According to Asian School of Business, "Our school is about fashioning a new generation of informed and inspired professionals with the passion to lead. The curriculum of our program represents a fusion of academic rigour, individual interest and teamwork, and focuses on enhancing such business and management skills as analysis, problem solving, decision-making, effective communication and leadership."
"We believe that the challenge of an educational institution lies in adding as much value as possible, to those who have the potential to cope with the course, rather than restrict education to only to high-flyers," it adds.
The school goes on to say, "The philosophy of management today revolves around ensuring that the experience every stakeholder has with the organisation is one of 'delight'. We, at the Asian School of Business believe that unless the practices of the B-School reflect this philosophy, we will only be producing a generation of managers who are unresponsive to the needs of society. Hence, even our Admissions Process is designed to give the prospective participant in our programmes as pleasant an experience as possible.
ABS's Post Graduate Programmes in Management (leading to the award of the Post Graduate Diploma in Management) designed both for candidates with substantive work experience and for fresh graduates, demand from participants high intellectual vitality, demonstrated academic excellence, leadership qualities and commitment to pursue a management career.
ASB's enjoys the benefit of guidance of a Board of Governors comprising professionals and academics such as Dr. S. Ramadorai CEO & Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services Limited; Mr. (Kris) S. Gopalakrishnan Co-founder, CEO, Infosys; Prof. Prakash G. Apte Director, IIM-B(retd); Mr. George M. Thomas Patron, ASB; Prof. K. Ramakrishnan Director, ASB; Mr. G. Vijaya Raghavan, President, VMA Consultants Pvt. Ltd.& Founder-CEO, Technopark; Prof. Samuel Paul Director, IIMA (Retd) & Founder-Chairman, Public Affairs Centre (Bangalore).
The core group of resident faculty are mostly alumni of IIMs and/or with substantial senior-level work experience. This is supplemented by visiting faculty and practicing professionals from around the world.
Promoters
Mr George M Thomas
Noted Faculty Members
Prof K Ramakrishnan, BE, PGDM, IIMA ,
Prof K G Satheesh Kumar, MBA, BSc ( Engg) SMIEEE ,
Prof K Balakrishnan , PGDM, IIMA ,
Prof Harihara Subramanian , PGDBA, IIMA ,
Admission through the following Entrance Exams
ASB entrance test, CAT
XAT
JMET
List of Recruiters
| KPMG |
Ernst & Young |
Middle East |
ICICI Bank |
Idea Communications |
Kotak Mahindra Bank |
| Forbes Marshall |
Edelweiss |
HP Global |
HDFC |
JRG Securities |
Suntec. |
Known Alumni
Ms Janu Priya Raju , Executive RAS, KPMG
Mr Manu Kartha , Business Analyst, Hewlett-Packard
Mr A Swaminathan, Analyst, Cognizant