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14 Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB), Bhubaneswar
15 Symbiosis Centre for Management & Human Resource
Development (SCMHRD), Pune
15 Amrita School of Business (Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham),
Coimbatore
1 Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
16 Jaipuria Institute of Management, Ghaziabad
2 XLRI — Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur
16 Vijay Patil School of Management, DY Patil Deemed
3 SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), University, Navi Mumbai
Mumbai 17 Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida
4 Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurugram
18 KIIT School of Management (KIIT Deemed University),
5 Masters’ Union, Gurugram Bhubaneswar
6 School of Business Management, NMIMS Deemed 19 ASM Institute of Business Management & Research,
University, Mumbai Pune
6 Amity Business School (Amity University), Noida 19 Balaji Institute of Modern Management (BIMM), Sri
6 Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR Balaji University, Pune
University), Jaipur 20 Sheila Raheja School of Business Management and
7 SP Jain School of Global Management, Mumbai Research, Mumbai
7 Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad 21 Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Hyderabad
8 Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), 21 Jaipuria School of Business, Ghaziabad
Pune 22 Chitkara Business School (Chitkara University),
8 International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi Chandigarh
9 KJ Somaiya Institute of Management, Somaiya Vidyavihar 23 School of Business & Management, Christ Deemed
University, Mumbai University, Bengaluru
9 Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai 23 Heritage Business School (HBS), Kolkata
10 Jagdish Sheth School of Management (formerly IFIM), 24 Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
Bengaluru 24 Rajagiri Centre for Business Studies (RCBS), Kochi
10 GITAM School of Business (GITAM Deemed University), 24 JK Business School, Gurugram
Visakhapatnam
24 GL Bajaj Institute of Management & Research, Greater
11 Department of Management, BITS, Pilani Noida
11 TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal 25 LN Mishra Institute of Economic Development & Social
12 ICFAI Business School (IBS), Hyderabad Change, Patna
12 NL Dalmia Institute of Management Studies & Research, 25 Apeejay School of Management, Delhi
Mumbai 25 MEASI Institute of Management, Chennai
13 Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow 25 Ashoka Business School, Nashik

that will enable a quantum leap in the mit. This despite your editors having schools, in 2016 your editors resolved
crawling-along Indian economy to sprung to their defence a decade ago to eliminate IIMs from the annual
emerge from the shady bowers of the when former Union education minis- EWIHER survey of B-schools, and
country’s 23 IIMs for whom a provi- ter Smriti Irani made a backdoor at- restrict our league tables to private
sion of Rs.292 crore has been made tempt to dilute their autonomy and B-schools where admission chances
in Union Budget 2026-27. pack their boards with (BJP) party of aspirants are better. However, the
However, the insolence of office of favourites. Even though we didn’t get insolence of office discernible within
IIM directors is in inverse proportion a word of thanks, we believe our cov- the IIMs seems to have rubbed off on
to their big ideas record. On numerous er story outing and condemning this Dr. Madan Pillutla, incumbent di-
occasions, we have written appropri- initiative saved the IIMs (see https:// rector of the Indian School of Busi-
ately supplicatory letters to directors educationworld.in/hostile-takeover- ness (ISB), Hyderabad, ranked In-
of IIMs soliciting interviews for cover bid-2-0/). dia’s #1 private B-school in the annual
stories to assess their contribution to Be that as it may, for reasons of EWIHER for a decade.
the growth and development of In- inaccessibility and because the IIMs Although his predecessor Dr. Ra-
dian industry, only to be informed routinely top all media league tables jendra Srivastava was more willing
that their busy schedules don’t per- ranking the country’s most admired B- to share the success secrets of ISB

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