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BT-MDRA best B-school ranking 2019

A few pointers for B-schools on how they can improve outcomes

The inside story of how Arundhati Bhattacharya is carrying out the big human resources overhaul at SBI. This can become a template for other public sector banks.

Armed with prestigious international accreditations and a bevy of tie-ups with foreign schools, IIM Calcutta aims to be among the very best globally.

Abbot Point port terminal in Queensland, about 980 km north of Brisbane, which he bought for nearly $2 billion in 2011 is the biggest single bet Gautam Adani has ever made.

One of the main reasons is the dominance of caste, religion and identity-based politics in the state. Muslims, for instance, have typically voted for Mulayam Singh Yadav's SP or the Congress while the backward castes have supported Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party BSP and the BJP has traditionally relied on the upper castes.

Suresh V. Shenoy is Executive Vice President at Information Management Consultants, Inc., a Virginia-based consulting and technology company. He is also the current Director of PanIIT North America and its former president. He replied to emailed questions from Business Today's Goutam Das on Brand IIT and the challenges it faces.

From 2003 to 2011, Business Today carried out a perception survey to rank B-schools. This year, we did two surveys: factual and perception, and combined their results.

The Business Today-Nielsen Best B-schools survey gets sharper and much more comprehensive this year. We present a turbo-charged ranking of more than 200 of the country's top business education institutes. How and why we raised the bar, and what we found.

Debtosh Chatterjee, MD & CEO of Chatterjee Cleaning Arts, spoke to Anik Basu on how he started the business and its future plans.

Why the number of women CEOs still remains woefully low.

Like any listed company, a rating agency must deliver consistent revenue growth and keep its shareholders happy. Many in the industry argue that, given the lack of a sizeable debt market, agencies look beyond their core business and end up grading business schools, IPOs, MFIs, real estate projects and even hospitals. Is the lack of a vibrant debt market in the country spelling trouble for the industry?

IIM Bangalore comes out tops in the 2011 edition of the BT-Nielsen best B-schools survey. Check the jumps and falls in the rankings of other business schools.

SCMHRD, Pune is the institute that has made the biggest jump in rankings - from 37th in 2010 to 12th this year. The institute started off specialising in HR, but now offers other management streams as well.

The iconic IIM Ahmedabad is in the throes of change: this is evident in its thinking about its identity, strengths, goals and its pedagogy. Director Samir K. Barua wants its curriculum to reflect contemporary realities.Watch Videos: Students | Alumni | Dean

By pioneering satellite-based postgraduate diploma programmes in management, the institute has jumped from 12th place in 2010 to sixth this year. It last figured in the top 10 list in 2002. And there are other reasons too.

A fight for autonomy, scramble for faculty, foreign players at the doors...Indian business education is awash with change this year. But the biggest change is in BT's ranking of B-schools.

The 12th BT-Best Business Schools Survey, and the ninth partnering Nielsen, uses a slightly different methodology.