The Bangalore Campus of IBS has about 45 faculty members with extensive knowledge, business experience and advanced education. In addition, consultants, experienced professionals from the industry, and other institutions of repute are also invited to the campus as visiting faculty.

The faculty is active in research and publication, and also provides consultancy to business enterprises. In the year 2006-07 alone, the faculty have authored 25 books, 96 case studies and contributed about about 76 research papers in national and international journals.

Symposiums and workshop are regularly organized in the campus. Faculty members are encouraged to attend national/international seminars and conferences to keep them selves abreast with the latest trends in academics and industry.

Advice from the IBS faculty is sought by the industry for their training and management development needs. The industry also approaches the faculty for group and individual consultancy projects. 

The focus at IBS is on learning and not just teaching. The school lays a great deal of emphasis on interactive learning through cases, live projects and feedback to students. The pedagogy comprises of:

• Classroom Instruction

• Case studies to help the students acquire problem-solving and decision-making skills

• Summer Internship to expose the students to the rigors of business environment and combine the concepts learnt in classroom with the real-life situations. The students are also provided an opportunity to pursue Summer Internship Program (SIP) abroad

• Management Research Project involving work on a comprehensive research project under the guidance of faculty.

• Independent Study where students are encouraged to take up projects on contemporary topics. Faculty members are available for providing the necessary guidance and direction

• Continual multi criteria evaluation

• Language training through interactive sessions  and lingua-phones

• Soft Skills Training for a holistic development of personality and better career prospects

• IT Training to keep the future entrepreneurs abreast with the latest technological innovations

Co-curricular activities, aimed at grooming students and bringing out their latent talent is an essential part of life at the Bangalore campus.  Student’s participation in these activities is encouraged in order to inculcate in them managerial and leadership skills. 

Student Clubs and Forums

The students of IBS Bangalore campus have formed several clubs for social, cultural and sports activities, in addition to organizing and participating in business forums and seminars.

IBS Business Leader- Quarterly Magazine

IBS Business Leader, is the quarterly in-house newsletter of the campus. It is both informative and interesting, with articles and papers contributed by students and faculty. The newsletter brings together not only current news from the business world, but also encourages students to think of the world around them. True to its name, it moulds them into leaders and gives impetus to creativity and talent at the campus.

Tarkash:

Tarkash is the  annual all India management meet organized at IBS Bangalore. The name Tarkash, subtly denotes that business is a battleground and a challenging arena.

Visitors

In addition to the various student activities at the campus, faculty from reputed international institutes and Universities, and other eminent personalities are regularly invited to share their learning with the students and add value to academic delivery.  Recent visitors to the campus include,

• Prof. Abdul Aziz. Economist & Senior Professor. Institute of Social and Economic Change. 14-Jul-06

• Dr. Anil Kumar. NMKRV College.July-06

• Dr. Meenakshi Rajeev.Institute of  Social and Economic Change (ISEC)            Aug-06

• Prof. C R Ramesh Babu. Union Bank of India Staff College. Sep-06

• Dr. Cornelia Daniel.Westfield State College. Nov-06

• Dr. R G Desai. Dept of Economics, Bangalore University. Dec-06

• Dr. Mathai Fenn Baker, XLRI Jamshedpur   

• Prof. N.M.Agrawal, IIM Bangalore

Achievements

Student participation in all India and inter institute contests and fests is encouraged. Students of IBS Bangalore campus have won laurels in competitions organized by institutions like

• IIM-Bangalore,

• IIT-Mumbai,

• TAPMI-Manipal, Dec.2006

• CII-Managemantra-Chennai, Oct 2006

• Mount Carmel Institute of Management,

• XIM-Bhubaneswar.

• PESIT-Dept of Management Studies,

• Business Today & Aditya Birla Group- Aug.2006

• MATS-Bangalore. Feb, 2007

• IIPM-Bangalore. March 2007

Workshops and Conferences

• Third National Conference on Finance & Economics. November 2006

• Negotiations for Finance Managers.            November 2006

• Supply Chain Management Symposium.Dec-06

• SPSS for Non Statisticians. March 2007

• Inventory Management. Aug-06

MDPs

• Value Chain Analysis at Bharat Fritz Werner. ICWAI, Bangalore. Jul-06

• Supply Chain Management as a Support Strategy to Strategic Cost Management to Public Sector Finance Manager. ICWAI, Bangalore. August  2006

• Attaining Competitive Advantage. HMT. Sept 2006

• Forecasting Techniques. TESCO

• Finance for Non Finance Professionals. March 2007

IBS has a strong, active and growing interface with the industry. The faculty members at IBS Bangalore are engaged in consulting and research assignments for various corporates. Experts from industry are also invited to the campus to address the students. Some of the prominent personalities to have visited the campus in the year 2006-07 include:

• Laura Parkins. Director. National Entrepreneurship Network. Jun-06

• Mr. S D Janakiran. General Manager Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd..June 2007

• Mr. Anand Kumar. Executive Director. Bangalore Stock Exchange.Jul-06

• Mr. P C Rajiv. Vice President-HR. Asea  Brown Boveri(ABB). Aug-06

• Mr. R Gopal. Senior Vice President ING Vysya Bank. Dec-06

• Mr. Ranjan Acharya. Corporate Vice President – HRD. Wipro TechnologieMar-07

• Mr. Ashok D. Executive Vice President. Siemens Information Technologies. Mar-07

IBS has a strong placement network with blue-chip companies in the manufacturing sector, financial services, banking, IT and consulting. The placement efforts at IBS are done on an all India basis through placement executives and placement managers. IBS Placement Team (IPT) identifies potential companies, acquaints them of the talent pool available at the campuses and coordinates with the students, in terms of matching their aspirations with the job profile. 

Mock interviews and presentations are also conducted to prepare the students for final interviews with potential employers.

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