President's Message:


At XIME you wll experience the ambience of a place where students are always striving and achieving. In the last several months, they have continued to scale new heights of achievement in manifesting talent and winning laurels in virtually every student competition where they participated.

We believe that XIME students not only excel across several dimensions, like domain knowledge, communication, basic values and soft skills, but they combine these with priceless qualities of mind and heart that their training here has taken every care to nurture. It is is for this important reason that we have succeeded in manintaining our position among leading business schools in the country.

Last year XIME signed MOUs with six foreign universities of international repute for students and faculty exchanges, making 2007 the year of internationalization for the institute.


President's Profile:

Prof.J.Philip is currently Vice Chairman and President of XIME.
He was the Director of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore during 1985-91.
Educated at XLRI and Harvard Business School, Prof. Philip has a rich blend of experience in management, both in public and private sectors,in human resources development and in eudcational entrepreneurship.


Prof. Philip started his career at Xavier Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur in 1960, where he became Dean and Professor of Management in March 1970. He was one of the founders of the MBA programme of XLRI.

Prof. Philip left XLRI in 1971 to join the Steel Authority of India Limited as the Principal of the Company's Central Management College in Ranchi. In January 1980 he joined Oberoi Hotels Group as its Vice President (Human Resources). He was with the Oberoi Group of Companies for over five years managing its Human Resources functions worldwide.


Prof. Philip was the President of the Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD) during 1979-1980 and the recipient of the Society's Best Member Award in 1978.

Prof. Philip is the Founder President of the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS), the national association of management schools/university departments of management in the country (1988-92).


The Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) has honoured him by bestowing upon him the Ravi.J.Mathai National Fellow Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Cause of Management Education in India.

He is also the recipient of the Ambedkar National Award for his distinguished contributions to management development.


Indian Business Education – Bridging the gap
An article by Prof. J. Philip