Lahore School of Economics

Counseling

2012-01-27T14:31:00.001+05:00

Jeremy Burgess, Head of International Student Recruitment and Assistant Director, International Office at the University of Warwick, UK visited Lahore School of Economics, Main Campus and gave a counseling presentation on postgraduate courses, entry requirements and scholarship opportunities being offered at Warwick for 2012 entry. The presentation was attended by a large number of undergraduate and graduate students followed by an interactive questions and answers session - Saman Khan.

Preparing Yourself for the Real World

2012-01-26T12:10:00.001+05:00

Lahore School Social Awareness Society arranged its second workshop on Preparing Yourself for The real World on January 20, 2012. Naveed Jamil, an Australian, Victoria University graduate, a certified public accountant, and a successful business executive who manages his own accounting firm was the guest speaker.

Naveed Jamil explained how everything around us is made of energy, and the two types of energy that exists within every human being: a kind of a raw emotional streak called ‘darkness’, and a state of relief and calm, known as ‘light” and how both can be channelized into productive outlets to attract positive things in life and to achieve "peace, contentment and enlightenment." Naveed Jamil also touched areas like Secrets to Success, How to Start Your Own Business From Scratch, Dealing with Conflict/ Crisis, Making the right choices, Realistic Expectations Setting and Building Healthy Relationships. The workshop was attended by a large number of students and followed by an interactive questions and answers session.

Lahore School of Economics won Best Delegation Award in LUMUN 2012

2012-01-21T09:04:00.000+05:00

Lahore School of Economics won the coveted LUMUN Best Delegation trophy for the second consecutive year. LUMUN enjoys the distinction of being the largest Model United Nations Conferences in all of Asia. This year, 2012, over 2000 individuals from over 100 institutions across the country gathered in LUMS to simulate various United Nation committees. Prominent amongst the universities were Lahore School, GIKI, NUST, LUMS, PU, FAST, BNU, IQRA, AIMC, Bharia University, Kinnaird College, Government College and UET.

The Lahore School of Economics team consisted of Abu Bakr Hayat, Affaan Sherwani, Umar Akram Sahi, Khawaja Talal Sadiq, Shahira Khan, Wasae Imran, Hamza Ghaznavi, Haziq Masood, Saad Sohail and Zain Hyder. The team won an unprecedented 8 out of 10 Best Delegate trophies and in addition two Honorable Mention Awards. Aitchison College stood second in the competition with a 6 out of 10 score. [Sidra Rana]

Sales force management

2012-01-21T08:05:00.002+05:00

Nadeem Rehmani, the Director Operations and Vice President at Metro Cash n Carry was invited to give a talk to MBA and MSc Economics students on January 19, 2012.

The lecture was focused on sales force management. He started his presentation showing the merger of Metro and Makro and talked about the products, stores and service. It was a detailed presentation which highlighted the fact that Metro Cash n Carry wholesale was exclusively for professional customers. Highly interactive lecture was attended by faculty members in addition to students.

Trade and retail industry of Pakistan

2012-01-20T13:28:00.002+05:00

Naila Hafeez

Umer Lodhi, the Customer Management Director and Vice President at Metro Cash n Carry Pakistan gave a talk to MBA and MSc Economics students on Thursday, January 19, 2012. His interactive lecture was focused on modern trade and retail industry of Pakistan.

He also briefed the students on the Quality Assurance, pricing strategy, and major suppliers of Metro in detail. It was an informative and motivating talk and the students asked useful questions from the speaker.

Lahore School of Economics won the LUMS Sports Festival 2012

2012-01-18T17:05:00.001+05:00

Lahore School of Economics won the Sports Festival at LUMS, 2012. Lahore School participated in Volleyball, futsol, Badminton, cricket, tennis, squash and basketball for male and female sports and won all of them. Lahore School sports squad competed and won against FAST, BNU, LUMS, PAC, IOBM, University of Peshawar, University of Punjab, GCU and other sports clubs from Karachi and Peshawar.

