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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.

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