Asian Institute of Management is one of the only two schools in Asia that has received both AACSB and EQUIS accreditations. The school is known for cultivating Asian business leaders and professional managers, and it has a solid collaborative relationship with Harvard Business School. The school is even designated by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as the training center for cultivating exceptional managers. In 2001, AIM was the world’s first research institute to obtain ISO14001 certification.