Famous MBA Alumni of Top B-Schools in India

Updated On: July 14, 2022 04:02 PM | CAT

An MBA degree has helped graduates from different streams get into leadership roles in the government and the private sector. Taking an MBA degree can be the best decision of your career provided that you do it from a good B-school and at the right time.

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Famous MBA Alumni of Top Indian B-Schools
Notable Past Alumni of Top B-Schools

Famous MBA Alumni of Top B-Schools in India

India is home to some of the best business schools in the world. Apart from the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), there are many other MBA colleges in India whose graduates have gone to take up leadership positions in top companies all around the world or have achieved success in many other fields.

Master of Business Administration (MBA) is considered to be one of the best postgraduate course one can pursue, no matter the background. The course not only causes an academic enhancement in a student but also shapes their analytical and problem-solving skills, which allows them to view day-to-day problems from a very different perspective and, hence, come up with creative and effective solutions to these problems.

This is why an MBA is considered to be the mantra of success and it is easy to find innumerable examples of MBA degree holders who have gone on to achieve success and fame in their respective fields. A large share of CEOs and MDs of the top companies around the world have an MBA degree in common.

In order to highlight the excellent job opportunities after an MBA, we have provided a list of some of the famous MBA alumni of the top B-schools of India who are considered to be a part of the top brass of the management sector.

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Famous MBA Alumni of Top B-Schools Notable Alumni of Top B-Schools Notable Alumni of IIM-A Notable Alumni of IIM-B Notable Alumni of IIM-C Notable Alumni of FMS Delhi Notable Alumni of IIM-L

Famous MBA Alumni of Top Indian B-Schools

Given below are some very famous personalities who have graduated from some of India's top management schools. They have helped MBA earn the fame that it currently enjoys as being one of the best postgraduate degree courses in India.

Alumni	Position	MBA College
Dr Raghuram Rajan	Ex-Governor of RBI	IIM Ahmedabad
Chetan Bhagat	Author
Ajay Banga	President and CEO of MasterCard
Deep Kalra	Founder and CEO of MakeMyTrip.com
Indira Nooyi	Former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo	IIM Calcutta
Chanda Kocchar	Ex-MD and CEO of ICICI Bank	JBIMS Mumbai
Harit Nagpal	MD and CEO of Tata Sky	FMS Delhi
Prasoon Joshi	CEO of McCann Worldgroup India	IMT Ghaziabad
Avani Davda	MD of Godrej Nature's Basket	NMIMS Mumbai
Rakesh Kapoor	Former CEO of Reckitt Benckiser	XLRI Jamshedpur
Sanjay Verma	CEO - Asia Pacific at G4S	MDI Gurgaon

Notable Past Alumni of Top B-Schools

There are many management colleges in India who have been the alma mater of noteworthy figures in the management industry. Some graduates of these colleges have led and shaped the growth of existing industries. Others have been innovators and have been the founders of influential companies that have proved to be game-changers of their industries and provided employment to thousands of people.

Let's take a look at some of the most notable alumni of the top Indian B-Schools.

Notable Alumni of IIM Ahmedabad

The table below contains some of the most notable alumni that have studied at IIM Ahmedabad.

Alumni	Position	Batch
Late C K Prahalad	Thought Leader	PGP 1966
Kiran Karnik	Central Board of Directors in Reserve Bank of India	PGP 1968
Marti G. Subrahmanyam	Prof. of Finance, Stern School of Business	PGP 1969
Beheruz Nariman Sethna	Prof. of Business at the University of West Georgia	PGP 1973
Srikant M. Datar	Prof. of Business Administration at Harvard Business School	PGP 1978
Vijay Mahajan	Founder and Chairman of BASIX Group	PGP 1980
Roopa Kudva	MD of Omidyar Network India	PGP 1986
Sanjeev Bikchandani	Founder and CEO of naukri.com	PGP 1989
M.P. Vasimalai	Executive Director of DHAN Foundation	PGP 1993
Rahul Agarwal	MD & CEO of Lenovo India	PGP 1996
Yashish Dahiya	Co-Founder & CEO of Policybazaar.com	PGP 1996

Notable Alumni of IIM Bangalore

Here are some popular management professionals who have passed out from IIM Bangalore.

Alumni	Position	Batch
K. Radhakrishnan	Former Chairman of ISRO	PGP 1976
Aswath Damodaran	Prof. of Finance, New York University	PGP 1979
Shashi Sinha	CEO IPG Mediabrands India	PGP 1981
Ravi Neelakantan	Advisor, Center for Public of Policy IIM Bangalore	PGP 1982
Malavika Harita	CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Focus	PGP 1982
Damodar Mall	CEO of Reliance Retail	PGP 1986
Gopal Krishna Nayak	Director of IIIT Bhubaneswar	PGP 1988
Sameer Suneja	CEO of Perfetti Van Melle	PGP 1994
Hasmukh Adhia	Former Finance Secretary	PGPPM 2002

Notable Alumni of IIM Calcutta

The most notable alumni of IIM Calcutta can be found in the table given below.

Alumni	Position	Batch
Ashish Chauhan	MD and CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange	--
Sabyasachi Hajara	Former Chairman and MD of Shipping Corporation of India	PGDM 1973
Sunil Alagh	Founder and MD SKA Advisors	PGDM 1968
Sunil Duggal	CEO Vedanta Group	--
T V Narendran	MD of Tata Steel	PGDM 1988
Ajit Balakrishnan	Founder and CEO of Rediff.com	PGDM 1971
Pranay Chulet	Co-Founder and CEO of Quikr.com	1996
Gopal Vittal	CEO of Bharti Airtel	1990
Deepak Mohoni	Stock Market Analyst	MBA 1977
Sudhakar Ram	Founder & CEO Benow	MBA 1982
Nishi Vasudeva	Independent Director of HCL Technologies	1977

Notable Alumni of FMS Delhi

There have been many successful management professionals who partially owe their success to their time at FMS Delhi.

Alumni	Position	Batch
Alok Bharadwaj	MD of CreoVate Transformations & Consulting	MBA 1985
Brij Uberoi	Executive VP-HR, Rallis India	--
R Mukundan	MD, Tata Chemicals	--
Vinod Kumar Nagar	Ex-ED of Syndicate Bank	MBA 1981
Dalip Singh	State Election Commissioner of Haryana	PhD 1982
Ajay Shukla	Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Office of Higher Education UAE	MBA 1988
Dr T M Bhasin	Chairman of Advisory Board for Banking Frauds	MBA 1987
Late R S Butola	CMD of Indian Oil Corporation	--
Bal Krishan Batra	Dy. MD of IBDI Bank	--
K L Dhingra	Director of NIBM	--

Notable Alumni of IIM Lucknow

The table below contains information about the most notable alumni to pass out from IIM Lucknow .

Alumni	Position	Batch
Deepak Garg	Founder and CEO of Rivigo	MBA 2006
Sanjay Thapar	Events and Marketing Solutions at HT Media	1987
Rajdeep Grewal	Prof. of Marketing at University of North Carolina	--
Kallol Banerjee	Co-Founder of Faasos	1999
Bimal Patwari	President of Pinnacle Infotech Inc.	PGDBM 1990

MBA is a very versatile course in which a student is taught to think like an innovator. MBAs have always been known for bringing in transformative changes to some of the top corporations of the world. This is the reason why many corporations find it comfortable and flourish when an MBA graduate is at the helm of the company. MBA aspirants who are looking for some motivation to prepare for admission to the top B-Schools must look no further than these notable alumni.

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