Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management

India is moving towards a knowledge-based economy. We at IIT believe that much of economic growth that would take place in the coming years in India has to be through efficient management of ventures which are in their growth phase. The management of organization in this phase involves dealing with technological changes at the micro as well as at the macro level.

To promote interdisciplinary learning and to keep up with the changing environment, IIT Bombay established its management school in 1995 with the objective of transforming professionals with technological background to "Renaissance Leaders" of tomorrow. In the year 2000, the school was renamed as Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, in honor of Dr. Shailesh J. Mehta, a distinguished alumnus of IIT Bombay and a generous contributor to the school. The School Of Management already leads the way in preparing its Graduates to respond to the new challenges by drawing on the varied intellectual resources of IIT Bombay and providing an outstanding and innovative program in management education.

SJMSOM was established to provide leadership in the area of management education with an emphasis on developing all round managerial skills. We are proud to say that the School is ideally placed to exploit the synergies with the engineering and science departments at IIT Bombay. In doing so, we believe the School will continue to create unique and novel programmes to make significant contributions to management as a domain.

Isolated expertise in functional areas of finance, systems, marketing or operations is giving way to a composite and unified approach to managing business processes.

Effective decision-making requires an integrated understanding of all business functions.

At the Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, this guiding philosophy is firmly rooted in reality. Methodologies of business management are being shorn off the traditional practices and new holistic approaches are being developed.

These approaches are more at home with the issues that straddle the length and the breadth of ‘The Value Chain’. Today, the constantly changing business environment is characterized with many complex inter-related issues, which need to be addressed.

In such a scenario, the School believes that premium will be on professionals who are equipped to manage human intellect and imagination, on managers who can provide innovative solutions to problems and on executives who can deliver when required. Also the School espouses the belief that the use of technology would be invaluable in providing competitive strategies for overcoming all business challenges.

Vision:

• To excel in creation, dissemination, and application of management knowledge.

Mission:

• To nurture intellectual capital by leveraging on research, teaching, consultancy and collaborations within the IIT Bombay eco-system and beyond.

Values:

• Integrity, Academic Freedom, Excellence, Care for Society and Environment.