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02 Message from the Associate Dean Wecome to the Programme at the Sueman Dawood Schoo of Business (SDSB). The schoo, to date has been successfu in attracting an impressive appicant poo, and admitting a remarkabe group of peope who have gone on to further their careers and their host organisation s productivity. These eaders are now we equipped with the skis and toos needed to take on exigent roes as goba business eaders. Weekend Programme The SDSB s Programme has an outstanding facuty that comprises experts in their respective fieds. The facuty has proven academic track records of teaching and research. Foreign adjunct facuty and visiting professors from highy reputed universities add to the diversity and richness of the earning experience. The programme s competitive edge is the Case Method pedagogy. It not ony imparts functiona expertise but aso cross-functiona earning and appication that are requisite for the reaistic outook required by top management. The participants have the opportunity of seecting their speciaisations from Genera Management, Entrepreneurship and Pubic Enterprise Management. These speciaisations wi further aow candidates to impact their organisations with enhanced efficiency and reevance. Furthermore, a week-ong internationa study modue is aso offered to increase the goba outook and earning of our candidates. Our participants come from varied backgrounds, both professionay and personay. A diversified participant profie provides exceent networking opportunities across various industries. Our aumni prove to be particuary usefu in providing a strong, dependabe network and have a presence in Pakistan as we as in many other countries. This buiding of a dependabe earning community serves as a vauabe support system for the graduates. We are ooking for motivated midde to top managers who are ready to work in our weekend programme structure, managing work, famiy and study. On the foowing pages you wi find out more about the SDSB. I am sure the Programme wi suit your aspirations and needs. Dr. Jamshed Hasan Khan Associate Dean & Professor Sueman Dawood Schoo of Business (SDSB)
03 THE SDSB ADVANTAGE The SDSB s competitive edge is its teaching pedagogy, the case method of teaching. It emphasises experientia earning through oca and internationa cases. Sedom do business managers face probems that are not impeded by externa forces. Thus, the case method aows participants to tacke the decision making process in a more dynamic, rea-word environment and draw on their individua professiona experiences to enhance group earning. The case method of teaching paces a premium on teaching materias and standards. Since 1986, 625 cases have been deveoped at LUMS, focusing on the Pakistan business environment that heps in further buiding on the oca perspective of participants. By providing our participants with cutting edge internationa practices, we present them with opportunities for rea growth in their careers. An internationa outook, incuding the incorporation of goba inkages and internationay quaified facuty, adds greaty to the sophistication and innovation of our Programme. Coaborative inkages with internationa institutions add immense vaue to the programme content and its marketabiity. In keeping with our aspirations and essentiaity of integrating a word wide appea to our programme, we offer an internationa study modue through which the students can visit Siicon Vaey, USA or Penang, Maaysia for one week. During the visit the students are exposed to foreign business practices, industria visits and sessions with foreign facuty. A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE The goba business environment has never been more rigorous and demanding. With the goba business setting becoming increasingy uncertain, the task of managing has become more chaenging. The key to future business success ies in deveoping eaders who can effectivey respond to the rapidy unfoding changes of the day. The offered by SDSB has been designed precisey to cater to this need. Whie providing a rigorous and worthwhie business education, the programme has been designed to enabe busy managers to acquire a superior management education whie continuing to fufi their professiona responsibiities. Ours is one of the top-tier business schoos in the region, with word-cass facuty, high-tech campus faciities and a stimuating and chaenging curricuum. Our tradition of individuay interviewing appicants ensures that we seect ony the best. Appicants come from a range of organisations and cities around the country. Through their interaction with one another, they add inestimabe persona experience and vaue to the programme. Weekend Programme
04 WHY Lums Executive MBA? You don t have to put your careers on hod to earn the degree. Weekend Programme EMBA prepares you for the next eve of eadership. You wi earn to be a better team member and a strong eader. This degree is an exceent investment in your future. It is aso a wise investment for your empoyer. The soid, genera management core courses hep you bring new ideas and skis to your workpace and put them to work right away. Maintain work-ife baance with ony two courses at a time. On-campus casses are hed on Saturday and Sunday every aternate week to minimise required time out of the office. This format aows students to competey focus on schoo ife whie they are on campus. Less than Two Years from Start to Finish casses are designed in such a way that busy working professionas can earn an MBA with minima disruption to their professiona and persona ives. Over the course of 22 months, students earn credits by participating in three one-week residencies and attending casses on Saturdays and Sundays every aternate week. Highy experienced cassmates with an average of 10 years of work experience. Facuty with strong industry inkages, who have received goba recognition for their research. Gain access to a goba network of 26,000+ aumni.
