International Institute Of Business Studies (IIBS): Raising The Standards Of Management Education On Par With Excellence
Dr. Jay Prakash, Chairman
In 2020, the world navigated through major crisis - primarily of Health due to the Covid19 pandemic and secondly, its impact on economy. Business has always been a transformational engine for the betterment of the world and to save the economy from witnessing another Great Recession like 2008. Today, corporate world is relying on business leaders to steer through such challenging times. Therefore, as business schools, it is essential to double down on developing the type of leaders who can use business as a force for good. Established with the vision of becoming one of the top ten business schools in the world, Bangalore based International Institute of Business Studies (IIBS) is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to providing a competent and dynamic education structure and staying one step ahead of the rest of the B-Schools.
In 2001, a well-acclaimed educationist, Dr. Jay Prakash set up Srimati B.Devi Educational & Charitable Trust that laid the foundation of the International Institute of Business Studies (IIBS) which is recognized today as one of the premium and most prestigious B-School in India. Dr. Jay Prakash, Chairman, International Institute of Business Studies highlights, "Today, Management education institutions in India have remarkable challenges and responsibility towards preparing budding managers' career. Over the years there has been a paradigm shift of management culture within the business schools and how the upcoming business managers are groomed to mold themselves as a brand in itself. We are amongst the top B- Schools which is skilfully addressing challenges like Faculty Shortage, Students Expectations, Values, Culture and Ethics, infrastructure, value-added courses, industrial connect and more. We at IIBS actively train and develop the Skillsets of our management students to achieve their success. Students' Expectations come to an end when they step into IIBS as it's a key for all learning, innovating, and creating the skills of students by experiential learning, adventures learning program, industrial connect. Also, we, at IIBS, make sure to inculcate the global work culture and its principles in our courses in order to better equip our students with adaptive skills, adequately competent to tackle both, intellectual and practical challenges during their career." A highly enthusiastic and committed educationist to excellence, Dr. Jay Prakash believes that IIBS will reach its zenith resulting from the global work culture practiced in Bangalore.
International Institute of Business Studies is a member of the All India Management Association (AIMA). Hence, any latest developments in the area of management are shared by AIMA with its members on a regular basis. IIBS is running AIMA's PGDM Program which is very successfully to cater to the working professionals who have the aspiration of getting an MBA degree and enhancing their management skills. This PGDM program at IIBS is a testimony for the greater partnership with the education body AIMA that nurtures the education sector.
Working towards its Inception Ideology
Being a new age B School, IIBS recognizes employability as an important objective and provides more flexibility with on-campus, online, onsite, and on-the-job learning. The institute believes lifelong learning needs a continuum between preparation, proactive corrections, and upgrade - the transformation of business in research, innovation, development, branding, culture, values, sharing knowledge, and teamwork are encouraged at IIBS. IIBS is the most preferred destination for the students who have the highest aspirations to become the best managers and to be placed in equally best companies within India and around the world.
"The young minds at IIBS are exposed to the joys of the merits of critical thinking and merge them into applicable knowledge areas. International institute of business studies majorly works with the purport of not just providing the best in the class curriculum to the students but also focuses on giving them a life-changing experience by engaging them in the process of learning also being a leader through participating in activities of imparting knowledge among their batch mates", says Dr. Jay Prakash.
IIBS strives to produce Leaders. It is different from other B-schools in providing quality education by connecting the corporate link with international connections. It has its own distinct style of Mentoring and counselling the students and connecting them personally. IIBS entrepreneurial program is the unique feature of IIBS where the students are provided with seed money to invest and earn. The institute also offers the program with fees after placement is a distinct feature. Many integrated programs offered by IIBS are focused on the need of the current corporate world. Global PGDM is the need of the day program. Peer mentoring is one of the unique features. Most of the conceptual learning is adapted as per the Industry norms. The programs offered by IIBS will provide placement for a decade and this is what is the Specialty of IIBS.
