ISB is 20

The second part of the #ISBis20 series features veteran employees who placed their faith in the dream that was ISB and helped it lay firm foundations for the journey to come. In Episode 9, Meenu Wadhwa and Raveendra Herlekar, who were among the first employees at ISB’s Mohali campus, reminisce about their journey with the School, including the challenges they overcame in nurturing a nascent campus.

Episode 8 of the #ISBis20 series features Shiv Kumar, one of ISB's earliest employees who played a key role in setting up both its campuses. He reminisces about the challenges of the early days and what went into forming the Student Engagement and Applied Learning department.

Chairman of the ISB Board, Harish Manwani reflects on how the collective vision of a group of leaders evolved into the ISB of today, and the role of the board in ensuring that the vision of the School is translated into reality through good governance that creates great leaders.

The second part of the #ISBis20 series features veteran employees who placed their faith in the dream that was ISB and helped it lay firm foundations for the journey to come. In Episode 6, Phanibala V and Srinath V, who were among ISB's earliest employees, reminisce about the early days and their challenges, and their contribution to the School.

The second part of the #ISBis20 series spotlights some of the veterans among the faculty and staff who believed in the dream and helped ISB lay firm foundations. In Episode 5, Professor Kavil Ramachandran, who joined ISB as its first faculty member, reminisces about the early days and their challenges, and his contribution to the School.

Professor Sumantra Ghoshal was a gifted teacher, a prolific author and a visionary management guru who was to be ISB’s Founding Dean. It was his infectious energy and enthusiasm that inspired the founding batch of the PGP to become part of the ISB dream. He passed away at the age of 55, in March 2004.

In this special episode of #ISBis20, we pay tribute to Sumantra by revisiting the legendary speech he made at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He describes how a company's context, which he called the smell of the place, evokes a very different energy and behaviour in people. And he asks, how do we create inside a company, the vibrant energy of a forest in spring, rather than the energy-draining heat of a suffocating summer?

Episode 3 of the #ISBis20 series presents previously unseen material in the form of a promotional film made in June 1999 by Bill Enco of McKinsey & Company to propose the idea that was to become the Indian School of Business. The film features leading academicians and business leaders, who came together to give shape to this idea, articulating their vision and hopes for the proposed B-school.

In Episode 2 of #ISBis20, Pramath Sinha, the School's Founding Dean, and the author of 'An Idea Whose Time Has Come' - a book that tells the story behind it - looks back on how the idea called ISB was brought to life. He also recalls the early days of the School and the challenges that had to be overcome to lay the ground towards building it into the world-class institution it was envisioned to be.

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#ISBis20 is a collection of twenty stories, told through interactions with key stakeholders, that celebrate the impact ISB has had on management education and research in its two decades of existence.

In the first video in this series, we hear about the genesis of the idea called ISB - about how the founders envisioned and built a world-class, industry-steered educational institution. This episode sees the School's Founding Dean, Pramath Sinha, in conversation with Rajat Gupta, ISB's Founding Chairman.