Asian Institute of Management

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The Asian Institute of Management (AIM) is an Asian pioneer in management education. The Institute was founded in 1968 by a consortium of prominent business leaders, Philippine academic institutions, and the Harvard Business School.AIM is the first school in Southeast Asia to receive accreditation from the US-based Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), globally recognized as having the world's highest standards.
Throughout its history, the Institute has sought to empower students to thrive in challenging, rapidly shifting environments. It achieves this by encouraging a more considerate, effective, and sustainable approach to business in society. Our mission is to sustain Asian businesses and societies' growth by developing professional, entrepreneurial, and socially-responsible leaders and managers.
One of our goals is to foster a student population that mirrors Asian cultures and economies' diversity and character. Assembling such an eclectic community requires us to look beyond an applicant's individual qualities and consider work experience, industry sector, nationality, and gender. We appreciate candidates who can show a clear connection between their educational preparation, what they are doing at present, and what they want to do in the future.
We look for candidates with singular and unique experiences and accomplishments. If you have planted your nation's flag on K2, designed an app, founded a disruptive startup with college buddies, or worked in disaster relief programs as a volunteer, we would like to hear your stories and allow other students to learn from your experiences. We look for candidates who can think clearly and voice their opinions in a manner that their professors and classmates will understand. Clarity of thought also includes the ability to organize ideas so these can be presented logically. These skills become invaluable assets in the classroom, where time is limited and airtime a precious resource. We look for candidates who possess the resilience and capacity to graduate from the Institution's programs. Admissions test scores are one way to measure the quantitative, verbal, and reasoning skills necessary for completing studies at the graduate level. But the test measures only potential — although it would not hurt to have a lot of it. We also look at how applicants fared while taking earlier courses. Academic distinctions are noted favorably, as these indicate the student's likelihood to excel at AIM. Finally, we look for candidates who have held leadership positions in school and at work across different industries. If you have a leadership story that's interesting and somewhat unique, then we'd like to be the first to hear it.
For over 49 years, the Asian Institute of Management has been molding industry titans and driving positive social transformation. Today, we offer an immersive kind of management education that is meaningfully different yet entirely relevant to an emerging Asia. With more than 43,000 alumni from 80 countries occupying various leadership positions worldwide, the Asian Institute of Management reinforces its commitment to contributing to Asian enterprises and societies' significant growth. As we look forward to the next 50 years and beyond, we reaffirm our mission to lead, inspire, and transform.
Since it was founded in 1968 by the Harvard Business School and academics and prominent business leaders of the Philippines, the Institute has been committed to contributing towards sustaining the growth of Asian businesses and societies by developing professional, entrepreneurial, and socially responsible managers leaders. With our new logo, dubbed the Nexus, AIM does not just sit at the heart of fluid change but leads, inspires, and transforms the forces that exist around it — ultimately changing the perception of what an educational institution can be. Organizations rebrand at different periods in their history. For AIM, the rationale for rebranding is anchored in our efforts to modernize, expand, and pivot. As Asia changes, so must business — and so must we.
To kick off our 50th-anniversary celebrations, we begin this year with a new logo that not only represents the emergent dynamism of our Institute but the rapidly occurring changes within our region as well. The Nexus embodies and embraces fluidity, given the nature of our times. Yet it remains rooted in the heritage and guiding principles of our founding families. As the shape of the old shield morphs into the new Nexus, AIM continues to serve as a focal point where business, government, and society converge, connect, and synergize. The homage to legacy and heritage is most evident in the continued use of green and blue (honoring De La Salle and Ateneo universities) and yellow. Those colors have taken on additional meaning, now also representing the land (green), sea (blue), sun, and human spirit (yellow), which evoke our regional character. Purple, the only new color to our palette, represents the shared prosperity — social, spiritual, and financial — that these elements come together to produce. The Nexus gives the school an energetic and vibrant identity, one designed to change and evolve in digital and non-digital applications and convey our ability to adapt and respond to challenges present and future.

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