Lahore School of Economics Convocation - 2012

2012-01-14T15:19:00.014+05:00

Lahore School of Economics’ Ninth Annual Convocation was held at the main campus on Jan 14, 2012. Sardar Latif Khan Khosa, the Governor Punjab conferred degrees and awards to 809 graduating students of MPhil, MS Economics, MSc Economics (11), Masters in Business Administration (180), BSc Economics, Bachelors of Business Administration (600) and Master of Business Administration (Executive). Sardar Latif Khosa lauded the role of Lahore School of Economics in core specilization of Economics, Finance, Business Administration and related fields of studies including Social Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Environment, Media Studies and Art and Design. The Governor also notes the Lahore School of Economics Research Program that is focused on improving the economic well being of the people of Pakistan.

Earlier, Dr. Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, the Chairman and the Rector Lahore School of Economics presented annual report of the School and highlighted achievements during the academic year. The Lahore School of Economics, Chartered in 1997, has the distinction of being the first private sector not-for-profit degree granting institution established by the Government of the Punjab. Since then we have matured to be an established institution of higher learning with a wide range of academic disciplines encompassing economics, business, finance, social sciences, media studies art and design, mathematics, statistics and environmental sciences at both the undergraduate and post graduate levels. The Lahore School has currently 3266 students in these disciplines with 66 doing their M.Phil and Ph.D, 457 doing their masters and 2643 completing a 4 years bachelors degree.

The Lahore School’s faculty and student body are also engaged in undertaking important research. The Lahore School publishes a two academic journals viz. a leading economics journal – The Lahore Journal of Economics – and an important policy studies journal – The Lahore Journal of Policy Studies. It is engaged in a number of international research studies including with Colombia and Yale Universities. The Lahore School also has hosted since 2004 an “Annual Conference on the Management of the Pakistan Economy” with the 8th Annual Conference now scheduled for May 2012.

The Lahore School’s Annual Conferences on the Management of the Pakistan Economy are significant in that they provide the theoretical basis for policy making. As an example I would like to place on record that it was at the Annual Conference in April 2008 that the Lahore School recommended that an appropriate security blanket for the poor would be an old age pension scheme of Rs.1000 per month for widows. A number of influential policy makers were at the conference and we would like to believe that it contributed in a small manner to the development of the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) introduced in 2008-9 and which is widely acclaimed the world over. Incidentally that conference also recommended a school feeding and health care program in the field of education and hospitalization insurance coverage for serious illnesses in the health sector to complete a social security blanket for the poor. We hope sir, that you will consider these remaining two policy proposals to benefit the ordinary people of Pakistan in the future.

The Chairman thanked the Lahore School Board of Governors for their guidance and support. Dr Shahid Amjad Chaudhry also placed on record the services of Mr. M.A.K Chaudhry, who served as the Chairman, Board of Governors for 16 years and who recently passed away. His contributions to the development of this institution were immense.

The campus was very tastefully decorated and the Convocation was attended by a large number of parents.

Global Investment Research Challenge

2012-01-09T10:18:00.000+05:00

Lahore School of Economics was declared runner up in the Global Investment Research Challenge (GIRC) hosted by CFA Institute at Avari Towers Karachi on January 2, 2012. This elite competition in finance takes place every year and Lahore School made its strong mark by securing second position in its very first participation among reputable business schools from all over Pakistan. The team of Lahore School of Economics comprised of Abdul Wahab (MBA II), Adam Zia (MBA II) Omair Anwar (MBA II), Rafia Pervaiz (MBA II) and Mahnoor Asif (BSc IV).

The purpose of this educational initiative by CFA institute is to promote best practices in equity research through mentoring and development of analytical, communication and presentation skills. The subject company this year was Engro Foods on which team Lahore School prepared an equity research report and subsequently the findings and recommendations were defended in a presentation that was made in front of top notch professionals from financial industry. Dr Nawazish Mirza, Associate Professor of Finance, was the mentor for Lahore School Team.

Dr Nawazish Mirza applauds this performance. He says that it’s a proud moment for Finance faculty at Lahore School and a remarkable achievement that Lahore School of Economics proved its quality in front of cream of financial crop. I am proud of our team that went through a rigorous process of training, financial modeling, analysis, report writing and finally presentation. We were confident to win but losing by marginal two marks is not bad for our first ever appearance, especially when we scored highest on the report. The team surely had hard times coping with me but I am sure the outcome has paid off for their hard work, frustration and sleepless nights. Let us not forget that they were simultaneously engaged in their regular semester assignments, quizzes, projects, exams etc.

