CASE STUDY

IIM Bangalore brings financial markets into the classroom

IIM Bangalore

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) is one of Asia’s leading business schools and one of India’s most respected management institutions. Its postgraduate, executive and doctoral programs span management, business analytics, public policy and finance.

IIMB began using the Bloomberg Terminal in 2005. In 2015, it established a dedicated Bloomberg Finance Lab to expand access across teaching, research and executive education.

Key insights

IIMB expanded from one Bloomberg Terminal in 2005 to a dedicated Finance Lab with nine Terminals, supported by three Bloomberg Anywhere licenses.

Approximately 800 students are introduced to Bloomberg each year, while Bloomberg data and analytics are used in courses.

Bloomberg-based learning extended through executive education and external workshops, with more than 1,000 participants attending over the previous three years.

“When students sit at a Bloomberg Terminal and start accessing bond yields, running peer comparisons or backtesting a strategy, something shifts. They stop thinking like students and start thinking like practitioners.”

Prof. M Jayadev
Chairperson, Centre for Capital Markets and Risk Management, IIMB

Situation

IIMB introduced its first Bloomberg Terminal in 2005, supporting doctoral researchers who used Bloomberg data for academic work. As interest grew, students and researchers increasingly competed for access.

IIMB wanted to give more students practical experience with financial data and analytics alongside classroom instruction.
With limited shared resources, there was no practical way to enrich a broader range of finance courses and programs.

Challenge

With access dependent on a single Bloomberg Terminal, wider student use and curriculum integration was constrained.

Students and researchers had to schedule time to use the Terminal. Faculty had limited scope to incorporate Bloomberg data and analytics into coursework at scale.
IIMB wanted to support a growing student population while also expanding practical training across research and executive education.

Solution

In 2015, IIMB’s Centre for Capital Markets and Risk Management established a Bloomberg Finance Lab with nine Bloomberg Terminals. Students in Corporate Finance use Bloomberg data, financial statements and market information.

Courses including Financial Modeling and Financial Markets use Bloomberg analytics for valuation, fixed income, portfolio management and derivatives.
The Finance Lab is complemented by three Bloomberg Anywhere licenses for faculty and selected students.
IIMB incorporates Bloomberg into executive programs, as well as two-day workshops for students, faculty and finance professionals from institutions across India.

“At IIMB, we believe rigorous theory must be matched with real-world practice and our Bloomberg Finance Lab is central to that mission, bringing live markets into the heart of our curriculum.”

U Dinesh Kumar
Director-in-charge, IIMB