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Overview
IIM Ahmedabad, also known as IIMA, was the first of the string of IIMs to be established in India. It is the premier institute of management education in India and is widely considered to be the toughest to get in MBA program in the world. IIMA has frequently been rated as one of the best business schools in Asia. Ahmedabad (Amdavad in Gujarati) or AhmadÄbÄd is the largest city in Gujarat and the sixth largest city in India with a population of almost 5 million. ...
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are the premier management schools of India, located in the cities of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Indore, Kolkata, Kozhikode and Lucknow. ...
Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ...
In the USA a business school is a graduate school which offers an Masters of Business Administration. ...
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History It was established in 1961 as an autonomous institution by the Government of India in collaboration with the Government of Gujarat and the Indian Industry. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, a noted scientist and industrialist and other Ahmedabad based industrialists played a major role in the creation of the Institute. 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Gujarat (ગà«àªœàª°àª¾àª¤ in Gujarati) is the most industrialized state in India after Maharashtra and is located in western India, bordered by Pakistan to the northwest and Rajasthan to the north. ...
Dr. Vikram Sarabhai (from NASA archive) Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (August 12, 1919 – December 31, 1971) was a great Indian physicist. ...
Ahmedabad (Amdavad in Gujarati) or AhmadÄbÄd is the largest city in Gujarat and the sixth largest city in India with a population of almost 5 million. ...
Evolution IIMA was conceived not to be purely a business school, but a school of management. Its mission is to professionalise Indian management through teaching, research, training, institution building and consulting. It also aims to professionalise some of the vital sectors of India's economy such as agriculture, education, health, transportation, population control, energy, and public administration. In the USA a business school is a graduate school which offers an Masters of Business Administration. ...
In its formative years, IIM Ahmedabad collaborated with the Harvard Business School (HBS). Largely as a consequence of this collaboration, IIMA pioneered the case method of teaching in India. Even now the strength of IIMA is its strong emphasis on the case method. Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University, and is one of the worlds leading management schools. ...
Campus
The campus of IIMA is dominated by the baked brick style favoured by the its chief architect, the famous Louis Kahn. All the structures are designed to be part of a whole and looks one integral whole. Other architects who collaborated on the campus include the renowned B.V.Doshi and Anant Raje. As of January 2005, there are 27 dorms in IIMA, each of which can hold 25-44 students in single-person rooms. Each dorm has its own distinctive culture and traditions. Work on a new campus is going on as on 2005. The new campus is just across the road from the old campus and houses 9 of the 27 dorms and some class rooms and seminar halls. Louis Isadore Kahn (February 20, 1901 – March 17, 1974) practised as an architect in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and taught architecture there and at Yale University. ...
Dr Balkrishna Doshi, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Architects was born in Pune at 1927. ...
Noted Alumni M S Banga is the current CEO of HLL, subsidiary of Unilever, and the largest consumer product company in India. ...
Hindustan Lever Limited (also called HLL) is Indias largest consumer products company and is headquartered in Mumbai. ...
Unilever is an Anglo-Dutch company which owns many of the worlds consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. ...
The flag of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the international organization entrusted with overseeing global financial system‘s current trade account balances of member states. ...
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the Indian chamber of commerce that serves as an interface to the Indian Software industry. ...
Harsha Bhogle is an Indian cricket commentator and journalist. ...
Cricket is a team sport played between two groups of eleven players each. ...
Mallika Sarabhai is one of the most renowned Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam dancers in India today. ...
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| Indian Institutes of Management | Ahmedabad | Bangalore | Calcutta | Lucknow | Indore | Kozhikode The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are the premier management schools of India, located in the cities of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Indore, Kolkata, Kozhikode and Lucknow. ...
The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) was established in 1973. ...
The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, was established as the first national institute for Post-Graduate studies and Research in Management by the Government of India in November 1961 in collaboration with MIT Sloan School of Management, the Government of West Bengal, The Ford Foundation and Indian industry. ...
Situated at the outskirts of the historic and culturally rich city of Lucknow, Indian Institute of Management (IIML), was established in 1984, by the Government of India, as a national level school of excellence in management science IIML s mission is to be a global, socially conscious and integrated school...
Indian Institute of Management Indore set up in 1998, is the youngest of the IIMs. ...
The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) was set up by the Government of India in collaboration with the State Government of Kerala as the 5th Indian Institute of Management. ...
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