Internationalization at IIM Bangalore

Internationalization atIIM Bangalore

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INDEX
IIM Bangalore and Internationalization

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Global Alliances

4International Outreach5

Launch of International Research Centres: Israel Centre and Mizuho
India Japan Study Centre (MIJSC)

5Israel Centre

5

Mizuho India Japan Study Centre

6

Student Exchange Programme6

Double Degree Programme

7

Global Network for Advanced Management

8

Internationalization of Classrooms

9

Technology-enabled Education

10

Executive Education and Global Interface

10

Alumni112

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IIM Bangalore and Internationalization
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore is a leading
graduate school of management in Asia and anacknowledged hub of academic activity both in India andabroad. Under the IIM Act of 2017, IIMB is an Instituteof National Importance. Internationalization is a major
focus area for the institute and is embedded in all of
IIMB’s programmes and initiatives. Multiple offices andstakeholders within the institute are involved in the initiation,coordination and direction of internationalization efforts.
These include the Office of International Affairs (OIA) whichhandles exchange programmes and related academic
collaborations with overseas educational institutions, theResearch & Publications Office, the Programme Offices,
the Career Development Services Office, and the Centresof Excellence. The aim is to contribute to global businesseducation through innovations in and expansion of training
programmes, to the global academic community throughrelevant research particularly on emerging markets, andto industry, government and regional and international
institutions through professional and consulting activities.

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Global Alliances
IIMB has deep engagements with several
international networks. The school has collaborated
with 90 international partner institutions acrossthe world in 30 countries.
• Global Network for Advanced Management:
IIMB is the only Indian B-school in the Global
Network for Advanced Management, a networkof 32 global B-schools convened by Yale School ofManagement• Academy of International Business: A world
body with presence in 86 countries; India Chapter
headquartered at IIMB• Association of Management Development
Institutions in South Asia (AMDISA): A SAARC
recognized body with 251 members• Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI): A premieracademic bridge between India and Canada withover 100 member institutions• Toulouse Business School, France: IIMB andTBS launched India’s first Executive General
Management Programme in Aerospace andAviation Management• Goldman Sachs: The Women Start-up Programme
and the 10,000 Women Programme• Michael & Susan Dell Foundation: To offer
incubation for social enterprises• Infineon: To strengthen start-up ecosystem
focusing on Artificial Intelligence• FAU and Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated
Circuits in Germany: To offer a programme on‘Leading Digital Transformation’• McGill and Lancaster University, UK: For theInternational Management Programme
During 2020-21, IIMB renewed partnerships withfive international universities.
Name of School

StatusRegion1

University of Mannheim Business SchoolRenewal

Germany2

MCI Management Center Innsbruck

RenewalAustria3

Asian Institute of Management

RenewalPhilippines4Louvain School of Management

RenewalBelgium

5WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business

RenewalAustria4Internationalization at IIM Bangalore

International Outreach
IIM Bangalore’s international outreach covers a plethora ofprogrammes, activities, research projects and more. Someof the programmes include:• Business Planning for International Markets (BPIM)• Developing Technology Partnerships between Indianand Israeli Firms• Doing Business in India for International Business
Schools and MNCs
• General Management Programme for Aerospace andAviation Executives (GMAE)• Global Network for Advanced Management Courses• International Management Programme (IMP)• Leading Digital Transformation (Equal PartnershipProgramme)

Launch of International Research Centres:
Israel Centre and Mizuho India Japan Study
Centre (MIJSC)
To focus on new and emerging areas of research andeducation, Centres of Excellence have been establishedwithin IIMB. The institute has entered into international
collaborations to set some of these centres in orderto facilitate initiatives among academia, industry andgovernment agencies of partnering countries to work on
areas of mutual interest.

Israel Centre• Inaugurated on November 05, 2017: seeks to act as ahub for research on Indo-Israeli interactions in the fieldsof technology innovation, business strategy and history,
government policies and culture, by uniting scholars,
business community and students• IIMB has ongoing academic programmes, researchcollaborations and student exchange programmes withleading Israeli academic institutions, especially with TelAviv University (TAU)• Faculty at IIMB have been involved in Israel-relatedresearch; scholars from Israel have visited IIMB for
research seminars and conferences• IIMB has an exchange relationship with Coller School ofManagement at TAU that has participation from Post
Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) students• The Coller School also has an International Exchange
Week which has participation from Post Graduate
Programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM)students• Technion is part of the Global Network for Advanced
Management which allows IIMB and Technion students
to take courses, during specific weeks, in the network’sschools

5Internationalization at IIM Bangalore• The centre offered executive development programme:‘Developing Technology Partnerships between Firms inIndia and Israel DTPII-X 2019’, jointly offered by IIMB andColler School