05 DEVELOPING BUSINESS LEADERS The Sueman Dawood Schoo of Business (SDSB) was the first schoo estabished at LUMS in 1986. Now, over two decades ater it is ranked as one of the top business schoos in the region. SDSB continues to be the first choice of students in South Asia. The schoo effectivey caters to the deveopment needs of managers and eaders in the corporate sector. It provides the training necessary for these executives to take on greater roes of eadership. Industry PERSPECTIVE The LUMS facuty has deveoped 625 cases focusing on the Pakistani business industry. This heps in further buiding on the oca perspective of participants. By providing our participants with cutting edge internationa practices, we present them with opportunities for rea growth in their careers. An internationa outook, incuding the incorporation of goba inkages and internationay quaified facuty, adds greaty to the sophistication and innovation of our Executive MBA Programme. Coaborative inkages with internationa institutions add immense vaue to the programme content and its marketabiity. Internationa Modue The offers an internationa study modue through which the students can visit Siicon Vaey, USA or Penang, Maaysia for one week. During the visit the students wi be exposed to foreign business practices, industria visits and sessions with foreign facuty. Weekend Programme
06 Weekend Programme What sets the Programme Apart? The prepares individuas to impact change. Case method of teaching suppemented with computer based exercises and simuations Extensive use of distance earning and a virtua university system through e-modues Fied visits and guest speaker sessions for a hoistic and integrated perspective A week ong internationa study modue to Siicon Vaey, USA / Penang, Maaysia 3 speciaisations PROGRAMME Design A 22-month weekend programme is offered over a period of 3 weeks and 32 weekends. The sessions are hed on aternate weekends every month.
07 Coaborative Approach to Learning Students are paired in study groups having compementary skis; a student with very strong quantitative skis wi be paired with someone having good negotiations skis. SUMMER ORIENTATION PROGRAMME (SOP) The SOP is an integra part of the programme. It provides background information to the basic subjects needed to prepare participants for the chaenges of the course oad and case method of teaching. Successfu competion of the SOP is a prerequisite for the reguar programme. Though not graded, it eases the transition to the reguar casses by providing the basic framework in the foowing modues: Business Mathematics Introduction to Financia Accounting Interpersona Skis Introduction to the Case Method Pedagogy STRUCTURE The study weeks are spread as foow: Year I Distance Learning Modue 1 Juy - August (Harvard Business Schoo Onine Courses) SOP + Leadership Modue August - October Distance Learning Modue 2 October - November (Harvard Business Schoo Onine Courses) Business Fundamentas Modue November - March Innovation Modue Apri - June Weekend Programme Year II Internationa Modue Speciaisation Modue Managing the Future Modue Summer September - January January - May
08 Weekend Programme Project A participants work on a project which requires them to address an issue of significant importance to their organisation. The approach is that of a management consutancy assignment. A possibe topic covers: 1. Carrying out a strategic review of an organisation and its environment 2. Identifying a major issue/probem faced by the organisation 3. Coming up with aternative soutions for addressing it The project requires candidates to expore key facets of the issue and recommend aternative soutions. The study demonstrates awareness of reevant theoretica concepts, toos and techniques. It measures the candidates abiity to appy the most appropriate of these concepts to the organisationa probem being studied. To the advantage of the current empoyer and candidate, the project is usuay identified by the current empoyer (cient) of the candidate and a facuty advisor is attached for guidance and counseing. The project, hence, is a rea ife test of the candidates earning during the programme and their abiity to appy the reevant skis and techniques. Courses Offered in the Programme On-Line Courses Manageria Communications Spreadsheet Modeing Quantitative Methods Mathematics for Management Financia Accounting Finance IT for Management Core Courses Business Mathematics Interpersona Skis Introduction to Case Method Leading Organisations Probem Soving and Decision Making Marketing Management Finance for Managers Operations & Suppy Chain Management Managing Peope New Product Deveopment Innovation and Technoogy Management Manageria Accounting and Contro Systems Business Strategy Isamic Ethics Manageria Economics Eective Courses Corporate Finance Marketing Strategy Corporate Entrepreneurship Venture Creation
