IBS Hyderabad (Faculty of Management Studies) is a constituent of the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, which is declared to be a Deemed-to-be-university under Section 3 of UGC Act. 1956. IBS offers high-quality programs in different areas of management to a cross-section of students, executives and professionals across India. IBS has a reputation for innovative program design and delivery, quality courseware, personalized instruction, strong industry interface, research, consultancy and publications.
Since its establishment in 1995, IBS has grown impressively and achieved widespread recognition from business and industry, academic circles, and professional bodies. The campus at Hyderabad is a 91 acre lush green campus with built-up area of over 10 lakh sq.ft. The fully residential campus is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities. Different academic blocks are available with classrooms, lecture theaters, tutorial rooms, conference halls, seminar halls, auditorium, library, computer lab, faculty rooms, meeting rooms, administrative offices, academics office, student support services office, and career management center.
IBS seeks to provide a high quality learning experience, in an adaptive environment, with a focus on relevance, rigor and research. The mission of IBS is to develop ethically-grounded professional managers who can add value to the organizations and communities to which they belong.
IBS has a growing alumni base of over 6,600 who are currently pursuing fast track careers with 500 plus companies in India and abroad.
Welcome to the IBS-Hyderabad
Established in 1985, IBS-Hyderabad has grown rapidly to become one of the top business schools in India. It is ranked at #12 in the nation by both Business India and Hindustan Times in their 2012 surveys. The school has been re-accredited by SAQS (South Asian Quality Standards), rated A** by CRISIL, and as an “Excellent” Business School by Eduniversal. IBS-Hyderabad is a constituent of the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE), a Deemed University as per the UGC Act 1956.
The major programs offered at IBS-Hyderabad are MBA being the flagship program, PhD in Management and BBA. Ours is one of the largest MBA programs in Asia with a student intake of around 1000 each year. We will have about 80 students in our Ph.D. program this year and over 300 in the BBA. We have MoUs with 15 institutions in USA, UK, Australia, and Malaysia, which will enable visitor scholar programs. There are 170 faculty members in the school, who published more than 300 articles in International and National journals in the last three years. The Case Research Centre of the school develops business cases on an average of over 100 cases per year, which are being used around the world for teaching, in textbooks, and industry. The Center for Management Development of the school serves as a platform for faculty members to interface with corporate executives.
The vision of IBS-Hyderabad is to be a national and international leader in providing high quality business education, to be excellent in knowledge creation and dissemination, and to provide thought leadership to corporate executives.
The unique philosophy behind IBS-Hyderabad is relevance and rigor of business education. This means – we produce graduates that are highly relevant to the needs of industry and society through rigorous business curriculum. The rich industrial experience and research capabilities of our faculty members and our case-based learning approach are some reasons for our success in producing highly employable graduates. We provide student-friendly environment by being sensitive to student needs. Our students develop well-rounded personalities through not only academics that are supported by IT-enabled learning but also soft-skills training and extra-curricular activities.
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IBS is consistently ranked among the top B-Schools in India, in the annual B-School surveys every year.
IBS-Hyderabad is among the first three B-Schools from South Asia to be SAQS accredited by AMDISA. The South Asia Quality Improvement System (SAQS) has been developed by Association of Management Development Institutes of South Asia (AMDISA) and European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) as a special project under the Asia Link program funded by the European Union. Some more reputed B Schools also have received SAQS accreditation and many more are seeking it.
IBS Hyderabad was among the first B-Schools to be graded by CRISIL with a grade of A** at the national level and A ** at the state level.
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The academic infrastructure is equipped with the best of facilities to enhance the quality of teaching and learning process. Lecture theatres and classrooms are designed to facilitate the case pedagogy that IBS has adopted. All lecture theatres and classrooms are networked and wi-fi enabled and fitted with audio visual tools to enhance the teaching-learning experience. The IT infrastructure and library provide the support to make available to faculty and students up-to-date knowledge and information for learning, research and consultancy. Simulation softwares are available to help students relate to real-life dynamics while taking business decisions. The seminar halls and auditorium are centers where experts from industry and academia share their life experiences.
The complete academic monitoring and control is done through the intranet - the CampusNet and the Faculty Zone. The CampusNet is the portal of communication for students on academic matters, library, placements, accounts, hostel etc. The Faculty Zone is for the faculty research and academic activities and HR and accounts information.
The campus has a large and well qualified faculty pool. The faculty members are involved in research, case development and industry consultancy. Many of the faculty members hold doctoral qualifications and have rich industry experience.
Hyderabad campus is equipped with the latest state-of-the-art technology of computer network with high speed backbone and security through CISCO high end routers.
Hostels are wired to link with the campus high speed network backbone, the auditorium and classrooms are also connected with the local high speed LAN for facilitating faculty for teaching and accessing databases. Video conferencing facility is available for sharing lectures and group discussions with other national and international institutes and also in extensive use by prospective employers for placements.
The campus has exclusive subscription of Microsoft products viz. Windows XP, Office 2007, Microsoft exchange, SQL server etc, Adobe products (PageMaker, Acrobat, Photoshop etc.) which are being used in day-to-day operations. For teaching, labs are licensed with SAP, SPSS, SAS, iThink, Rational Rose, Eviews, Microsoft CRM, AutoCAD, Cadian Advanced CAD etc.
