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Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad was established in 1961 as an autonomous institution by the Government_of_India in collaboration with the Government_of_Gujarat and the Indian Industry and is the second oldest IIM. Vikram_Sarabhai, a noted scientist and Industrialist and other Ahmedabad-based industrialists played a major role in the creation of the Institute. It was registered as a society with a Board of Governors to oversee the functioning of the Institute. The Board has representatives from the Governments of India and Gujarat, the Industry, the IIM-A Society, the IIM-A faculty, etc. IIM-A 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 its formative years, IIM Ahmedabad collaborated with the Harvard_Business_School. Largely as a consequence of this collaboration, IIM-A pioneered the case method of teaching in India. IIM Ahmedabad is considered to be the toughest business school in the world to get into. (Source: Economist_Intelligence_Unit - "Which MBA"). At IIM Ahmedabad, there were 532 applicants for every seat in 2005. It is the premier B-School in Asia-Pacific. Its current chairman is Dr. Vijaypat Singhania.
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