Team Lahore School value their achievement in following words. “CFA Institute Research Challenge provided us an immense learning experience by the application of classroom knowledge in the real world, opportunity to network and interact with leading finance industry practitioners, and enabled us to build a strong brand name of LSE in the financial industry”

Alumni in the School

2012-01-09T08:08:00.000+05:00

Ali Shah, alumni 2010 who is working as Planning and Research Manager at Grey Media Marketing Company gave a talk to the graduating class of MBA. He talked about his own experience in the job market as a fresh graduate and also the expectations of the employer from the fresh graduates. He also shared his experience at the Lahore School as a student and gave some tips on how to give a good interview. The session was attended by students of MBA and MSc (Economics), staff and faculty.

Lahore School students at University, Istanbul

2012-01-08T12:44:00.003+05:00

Five undergraduate students from the Lahore School of Economics were at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey for a semester under the Students Exchange Program between both the institutions. Fatima Riyaz, Maria Nasir, Maham Bajwa, Aiman Sarmad, Saba Fazal from the Lahore School attended the Winter Term 2011 at Bahcesehir University on Bahcesehir University’s Scholarship.

Lahore School of Economics Convocation 2012 Registration

2012-01-08T12:39:00.000+05:00

Lahore School of Economics Convocation 2012 is being held on Saturday 14, 2012 at the Lahore School Main Campus, Burki Road. All recipients of the MPhil, MS, MBA, MSc, BBA (Hons), and BSc (Hons) degrees for the year 2011 are required to contact the School [(36560939 Masters Program) and (36560916 Bachelors Program)] to register for receipt of their degrees on Friday, Jan 13, 2012between 10:00AM to 1:00 PM.

Lahore School wins Pakistan Blog Award 2011

2011-12-24T10:38:00.005+05:00

Lahore School of Economics wins Pakistan Blog Award 2011. The Awards were announced during grand and colorful Gala Night held on December23, 2011 in Karachi.

Blogging, or ‘the new marketing and business communication tool’ as it is sometimes referred to, definitely seems to be the future of the Pakistan corporate world. Lahore School blog started on September 2004, when the word blog was not much known, and has come a long way. This blog has become a source of inspiration for large number of Lahore School young scholars and senior faculty members to start their own blogs where they propagate their points of view, talk about topics of interest to themselves and meet like-minded individuals and or take the opportunity to explore subjects they are truly interested in.

And on this occasion, I take the opportunity to call all young scholars and alumni of Lahore School to start their own blogs and join the ever expanding blogosphere.

Related: ‘Blogocracy’: Tri-city UnConference Lahore Camp, Award by PITB, Blog Award by PITB

Graduate Study in the United Stated

2011-12-19T16:04:00.001+05:00

Seemi Khosa, the Senior Advisor from The United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEF) gave a presentation to the Lahore School graduating BBA/BSC Hons on ‘Students on Graduate Study in the US’ on Friday, December 09, 2011. The presentation was followed by interactive questions and answers session with the students [Saman Khan].

Career Management

2011-12-08T11:15:00.000+05:00

Adeel Anwar, Project Head of Human Resource Department at Metro Indonesia and Head of HR Development and Training at Metro Cash n Carry Pakistan gave a talk to the students of MBA and MSc (Economics) on Monday, November 28, 2011. His lecture covered questions like how does the Corporate Sector assess a fresh graduate, talent Management practices for entry level positions, job opportunities for fresh graduates in Pakistan, Fareast and Middle East.

Talent management

2011-12-07T16:28:00.001+05:00

Naila Hafez

Tahir Javaid, the Vice President, Human Resources and Public Affairs at Engro Corporation Limited gave a talk to MBA students on Friday, December 02, 2011. As part of the senior leadership team, he is primarily responsible for talent management and leadership development. Tahir Jawaid threw light on the hiring process at Engro. He talked about the various businesses of the company. He said that Engro always wanted to attract top quality human resource.

Engro has been recruiting graduates through career fairs and graduate recruitment programs. Engro provides challenging learning environment, where fresh employees can work with top industry professionals. Tahir Jawaid also threw light on Engro internships. He said that Engro offered internships to students who were willing to learn and have the ability to execute tasks with maturity and responsibility.

