About Universal

Universal Business School was established as part of Strive India Education Foundation in February 2009.Universal Business School (UBS) takes a leap forward, by creating Indias first Green Business School ensuring eco-smart integrated thinking and a sustainable campus. The idea for establishing a world-class business school in Mumbai was born in 2008. The Business School is founded by International Business Leaders who have business experience in all five continents and have managed multi billion dollar global businesses. They have built a unique experiential based learning pedagogy for international Business Executives. UBS provides full time and part time Graduate and Post Graduate programmes in Management along with Executive Management Development courses. UBS through its subsidiary Business Scorecard India will provide Training and Consultancy Services to leading Indian and Multinational companies and will act as a premier resource for Organisation Building, Business Growth, Customer Delight and Employee Development.

UBS has been founded on two principle pillars of Ethical practices and Environment sensitivity. The Founders believe that enduring corporate success can be achieved, by high performing organisations, which Our adhere to ethical principles in business life. Vision

To establish a world-class Business School which provides Indian and International organisations with superior talent, which is sensitive to Corporate Governance, CSR, Environmental concerns Fast Facts Established: June 2008 UBS Board of Governors: 57 Governors: (13 residing in USA, UK, Singapore, HK and Mauritius) CEOs 45 (27 MNCs, 18 Indian Companies) Educationalists 6 Bureaucrats 2 Armed Forces 2 (Army and Air Force) Regulator 1 (ex-SEBI and RBI) Economist 1

UBS Academic Council: 12 Members (2 from Anderson School, UCLA and Stanford University) Number of Employees: 55 employees Number of Faculty Members: 30 Faculty members from leading Global and Indian B-Schools. (LBS, UCLA, Stanford, IIMs, JBIMS and SP Jain) Institutions @ UBS 1. UBS Innovation and Venture Hub to encourage Blue Ocean thinking and develop future entrepreneurs. It seeks to empowering students, equipping their minds with superior management thought and framing intellectual challenges that fuel innovation and ignite great business ideas. The Hub will become an Idea generation factory. 2. Universal Research Institute will germinate research based creativity and serve as a bed rock, for enhancing the quality of education which we deliver and the Consulting Services which we provide, to leading industrial organisations. 3. The Indian Institute of Leadership Development, which is being set-up at our campus, will train managers from leading Corporates, in the fine art and science of leadership development

Infrastructure Highlights

Construction commenced: January 2010; Due to finish in July 2011; Record 19 months Campus Size of 40 acres with 168,000 sq. ft. of construction in Karjat, 80 kms from Mumbai Capacity of Academic block is 500 students and residential accommodation for 232 students Campus fully supportive and accessible for physically challenged Classrooms 2 x 70 seat classrooms 1 x 130 seat classroom 3 x 40 seat classrooms 1 x 30 seat Thomson Reuters Trading Room 1 x 80 seat Computer Room

Learning Centre / Library 12000 sq. ft. Academic Admin Wing 22000 sq. ft. 58 Student Residential Suites 1100 sq. ft. (4 bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and living cum dining area) Cafeteria 4800 sq. ft. Entrance Lobby 3600 sq. ft. Gymnasium, Lounge and Sports Centre 6000 sq. ft. Our Commitment to Sustainability Highlights:

The main academic centre and library have double heighted ceilings to allow for the wind tunnel effect to flow through allowing for reduction of cooling needs and reduction of energy UBS wall cladding has been done with space between the exterior and interior surface to ensure that the heat from outside does not penetrate inside to ensure that the cooling requirements are down to the minimum and saves tremendous energy UBS has used double glazed glass, with two sheets of glass pressed together to ensure that external heat is not transmitted internally, thereby reducing the cooling requirements and making it a climate friendly building.

Rain Water Harvesting by UBS ensures that water is conserved and reused, given Karjat gets plentiful rain. Retaining walls and mini-dams have been created to conserve water. All the garbage is recycled effectively with two sewage treatment plants at either end of the campus to cater to the student and faculty. UBS has planted over 1500 trees with an objective to plant 10000 trees in the campus. Each student will plant a tree and thereby connected to mother earth and their alma mater. Green thinking is integrated into each and every subject whether finance, marketing or production to be able to resolve the cost and execution dilemmas that exist on making green decisions. The implications of each green decision is actively debated allowing for students to get a better understanding and making more effective and sustainable decisions.

We have Green specific electives like Green Financing and Green Manufacturing and Sustainability Management with Professors from Harvard Business School Research Centre imparting learning of practical and successful models of leading companies who have build excellent models. UBS has kept the original flora and fauna intact and has enhanced it in many ways. UBS has brought material like bricks, stone; from the local villages reducing the need for transportation and thereby contributing to less carbon emissions.

UBS classrooms have the ability to have video conferencing and live debates in and interactive fashion with professors internationally to ensure that minimal travel is required and virtually information can be imparted.

Given UBS is a fully residential campus; it ensures students do not have to take public transportation, reducing carbon emissions. Each student will have a Societal causes Management and Responsibility Training (SMART) project where they will have to adopt the nearby villages and implement the green thinking ideas thereby learning from doing UBS is ensuring that 40 percent of the campus will have no construction and will create organic farming to allow for farm fresh and healthy living for the students. Diversity @ Universal Universal Business School values people with different experiences and styles of working, thinking, communicating, challenging, and leading, arising out of working with members of different creeds, ethnicities, sex, race, casts and nationalities. The Universal in our schools name was derived out of these beliefs. We know that diverse teams are the best teams, as they can make informed decisions, by considering multiple points of view.

At Universal we provide equal opportunities to all. We take pride in our admissions policy which ensures that, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, age or any other protected classification; you will be admitted to the Institution.

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