UBS - Transforming Lives in True Sense

Arpit Gupta
Campus Reporter
Digital Head (Arts & Culture Club)

It’s been seven months in the campus and the journey is not less than a roller-coaster ride. Since the induction week followed by our routine lectures, it’s all been an informative and euphoric journey. Being a normal student of UBS and getting a post of Campus Reporter and Digital Head in Arts and Culture Club is all one desires for at this stage of life. 

UBS not only helped me to acquire theoretical management skills but as its motto says ‘Experiential Learning’ it truly sticks to that by conducting endeavours that helps to derive the actual scenarios of the VUCA world. The professors not only help to gain management knowledge but also share their valuable experience in the corporate world that is cherry on the cake for students to gain insights about the business world. 

Through various club events UBS helps the students to work on their skills of team building, project management, critical analysis, leadership traits and various others managerial skills. The session of Mentor-Mentee on every Tuesday helps to groom ourselves, hone our skills and keep track record of our career path.

Investing in UBS is one of my best decision of my life as it is a place where you can dream big and your dream comes true!

Sir Gurdip Singh Anand – A Man of Emotional Intelligence & Exceptional Leadership

Before coming to Universal Business School, I had to pass three rounds of Skype and telephonic interview to get admission in India’s first green B-School which is endorsed by 60 CEOs. I still remember that my final round of interview lasted almost one and half hour and was taken by the Chairman himself,the great mentor Sir Gurdip Singh Anand. That evening was the turning point of my life and I was absolutely overwhelmed by the lessons he had given me on that very day. He wanted to speak with my parents at the same time, I was curious and thought that I would meet and ask him about his impression but ………Alas!!!

Late Sir Gurdip Singh Anand
Founder Chairman - Universal Business School

I regret that I never got the opportunity to meet him after coming to the campus due to his ill health since as he was severe health issues. Now that he is no more yet I will not prefix “late” in to his name because few people are immortal for their deeds. Whether we get the opportunity to meet them or not, it doesn’t matter, they were, they are and they will be exceptional always. Our beloved Gurdip Sir is unprecedented in every aspect, be it his early professional life, be it the creation of our Alma Mater Universal Business School.

He was self-aware, self-regulated, optimistic, ever ready to embrace challenges and adapt according to the requirements. He was extremely disciplined, well-mannered and empathetic towards everyone. He always believed that UBS is a large family and the entire staff as well as students are its family members. He was a perfectionist and wanted to take UBS to the highest level of perfection. He stayed on campus with his family which proves his responsibility and accountability.

Even the security guards on campus have marvellous impression of him. In their words, he was a very humble soul. He, himself indulged in the “Clean UBS” campaign and was a mastermind who tried to expand UBS to its highest level of success. The newly built Girls’ hostel in which we are dwelling currently, the Library, the 160 seater in which we conduct our classes; all are the brain-child of this extra ordinary man with exceptional qualities. Not only the infrastructure, he has left behind the legacy of world-class experiential learning for the UBSians.

Ahani Ghoshal
CMBA2Y2

Once it such happened that he suggested me to go through few books of Robin Sharma, Kishore Biyani, Sam Walton and Stephen Covey. He also suggested to describe English alphabets. At the outset, I was surprised at this question but later on I realized that his intention of making me learn the mantras of achieving a successful life as a management student through “Accept failure” , “Be bold to recover yourself” , “Change yourself if it is highly required” , “Dare to do an exceptional task” , “Encourage yourself that you can” , “Fail till you reach success” , “Gain positive vibes from failures” , “Hide your weakness in front of others” , “Imagine yourself as a leader” , “Join good companionship” , “Kind to others” , “Lie can damage your career” , “Manage yourself” , “Network building factors” , “Optimism fetches win” , “Perfect in your work” , “Quiet and calm to achieve success” , “Rely on your capabilities” , “Struggle to reach your goals” , “Time management matters” , “Unity in your organization” , “Value yourself and others” , “Watch each and every minute things” , “Xenial in your community” , “Zeal yourself, don’t jeal of others”.

Though it saddens me to think that I missed the chance to meet this super-influential person yet I think I am quite lucky that I had a conversation with the  great leader, the superman with highest level of integrity and emotional intelligence, the man of commitment. May be ,we have lost his body but his soul is still with us, he is with us and he will always be there with us as our Friend, Philosopher and Guide to take us in the right direction with his intense vision and mission. This is my tribute towards my “GURU” and we, as UBSians, should be more responsible and accountable to carry forward his dream and to move the baton to take UBS to the epitome of success.

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UBS thrives!

Universal Business School or as we proudly like to call it the UBS is not only a Business school standing strong amidst the Karjat valley but is also our home. The business school offers a varied range of clubs, courses and curriculum or the 3Cs which not only suits our personal but also our professional interests. The outbound activities, presentations and the practical approach to academics have transformed us into confident managers with a practical approach to the industry. The presentations and platforms such as Indian Economic Review sessions have built our confidence to an extent that even if we are required to address a crowd of a 1000 people, it is definitely gonna be a cakewalk for us. The college has helped us broaden our horizon and provided us with a vision to think both outside and inside the box.

Akhil Menon
President - UBS Innovation Club (2017-18)
CMBA 2Y1

UIC (UBS Innovation Club) is a club built on the vision to empower students by constructive transformation. It creates platforms to enable students to generate, brainstorm and implement innovative ideas to develop an entrepreneurial mind-set.

