About IIMB
Overview
The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) is a leading graduate school of management in Asia. Under the IIM Act of 2017, IIMB is an Institute of National Importance.
IIMB has 104 full-time faculty members, about 1,200 students across various degree-granting programmes and nearly 5,000 annual Executive Education participants.
Our logo carries a proclamation in Sanskrit, तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु (tejasvi navadhitamastu), which translates to ‘let our study be enlightening’. Our vision is to be a global, renowned academic institution fostering excellence in management, innovation and entrepreneurship for business, government and society.
Located in India’s high technology capital, we are in close proximity to some of the leading corporate houses in the country, ranging from information technology to consumer product companies, giving us the added advantage of integrating classroom knowledge with practical experience.
Our long-duration programmes comprise the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), the Post Graduate Programme in Management – Business Analytics (PGPBA), the Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP), and the Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM). We also offer a PG Diploma programme, the Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Management (PGPPM), which is a hybrid programme aiming to enhance skills to frame policy, take on leadership roles and raise efficiency through exposure to management principles, for policymakers and public administrators.
We offer the NS Ramaswamy Pre-doctoral (NSR Pre-doc) Fellowship, as a Certificate programme, with the aim of increasing social diversity of management academia in India.
We have introduced the online Bachelor of Business Administration in Digital Business and Entrepreneurship (BBA DBE) programme in 2024, which integrates digital technology, business management and entrepreneurship to train leaders for the digital business world.
Along with 11 disciplinary areas, we have ten centres of excellence that offer courses and conduct research on interesting questions facing various sectors of industry.
We have key partnerships and collaborations with Goldman Sachs and Kotak Bank for women entrepreneurship, with Michael and Susan Dell Foundation for incubation of non-profits, and with NITI Aayog for scaling up of new ventures.
We are committed to make deep social impact using technology-enabled education. Towards this end, we offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). We are the first management school in India to offer MOOCs on the edX platform. We are also the coordinating institute for management education for SWAYAM, GoI’s online education platform.
We have taken several steps to meet the vision set for IIMB. These include hiring high quality faculty, enhancing the quality of research, emphasizing internationalization, expanding our activities in the field of entrepreneurship, in both research and mentoring, scaling up in terms of student intake in all programmes, deepening our engagement with the alumni, improving infrastructure, and improving administration and governance.
We were accredited by the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) for a period of five years in 2016. EQUIS is a global school accreditation system run by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) that specializes in higher education institutions of management and business administration. The five-year accreditation, the highest that EQUIS confers, is testament to the fact that the evaluating team was confident of our ability to sustain efforts undertaken to achieve excellent standards in education, internationalization and research.
We have a vibrant Student Exchange Programme with several partner universities across North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
We have a deep engagement with the international network, Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM), which includes 32 eminent business schools around the world.
We are developing our second campus in Jigani, about 27 km from the Bannerghatta Road campus. We are on an exciting trajectory of expansion and growth, and we welcome you to join us on this journey.
Our Vision
IIMB has a strong brand identity with a logo that has great recall. The sun symbol has been designed by the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and has been in use since 1994.
The concept of the current logo is based on a line from the Sanskrit shloka which has become the motto of IIMB: Tejasvi navadhitamastu. This line, derived from the peace invocation of several Upanishads, translates as: “Let our study be enlightening”.
Let us together be protected and let us together be nourished by God’s blessings / Let us together join our mental forces in strength for the benefit of humanity / Let our study be enlightening / Let us never be poisoned with the seeds of hatred for anyone / Let there be peace and serenity in all the three universes.
- Invocation from Taittiriya Upanishad
- Nurture innovative global business leaders, entrepreneurs, policy-makers and social change agents through holistic and transformative education
- Provide thought leadership that is contextually embedded and socially relevant and makes positive impact
- Pursue excellence in education and thought leadership simultaneously without making any tradeoffs
- Uphold high standards of integrity and ethical behaviour
- Build a culture of collaboration and trust
- Respect the dignity of every individual and provide equal opportunity
- Provide academic freedom to Faculty in pursuit of excellence
- Celebrate excellence in education, thought leadership, policy and social impact in an inclusive and diverse way
- Prioritize quality over quantity in both education and thought leadership
- Preserve intellectual autonomy by ensuring long-term financial sustainability
- Strive to achieve a fair balance while responding to the expectations of various stakeholders
Architecture
Carbon Footprint Report
Accreditation and Rankings
International Accreditation
IIMB has been internationally accredited by the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) since 2010. In December 2021, IIMB was re-accredited by EQUIS for a further period of five years.
