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IIM, 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. Dr. 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. It's 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 (HBS). Largely as a consequence of this collaboration, IIM-A pioneered the case method of teaching in India.
Its current chairman is N. R. Narayana Murthy.
IIM Bangalore was established in 1973.
Situated at the outskirts of the historic city of Lucknow, the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, was established in 1984, by the Government of India, as a national level school of excellence in management science.
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 Alfred P. Sloan School of Management (MIT), the Government of West Bengal, The Ford Foundation and Indian industry. During its initial years, several prominent faculty formed part of its nucleus, including Paul Samuelson, Jagdish Sheth, J. K. Sengupta, among others.
The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, is the fifth Indian Institute of Management.
Established in 1996 by the Government of India in collaboration with the Government of Kerala, it provides education, training, consulting and research facilities in management.
IIMK is located at Kozhikode, in south western India, a location made famous by the entry of Vasco Da Gama to India. IIM Ahmedabad
IIM Bangalore
IIM Lucknow
IIM Calcutta
IIM Kozhikode