IIM A drops to rank 3 in best Business school list 2011
The iconic IIM Ahmedabad is in the throes of change: this is
evident in its thinking about its identity, strengths, goals and its
pedagogy. Director Samir K. Barua wants its curriculum to reflect
contemporary realities.Watch Videos: Students | Alumni
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IIM-A Director Samir K. Barua
At 50, the iconic IIM Ahmedabad is in the throes of change: this is evident in its thinking about its identity, strengths, goals and its pedagogy. Director Samir K. Barua wants its curriculum to reflect contemporary realities.
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"We have been beholden for far too long to Western concepts and ideas. We need to give currency to our own experience," he says. The institute is now aggressively pursuing a plan that will allow its faculty time for research. "We need at least 30 more staff members, which is not easy.
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In fact, we have put our growth plan on hold, to give faculty time for more research," adds Barua. In a bid to make its curriculum assimilative, it has launched a course on Contemporary Film Industry. Not just that, IIM-A's Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship now offers its alumni opportunities as angel investors in fledgling ventures nurtured there and also mentors them. Its agenda for future includes establishing campuses in other countries close to India. IIM-A intends to further consolidate its presence in management leadership. "We lead in the management education space and have provided top talent to companies, hence our vision is to provide 'thought leadership' as well," says Barua.
(How to read our parameter-wise tables: Respondents were given the option of ranking each college on each attribute on a 1 to 10 scale, with 1 corresponding to very poor/completely unwilling and 10 corresponding to excellent/most willing. We have displayed here only those responses that were rated 9 or 10. Our top-ranked school, IIM-Bangalore, for instance, shows a reputation score of 37. This means that 37 per cent of respondents gave IIM-B a score of 9 or 10 for its reputation. Similarly, for other scores. Although the tables reflect these higher rankings (the upper two boxes of our dataset), our overall B-school ranking takes into account all scores, even the lower ones.)
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"We have been beholden for far too long to Western concepts and ideas. We need to give currency to our own experience," he says. The institute is now aggressively pursuing a plan that will allow its faculty time for research. "We need at least 30 more staff members, which is not easy.
Watch: 'A visiting student' at IIM-A
In fact, we have put our growth plan on hold, to give faculty time for more research," adds Barua. In a bid to make its curriculum assimilative, it has launched a course on Contemporary Film Industry. Not just that, IIM-A's Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship now offers its alumni opportunities as angel investors in fledgling ventures nurtured there and also mentors them. Its agenda for future includes establishing campuses in other countries close to India. IIM-A intends to further consolidate its presence in management leadership. "We lead in the management education space and have provided top talent to companies, hence our vision is to provide 'thought leadership' as well," says Barua.
(How to read our parameter-wise tables: Respondents were given the option of ranking each college on each attribute on a 1 to 10 scale, with 1 corresponding to very poor/completely unwilling and 10 corresponding to excellent/most willing. We have displayed here only those responses that were rated 9 or 10. Our top-ranked school, IIM-Bangalore, for instance, shows a reputation score of 37. This means that 37 per cent of respondents gave IIM-B a score of 9 or 10 for its reputation. Similarly, for other scores. Although the tables reflect these higher rankings (the upper two boxes of our dataset), our overall B-school ranking takes into account all scores, even the lower ones.)