“Established with the vision of becoming one of the top ten business schools in the world, Bangalore based international institute of business studies (IIBS) is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to providing a competent and dynamic education structure and staying one step ahead of the rest of the b-schools”
A Notch Ahead of the Rest
International Institute of Business Studies is one of the first Business Schools in India to adopt a holistic and fluid curriculum that boosts student's overall development rather than just theory focussed futile efforts to get higher percentages. The education metrics of IIBS not only focuses on teaching-learning processes, technology-enabled facilities to outcomes; the differentiation is the personalization of students' needs, making learning easier by enabling them to connect to the corporate world. IIBS not only sharpens the academic experience and subject knowledge of its students but also enhances the most sought out industry education gap of softskills. IIBS has its curriculum highlighting on the concepts of Finishing School. The IIBS Finishing School (IFS) provides its students a continuous platform to add to their full potential and nurture them into good citizens, making them conscious of their social responsibilities to family, society, and country.
"Our highly acclaimed Internationally certified trainers and coaches are dedicatedly transforming IIBS students into highly skilled and groomed personalities with both technical and soft skills of the most applaudable level of internationally standardized CURRICULUM OF FINISHING SCHOOL. The curated curriculum activities that are conducted in the IFS include Business Communication, Intra & Interpersonal skills, Personality Development, Grooming, Creativity & Innovation, Adventure Learning Programme, Etiquette & Manners, Accent Neutralization, Leadership & Team Building Exercises, Negotiation Skills, Biz Reality Show, Conflict Management, Stress Management, Lateral Thinking, Capability Management, Simulation & Presentation Skills, Listening Skill Development, Current Affairs Mock Interviews, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Case Analysis, and more", says Dr. Jay Prakash.
“IIBS entrepreneurial program is the unique feature of IIBS where the students are provided with seed money to invest and earn”
IIBS PGDM also offers the flagship integration of subjects in management, design thinking and liberal arts, that trains students in different skills, especially critical and strategic thinking opportunity identification, creativity, prototyping of ideas and concepts, and project management in order to achieve the required ability to be adaptive in the current changing environment. Additionally, IIBS autonomous PGP program emphasises on comprehensive industry exposure coupled with academic knowledge. In this program, the students are required to undergo continuous industry interaction. The students will get a full-time industry-specific Post Graduate Programme Certification from IIBS. Hence an immaculately curated, internationally acclaimed curriculum of IIBS transforms its students into highly sought out, highly paid and successful professionals across all industries worldwide since its inception befitting a tag of a premier B- school!
Equipped to Make Industry Ready Professionals
With expanding the role of business globally, International Institute of Business Studies is the right place that the recruiters think of once the placement season starts. The institute focuses not only on career-oriented growth but also offers versatility and IIBS takes the entire responsibility to develop an individual into a personality. The students are overwhelmed with the opportunities they are provided with at IIBS. They are given umpteen number of choices to choose from while the institute also encourages students to seek these opportunities and enhance their learning experience with practical knowledge such as Design Thinking activities, digital marketing activities and Business Analytic activities.
IIBS also conducts various workshops, guest lectures, seminars, five levels of Mentoring and IIBS Finishing School helps students in improving their soft skills, aptitude and communication skills while also letting them participate in various other extra-curricular activities such as B-school competition, Best Manager competition, Investor Progress, Confident speak, Solution Craft, Shred Inhibio, Seismologic, Mind Spa, Corpex, Market Vibes, Success Winds. Adding to this, the placement activities offered by IIBS are Corporate Mentoring, Placement Mentoring, CEO Mentoring, MOOC Interviews, Industrial Visits, Career Counselling, Peer to peer Mentoring, Corporate Connect, Inner Engineering, Faculty Mentoring, Alumni Mentoring. Undoubtedly, IIBS focuses on bridging the gap between the right candidate for a right job. It is passionate towards grooming the students not only as the efficient professionals but also as responsible citizens.
IIBS has Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) which instills, nurtures, and promotes an entrepreneurial spirit among its college's students. Since its inception, the cell has organized a plethora of events, which have attracted healthy participation from students and motivated our students to participate in National Level Business Plan Competitions, including IIM Kozhikode. The cell has been instrumental in fostering an environment conducive to entrepreneurial thought and action. It includes workshops and events focused on entrepreneurship such as idea and innovation competitions, discussions with successful entrepreneurs, business plan competitions, case studies, business quizzes, and social entrepreneurship issues and solutions. The success of these events boosts the confidence to the point where IIBS is able to mold 1% of students into start-ups in various disciplines such as technology, retail, stock marketing, and more.