Mizuho India Japan Study Centre• Set up in September 2017: aims to become knowledgecentre for India-Japan business history, business strategies,
culture and technology innovation• Entered into partnership agreements with six leading
universities in Japan - Hitotsubashi University, International
University of Japan, Keio University, Tokyo University, Kyoto
University and Waseda University• Centre has been engaged in training partnerships byoffering leadership development training programmessuch as the India Japan Leadership Programme (IJLP)- a joint India-Japan programme for executives andentrepreneurs• It also offers an immersive learning experience for MBA
students from IIMB, in which about 30 MBA students visit
Japan annually and work on business linked projects, aspart of the Business Planning for International Markets(BPIM) programme• The centre has been financially supported by Mizuho Bank,
one of the top three banks in Japan• A focus area for MIJSC is research and in this context, thecentre supports research projects by IIMB faculty members
for their broad range of research endeavours, relevant toIndia and Japan

Student Exchange Programme
IIMB has developed an extensive International Student
Exchange Network to provide cross-cultural exposure and a
global perspective to the students. IIMB has collaborated with
reputed universities in countries like Austria, Belgium, China,Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands,Poland, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden,Switzerland and Taiwan.
• The Student Exchange Programme (SEP) provides
international experience to its students• Students visiting IIMB on exchange opt for electives thatare taught as part of the Post Graduate Programme inManagement or Post Graduate Programme in EnterpriseManagement• The SEP aims at providing diversity in the classroom andinternational exposure to students, while maintaining thehigh academic standards of IIMB
• Since 2016, 617 PGP students have participated in student
exchange programmes• Since 2016, 386 international students visited IIMB
• About 150 MBA students go for an exchange term at 55
partner universities in 34 nations each year
• About 100 students come to IIMB for an exchange
programme from 32 partner schools and 17 nations

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Summary of Student Mobility over the Last Five Years
Region \ Year2016-172017-18

2018-192019-20

2020-21

IBOB

IBOB

IBOBIBOBIBOBAFRICA

0000031200ASIA

14492

84

400

AUSTRALIA020204130

3EUROPE

96

12289

10484

124

78

147

144LATIN AMERICA

0122020

100NORTH AMERICA

0155124150940Total

97

144

100

129

90

156

84

166

187

Post Graduate
Programmein EnterpriseManagement

0

80

9080

1102

Post Graduate
Programme inManagement

97

136

100

12090

150

84

157

185Double Degree ProgrammeStudents of the two-year Post Graduate Programme inManagement (PGP) now have the opportunity to obtaindouble degrees by being part of the Double Degree (DD)Programme.
• IIMB commenced its Dual Degree Programme with Global
Partner Schools in 2018
• During their DD programme exchange, selected students
study at their home institution in the first academic year
and transfer to the host institution in the second academicyear• These collaborations facilitate the process of obtaining
two academic degrees for students participating in the DD
programme, upon satisfying the academic requirements
set forth by the institutions• There were eight outgoing students and five incoming
students to-from Bocconi University (Italy), ESCP (France)and ICS, Hitotsubashi University (Japan) in the last twoyears7

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Details of the Dual Degree ProgrammePartner SchoolYearIBOB1ICS Hitotsubashi

2018-19102

Bocconi University

2020-21443ESCP

2020-2104

Note - Covid Preparedness: Student mobility was impacted in 2020 due to the Covid-19 situation.
Always quick to respond to challenges, IIM Bangalore switched to the online mode of teaching in 2020and offered student exchange on the virtual mode to incoming exchange students. This mode ofteaching was extended to all international programmes and the transition from face-to-face to virtualmeetings and classroom teaching was smooth. The institute is now offering hybrid classes to students
that entails offering students a choice to attend classes in a virtual or face-to-face mode.

Global Network for Advanced Management
IIMB became a member of the Global Network for Advanced Management in 2012 and is the only Indian
institution to be a part of the network, which comprises 32 top business schools from across the globe
including Yale School of Management, HEC, INSEAD and NSU.

Activities of the network include:• Providing online courses to students of partner schools• Providing access to select courses through use of digital technology

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Courses
Several IIMB students enrol for Global Network
Courses. IIMB offers both Small Network OpenCourses (SNOCs) and Global Network Weeks (GNWs)
with students participating from IIMB and otherpartner schools. Some courses offered in the past few
years are: Leadership in a Virtually Connected World,
Managing Across Cultures, Cultural Competence for
Global Business Managers and Responsible People
Management.

GLOBAL NETWORK WEEKS & COURSES

Year

International students who
attended Global Network
Weeks at IIMB

2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

IIMB Students who
attended Global NetworkWeeks at Partner Schools

IIMB students who
participated in Small
Network Open Courses(PGP, EPGP, PGPEM)(PGP, EPGP, PGPEM)

136866
7390
85

0840
2730
97

42220
172623

Internationalization of Classrooms
During 2016-20, IIMB received 156 applications tothe Post Graduate Programme in Management fromoverseas GMAT applicants; 84 candidates were calledfor interviews, 65 were given offers and 42 candidates
accepted and joined the programme. In addition tostudents, internationalization of the learning process
is also enabled by the large number of faculty
members, including several recently hired young
faculty (66 out of 110 full-time faculty), who havereceived their doctoral degrees from international
institutions and can thus provide exposure to latest
international pedagogies and practices. There are
31 faculty members with international teachingexperience. IIMB has also recruited eight international
faculty members in the below mentioned areas, toprovide greater international exposure to its students
through increased diversity in its faculty body.

