IIM Ahmedabad was set up in collaboration with which foreign institution?
- A.Sloan School of Management, MIT
- B.Harvard Business School
- C.Wharton School
- D.London School of Economics
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the Harvard Business School. IIM Ahmedabad was founded in December 1961 with Harvard's help, which is why its teaching has always leaned on the case method. Vikram Sarabhai and the industrialist Kasturbhai Lalbhai were the moving spirits behind it, the Government of Gujarat supported it, and Ravi J. Matthai became its first full time director.
Option A is wrong because the Sloan School of Management of MIT was the partner of IIM Calcutta, along with the Ford Foundation. Option C is wrong because the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania had no such founding role in the IIM system. Option D is wrong because the London School of Economics is a social science school and was not a partner in setting up either of the first two IIMs.
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Practice Questions
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- A.IIT Bombay
- B.IIT Kharagpur
- C.IIT Madras
- D.IIT Delhi
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It opened in 1951, the first of the IITs, in the buildings of the Hijli Detention Camp where political prisoners had been held under British rule.
Read the full explanation →IIT Madras was established in 1959 with the technical and financial assistance of which country?
- A.United States
- B.Soviet Union
- C.West Germany
- D.United Kingdom
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IIT Madras was set up in 1959 under an agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany, which supplied equipment, scholarships and visiting faculty in the early years, and the institute's early workshops and laboratories carried that German stamp.
Read the full explanation →Which was the first Indian Institute of Management to be established?
- A.IIM Ahmedabad
- B.IIM Bangalore
- C.IIM Calcutta
- D.IIM Lucknow
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It was set up in November 1961, a few weeks before IIM Ahmedabad, with the help of the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ford Foundation and the Government of West Bengal, and it was the first management institute of its kind in the country.
Read the full explanation →The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, was established by an Act of Parliament in which year?
- A.1947
- B.1950
- C.1956
- D.1961
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The All India Institute of Medical Sciences Act was passed in 1956 and AIIMS New Delhi was founded that year as an autonomous Institute of National Importance, free to design its own courses and award its own medical degrees.
Read the full explanation →The recommendation for a national medical institute, which led to the founding of AIIMS, came from which committee?
- A.Sarkar Committee
- B.Bhore Committee
- C.Kothari Commission
- D.Mudaliar Committee
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The Health Survey and Development Committee of 1946, chaired by Sir Joseph Bhore, examined the health services of the country and recommended, among much else, a national medical centre that would set the standard for teaching and research.
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