09 Fundamentas first approach LUMS takes a fundamentas first approach to its Executive MBA curricuum. Students are required to take courses that provide a strong foundation for management and different management roes. Later students can taior their EMBA programme based on their professiona goas and interests. 3 Speciaisations Candidate can choose the most suitabe option Pubic Enterprise Management Capita Budgeting Procurement Managament Monitoring and contro systems Entreprenuership Venture Creation Corporate Entreprenuership Genera Management Corporate Finance Marketing strategy DISTANCE LEARNING The participants are required to keep in touch with their academics through distance earning whie off campus. The Information System Technoogy (IST) Department centray supports LUMS Learning and Content Management System, which aows each participant a dedicated academic resource centre on the web. Participants have access to severa e-modues, course reated activities and resources. These incude course materia, discussion boards and onine course evauations. Spread Sheet Modeing, Mathematics and Financia Accounting onine courses aong with other tutorias are offered in affiiation with Harvard University before the participants actuay set foot on campus. Weekend Programme
10 coaborative earning Weekend Programme As students, the participants experience different perspectives of individuas from diverse backgrounds. They get the opportunity to interact with each other and discuss compex case situations in cass. Livey peer interaction is an integra part of the earning process in and outside the SDSB cassrooms. Once the participants famiiarise themseves with the entire cass and the facuty at the SOP, the EMBA programme transates into an enriching journey. The experience derived from an cass gives participants confidence and the eadership quaities to tacke even the worst-case scenarios amicaby. Lectures, videos and computer exercises compiment the cassroom experience. NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY LUMS is aso a networking hub for its participants. Whie enroed in the programme, participants are constanty networking with the MBA students, aumni, the corporate word and senior facuty members. Participants are aso caed upon to stage seminars and deiver ectures in coaboration with the MBA cubs and societies. Some of these cubs are as foow: LUMS Marketing Executive Cub LUMS Human Resource Executive Cub LUMS Goba Management Executive Cub LUMS Finance Executive Cub LUMS Entrepreneurship Executive Cub LUMS Toastmaster s Executive Cub LUMS Business Review LUMS Investment Management Association LUMS Suppy Chain Management Executive Cub - A training ground for eaders Our students are deepy knowedgeabe about what they do. The EMBA aows them to deveop new skis, new capabiities and changes the way they approach business probems thus enhancing their eadership skis.
11 ADVANTAGEs for Sponsoring Organisations EMBA sponsoring organisations wi be abe to: Improve their organisation s productivity, performance and profitabiity by increasing the effectiveness of key managers Retain and motivate high achievers in their organisation Deveop a poo of sophisticated eaders who wi enabe their organisation to take on goba chaenges Invest in empoyee deveopment Keep abreast of the gobay renowned practices and the ski set required to combat the chaenges of an expanding business Weekend Programme FACILITIES The participants have the option to avai accommodation faciities at the Rausing Executive Deveopment Centre (REDC) for the term, if necessary. Residence at the REDC is a singe room accommodation equipped with STD/ISD services aong with computing faciities in the aocated discussion rooms for EMBA participants. A superstore, cafeterias and medica emergency services are a present on campus.