1234
5678

AreaNationality

Marketing

KoreanOrganizational Behavior &Human Resources Management
Economics & Social Sciences
Entrepreneurship
Strategy
Finance & Accounting
Finance & Accounting
Economics & Social Sciences

Canadian
CanadianFrench
Canadian
AmericanAmericanAmerican9

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Technology-enabled Education
Good quality management education cannot reach the large numbers of interested
learners through classroom-based education alone, and this is where IIMB’s Massive
Open Online Courses (MOOCs) come in. The school’s digital learning initiative IIMBx has
made its foray into the international market as well.
IIMB offers MOOCs, a Technology-enabled Education (TEL) platform, through edX, a notfor-profit online initiative of Harvard and MIT that offers online courses. IIMB is the only
management school in India to offer MOOCs on the edX platform. At present, IIMBxoffers 43 courses, two Micro-Masters Programmes and one Professional Certificate
Programme in Financial Risk Management. Around 20,00,000 students from 190
countries have enrolled in the courses so far. IIMB has been declared Number 3 in thelist of Top Business Schools of 2020 by MOOC Lab (https://www.mooclab.club/pages/bsrmp-2020/) – HEC Paris and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania being
the top two.

Some globally relevant courses:• People Management• Operations Management• Customer Relationship Management• Marketing Management• Effective Business Communication
International Students Enrolled in MOOCs from 190 Nations
Year

edX - Enrolment

edX Certificates
Issued2017

1350202454

20181343603353

20191979932466

2020

174225

2062

2021

64603

3293

Executive Education and Global Interface
In keeping with the overall objective of the institute, IIMB has been working towards
internationalizing its Executive Education Programmes (EEPs). In the last three years,
IIMB has launched few programmes in partnership with international businessschools. Participation in EFMD conferences has contributed to better networking withinternational business schools resulting in programmes, such as ‘Doing Business inIndia’ for international participants.
Key International Clients• Hemas Holdings PLC (Client)• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Client)• Toulouse Business School, France (Partner)• Standard Chartered Bank (Client)• University of Sydney (Client)10Internationalization at IIM Bangalore
Leading International Partnership Programmes: Leading Digital Transformation (LDT) in partnershipwith FAU and Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits; International Management Programme (IMP)where the core programme is a set of five modules of 10 days each, designed by elite business schoolsin Bangalore, Yokohama, Lancaster, Montreal, and Rio de Janeiro, delivered over 16 months; GeneralManagement Programme for Aerospace and Aviation Executives (GMAE), in partnership with Toulouse
Business School; Developing Technology Partnerships between firms in India and Israel and Establishingand Managing Corporate Innovation: Lessons from the Israeli Experience, in partnership with Tel Aviv
University, Israel.
The EEP Office has long-term tie-ups with several international organizations. IIMB frequently
conducts short duration programmes for visiting delegations of multinational executives who seek anunderstanding of how business is conducted in India. The table below depicts its international Custom
and Open Programmes from 2015-2021.
Year

No. ofProgrammes

No. ofParticipatingCountries

No. ofParticipants

2015-16
2016-17

10
12

7
10228
292

2017-181210292

2018-19179454

2019-20117303624315692017-1831656

2018-19

1

1

4

2019-2021122

2019-211

1

1Open Total

72983

EEP Total

69

72

1652

Programme
TypeCustom

Custom Total

Open

Participating Countries

Australia, Brazil, Canada,China, France, Germany,Japan, Nigeria,South Africa, Spain,
Sri Lanka,
Sweden, UK, USA

Cameroon, Korea,Germany, USA, Canada,Kenya, South Africa,
Nigeria, UK, Brazil,
Malaysia, Japan, Ghana,Wales, Spain, Tunisia

Alumni
The annual alumni meet Anusmaran is held in international locations including Dubai, Sydney, Singapore,
New York, Tokyo, Stockholm, Amsterdam, London, Hong Kong and San Francisco; 18 faculty members
visited these locations and 300+ alumni have attended the event in the last three years. The deep
engagement with alumni is reflected in the fact that alumni have contributed to over half of the total
donations received in 2018-20. IIMB has received INR 6,141,000 donation from overseas alumni in thepast five years for various causes.
The alumni also contribute significantly by mentoring students, especially in career development. Morethan 100 alumni come to the campus from all over the world each year.
Alumni working in international locations play an important role in the internationalization of IIMB by:• Sharing their experiences as global managers through mentoring sessions organized by the IIMBAlumni Association• Creating opportunities for international Executive Education Programmes• Building greater awareness about the institute globally
These are some of the wide range of activities and approaches IIM Bangalore is undertaking toachieve its internationalization strategy. IIMB sees its internationalization strategy as a dynamic andongoing process, which must be constantly reviewed, evaluated and adapted to keep up with global
developments as well as emerging trends and opportunities.

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