100 mbps of high speed Intranet is extensively used by students and faculties for academic purposes. Students have built campus radio on the local LAN for information to the students about the latest happenings, announcements and entertainment.
Library is equipped with latest software packages and a large collection of books, CDs, videos, Indian and international journals; magazines and research reports, relating to management and allied subjects. IBS subscribes to several academic online databases like Ebsco business source complete, Econlit, Academic search complete, Emerald management extra, ProQuest, JSTOR and Cabells directory; industry databases like the World Development Indicators; CMIE databases (including Prowess, Aefa, CapEx, Business Beacon and Industry Analysis Survey) and Capitaline and business and research oriented online databases like Reuters, Business Insights and Marketline. The library is fully supported by the IT infrastructure. The library services are computerized with Lib-Suite Web enabled library software which facilitates automated identification, reservation and circulation of books. Barcodes and scanners are used to issue books. A web based catalogue is also available on the internet for inquiring about the books.
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Dr. Narasimhaiah Gorla, the Director of IBS-Hyderabad, obtained his Ph.D. in Business Administration with specialization in Information Systems in 1986 from the University of Iowa, USA where he was awarded the Ponder Fellowship for academic excellence. He received his Post Graduation in Management from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, where he was awarded a Gold Medal for the best academic performance in the areas of Information Systems and Operations Management.
Dr. Gorla has 30 years of academic experience across the globe in various academic and administrative roles. Prior to his academic career, he had held functional and administrative positions in industry in Information Technology and Systems for 8 years. He held full-time faculty positions in internationally accredited Universities in USA, Hong Kong,UAE, and India.
Dr. Gorla joined the Cleveland State University (CSU), Ohio, USA, in 1986 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems in the School of Business Administration and was granted tenure with promotion to Associate Professor in 1990. During 1993-94, he was on sabbatical at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Visiting Faculty. While at CSU, he was a Doctoral Program Coordinator for 4 years. During 1997-99, he was with Hong Kong Poly University as an Associate Professor of Information Systems, where he was also the Graduate Program Director. During 1999-2000, he was with the University of Cincinnati, USA, as a Visiting Professor in the College of Business. During 2000-03, he was an Associate Professor in the School of Business at the Wayne State University, Detroit, USA where he was involved in developing an Inter-disciplinary PhD program. During 2003-05, he was appointed as Professor of Information Technology at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad, where he held CMC Chair Professorship. At ASCI, he was the Dean of Research where he contributed towards the research mission of the institute. During 2005-12, Dr. Gorla held the position of a Professor in the School of Business and Management at the American University of Sharjah, UAE, where he also served as the Head, Department of Information Systems.
Dr. Gorla has published 65 research articles in the areas of Information Systems. His research interests include database management, outsourcing, software engineering, information management, and MIS frameworks. His research has been accepted in highly ranked peer-reviewed international journals, such as, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Information & Management, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of Computer Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-A, Data & Knowledge Engineering, and Journal of Systems & Software. He was on editorial boards of several journals, including Journal of Database Management, Journal of Computer Information Systems, and International Journal of Information Technology Project Management.
IBS has a large team of full-time faculty members coming from diverse fields with a unique blend of academic, research and industrial experience. Faculty members are involved in research and consultancy activities besides teaching. The profiles of IBS faculty are given below:
Sivaramakrishnan, IBS Hyderabad Class of 2004
Sivaramakrishnan worked with Karvy Commodities Broking Ltd as Manager for 2 years where he headed a team of commodities research analysts. In Dec 2005 he left Karvy to commence a new company called KOMBENCH along with 3 other alumni from IBS Hyderabad.
KOMBENCH is a commodities broking house with presence in Dubai and India. KOMBENCH aspires to become an --Alternative Investments Facilitator-- with Private Equity, Hedge funds and Venture Capital being the growth path. Sivaramakrishnan completed the three level of CFA course from the US (AIMR) in June 2006. He along with his partners dreams of making KOMBENCH a billion$ turnover company.
Sanjukta Bhattacharya | Class of 2003 | IBS Hyderabad
Sanjukta is an alumna from the Class of 2003 of IBS Hyderabad. She is currently working with The Neilson Company as a Consumer Analyst and is based at Canada. She has worked as a Team Lead in the Client Solutions Group of IRI in Symphony Services for over 2 years. Her domain is Market Research and she works with Household Panel data to study consumer behavior trends of Consumer Packaged Goods in the US market. Before joining Symphony Services, she worked for a year in a Market Research firm in Hyderabad.
On a personal note, her family lives in Calcutta and comprises her brother, sister and parents. While living in Calcutta, she completed a Diploma in singing Indian Classical songs.
In her free time, she loves to do glass-painting, loves reading (mostly fiction; slow reader so takes a long time in finishing a book), listening to music (all types – Hindi, English and Indian Classical), watching plays and movies, spending time with friends, attending music concerts. Chinese food is her favorite, but she loves trying out different types of cuisines as well. Reading has been her strong passion since childhood. Even though she had been too much crunched on time to pursue that in the past few years, she is happy that she is catching up once again.
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