IIMB History Project
We believe that an important aspect of institution building is a record of the trajectory of the growth of the institution. The IIMB History Project is an attempt to document the evolution of the institute. The project is envisaged as a multi-pronged exercise with regular outputs, leading up to a comprehensive institutional account of IIMB. We visualize a series of manuscripts and video/audio outputs to be published over the next few years, covering different aspects and themes, leading up to a comprehensive history of IIMB ahead of the Golden Jubilee year.
One prong of the project is to develop a well-researched and contextually grounded chronology of events of significance in terms of the institute's evolution after a perusal of archival records such as annual reports, minutes of board and faculty meetings. This prong would focus on theme-based manuscripts such as the history of various academic and executive programmes, the arc of governance, the growth of the campus, the alumni perspective and so on. A second prong is tapping into remembered experiences of key players by way of personal interviews, supported by prompts about events and issues identified through archival research. A third prong is a pictorial/ video representation of important events, the development of the campus infrastructure, the flora and the fauna.
The curtain raiser to the IIMB History Project was the panel discussion on "Building the IIMB Institution – A Directors' Perspective" held on October 27th, 2017, as part of the 44th Foundation Day celebrations, in which the former directors of IIMB, Professors KRS Murthy, MR Rao, Prakash Apte and Sushil Vachani participated, sharing their perspectives on the building of IIMB. Over the course of 2017 – 2018, we followed up with video interviews with the directors on the panel, as also Professor J Philip. These interviews have been transcribed and edited and are in the process of being cleared by the interviewees, supported by us with the necessary archival references. We are working towards bringing out a publication based on the Directors' perspectives in the course of 2018-2019. This would fall under the second prong of the History Project as described earlier.
We launched our theme-based accounts of the evolution of IIMB with a panel discussion titled "Raising the PGP Flag: The Evolution of the Post Graduate Programme in Management" on October 28th, 2018, as part of the 45th Foundation Day celebrations. The panel discussion featured perspectives from former Chairs of IIMB's flagship PGP programme on its evolution. Over the course of 2018-20, we will follow up with these Chairs and other PGP Chairs, and Chairs of the PGP Review Committee to chart the course of the PGP. Similarly, over the next two years, we plan to track the footsteps of other programmes and facets of the institute.
Publications
An important aspect of institution building is a record of the trajectory of the growth of the institution. The subject of documenting the journey of IIMB since its inception in 1973, through a series of publications and outputs, leading up to a comprehensive history of IIMB ahead of the Golden Jubilee year in 2023, was mooted by the Director, Professor G. Raghuram, in June 2017.
It is only befitting that the first output from the IIMB History Project should be a record of the experiences of the former Directors of the Institute, those who have been at the helm and have led from the front.
The Evolution of IIMB: Directors’ Perspectives carries interviews with the former directors of IIMB, Professors J. Philip, K. R. S Murthy, M. Rammohan Rao, Prakash G. Apte and Sushil Vachani, with a foreword by Professor G. Raghuram. This compendium also carries an essay by the first Director Professor N.S. Ramaswamy, published earlier in the volume of essays commemorating the Silver Jubilee of the Institute. First launched on Foundation Day 2019 as a digitally printed book, this publication will now be made available in three separate formats (flippable PDF, ePUB and print) for ease of accessibility to the IIMB community and beyond.
View or download the flippable version of the book
STORIES from people who’ve inhabited its SPACES and made it into the PlACE it is
A book on the flora and fauna of our campus was among the project proposed by the IIMB History Project Team
N Bringi Dev
Former Professor of Practice
Centre for Management Communication
Advisor - History Project
