SYMBIOSIS Institute of Business Management, Pune

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune (SIBM Pune) is a higher-education institute located in Pune, India, and forms part of Symbiosis International University. It offers master's degree programmes in management, innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as a number of executive training programmes. The Symbiosis Society, under which the institute operates, is registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 and the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950. The first Symbiosis institutions were established in 1971 by S. B. Mujumdar and were affiliated with the University of Pune. Mujumdar later established SIBM Pune in 1978. The institute was originally located as part of the combined campus of Symbiosis institutes in Pune city, but shifted to a new residential campus at Lavale in Mulshi Taluka, on the outskirts of Pune city, in 2008. Since 2014, Dr Ramakrishnan Raman has served as the director of SIBM Pune. Notable alumni of the institute include film director Neeraj Ghaywan, actor Babu Antony, Indian writer Radhika Maira Tabrez, and Hindi writer Divya Prakash Dubey.