director, SIBM, said, “The research carried out by the faculty also matters, because if the faculty is doing some excellent research the students also benefit from them. And the companies who come to hire will look into this aspect too.”

Alliance Business School, Bhartiya Vidya bhavan, ITM Executive Education Centre, Manipal University, NIIT Imperia and Jaro Education with United Business Institutes, Europe participated in the event .