Newsmaker - Rajat Gupta ; The Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB), which he co- founded in 2001, has been ranked #20 in the FT-Global B-School rankings.

Business Today, February, 2008 by Pallavi Srivastava

Rajat Gupta is a man with the midas touch. The Hyderabad- based Indian School of Business (ISB), which he co-founded in 2001, has been ranked #20 in the FT-Global B-School rankings, ahead of such formidable names as Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (#21) and Anderson School of Business, UCLA (#25). It is the first Indian B-school ever to find a place on this global list.

Gupta, an alumnus of IIT Delhi and Harvard Business School (HBS), first made news in 1994 when he became the first non- American and the first Indian to head McKinsey & amp; Company globally. He was re-elected McKinsey's Managing Director in 1997 and 2000. By 2002, he had expanded McKinsey's network to 84 global locations from 58 (including India and China), increased the number of...

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