The rapidly changing industry standards and procedures expect the students to be well-equipped with better communication skills and subject knowledge to be able to grapple with the challenges of the ever-competitive corporate world. As the Industry behavior has drastically changed over the years, IIBS has made some revolutionary changes in its placement process also. IFS IIBS Finishing School is one of its best kind in the arena of the most established business schools in India. IFS aim to make the students who are undergoing the management programs of either MBA or PGDM into corporate ready professionals. IFS instill the most trending industry requirements in the students while in the college itself through a well-tailored Training Programme which includes rigorous practice in Personal Interview and Group Discussion Skills, enough practice in Aptitude Tests, and Personality Development with the latest business etiquette. Some of the other activities include Entrepreneurship Awareness Camps, Business Plan Competition, Business Idea Orientation and Competition, Design Thinking Workshop, Innovation Workshop, Industry Visit and Visit Incubation Centre at IIMB, Entrepreneur Talk Series, Coaching for Students who are interested to start up, Training in Incubation at IIBS, Fund Raising Seminar, Entrepreneurship Boot Camps, Shadow with CEO activity, Mentoring session with Entrepreneurs for selected students., Start-up Case Study Competition and much more.
Steering the Path Ahead
For many years people from the industry have been highlighting the skill gap that exists among the Management graduates compared to that of industry expectation. Industries opening their doors for Managements institutes for interaction is sure to benefit the corporates as they can communicate about their expectation, be a part of curriculum articulation and ensure that it is in line with trending industry practices. Institute are also stepping up to sign MOU's with companies from different industries to ensure that they cater to every student's need based on the domain they are interested in.
At present, business schools are at their forefront to ensure that the curriculum developed and delivered at the institutes will help in bridging the gap between the knowledge status quo of a Business school student and that of a potential employee that companies look for. So it is a mutual give and take approach between the industries and the business schools. International institute of Business Studies understands the importance of imbibing the culture of experience-based learning among their students and hence rather than doing it through classroom teaching it believes in doing it by having industry stalwarts on board. Marching ahead, IIBS is on a mission to create a dynamic world-class education system that gives its students an edge over others by imparting knowledge, skill, and the right attitude that will help them enhance their professional ability to foster a strong sense of responsibility and ethics.
Dr. Jay Prakash, Chairman
He is an exemplary educator that prioritizes on offering students industry-centric education to equip them with the needed skills required to thrive in the world.
In 2001, a well-acclaimed educationist, Dr. Jay Prakash set up Srimati B.Devi Educational & Charitable Trust that laid the foundation of the International Institute of Business Studies (IIBS) which is recognized today as one of the premium and most prestigious B-School in India. Dr. Jay Prakash, Chairman, International Institute of Business Studies highlights, "Today, Management education institutions in India have remarkable challenges and responsibility towards preparing budding managers' career. Over the years there has been a paradigm shift of management culture within the business schools and how the upcoming business managers are groomed to mold themselves as a brand in itself. We are amongst the top B- Schools which is skilfully addressing challenges like Faculty Shortage, Students Expectations, Values, Culture and Ethics, infrastructure, value-added courses, industrial connect and more. We at IIBS actively train and develop the Skillsets of our management students to achieve their success. Students' Expectations come to an end when they step into IIBS as it's a key for all learning, innovating, and creating the skills of students by experiential learning, adventures learning program, industrial connect. Also, we, at IIBS, make sure to inculcate the global work culture and its principles in our courses in order to better equip our students with adaptive skills, adequately competent to tackle both, intellectual and practical challenges during their career." A highly enthusiastic and committed educationist to excellence, Dr. Jay Prakash believes that IIBS will reach its zenith resulting from the global work culture practiced in Bangalore.
International Institute of Business Studies is a member of the All India Management Association (AIMA). Hence, any latest developments in the area of management are shared by AIMA with its members on a regular basis. IIBS is running AIMA's PGDM Program which is very successfully to cater to the working professionals who have the aspiration of getting an MBA degree and enhancing their management skills. This PGDM program at IIBS is a testimony for the greater partnership with the education body AIMA that nurtures the education sector.