Students asked many questions regarding the recruitment process at Engro and career development. Interactive session was attended by some faculty and staff members as well.

Anger Management Workshop

2011-12-03T12:27:00.002+05:00

Lahore School Social Awareness Society (LS-SAS) arranged Anger Management Workshop on December 2, 2011 in Mahmood Chaudhry Library at the Main Campus. Omar Babar, an expert in personal development and character education was the guest speaker.

The Workshop highlighted different types of anger, such as “Positive Rage” or courage linking to one’s prestige, “Negative Rage” or the ego factor linking to external threats, along with causes and effective coping strategies for anger citing real life issues and examples from everyday life. Focus was on all aspects of anger management, with special emphasis on active, verbal and mental remedies. Omar Babar went on to discuss a mix of human nature and man-made social institutes and how our evolving lifestyles have contributed towards short temperament and violence over the past few years.

Most fruitful for the audience was Omer’s session where students gathered for one on one discussion of their ‘personal’ issues. Workshop imbued the audience with a sense of self-management and perseverance.

Earlier, Hiba Asad, the President and founder of LS-SAS introduced the Lahore School Social Awareness Society. "The Lahore School Social Awareness Society is a great opportunity for students to come together, share their visionary ideas, resolve major problems of our times to bring about progressive social change. LS-SAS has a strong base of members, who are well known for their depth and breadth of social work outside LSE. The Society is playing an important role in creating conducive environment by engaging the youth to resolve some of the most critical issues facing Pakistani society and the globalized world.

The Workshop that was attended by a large number of students and faculty concluded with interactive question and answer session, in which Omar Babar answered queries put forth by students.

Lahore School societies

2011-11-29T09:23:00.000+05:00

Related: Welcome Class of 2015

Last day to vote for Lahore School blog

2011-11-28T09:28:00.004+05:00

Lahore School of Economics blog has been nominated in annual Pakistan Blog Award 2011. Voting is on! Readers of Lahore School Blog to please vote here. You can rate the blog (golden little stars for rating and voting are under the top line). Better still, please comment and show your support for the leading education blog in Pakistan that is also one of the oldest in the country. It started in 2004 when the word blog was less known. It is Colors of Pakistan : Celebrating The New Media Spaces continuously ever since and has been a source of motivation for many young scholars of the Lahore School to start their own blogs. The voting is open throughout till December 5, 2011.

Vote here. Comment here. Learn how to vote here.

Let us make a garden

2011-11-26T09:47:00.000+05:00

The Lahore School Arts Society mural painting sessions are held in the Garden Café regularly on Wednesdays and Fridays. Based on the venue of the activity, the theme of these sessions this semester is ‘Let us make a garden.’ Students discuss their ideas with Shahid Mirza after which they start painting on canvases. The thematic murals will show case student artists’ expression of beauty, peace and tranquility.

Short Story Writing Competition 2011

2011-11-25T15:37:00.000+05:00

The Lahore School Society of Literature organized its First Inter-Institution Short Story Writing Competition 2011 which was divided in two sessions: the first session, the competition itself, took place on Nov 16, 2011 at the SBS library. Twenty-one participants from eight different institutions from Lahore took part in the competition. The participants were shown a set of three issues (Labor, Patriotism, women) based photographs. Each student could choose any one of the photos to draw inspiration from and write a short story of 1000-1200 words. The entries have been sent to a panel of external judges for deliberation [Ali Rizvi (Pakistan Today), Bilal Tanveer (LUMS) and Miranda Hussain (Newsweek)].

Welcome Class of 2015

2011-11-24T11:29:00.010+05:00

Lahore School of Economics welcomes Class of 2015.

Grand welcome party was held in lush green Shumaila Garden decorated with beautiful stalls by different societies in the Main Campus on November 24, 2011.

Dr. Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, the Rector Lahore School of Economics welcomed the fresh students and gave an overview of the achievements of the School. The Lahore School of Economics - a distinguished seat of learning known for high quality teaching and research. The Lahore School of Economics or “The Lahore School” was established in 1993 and chartered by the Government of Punjab in January 1997, through the Lahore School of Economics Act 1997 (Provincial Assembly of the Punjab- Act II of 1997).

