Institute of Business Management

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The Institute of Business Management (IoBM) is a university and business school in Pakistan. IoBM is composed of three colleges located in Karachi , the College of Business Management (CBM), the College of Economics and Social Development (CESD), and the College of Computer Science and Information Systems (CCSIS).

Institute of Business Management

Iobm - Institute of Business Management

Established	1995
Type	Private
Chancellor	Aftab Ahmed Khan
President	Shahjehan S. Karim
Dean	Prof. Dr. Javed A. Ansari
Students	4000
Location	Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Affiliations	HEC, PEC

Overview

IoBM started as College of Business Management offering BBA and MBA degrees. Since the inception of CBM, it has grown rapidly.^{[citation needed]}

IoBM is built on a 9 acres (36,000 m²) site.

IoBM has extensive links with North American Universities. Professors from the Universities of Arizona State and Brock have served as Chief Academic Officers of CBM. The present CBM Dean has over 38 years of experience at the State Bank of Pakistan and Dean, CCSIS has over twelve years teaching experience in US and Pakistani universities. IoBM enjoys the support of some of Pakistan’s leading companies. IoBM students have gone abroad for higher studies to Harvard, Rutgers, Drexel, New York University, University of Bradford School of Management and other business schools in Europe, USA and Canada.

IoBM’s BBA , BCS and BS Joint (Honors) programs have a compulsory foreign language component (Arabic, French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Italian). IoBM is operating a program to enhance the skills and qualifications of its academic faculty. IoBM is the only Pakistani business school with a fully fledged research program.^{[clarification needed]} The Institute publishes the country’s only business research journal, Pakistan Business Review.

Organizations such as The Aga Khan University Hospital, Berger Paints, Standard Chartered Bank, CitiBank, Faysal Bank, ICI, Philips Electrical Industries, Unilever and BP Pakistan offer internships to IoBM students. The society of Business Engineers awarded CBM with “Excellence in Business Education” in August 2007.

Programs Offered

College of Business Management

BBA (Honors)
BS (Honors) Economics and Finance
BS (Honors) Accounting and Finance
MBA (Regular)
MBA (Executive)
MBA Health and Hospital Management
MBA Advertising and Media Management
MBA Educational Management
MBA Finance and Risk Management
MBA Environment and Energy Management
MBA Educational Management

College of Computer Science and Information Systems

BS Computer Science
BS Industrial Engineering and Management
BS Actuarial Science and Risk Management
BE Electrical with Specialization in Telecommunication
MS Computer Science
MBA Industrial Management
MBA Telecommunication Management

College of Economics and Social Development

BS (Honors) Commerce
BS (Honors) Media Studies
MSc Organizational Psychology and Human Resource Management
MSc Media Psychology
MS Economics and Finance
MS in Business Psychology

Admissions

IoBM admissions are held once in an year (June) for Regular and thrice for Executive MBA ( March, June & Dec) Students.

Student Achievements and Awards

IoBM team won the CIMA Global Business Challenge (GBC) Pakistan 2010.^[1] Out of 50 teams competing in the initial stages from universities from Lahore and Karachi, four teams qualified for CIMA Global Business Challenge (GBC) Pakistan Final 2010. Of these, two were from IoBM and two from LUMS. IoBM’s team represented Pakistan in Malaysia where prestigious universities from all over the world participated including the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, India, China, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, UAE and Australia.

IoBM won the second prize in Unilever Lipton Hunt-a national completion between leading business schools of Pakistan.

IoBM won the Business Launch Challenge 2010/2011 by P&G Pakistan.^[2] The competition was a part of the P&G Pakistan’s Human Resource Initiatives and was geared towards enhancing students’ grasp of the industry in general and P&G Pakistan’s business in particular. IoBM’s team competed with over 50 teams across Pakistan.

IoBM team was the runner-up in the GIRC (Global Investment Research Challenge) 2010. The equity research competition was organized by CFA Association, Pakistan. The participating teams included 6 institutions (LUMS, IBA, IoBM, SZABIST, Bahria University and NUST Business School). The teams were required to prepare an equity research report on United Bank Ltd.

IoBM won the Fourth P&G Business Launch Competition 2010, held at IBA. More than 250 teams from Karachi participated in this competition.

IoBM’s team won the Brands’ Anatomy, a Brand Building Competition held at SZABIST.

IoBM’s team won The AD EFFECT Competition held at LUMS International Marketing Colloquium 2011.

IoBM team won the on-Campus Management Trainee Program organized by Telenor.

IoBM won the second & third prize in Digital Minds, 2010, an inter-university competition held by Symmetry Digital which is Pakistan’s Largest Digital Agency.

Student Activities

Student life at IoBM is full of activities, therefore to cater individual choices there are number of societies for such people.

Dialogue Society
Egalitarians Society
Entertainment Plus Society (EPS)
Finance Society
Strategic Human Resource Society (SHRS)
The Literary and Public Speaking Society
CBM Society of Health Managers (CSHM)
Vanguard: The Social Science Club
The Management Society
The Marketing Society
The Sports Society

Membership of Professional Bodies

IoBM is an active member of the following international and national professional bodies.

International Association of Universities (IAU), UNESCO, France
International Association of University Presidents (IAUP), Thailand
The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), UK
Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific (AUAP), Thailand
AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, USA
Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), Singapore
Management Association of Pakistan (MAP), (Member, Executive Committee)
Marketing Association of Pakistan (Vice President for the year 2010-2011)
Employers Federation of Pakistan
Institute of Corporate Governance
International Finance Corporation (IFC)