It is fair to expect a certain level of disbelief and criticism to see a young school like ISB to make it to the top 20 but I think some people in public and even the press are taking it a little too far. Had to encounter this in two of my regular media channels. One was in http://www.pagalguy.com/ (PG) and the other was in the popular business daily Economic Times. So in PG one particular guy goes on a rampant criticism saying ISB can never be in the top-20 etc. etc. Anyhow there seems to be a personal angle as to why it pains that one person so much and finally the administrator came in and locked the thread.
And today Economic Times has published a write up on ISB's 4th rank in the PG survey right next to the news item on ISB's 20th rank in FT rankings. Pagalguy had published its b-school rankings based on student/aspirant surveys on 20th Jan 2008 (10 days ago).It does not take rocket science to figure out what the newspaper is getting at.
We at ISB are very clear. There have been detractors in the past and have been critical of the ISB model but they have all been proven wrong. ISB is young and has lot more to achieve and as our Dy. Dean Ajit Rangnekar said "We have to accept this honor with dignity, humility and sensitivity". We at ISB have always and will continue to admire the IIMs. Our Dean's and top administration went to IIMs and even several of our professors went to IIMs. At the same time we appreciate it if we are not compared with IIMs 'coz they have a unique model, which is an incredibly good one too. ISB is fundamentally different from IIMs and I'll not go to explain why.
Info: I have nothing against Pagalguy.com. I have benefited a lot from PG during GMAT prep and b-school admissions and to that end I have posted over 325 responses answering queries of prospective applicants. FT is a leading brand from UK and are reputed as the second best b-school rankings by none other than GMAC which conducts the GMAT test.
Request: Anyone commenting on this post please don't bring in the ISB vs. IIM angle. Such comments will be deleted by me.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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Deepak, could nt agree with you more. I wonder if half the folks who are criticizing know the PPP conversion from rupee to dollar.
About IIMs not being listed there, I have one question. Did any of the IIMs participate in the global ranking survey?? Can somebody find out the fact?
Irrespective of what naysayers say, ISB has made india proud. No second thoughts about that.
(I might be biased as I am waiting for my interview result :-) but, irrespective of whether I get in or not, ISB rocks.)
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