The industrial engineer-managers, met during a 5-year ethnographic research in India, were interviewed after completion of an MBA-model program. They reported having learned a new “MBA Language,” discussed as resulting in an expanded sense of professionalization and internationalization. Their use on the job of images and positions acquired from the training enhanced their legitimacy and authority both within their enterprise and beyond. Framed by the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu, we discuss how acquisition of this “language” of practical action increased their professional and social capital. This new mode of expression was perceived by others as a sign of distinction, diffusing a force of symbolic power that is materially opaque but of considerable value in action. The heightened visibility of these effects was due in part to our focus on engineer-managers. Their lack of behavior sciences in their previous formation, vastly increased their appreciation of what they learned and observed from their year-long training experience. They saw themselves in a new light, based on the modified treatment they received back on the job. This constituted a major reorientation of their identity; from engineers who evolved into management somewhat by coincidence, into internationally oriented managerial-leaders with a global perspective, based on an altered sense of value concerning their knowledge and practical potential.