About the Indian School of Business

The Indian School of Business (ISB) is a premier business school located at Hyderabad in India. The ISB has been pioneering several best practices in the field of management education in India and in the process has changed the way management education is offered in this part of the world.

The ISB was established seven years ago by Rajat Gupta, then Managing Director, Mckinsey and Co Worldwide, along with a group of visionary business leaders and leading academicians from across the world. The ISB Board, consists of heads of Fortune 500 companies, extremely successful entrepreneurs and leading academicians. The school has academic affiliations with The Wharton School, Kellogg School of Management and London Business School.

The ISB has set several benchmarks and pioneered several international best practices and people in the field of management education in India – introducing the one year programme, unique portfolio model of faculty, GMAT score as selection criteria, accepting students with prior work experience and diverse backgrounds among others.

An International mindset

The ISB’s one year programme attracts professionals from diverse backgrounds – educational, professional, ethnic, geographical and social. Students come with work experience ranging from 2 to 22 years both in India and abroad. The ISB has associations with several top global B-Schools and universities and industry leaders worldwide. It has associations with 34 B-Schools and universities across 17 countries. It regularly organises special ’Know India’ programmes for business professionals and students from several countries. A sizeable percentage of the ISB’s alumni are placed in senior positions across industries and countries.

Unique teaching methods

The ISB has a unique portfolio model of faculty, which enables it to attract the best of faculty from top B Schools across the world. Visiting faculty drawn from top business schools across the world complement the expertise of the resident faculty. Innovative teaching methods used in synergy with research knowledge and corporate experience make its post graduate programme contemporary and global in its perspective.

Research

The ISB has differentiated itself with a strong focus on research which has paid rich dividends. Several of the ISB faculty have published their research work in top ranked international journals and have won awards and recognition among the academic community both in India and abroad. The ISB has set up five research centres in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Finance, Logistics & Manufacturing, Information Technology and Leadership. All these centres are working with several companies, industry associations, government and NGO’s on various projects. As the global interest in India grows, these CoE’s are growing to become hubs for the global academic community to connect with the Indian industry.

A high level of corporate input

There is a high level of corporate input, which also enables the ISB to form stimulating business-academic partnerships for teaching and research. The school engages business leaders and entrepreneurs throughout the academic year, through discussions and workshops, to give students a practitioner's perspective. Students also get to consult companies through a special ’Experiental Learning Programme’ , which allows student teams to work with industry partners on real-world business issues, giving them the perfect opportunity to apply their learning outside the classroom and gain new perspectives on business and more.

Financial Times Ranking

Recently, the ISB has been ranked among the top twenty business schools in the world by the Financial Times, London. This has been a remarkable achievement for the ISB which has achieved international recognition and success in a short span of seven years.