ISB Mohali’s genesis
April 18th, 2010
It involves land contribution from the state of Punjab and financial contributions from four industrialists for a total of 200 crores. Following are extracted from a Times of India report.
- The Punjab cabinet has finally given the green signal for the allotment of a fresh parcel of 70-acre land within the upcoming Knowledge City in Mohali for the second campus of the premier B-school.
- to be set up at an investment of Rs 200 crore and will be funded entirely by donations from four India Inc top guns:
- Max group founder and chairman Analjit Singh,
- Bharti group CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal,
- Atul Punj of Punj Lloyd and
- the Munjals of Hero group.
For its part the ISB administration have roped in top foreign universities to collaborate in the establishment of four schools. Following is excerpted from a report in Economic Times.
- The ISB has joined hands with the MIT Sloan School of Management, to develop two new institutes at the ISB’s upcoming campus at Mohali –
- The BML Munjal Institute for Manufacturing Excellence and Innovation and
- The Punj Lloyd Institute for Physical Infrastructure Management.
- In addition to the two institutes mentioned earlier, the school will also establish the
- Max India Institute of Health Care Management and
- Bharti Insititute of Public Policy.
- The ISB will continue to have the support of its founding associate schools such as the Wharton School and Kellogg School of Management. The ISB also has the support of the London Business School (LBS) as an associate school.
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