Working towards its Inception Ideology
Being a new age B School, IIBS recognizes employability as an important objective and provides more flexibility with on-campus, online, onsite, and on-the-job learning. The institute believes lifelong learning needs a continuum between preparation, proactive corrections, and upgrade - the transformation of business in research, innovation, development, branding, culture, values, sharing knowledge, and teamwork are encouraged at IIBS. IIBS is the most preferred destination for the students who have the highest aspirations to become the best managers and to be placed in equally best companies within India and around the world.
"The young minds at IIBS are exposed to the joys of the merits of critical thinking and merge them into applicable knowledge areas. International institute of business studies majorly works with the purport of not just providing the best in the class curriculum to the students but also focuses on giving them a life-changing experience by engaging them in the process of learning also being a leader through participating in activities of imparting knowledge among their batch mates", says Dr. Jay Prakash.
IIBS strives to produce Leaders. It is different from other B-schools in providing quality education by connecting the corporate link with international connections. It has its own distinct style of Mentoring and counselling the students and connecting them personally. IIBS entrepreneurial program is the unique feature of IIBS where the students are provided with seed money to invest and earn. The institute also offers the program with fees after placement is a distinct feature. Many integrated programs offered by IIBS are focused on the need of the current corporate world. Global PGDM is the need of the day program. Peer mentoring is one of the unique features. Most of the conceptual learning is adapted as per the Industry norms. The programs offered by IIBS will provide placement for a decade and this is what is the Specialty of IIBS.
“Established with the vision of becoming one of the top ten business schools in the world, Bangalore based international institute of business studies (IIBS) is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to providing a competent and dynamic education structure and staying one step ahead of the rest of the b-schools”
A Notch Ahead of the Rest
International Institute of Business Studies is one of the first Business Schools in India to adopt a holistic and fluid curriculum that boosts student's overall development rather than just theory focussed futile efforts to get higher percentages. The education metrics of IIBS not only focuses on teaching-learning processes, technology-enabled facilities to outcomes; the differentiation is the personalization of students' needs, making learning easier by enabling them to connect to the corporate world. IIBS not only sharpens the academic experience and subject knowledge of its students but also enhances the most sought out industry education gap of softskills. IIBS has its curriculum highlighting on the concepts of Finishing School. The IIBS Finishing School (IFS) provides its students a continuous platform to add to their full potential and nurture them into good citizens, making them conscious of their social responsibilities to family, society, and country.
"Our highly acclaimed Internationally certified trainers and coaches are dedicatedly transforming IIBS students into highly skilled and groomed personalities with both technical and soft skills of the most applaudable level of internationally standardized CURRICULUM OF FINISHING SCHOOL. The curated curriculum activities that are conducted in the IFS include Business Communication, Intra & Interpersonal skills, Personality Development, Grooming, Creativity & Innovation, Adventure Learning Programme, Etiquette & Manners, Accent Neutralization, Leadership & Team Building Exercises, Negotiation Skills, Biz Reality Show, Conflict Management, Stress Management, Lateral Thinking, Capability Management, Simulation & Presentation Skills, Listening Skill Development, Current Affairs Mock Interviews, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Case Analysis, and more", says Dr. Jay Prakash.
“IIBS entrepreneurial program is the unique feature of IIBS where the students are provided with seed money to invest and earn”
IIBS PGDM also offers the flagship integration of subjects in management, design thinking and liberal arts, that trains students in different skills, especially critical and strategic thinking opportunity identification, creativity, prototyping of ideas and concepts, and project management in order to achieve the required ability to be adaptive in the current changing environment. Additionally, IIBS autonomous PGP program emphasises on comprehensive industry exposure coupled with academic knowledge. In this program, the students are required to undergo continuous industry interaction. The students will get a full-time industry-specific Post Graduate Programme Certification from IIBS. Hence an immaculately curated, internationally acclaimed curriculum of IIBS transforms its students into highly sought out, highly paid and successful professionals across all industries worldwide since its inception befitting a tag of a premier B- school!
