Thoughts on Education by Venkatraman

Prof. Venkatraman and a student during Collaboration Round

Professor Venkatraman was kind enough to take a few moments to share with me his hopes for the 7th Annual Case Competition and its topic of education.

For this case, he was proud to merge the ideas of technology development in schools with Ericsson's challenge to its executives to leverage a stronger digital infrastructure, creating higher efficiency for employees.

But more than that he was proud to look at ways to remove the physical limitations that often accompany education, and develop ideas to digitally spread educational opportunities to all members of society around the world. He understands that not every person has access to education, which in his words is, "a system of privilege that not all societies have access to."

Graduate students in the Boston University School of Management already have amazing access to courses examining public and nonprofit management strategies and cases. However Professor Venkatraman is hopefully that more of the real-world case learning can be brought in to the curriculum in the near future, with Boston-area partners like EMC or State Street.

"Students participating in real-life cases from CEOs provides opportunities for growth that no classroom can match," he said.