Bengaluru: IIM Bangalore has ranked 11th globally and first in India for the impact of its teaching cases in the Financial Times’ 2026 assessment, with its case material adopted by 680 higher-education institutions across nearly 50 countries in 2024 and 2025.
The assessment measures the reach and use of business school teaching cases, which bring real-world business challenges into classroom discussions. IIM Bangalore’s performance places it among the leading global institutions in the adoption of case-based teaching material.
The institute published 26 cases through Harvard Business Impact in each of 2024 and 2025. Sales of these cases increased from 140,457 in 2024 to 184,879 in 2025, a rise of nearly 32%, according to IIM Bangalore.
The cases covered a range of management issues, including product management, marketing, customer analytics, digital transformation, human resources and generative artificial intelligence. Among the institute’s bestsellers were cases on redBus’s product management strategy, marketing hypotheses at WSES and customer analytics at BigBasket.
Other popular cases examined digital transformation at Apollo Hospitals, market research for affordable housing, demand forecasting in healthcare, employee engagement and HR analytics.
The Financial Times’ 2026 assessment examines the impact of academic work across four areas: practitioner publications, policy impact, external grant funding and teaching cases. The teaching cases component draws on data from five international distributors: Case Centre at CEIBS, Harvard Business Impact, IESE Publishing, Ivey Publishing and The Case Centre.
The assessment considers the number of unique cases and authors, adoption across organisations, geographical reach and student usage. The data covers cases submitted for distribution during the previous two years, as well as cases published during the previous seven years.
“The value of research is strengthened when it engages with the problems businesses face and subsequently informs decision-making,” said U Dinesh Kumar, Director-in-charge, IIM Bangalore.
“At IIMB, we see cases as an important way of making that connection by bringing research, managerial experience and real business problems into the classroom,” he added.
The institute’s case portfolio also includes work on emerging business models, technology adoption, sustainability and organisational change, including cases on green steel, decarbonisation, digital public goods and the semiconductor industry.
The Financial Times combines distributor-level data using a methodology based on The Case Centre’s Impact Index. The measures are standardised and weighted to account for differences in market share before being combined into an overall score for each institution.
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