KARACHI SCHOOL FOR BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP

The Karachi School for Business & Leadership (KSBL) has been established after a forum of Pakistani business & corporate leaders recognised that Karachi, the business and commercial hub of Pakistan, needed a world-class business school. They formed the Karachi Education Initiative (KEI) in 2008, a Not-For-Profit entity under Pakistan's corporate laws to sponsor and set up KSBL.
KSBL is a graduate management school that offers high quality leading-edge MBA and Executive Education programmes, with a focus on ethical leadership and corporate social responsibility, to the many talented young men and women, and corporate executives in the country as well as international students.
MISSION To produce ethical and effective leaders who will make meaningful and visible contributions to the private, public and social sectors in Pakistan and the region;
To bring best practices from international management education in order to strengthen the business environment, achieve international competitiveness and attain outstanding levels of decision-making and productivity; To enhance through research both conceptual and empirical knowledge of critical issues and their resolution in Pakistan and other emerging markets; and To make a dynamic contribution to institutional innovation thereby accelerating the development of our economy and society.
Core Values
-- Act with Integrity
-- Stand for Merit
-- Think Innovatively
-- Demonstrate Excellence
Vision: To aspire to create meaningful and visible change in managerial, entrepreneurial and leadership capabilities of private, public and civil society organisations through high quality research, teaching and outreach.
THE KEI BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mr Hussain Dawood
Chairman
Dawood Hercules Corporation Limited
Mr Mueen Afzal
Ex-Secretary General
Finance & Economic Affairs, Government of Pakistan
Mr Atif R. Bokhari
President & CEO
United Bank Limited
Mr Aqeel Karim Dhedhi
Chairman
Oil and Gas Investments Limited
Mr Arif Habib
Chairman & CEO
Arif Habib Corporation Limited
Mr Hasan Irfan Khan
Member Board of Trustees
Asifa-Irfan Foundation, a Irfan family initiative
Dr Atta-ur-Rahman
Coordinator General
COMSTECH
Mr Sarfaraz A. Rehman
CEO
The Dawood Foundation
Mr Munawar Alam Siddiqui
Chairman
Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation and J. S. Investments Limited
Mr Muhammad Ali Tabba
CEO
Lucky Cement Limited
Syed Shabbar Zaidi
Senior Partner
A. F. Ferguson & Company
Mr Sohail S. Qureshi
CEO
Karachi Education Initiative
UPCOMING BOARD MEMBERS
Mr Atif Bajwa
President & CEO
Bank Alfalah Limited
Mr Qamar Hussain
President
National Bank of Pakistan
KSBL FACULTY
Dr Shaukat A. Brah
Ph.D., University of Houston, USA
Dr Imran Ali
Ph.D., Australian National University
Dr Farzad Rafi Khan
Ph.D., McGill University, Canada
Dr Nadeem Javaid
Ph.D., University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Dr Asma Hyder Baloch
Ph.D., NUST & Sussex University, UK
Post Doctorate, University of
Pennsylvania
Dr Rizwan Amin Sheikh
Ph.D., SKEMA Business School, France
Dr Zeeshan Ahmad
Ph.D., Mississippi State University, USA
Dr Muhammad Athar Siddiqui
Ph.D., University of Strathclyde, UK
Mr Dawood Ghaznavi
MBA,Yale University USA
MS. Engineering Moscow Institute, USSR
Dr Ali Khalil Malik
Ph.D., Manchester Business School, UK
VISITING FACULTY
Dr Andy Neely
Professor of Operations Strategy & Performance
Cambridge University
Dr Jonathan Trevor
Professor of Human Resource Management Cambridge University
Dr Salman Shah
Former Advisor on Finance to Prime
Minister and Minister of Finance
Government of Pakistan
Dr Kamal Munir
Professor of Strategy & Policy
Cambridge University
Dr Milan Pagon
Professor of HRM
Zayed University, UAE
Mr Javed Jabbar
Thought Leader in Area of Corporate
Brand Building and Growth
Dr Christoph H. Loch
Director, Cambridge Judge Business School, Professor of Management Studies
Professor Christoph H. Loch is the Director of Cambridge Judge Business School since September, 2011. Prior to this at INSEAD, France; he was Director of the INSEAD Israel Research Center (2008 - 2011), Dean of the Ph.D. programme (September 2006 - August 2009), Glaxo SmithKline Chaired Professor of Corporate Innovation (2006-2011) and Professor of Technology and Operations Management (2001-2011). At Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; he was the Visiting Professor of Operations Management (August 2009 to July 2010). At Hewlett Packard Labs, USA, he was the Visiting Professor in the Information Dynamics Lab (September 2002 to August 2003). Previously at INSEAD, France, he was Associate Professor of Technology Management (September 1997 to August 2001) and Assistant Professor of Technology Management (January 1994 to August 1997). He has a Ph.D. from Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA. His Research revolves around how organisations make innovation happen. He has been Programme Director for various Executive programmes and has taught various Ph.D., Executive, and MBA courses. Dr Loch has also served on numerous editorial, refereeing and advisory boards.
CAMBRIDGE DIRECTOR'S KSBL VISIT - HIGHLIGHTS
-- Key note speaker at the Cambridge JBS - KSBL Seminar: Intrapreneurship, Entrepreneurship and Innovation - Redefining the Business Landscape
-- Meeting with KEI Board of Directors
-- Interaction with top Executives from Corporate Pakistan
-- Meeting with KSBL Faculty and Staff
-- Interactive session with MBA Students
STRATEGIC COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
KEI entered into a comprehensive Strategic Collaboration Agreement with the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, in April 2009 to set up KSBL. Cambridge has taken a lead partnership role in setting up of KSBL including faculty recruitment, faculty planning and development, curriculum design, incorporating the local business perspective and research development. The strategic collaboration delivers a functioning business school providing Executive Development programmes, a full time MBA programme and an Executive MBA programme.
CAMBRIDGE JUDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL
The University of Cambridge has a strong tradition of academic excellence and of producing leaders in both Government and industry all over the globe. The University has over 200,000 graduates and 2,000 faculty members. Over 75 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the University as faculty, researchers or students.
The Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, has an outstanding portfolio of research and teaching programmes which include finance, marketing, management, international business, operations, information technology, strategy and entrepreneurship.
Its international teaching and research faculty has achieved one of the highest ratings for research. The highly ranked Cambridge Judge Business School, is internationally recognised as one of the leading providers of innovative, intellectually challenging and practical business management education across a portfolio of graduate and executive programmes.