Most of the extra circular and co-academic activities in the School are conducted by the students themselves through different societies – Arts Society, Debating Society, Film and Media Club, Literature Society, Photography Society, Social Awareness Society, Sports Society and Welfare Society. All these societies were introduced to incoming class of 2015 who were dressed in black (boys) and red (girls) attires. Creative and very amusing announcements by Chishti and Aleeshay Khar and various performances by students of Lahore School also amused the audience that also included a large number of Alumni.

For new students, joining the Lahore School of Economics signals the moment of their initiation as students in an awesome environment. The Lahore School is a university that is proud of its students, faculty, green walkways, courtyards (and peacocks), libraries and computer laboratories. Creative and academic milieu in the Lahore School guarantees success - though certainly in part attributable to their hard work and intelligence. In fact, the Lahore School brings together inspired people who, together and individually, do remarkable things. The School knows that students will embrace the good of this place. Starting right now, this place is yours. You are welcome!

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Corporate culture

2011-11-22T15:31:00.001+05:00

Adeel Ansari (Lahore School Alumni 2006), working as Senior Brand Manager at Henkel Dubai visited Lahore School on November 21, 2011 and gave a talk on business culture and employee expectations from fresh graduates. He also talked about business ethics and gave the students a briefing about how things happen in corporate world. Adeel Ansar also reminisced about his own time in the School and shared his experiences. The session was attended by students of MBA and MSc Economics. [Tayyaba Kamal]

JSTOR at the Lahore School

2011-11-17T09:57:00.002+05:00

JSTOR (Journal STORage) is a subscription service that maintains an electronic archive of important scholarly journals and provides access to these journals to its subscribers. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve issues of journals as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines from Business to Economy to Finance to Mathematics and much more.

Over 853 international institutions are subscribers to this archival service all over the world (outside USA). Lahore School of Economics is one of the only seven subscribers to JSTOR in Pakistan. It is freely available to students on all computers hooked up with both the network in the City as well as Main Campus. Qaisra Riaz says, “M Phil and Msc students make use of JSOR online resources for their projects and analysis.”

Financial System and Economics Development - Pakistan

2011-11-15T09:11:00.008+05:00

Almost everyone would like to seek answers to the following if they are dabbling in securities markets. What are securities markets in generic terms, and in Pakistan? What is their structure in Pakistan as it prevails now and what are their dimensions? How securities markets operate in real world setting; what securities markets accomplish through their operations; how these operations impact on various segments of economy? What is financial regime; how it regulates market operations, and how effective it is? What is the state of financial system infrastructure supportive of market operations? How significant are these market operations and how good has been the performance thus far in whatever these markets do? What is the prognosis of securities markets and how it can be improved? Finally, how securities market compare with those in comparator countries.

This is the line of inquiry that has driven Dr. Shakil Faruqi to carry out this study - antecedents and perspectives. Dr. Shakil Faruqi has answered these questions in Financial System an Economics Development – Pakistan Volume II. How far this effort has succeeded, that is left to the readers to determine.

About the Author

Dr Shakil Faruqi completed his MA (Econ) from Panjab University in 1962 with distinction and taught there for a few years. Later on he proceeded to the US and completed MA (Econ) from University of Pennsylvania and taught at Wilkes College. He completed PhD (Econ) from Rutgers University in 1972, and joined the World Bank the same year. During his long career with World Bank, he worked in many countries including Mexico, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Iran, Nigeria, and several East Asian countries. During 1991-95, he led training programs in banking and finance in Russia and Central Asian countries. He also conducted senior policy seminars for Latin American and East Asian Countries on their experiences with financial system reforms. He was editor of proceedings of these seminars published by EDI/World Bank. He retired from the World Bank in 1997 and worked for couple of years on assignments concerning Pakistan. He joined State Bank of Pakistan as Advisor to Governor (2000-02) where he designed and led training of SBP officers and Change Management programs. He also conducted a program for judges of banking courts of Pakistan. He published a bilingual Glossary on Banking and Finance, English-Urdu in 2000. Since 2005, he has been with Lahore School of Economics as Professor of Financial System. This book reflects experiences of nearly three decades with operations of financial systems in comparative setting.

Map to ground

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