"It's unlikely that we will see more than one other business school of the stature of the ISB launched in our lifetime."
- Donald P Jacobs, Dean Emeritus, Kellogg School of Management

Privately funded academic institutions the world over, depend to a large extent on funding support from corporates, charitable foundations, and alumni to meet their capital and revenue expenditures. At our partner Schools, Wharton and Kellogg, which are rated among the top three business schools in the world, revenues earned from educational programmes such as the MBA and Executive Education Programmes, cover only 45-50 percent of the total annual expenditure of the school. The rest is met through generous funding support, which can be both 'tied', i.e., for specific activities, or 'untied', which adds to the endowment pool of the institution, funds from which are used to cover the revenue deficit.

For any business school to impart world-class education, it needs to be able to attract very high quality faculty, and provide the infrastructure for them to engage in cutting-edge research, publications, and consulting, that will stretch the frontiers of management thinking and provide industry and practicing managers the knowledge and tools to continuously enhance their productivity, and create value and wealth for society.

The Indian School of Business is a privately funded business school. It is a collaborative effort by the leaders of industry and three of the world's best-known business schools - Wharton, Kellogg, and London Business School. It offers world-class teaching and housing facilities for both its one year post-graduate programme as well as the Executive Programmes that it offers for senior managers.

In getting the project off from the drawing board and on to the ground, the ISB has been fortunate to receive substantial seed capital contributions and selfless investment of time, talent, and resources from several benefactors. The school requires generous funding support in order to create a high-quality, research-driven management education institution. Funds are required on an ongoing basis for the following activities/programmes:

• Student scholarships
  
• Student exchange programmes with other business schools around the world
  
• Research in different management disciplines
  
• Industry / academic joint research programmes
  
• Faculty exchange programmes, for collaborative research
  
• Building academic facilities such as Library, IT infrastructure for e-learning, etc.
  
• Creating Centres of Excellence, within the ISB, that will focus on research, publications, and consulting

There are several ways in which donors can contribute to the efforts at the ISB, and become a part of this distinctive global institution.

For more details, please contact:
Ravi S Kolathur
Director of Treasury
Indian School of Business
ravi_kolathur@isb.edu