Equipped to Make Industry Ready Professionals
With expanding the role of business globally, International Institute of Business Studies is the right place that the recruiters think of once the placement season starts. The institute focuses not only on career-oriented growth but also offers versatility and IIBS takes the entire responsibility to develop an individual into a personality. The students are overwhelmed with the opportunities they are provided with at IIBS. They are given umpteen number of choices to choose from while the institute also encourages students to seek these opportunities and enhance their learning experience with practical knowledge such as Design Thinking activities, digital marketing activities and Business Analytic activities.
IIBS also conducts various workshops, guest lectures, seminars, five levels of Mentoring and IIBS Finishing School helps students in improving their soft skills, aptitude and communication skills while also letting them participate in various other extra-curricular activities such as B-school competition, Best Manager competition, Investor Progress, Confident speak, Solution Craft, Shred Inhibio, Seismologic, Mind Spa, Corpex, Market Vibes, Success Winds. Adding to this, the placement activities offered by IIBS are Corporate Mentoring, Placement Mentoring, CEO Mentoring, MOOC Interviews, Industrial Visits, Career Counselling, Peer to peer Mentoring, Corporate Connect, Inner Engineering, Faculty Mentoring, Alumni Mentoring. Undoubtedly, IIBS focuses on bridging the gap between the right candidate for a right job. It is passionate towards grooming the students not only as the efficient professionals but also as responsible citizens.
IIBS has Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) which instills, nurtures, and promotes an entrepreneurial spirit among its college's students. Since its inception, the cell has organized a plethora of events, which have attracted healthy participation from students and motivated our students to participate in National Level Business Plan Competitions, including IIM Kozhikode. The cell has been instrumental in fostering an environment conducive to entrepreneurial thought and action. It includes workshops and events focused on entrepreneurship such as idea and innovation competitions, discussions with successful entrepreneurs, business plan competitions, case studies, business quizzes, and social entrepreneurship issues and solutions. The success of these events boosts the confidence to the point where IIBS is able to mold 1% of students into start-ups in various disciplines such as technology, retail, stock marketing, and more.
The rapidly changing industry standards and procedures expect the students to be well-equipped with better communication skills and subject knowledge to be able to grapple with the challenges of the ever-competitive corporate world. As the Industry behavior has drastically changed over the years, IIBS has made some revolutionary changes in its placement process also. IFS IIBS Finishing School is one of its best kind in the arena of the most established business schools in India. IFS aim to make the students who are undergoing the management programs of either MBA or PGDM into corporate ready professionals. IFS instill the most trending industry requirements in the students while in the college itself through a well-tailored Training Programme which includes rigorous practice in Personal Interview and Group Discussion Skills, enough practice in Aptitude Tests, and Personality Development with the latest business etiquette. Some of the other activities include Entrepreneurship Awareness Camps, Business Plan Competition, Business Idea Orientation and Competition, Design Thinking Workshop, Innovation Workshop, Industry Visit and Visit Incubation Centre at IIMB, Entrepreneur Talk Series, Coaching for Students who are interested to start up, Training in Incubation at IIBS, Fund Raising Seminar, Entrepreneurship Boot Camps, Shadow with CEO activity, Mentoring session with Entrepreneurs for selected students., Start-up Case Study Competition and much more.
Steering the Path Ahead
For many years people from the industry have been highlighting the skill gap that exists among the Management graduates compared to that of industry expectation. Industries opening their doors for Managements institutes for interaction is sure to benefit the corporates as they can communicate about their expectation, be a part of curriculum articulation and ensure that it is in line with trending industry practices. Institute are also stepping up to sign MOU's with companies from different industries to ensure that they cater to every student's need based on the domain they are interested in.
At present, business schools are at their forefront to ensure that the curriculum developed and delivered at the institutes will help in bridging the gap between the knowledge status quo of a Business school student and that of a potential employee that companies look for. So it is a mutual give and take approach between the industries and the business schools. International institute of Business Studies understands the importance of imbibing the culture of experience-based learning among their students and hence rather than doing it through classroom teaching it believes in doing it by having industry stalwarts on board. Marching ahead, IIBS is on a mission to create a dynamic world-class education system that gives its students an edge over others by imparting knowledge, skill, and the right attitude that will help them enhance their professional ability to foster a strong sense of responsibility and ethics.
Dr. Jay Prakash, Chairman
He is an exemplary educator that prioritizes on offering students industry-centric education to equip them with the needed skills required to thrive in the world.
