IIM-L and IIM-I are stacked at no 5 and no 6 slots. While this may sound predictable, the surprise comes from the strong showing from Mumbai based NMIMS and Hyderabad based ICFAI Business School. NMIMS has moved up the rankings rapidly to get 10th slot. It was pegged at no 17 in last survey. ICFAI Business School moved up by 4 ranks to be pegged at no 9 this year.

The survey is conducted by market research agency AC Nielsen. MBAUniverse.com compared the rankings released this year (Business Today, September 23, 2007) with last years rankings (Business Today, July 16, 2006). Analysis of these rankings over two years offers some interesting patterns.

While the top ranking B-schools, especially IIMs, seem quite settled in their positions (5 IIMs occupy top 6 positions), there is a lot of churn lower down the order. (See table below)

There are four new entrants in the Ranking 2007:

Mr Srinivasan offered his Leadership mantras at the talk. Leadership builds culture in an organization and culture builds next generation leaders. This ensures that there are quality leaders in pipeline, which is the concept of sustainable leadership, said Mr Srinivasan.

The campaign was organized for ayurvedic soap Medimix & fertilizers of Paradeep Phosphates Limited (PPL) at Khurda and Cuttack districts of the Orissa. The institute plans to launch similar promotional campaigns for Hindustan Unilever Limited, Britannia Industries Limited, Lotte India Corporations Limited and ICICI Lombard in the next few weeks.

They organized an auction recently which saw students big for interesting items like coffee dates, gyaan sessions by the toppers, and even bike lessons. Students were able to collect Rs 21,000 in the auction. This auctions was organized by newly formed social service cell Vihaan at FMS.

Not only have the older siblings IIM-A, IIM-B, IIM-C and IIM-L bagged the coveted top four rankings, younger IIMs too have moved up.

For the first time, the survey has classified B-Schools into four categories: Government/ PSU B-Schools, Private B-Schools, University Departments and Sectoral B-Schools. The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A); XLRI Jamshedpur; Delhi Universitys Faculty of Management Studies (FMS); and the Indian Institute of Rural Management (IRMA) have topped respective league tables. The survey notes that while IIMs are still on top, many aggressive private B-schools are fast catching up.

On the occasion, various HR leaders would be speaking on HR ChallengesThe Changing Spectrum.

He was speaking at AIMA-AAMOs National Management Convention in Kolkata on September 8. Said Mr Bikchandani, Biggest constraint for managing new India in future will be lack of talent. Services like IT, ITES, Financial services, R&D in Pharma are all human capital intensive business where India has done well. But we are now running out of talent. My interaction with various companies tells me that there is a huge talent shortage round the corner.

Said Mr Goeka, The India of today is reformed, rejuvenated and resurgent. A dramatic transformation has taken place in the past 15 years. The transformation has been fast and fundamental.

Giving more details of this transformation, Mr Goenka said, The economy has opened up. The pace of growth of the economy is amongst the highest in the world. The content of GDP has also changed. Most importantly, people are infused with confidence. We see the emergence of the Global Indian Player.