12 Weekend Programme Admission Criteria In order to be eigibe to appy for admission, appicants need to fufi the minimum eigibiity criteria. However, fufiment of these criteria does not guarantee admission into LUMS. Admission to the programme is based entirey on merit. The basic poicy of the Admissions Committee of the Sueman Dawood Schoo of Business is to seect those candidates whose inteectua capacity, manageria potentia and persona characteristics best quaify them to pursue careers in management. Appicants wi be assessed on the foowing criteria: Minimum of sixteen years of education eading to a Master s or Bacheor s* degree from a university recognised by the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan Performance in the GMAT (no other admission test scores are vaid) at east 6 years of fu time work experience Two etters of recommendation Interview performance * Candidates hoding a Bacheor s degree of ess than four years duration wi be required to produce an equivaence certificate of competion of 16 years of education issued by the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan. Decisions on admission are made after carefu evauation of a appications. Evauation for interview ca is carried out based on a combination of factors such as academic track record, performance in GMAT and work experience. The Admissions Office wi review appications to ensure requirements are being met. Shortisted candidates wi be caed in for an interview, after which the fina decision wi be taken. Admission Test for Appicants are required to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) in order to be considered for admission. Ony GMAT scores are vaid and, hence, appicants with previous LMAT scores need to take the GMAT. GMAT is offered as a computer adaptive test wordwide. Apart from officia test scores that LUMS wi require directy from Educationa Testing Service (ETS), USA, appicants must submit or mai a copy of the unofficia GMAT scores as soon as they take the test. The LUMS code for receiving GMAT scores from ETS is 0679. For further detais on GMAT, pease og on to www.mba.com.
13 Note: GMAT taken more than five years before the admission deadine wi not be considered vaid. The deadine to take GMAT is May 8, 2015. If the appicant has taken more than one test, the best score wi be considered for appication evauation. Avaiabiity of GMAT score wi be mandatory for submission of onine admission appication. Appicants who are admitted and join the EMBA programme. wi get a refund of one GMAT registration fee. PROGRAMME FEE Participants are encouraged to discuss sponsoring options with their respective organisations. The fee structure for the first year is as foows: EMBA PKR Tuition Fee 641,500 Admission 70,000 Registration 37,500 Reading Materia 44,100 Security (Refundabe) 16,000 Tota Fees 809,100 Weekend Programme LUMS reserves the right to change its poicies without prior notice. For further detais, pease visit www.ums.edu.pk A transformationa experience Our approach to eadership deveopment wi make you bring out the very best in yoursef and your team. We emphasise on the principes of genera management which prepares managers to ead any part of an organisation or to ead across departments.
14 Sponsoring Empoyees Weekend Programme Participants are encouraged to seek financia support from their empoyers in addition to their consent to attend a the course modues. This means that the company agrees to spare the participant from work during on-site sessions to ensure that he/she is avaiabe on a cass days. The financia support of the participant s company is a matter that needs to be resoved between the participant and the company itsef; however, LUMS does provide MCB Student Persona Loan (SPL) faciity to EMBA students. ACCOMMODATION Participants wi have to indicate on their admission appication whether they want to stay on campus. They wi have to commit for the entire programme and are responsibe for their meas and other expenses. PARTICIPANT PROFILE The programme is designed for midcareer managers and entrepreneurs who are devoted to taking on greater chaenges and making a better impact on the productivity of their organisation. These individuas can everage their rich work experience through a word-cass management education. Admitted Appicant Profie Cass of 2016 Average Age 35 years Average Experience 10.33 years Average GMAT/LMAT Score 510 Academic Background Cass 2016 36% 9% 5% 9% 5% 36% Economics Engineering Medicine Science Commerce/Business Computer Science
15 Aumni Abbas Sajjad EMBA 2004 Head of Marketing Saes & Investor Services Atas Asset Management Mahrukh Ai Maik EMBA 2006 Director Instaprint Sheikh Ai Hussain EMBA 2007 Director The Agha Khan University Shahzad Mugha EMBA 2011 CEO & Director Work Man (Pvt.) Ltd. Syed Imran Rizvi EMBA 2013 Head of Shares Fauji Fertiizer Company Abid Ziauddin EMBA 2008 Manager Pant Logistics Engro Fertiizers Ltd. Nava Kumar EMBA 2012 Senior Manager PTCL Muhammad Asad Noor EMBA 2005 Country Account Manager Genera Eectric Inc. Shahzad Khai EMBA 2009 Regiona Manager Saes Teenor Pakistan Weekend Programme Appy Skis Concurrenty s don t have to wait unti graduation to test cassroom earning on the job. Since they work fu time whie earning their degrees, they can start appying the weekend earning concurrenty.
