Hi all,

I have been a long time MBA aspirant. I have been working for the last 2 years and have been very keenly observing the kind of role MBAs play (read: choose to play) when they join a professionally run organization. Over the years I have noticed that a burgeoning economy offering fat pay-cheques often prevents fresh MBAs from toying with the idea of entrepreneurship which I believe is what entails when we talk of "taking risk". And come to think of it, it does make sense.
I have friends in all IIMs, actually almost all batches of all IIMs. Let's take a case. My old time Xavier's friend Sawan completed engineering the same time I did. Subsequently, he joined IIM-Cal. And now he joined Union Bank of Switzerland aka UBS (Swiss Bank, for the uninitiated). The investment banking services industry probably never witnessed growth as right now and, needless to say, they have all the money to lure IIM grads to join them.
All decisions should be backed by risk-reward analysis. And joining an established brand at a responsible post with a larger-than-life salary stands more favourably in any such analyses than starting up something new. True, the returns are potentially limited in most organizations which is not the case in a start-up.
The call is yours - whether to go for a "win big or lose your shirt" or a "modest risk and fairly good returns" strategy.
To be or not to be, that's the question..!

Vineet
www.vineet.uni.cc

actually no there are plenty of people out there who are employed getting decent salary and are only Graduates. i have observed that a lot of people play the blame game here and the best scape goat that they have is their education or to blame it all on the institution and they will never except their own disability to start a business or even join their family business if that's an option available to them there are a few things that i'll like to mention here as far as the institutions are concerned i have come across a varity of courses that grooms students to start their own business or to develop their family business further then again the question of an mba doing something creative is concerned he can be creative in a job or a business how does that matter.

Again has anyoone thought this that an mba what he will be able to earn in a salaries job from starting he migh not be able to perform that well in the starting years of his own business and the starting years are very important for a man's cofidance if for one reason or another he loses that will be a devastating blow to his cofidence and he can kiss his career goodbye

is it true that iim pass out joins good growing co. and they keep themselves away from the cyclicals co. ....anybody please