Centers of Excellence

Overview

LIBA has many Centers of Excellence. As an institution of professional study and training, LIBA fulfils the felt need to benchmark its quality and standards to match those of the best business schools in the nation and the world. The creation of Centers of Excellence in thrust areas of management is a consequent strategy to make them “peaks of excellence” on the plateau of management research and education.

A Centre of Excellence is understood to be an institutionalization of the best practices in the academic pursuit of knowledge in a given area; professional development through multi-skill acquisition; integration of knowledge and professionalism resulting in effective deployment of both to serve the changing needs of industry; and those in the promotion of ethical and social values that govern all. The best prac­tices converge towards the focal thrust to promote academic and professional competence with compassion for ‘the poor’ and the marginalized so that our managers may be bridge builders between business and society.

Loyola Center for Behavioral Science

The Rationale

Though human nature is the same everywhere, human behavior with all its different hues and complexities needs to be studied in its proper cultural context. Diagnosing the etiology of behavioral patterns and assessing their influences in individuals and groups will be important for successful interactions with others.

Human behavior in organizations and suitable ‘Indian’ solutions to behavioral and life issues affecting individuals and organizations have not been adequately studied in the Indian context. There is also a need for business schools to adequately equip their students to deal with holistic health and life issues so that dysfunctional behaviors at work or in personal life are prevented to a large extent. Hence, it is the endeavor of this Center to enable people to understand behavior as well as to equip them with necessary knowledge and skills to help modify behavior.

The Mission

The Centre for Behavioral science shall enhance the overall health, well-being, and life of individuals and organizational members, through appropriate interventions including training, counseling, treatment and support, and to add to the body of knowledge in the fields of Psychology, Sociology, and Behavioral Sciences.

It also helps to enhance HR/OB education through appropriate courses/interventions/research/projects.

The Objectives

• To enhance the overall quality of life of individuals/organizational members
• To help individuals/organizations cope with psychological/behavioral/attitudinal problems
• To enhance the skills of HR professionals
• To conduct research in areas of interest to organizations, or wherever a lacuna is perceived
• To provide opportunities to HR students at LIBA so that they gain greater depth of knowledge and skills needed to be effective HR professionals

With its unlimited scope as a resource center providing powerful learning and behavioral solutions for individuals and organizations, the Center for Behavioral Sciences will probably be the first of its kind in a Business School. Through regular feedback and continuous self-assessment, the Centre would be constantly endeavoring to provide services of the highest quality.

Loyola Centre for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance

LIBA has recently established the Loyola Centre for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance to propagate business ethics and internationally accepted corporate governance practices for the benefit of students, who are the future of the business world. Objectives of the Centre are to raise awareness on ethical issues, inspire socially responsible leadership, enrich ethical knowledge and societal obligations and to promote principle based corporate governance.

Loyola Centre for Entrepreneurial Development

The Loyola Centre for Entrepreneurial Development was established with the aim of creating a spirit of entrepreneurship amongst its young students. The Centre aims at contributing to the society at large by promoting the concept of social entrepreneurship. Additionally, it is involved in collaborative research initiatives and conducts training programs to develop entrepreneurial skills amongst existing and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Loyola Centre for Retail Management

The Rationale

Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), as a Jesuit Institution, passionately endeavors to train professionally competent managers imbued with a sense of justice, integrity, honesty and ethical values. The aim is the creation of a cadre of socially responsible business leaders committed to the upliftment of the poor and marginalized. The Jesuit charisma impels the students passing through the portals of LIBA, to build bridges between business and society, competence and compassion, and profit making and ethical conduct. One of our attempts at encouraging and promoting this ideal among the business world was the institution of the Mother Teresa Award for Corporate Citizen. Yet another milestone was the establishment of the Centre for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance instituted to mark the silver jubilee year of LIBA. In continuum, LIBA has established the Centre for Supply Chain Management. The recent addition to this effort towards marginal excellence is Central for Retail Management.

Objectives

To facilitate the development of individuals as:

• Pro-active management professionals and change-agents to respond adequately to the socio-economic and organisational challenges arising from the dynamic global environment
• Competent managers capable of contributing to national development and better quality of life
• Creative managers with a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship
• Management professionals committed to quality and ‘magis’ (excellence in everything)
• Leaders guided by the highest principles of ethics, integrity and concern for the less privileged

Loyola Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management

The Centre for Supply Chain Management at LIBA inculcates theoretical and practical learning among new generation managers in manufacturing and service sectors; especially for IT professionals who design solutions in handling critical supply network issues. Focus is on the use of more productive practices in engineering design, manufacture and movement of goods.

The centre for logistics and Supply Chain Management is happy to announce a crash course on Supply Chain Management. Apart from the regular curriculum, the course also focuses on enabling the participants to appear in professional exams in this field.

The Rationale

Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), as a Jesuit Institution, passionately endeavors to train professionally competent managers imbued with a sense of justice, Integrity, honesty and ethical values. The aim is the creation of a cadre of socially responsible business leaders committed to the upliftment of the poor and marginalized. The Jesuit charisma impels the students passing through the portals of LIBA, to build bridges between business and society, competence and compassion, and profit making and ethical conduct. One of our attempts at encouraging and promoting this ideal among the business world was the institution of the Mother Teresa Award for Corporate Citizen. Yet another milestone was the establishment of the Centre for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance instituted to mark the silver jubilee year of LIBA. In continuum, LIBA has established the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

The modern business is challenging as the customer expectations have gone up phenomenally and also choice of units of demand has grown exponentially. Also no longer customers are willing to wait and want the companies to be highly responsive. Fortunately, the advancement in technology and adoption of best practices in engineering, design, manufacture and movement of goods have made supply chain domain vibrant and challenging. Ability to synchronize the players across the supply network to satisfy the ultimate customer and in the process optimizing resources and profitability of the focal organization is increasingly become a top attentive issue of corporates. Be it automotive, or pharmaceutical, consumer goods or even services synchronization supply chain network has become the core issue. Increasingly one would come across management challenges how to optimize resources and profits among players instead of looking each one in a silo.

The Mission

The Centre for supply chain shall strive to promote understanding of nuances of logistics and supply chain management tools and techniques for better management decisions and evolution of the profession in business and society.

The Centre for Supply Chain Management at LIBA aims to inculcate such a learning and practice among new generation managers in manufacturing and service and especially for IT professionals who design solutions in handling critical supply network issues. The Centre for SCM believes that increasingly the supply chain issues are becoming differentors for achieving competitive edge and attracting top management time and effort and attention of the Board. Also top management positions are increasing for this function and hence the need to train and educate more professionals in the domain in tune with the trend in management education.

The Objectives

• Understanding the supply chain conceptual framework
• Developing analytical tools for measuring effectiveness
• Understanding in depth various facets of logistics and supply chain management
• Familiarizing with adoption of technology and role of e-commerce for enabling efficient supply network