Over 1,000 students receive degrees at 20th IoBM convocation

KARACHI: Amid business luminaries and corporate leaders, representatives of foreign missions and international organisations, city and national elite, print and electronic media, emerged a healthy crop of more than 1,000 grads in business management and allied disciplines at the 20th Convocation of the Institute of Business Management (IoBM), according to IoBM’s Public Affairs Section.

On this occasion, Sindh Governor Mohammed Zubair was the chief guest and TCS President Khalid Nawaz Awan was the keynote speaker.

While speaking on this occasion, Mohammad Zubair highlighted education as a process that must nurture among students the faculties of rational thinking, wise decision-making and prudent reasoning to develop their personality and character to make them noble and gentle professionals, having sound knowledge of and command over their respective fields.

He shared with graduates the importance of positive thinking and healthy competition to survive in the highly-competitive corporate world. He hoped that the graduating class of 2017, amid the learning it acquired from the IoBM faculty, will also comprehend the importance of managing time, prioritising tasks and multitasking as positively result-oriented professionals. He said that this commitment towards excellence instilled at IoBM is primarily due to the leadership values and principles followed by the Founder President of IoBM Late Shahjehan Syed Karim.

Khalid Nawaz Awan emphasised the need for technology to benefit from and to connect our financial, emotional and intellectual capital towards sustainable businesses. He urged the grads to acquire the right set of skills, be competent and work hard towards their goals in life.

Awan has been a proponent of creating such business models that benefit masses at the grassroots level.

During his address, Mr Talib Karim referred to promising IoBM graduates: “We have instilled in you at least three core values: the will to pursue larger purposes in life, the commitment to nurture the spirit of lifelong learning, and the resolve not to measure success in terms of wealth or status alone. These are the underpinnings you will need in your personality, as you go forward.”

Degrees were conferred in specialised disciplines, including advertising and media management, actuarial science, risk management, health and hospital management, industrial management, environment and energy management, electrical engineering, electronics and telecommunication engineering, logistics and supply chain management, information technology, HRM, economics, finance, accounts, management, marketing, business communication and other fields. Among the IoBM graduating batch, 10 students were awarded gold medals and 36 were awarded merit certificates.