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INDIA’S TOP 100

PRIVATE B-SCHOOLS

India’s private B-schools capable of responding quickly to changes
in the business environment and customising their curriculums
accordingly, are likely to play an increasingly important role to
modernise and upgrade India Inc to compete with the world’s most
dominant corporations

Dilip Thakore

1 Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad
2 XLRI — Xavier School of Management,
Jamshedpur
I F INDIA’S ESTIMATED 5,000 BUSINESS man- 3 Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurugram
SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR),
2
Mumbai

agement institutes, aka B-schools — some
School of Business Management, NMIMS Deemed
4
of them of over half century vintage — were

University, Mumbai
half as good as they claim to be, the Indian
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Masters Union, Gurugram
economy would be booming and 21st century
India would not be in the bottom rung of eco-
6
Institute of Management Technology (IMT),
nomic development league tables including

Ghaziabad
the World Bank’s per capita income, UNDP’s 6 ICFAI Business School (IBS), Hyderabad
Human Development and the World Economic Forum’s in- 7 KJ Somaiya Institute of Management, Somaiya
dustrial progress indices. Although politicians of all shades Vidyavihar University, Mumbai
and hues proclaim it a developed country, the plain truth 7 Symbiosis Institute of Business Management
is that 77 years after attaining independence from foreign (SIBM), Pune
rule, India is routinely ranked among the world’s poorest 8 TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal
and backward nations defined by acute shortages of food, 8 Amity Business School (Amity University), Noida
clothing, shelter, affordable healthcare and education.
Obviously, the nasty, brutish and perhaps too long 8 SP Jain School of Global Management, Mumbai
lives that the overwhelming majority of Indian citizens 9 Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB), Bhubaneswar
are obliged to endure, can’t be the fault of the country’s 10 International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi
B-schools. However some blame for none of India’s com- 10 Jagdish Sheth School of Management (formerly IFIM),
panies being listed among the largest, most respected, com- Bengaluru
petitive and innovative, must surely be laid at their door. 10 IIHMR University, Jaipur
Some, but not all because the prime cause of the backward-

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