The EFMD Quality Improvement System is a leading international system of quality assessment, improvement and accreditation of business schools, run by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). EQUIS has accredited some 202 institutions in 45 countries around the world. EQUIS accreditation ensures a rigorous quality control and benchmarking of a business school against international standards in terms of governance, programmes, students, faculty, research, internationalisation, ethics, responsibility and sustainability, as well as engagement with the world of practice.
The five-year accreditation, the highest that EQUIS confers, is a testimony to the fact that the evaluating team was confident of IIMB’s ability to sustain its efforts undertaken to achieve international standards of excellence in research and management education.
Board
Chairperson
Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty
Chairman and Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Narayana Group of Hospitals, Bengaluru
chair[at]iimb[dot]ac[dot]in
Director
Rishikesha T Krishnan
Ram Charan Chair Professor in Innovation and Leadership, IIMB
director[at]iimb[dot]ac[dot]in
| Sl.No | Name | Designation |
| 1. | Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty | Chairperson, BoG, IIM Bangalore |
| 2. | Dr. Hasmukh Adhia | Former Finance Secretary, Government of India |
| 3. | Mr. Mukesh Bansal | CEO, Curefit, and Founder, Meraki Labs |
| 4. | Mr. P.K. Banerjee | Joint Secretary (Mgt. & MC & Scholarships), Ministry of Education, Government of India |
| 5. | Mr. Sonjoy Chatterjee | Chairman, Goldman Sachs (India) Securities Pvt Ltd |
| 6. | Professor Jitamitra Desai | Professor, IIMB |
| 7. | Ms. Shanti Ekambaram | Group President – Consumer Banking & Member of Group Management Council, Kotak Mahindra Bank |
| 8. | Ms. Malavika R Harita | Founder & CEO, Brand Circle and Former CEO Saatchi Focus India |
| 9. | Professor Sreelata Jonnalagedda | Professor, IIMB |
| 10. | Professor Rishikesha T Krishnan | Director & Ram Charan Chair Professor in Innovation and Leadership at IIMB |
| 11. | Professor Das Narayandas | Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration & Senior Associate Dean for HBS Publishing, Harvard Business School, Boston, USA |
| 12. | Dr. Shalini Rajneesh, IAS | Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka |
| 13. | Mr. M. D. Ranganath | Chairman, Catamaran Ventures |
| 14. | Ms. Kalpana Saroj | Chairperson, Kamani Tubes |
| 15. | Professor Raji Srinivasan | Sam Barshop Centennial Professor of Marketing Administration, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin, USA |
| Special Invitees | ||
| Professor M Jayadev | Dean (Administration), IIMB | |
| Professor Mukta Kulkarni | Dean (Programmes), IIMB | |
| Professor U Dinesh Kumar | Dean (Faculty), IIMB | |
| Professor Sourav Mukherji | Dean (Alumni Relations and Development), IIMB | |
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The Board, was originally constituted on March 27 1972, and last updated on 01 January, 2025. * Listed in alphabetical order of last names. |
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IIM Act and Rules
Organisational Structure
International Advisory Committe
Professor
Ruth Aguilera,
Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business, Northeastern University
Professor
Bharat Anand,
Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Harvard University & Professor, HBS
Professor
David Bach,
Dean, Innovation & Programs, IMD Lausanne, Switzerland
Professor
Gerry George,
Former Dean Singapore Management University
Professor
Krishna Rajagopal,
Vice President (Digital Learning) & Professor of Physics, MIT
Professor
Raghu Sundaram,
Dean, Stern NYU
Professor
Lin Zhou,
Dean, Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School
* Last updated on September 15, 2021.
* Listed in alphabetical order of last names.