STILL AHEAD OF THE CURVE

SEVENTY-SIX YEARS ON, INDIA'S FIRST B-SCHOOL CONTINUES TO PRODUCE LEADERS WHO BALANCE SKILL, CONSCIENCE AND GLOBAL VISION

- Amitabh Srivastava

WHEN XLRI OPENED ITS DOORS IN 1949 in the steel town of Jamshedpur, it was doing something no institution in India had attempted before: creating the country's first formal school of management education. Founded by Jesuit priests with a mandate to "respond first to the needs of the people and the nation", the institute began as a small labour-relations school tied closely to the industrial realities of eastern India. Seventy-six years on, XLRI - Xavier School of Management is a globally networked business school with an expanding footprint.