India, Jan. 12 -- For many Indian MBA aspirants and their families, success is still measured by one dominant metric: the first salary offer. Placement season headlines, compensation figures, and "highest CTC" announcements often overshadow deeper questions about learning outcomes, role relevance, and long-term career sustainability.

But according to Mohua Banerjee, Director of IMI Kolkata, this mindset persists because salary is a tangible, easily comparable number-reinforced by societal prestige and by B-school rankings that often simplify success into placement metrics. However, she argues, this narrow definition of success no longer reflects workplace realities, nor does it serve students well in a volatile job market shaped by artif...