N. Ravichandran

Who is N. Ravichandran?

N. Ravichandran is the 3rd director of The Indian Institute Of Management Indore. He is an M.Sc in Maths from Annamalai University and holds a Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He was earlier a professor at IIM Ahmedabad in the area of Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques. He started the five year Integrated Management Programme at IIM Indore and increased the batch size of the flagship PGP programme from 240 to 450.

He is also credited with rapid creation of world-class infrastructure at IIM Indore. In his first tenure, infrastructure was not only envisioned but also implemented in record time. He has also introduced the PGP at RAK in UAE and PGP at Mumbai programmes. The idea behind the PGP at RAK is to meet the demand for skilled managers in the Gulf region. The motive to start PGP at Mumbai is to help IIM Indore connect with the Finance and the Consulting industries. On the burning issue of high EMIs and the restriction on graduates to be able to take risks, he believes that it was a real problem and that steps need to be taken to simplify this situation. He shares his point of view on placements and career opportunities and believes that IIM Indore will be at its peak by 2015. He also says that while he hopes that students at IIM Indore get the best possible career opportunities, the institution is in the business of imparting education and not in the business of being a placement agency. According to him, the best schools in the world do not have a placement process and Indian schools need to rethink the concept of a formal placement process.