# XLRI – Xavier School of Management

XLRI – Xavier School of Management (XLRI or formerly Xavier Labour Relations Institute) is a private business school run by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. It was founded in 1949 in the steel city of Jamshedpur and is the oldest business school in India. In 2020, the same society has started a new campus in Jhajjar, Delhi.
The institute is a signatory of PRME – Principles for Responsible Management Education. It takes up several social initiatives round the year and focuses on sustainability. The campus plans to go carbon neutral by 2020.

## History

XLRI began by offering courses in management and trade unions in 1949 before setting up a two-year, full-time program in industrial welfare in 1953.

## Academics

XLRI offers two-year diplomas in Management– the Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) and the Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management (PGDHRM). It also offers an 18-month full-time residential Postgraduate Diploma in General Management (formerly known as GMP or the General Management Programme), a three-year Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management for working executives, a Fellow Programme in Management (FPM), and a programme on Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Venture Creation (IEV). XLRI is also known for offering various short-term management development programmes and a host of virtual programs.

## Rankings

XLRI was ranked 9th among management schools in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2023.
It was ranked first in Outlook India's "Top Private MBA Institutes" of 2022.

## Notable people
### Alumni

XLRI, being the oldest B-school in India, has over 30,000 alumni.

#### Academics

* Hayagreeva Rao, 1980 – Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, United States
* Satish Nambisan, 1989 – Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
* Akshay Rao, 1980 – General Mills Chair in Marketing Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, United States

#### Arts and social work

* Akash Khurana, 1977 – actor
* Ananth Vaidyanathan – actor, playback singer and singing trainer
* Mahesh Mahadevan, 1978 – composer
* Mohan Raman, 1978 – actor

#### Business

* Arjun Shekhar, 1990 – founder of Vyaktitva
* B Muthuraman, 1966 – Vice-chairman, Tata Steel
* Krishnakumar Natarajan, 1981 – chairman and co-founder, Mindtree
* Leena Nair, 1992 – Chief executive officer, Chanel
* Naveen Jain, 1982 – founder of Infospace and Moon Express
* Prakash Puram, 1978 – former president and CEO of iXmatch
* Rakesh Kapoor, 1987 – CEO, Reckitt Benckiser
* Sandeep Bakhshi, 1983 – CEO and MD, ICICI Bank
* Sandip Sen, 1989 – Global CEO and ED of Aegis Ltd
* Srinivas Kandula – Chairman Capgemini, India
* Vineet Nayar 1985 – former CEO, HCL Technologies

#### Government and politics

* Abhishek Singh, 2006 – former member of parliament, Lok Sabha for Rajnandgaon
* Arun Maira, 1963 – former member of Planning Commission of India and former chairman of Boston Consulting Group, India
* K. Pandiarajan, 1984 – former Minister for Tamil language, Tamil Culture and Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu
* Prerana Issar, 1997 – Chief People Officer at National Health Service, UK
* Sanjay Jha, 1986 – National Spokesperson for Congress

#### Literature

* Abhijit Bhaduri, 1984 – author, columnist and Chief Learning Officer, Wipro
* Gautam Sen, 1984 – author, journalist and automotive design consultant
* Shantanu Gupta, 2005 – author and political analyst

#### Sports

* Sanjeeva Kumar Singh, 2000 – Indian archery coach, Arjuna Award and Dronacharya Award winner

### Faculty and Staff

* T V Rao – Chairman of T V Rao Learning Systems Pvt. Ltd. and referred to as 'Father of HRD' in India
* Kuruvilla Pandikattu, SJ – Chair Professor, JRD Tata Foundation for Business Ethics.