16 Participating Organisations Here is a broad range of organisations that have sponsored their high fyers for the LUMS : Weekend Programme A.F. Ferguson & Co. Chartered Accountants Abacus Consuting AES La Pir Therma Power Station Aied Bank of Pakistan Army Wefare Trust Askari Commercia Bank Askari Leasing Company Ltd. Atas Battery Ltd. Atas Honda Ltd. Atas Investment Bank Aventis Ltd. Aztech Marketing Bank Afaah Ltd. Bata Pakistan Ltd. Bayer Pakistan BOC Pakistan Ltd. Catex Oi Pakistan Ltd. Civi Aviation Authority Coca Coa Beverages Cosmopoitan Enterprises Crescent Stee and Aied Products Ltd. Cybersoft Technoogies Department of Auditor Genera of Pakistan Descon Engineering EFU Eectronic Govt. Directorate Ministry of IT Emirates Airines Engro Corporation Engro Foods Ericsson Pakistan Fauji Fertiizer Co. Ltd. Faysa Bank Ltd. Federa Board of Revenue Ferozsons Laboratories Frankin Covey Pakistan Gemato Habib Bank Ltd. Hadayat Sons Hacrow Pakistan Hana Financia Group (South Korea) Haroon Texties HMA Pumps Grundfos Honda Ltd. Horizon Construction Pvt. Ltd., WAK Group Horizon Technoogies Ibex Goba - Virtua Word Pvt Ltd ( TRG ) Ibrahim Fibres Ltd. ICI Pakistan Ltd. IGI Insurance ILM Society Income Tax Department Inov8 Ltd. Inteectua Property Organisation of Pakistan Internationa Power Goba Deveopment Internationa Union for Conservation Nature (IUCN) Itim Associates (Pvt.) Ltd. Ittehad Chemicas Ltd. JS Investment Ltd. Karachi Internationa Container Khan Housing KSB Pumps Lahore Eectrica Suppy Company (LESCO) Marriaa Consutants Matrix Sourcing MCB Bank Meezan Bank Mobiink MOL Pakistan Oi & Gas Nationa Bank of Pakistan Nesté Pakistan NetSo Technoogies Ltd Network Soutions Orace Orient Water Services (Pvt) Ltd. Ovex Technoogies Packages Ltd. Pak Arab Refinery Ltd. (PARCO) Pakistan Air Force Pakistan Army Pakistan Eectronic Media Reguatory Authority (PEMRA) Pakistan Navy Pakistan Teecommunication Company Ltd. Prime Commercia Bank Reckitt Benckiser Schering Asia Servis Saes Corporation (Pvt.) Ltd. Shakarganj Mis Ltd. Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospita and Research Centre She Pakistan Ltd. Siemens Pakistan SRE Soutions State Bank of Pakistan Sunrise Packages Syed Bhais Pvt Ltd. Systems Ltd. T-Channes TCS (Pvt.) Ltd. Teenor Pakistan Teradata Pakistan The Citizens Foundation Uniever Pakistan Warid Teecom (Pvt.) Ltd. Water and Power Deveopment Authority (WAPDA) Workman WordCa Teecom Ltd. Zain KSA Zong (CMPak)