Top 10 Leaders from IIM CALCUTTA – 2022

In today’s changing business landscape, where the corporate world is evolving at an accelerated pace, the demands of the presentday executive leadership has also evolved. To address the emerging trend, technologies and altering customer preferences, it is pivotal to perform beyond the conventional approach to leadership, strategic thinking and decision making, all in the context of the evolving future of work dynamics. This is where the IIMs play a significant role leveraging the cutting edge programmes, enabling mid and senior level professionals with relevant work experience to build strategic insights and diverse functional expertise needed to lead businesses omnipresent and surfacing.

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) is a public business school located in Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Entrenched in 1961 it was the first of all Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) to be established, and has been recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India in 2017.One of the biggest plus of IIMC is its world renowned faculty. With its campus spread across 135 acres of area, it the institute features a cluster of Administrative and Faculty office blocks, fully equipped classrooms, seminar and conference rooms, residential quarters for students, faculty and staff members, a library, an executive training complex, a bank, a post office, and a school. IIMC provides a wide network of corporate placement opportunities for its students and recently collaborated (in 2021) internationally with Tree And Human Knot and RisingIndiaThinkTank for exploring students’ dynamics for international experience.

There are many C-suite leaders who have considerably looked into enhancing their leadership and talent development skills, and took the creatively designed management courses at IIMC. Be it a two-year full-time MBA,a one-year full-time Post Graduate Diploma (PGPEX-VLM), a one-year MBA for experienced executives, Doctor of Business Administration programme, a two year full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics, and a one-year full-time programme in Healthcare Management. In its 61 years of period, IIMC has delivered many dynamic business and executive leaders too, who are leading many large companies today, nationally and internationally or are shining as growth drivers of the economy leading well-established enterprises/upcoming startupsin their highest capacity. From T. V. Narendran, MD of Tata Steel, to Srinath Narasimhan, MD & CEO of Tata Teleservices, to Sunil Duggal, CEO of Dabur, Ajit Balakrishnan, Founder & CEO of Rediff.com, and more, the list of illustrious IIMC alumnus can be a long read. They come from diverse industry verticals.

In this issue of the CEO Insights magazine, a list of ‘Top 10 Leaders from IIM CALCUTTA - 2022’ is provided to the readers in corporate and different sectors, for informing the excellent services by the Leaders in diverse domains. The listing is prepared by a team of industry veterans, CEOs and VCs, and the CEO Insights magazine editorial board.