ISB’s Quarter-Century Bet: Leadership Over Legacy

As the Indian School of Business turns 25, Dean Madan Pillutla explains why leadership talent – not capital – will define India’s future

In two years, the Indian School of Business has climbed from 31st to 12th in the Financial Times Global MBA ranking – the kind of jump that would send most business school deans would have no trouble trumpeting. Pillutla, ISB’s sixth dean and a professor at London Business School for two decades before taking the job in 2020, calls it so much noise.