UIC platforms like Trending, Case Blazer, Speaker of the Year help students develop required academic skills and professional skills. Projects like MBA Playbook help students in the preparation for placement interviews. Skill-pits is a platform where the talented students in a specific domain, get a chance to share their knowledge with the rest of the UBSians to help them become better learners.

Being the President of the club gave me an opportunity to develop my leadership skills, analytical and decision-making skills. UIC’s project management approach made me realize that a great idea, if not executed properly or within the time limit is of no value.

UIC Rocks, UBS Thrives!

The Quintessence of Digital Marketing

“Digital Marketing creates and requires data. But just having data isn’t going to change anything. Data must be accurate and have context to be actionable.”

We, as UBS Students feel privileged to have anticipated in the Digital Marketing workshop which was conducted in the month of October. As a management student, one must have sufficient knowledge about backlinks and analytics, and was something which we did learn efficiently well in that tenure. There has been widespread growth of Digital Marketing across the globe, and this is also considered as an integral pedagogy in many business courses. Paving its importance in many marketing lessons, Digital Marketing has its practical applications in many fields as well. Whether it is about designing a market plan for a company or a brand, or simply creating an advertising campaign, Digital Marketing plays a vital role.

As undergrad students of Universal Business School, we personally feel enough obliged of getting such a magnificent opportunity and which is helping us in applying it in other sub-academic disciplines. Although, I have decided of taking Marketing as my specialization, and I don’t think that this would have gotten any simpler if this workshop hadn’t come. The workshop was excellently organized and delivered with utmost precision. Those three days were quite significant for us as we encountered ourselves with a plethora of marketing strategies. Some of them include Blog Designing, Backlinks, and Google Analytics. The importance of Blog Making has made management students revel further in many business and start-up ideas. Although, Blog Making can be as interesting as it might seem from outside when related to promotion or expressing views about any product or organization.

Makrand Sulay
BABM6

Taking BlogSpot as an example, we did make individual free blogs, designed them with great creative vision, and learned how to generate money out of them. Later, we had a session on Backlinks and Google Analytics, so one could learn in making their blogs and posts famous on the internet. There are various tools and techniques when learning about Analytics, and we are sure to have capitalized on that perfectly well.

Personally, I was benefitted through these sessions because of the skills that we learnt in them. I was working on a start-up that required high focus on the digital marketing aspect. The start-up was related to tourism industry, and required a high focus and generating traffic on the website that I designed along with my partners. As the industry has got a cut-throat competition, it is very important to generate views on the website, as it will be our primary source of generating income and revenue. The payment and other main marketing functions will also be handled by means of Digital Marketing tools and other online platforms like “e-mail marketing”, “SEO’s” which we were taught to us during the sessions.  

We would like to extend our sincere gratitude towards Mayur Sir who wholeheartedly conducted this important session on “Digital Marketing”, and shared his inciteful words and knowledge with us. Secondly, we would like thank the Digital Marketing Club and Finally, Universal Business School for these sessions.

The learning from Indoor Sports Club!

When it comes to MBA, there are variety of business schools in India but Universal Business School is one of its kind. UBS is a truly global business school having collaboration with multiple leading universities across the world namely Cardiff Metropolitan University, University of Economics Bulgaria, Swish School of Management e.t.c. It is endorsed by 60 CEOs and focuses on experiential learning. The faculty in UBS carries a vast experience of industry and the teaching methodology here varies tremendously from the other B Schools as every year the syllabus gets revised according to the demand of the industry. It is specially taken care that 80% of the learning is practical learning. This help the students to know the big picture of the industry before going to the industry.
UBS consists of total 11 clubs such as: UBS Innovation Club, Indoor Sports Club, Finance Club, Marketing Club, HR & CSR Club, Tech Ops, International Club etc.
“Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and loose and most importantly it teaches you about life.” – Billie Jean King
“Sports build good habits, confidence and discipline. They make players into community leaders and teach them how to strive for a goal, handle mistakes and cherish growth opportunities.” – Julie Foudy
Being a sports loving person, I always wanted to join Indoor Sports Club and I am fortunate that by seeing my calibre, the club has given me an opportunity to prove myself. It organises all sorts of indoor sport events such as Box Cricket League, Intra College Badminton Championship, Full Night Pool Night, Quadrangular, Run 4 Fun, The Biggest Looser etc. This club gave me a lot of things, such as:

1. A Mentor who is Always There for Me to Help You in Difficult Situations
2. A Family Away from Home
3. A Team that Works Day & Night for Making the Event Success

During my tenure in this club, the learning curve always went up. I have learnt a lot by working in Indoor Sports Club. My key learnings are:

1. Leaving behind the ego while working in the team.
2. Taking Leadership initiatives.
3. Treating everybody in the team equally.
4. Making strategies for organising the events.
5. Marketing for the events.
6. Managing Budgets.
7. Taking ownership of the work.
8. Handling pressure situations
9. Creating future leaders who can carry the legacy of the club ahead.

Experience, dedication and creativity are the key determinants for success and Indoor Sports Club is the live example of that. When it comes to generating revenue, at that time ISC shows its power. It not only manages its events and club expenses through the revenue but also gives back to UBS in the form of maintaining the Indoor Sports as well as gym area. ISC is the top rated club of UBS, its events are blockbuster and its team is well organised. ISC runs on performance based model and believes in creating leaders for future hence it gives opportunity to each and every team member who has the potential to grow.

ISC will always be close to my heart and my experience in working with ISC will always help me in future.

Ashutosh Panda

Director Indoor Sports Club