Pakistan Institute of Management (PIM) was set up in 1954 as a non-profit organization with the mandate to Take a lead role in management development in Pakistan". Over the last 5 decades PIM has consistently endeavored to propagate and foster professional management in Pakistan and its basic philosophy has been, "progress through better management". Since the early 1960's PIM has been recognized as the market leader in the field of Management Training and Development for in-service managers from all sectors of the economy. To date PIM has conducted over 7,557 management training courses and has trained 164,767 managers. Annually PIM conducts 175 training Programs and trains over 4,000 managers.