The state-of-the-art intranet helps students in accessing a wide array of academic domains like online sessions plan for the entire study semester, time table, attendance record, and Syllabus and Course materials etcetera. Students can access these details from anywhere and is thus a handy option for students. Also serving as an online application for suggestions and grievance handling, students may post in their concerns via Amizone which are responded to within stipulated time by the Director General. AMIZONE also facilitates the students’ feedback mechanism for the faculty on numerous parameters viewable only to the Director General. An interactive portal, it also displays News and Events of AIBS and the University, Academic planning and holiday calendar, selections of specialization subjects, registration for end-term examinations and downloading the admit card when all requisite formalities are fulfilled. An ambitious gateway, Amizone also provides students with online journal databases like:

• EBSCO Host (2300 Journals)
• Cambridge University Press (223 Journals)
• IEEE Xplore (10742 Journals)
• Oxford University
• Press (198 Journals)
• ACM Digital Library (377 Journals)
• Springer (1950 Journals)
• Taylor & Francis (1076 Journals)

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Behavioral Science Sensitization: STEPPS Program

Structured Techniques for Enhancing Personal and Professional Skills (STEPPS) program is designed to develop soft skills in Management students. This program aims at imparting skills which enable an individual to know self, see oneself in relation to the organization one works for and then in relation to larger environment and the society. To be specific, students would learn, through these courses, how to work in teams, how to lead and how to react in unfamiliar settings, apart from learning effective communication, time management etc. and thus become effective individuals as well as professionals. This program consists of three full courses namely Managing Self, Behavioral Communication and Conflict Management which have been integrated into all the Post Graduate and Undergraduate programme structures at AIBS.

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Mentor Program

At AIBS we believe that the student-faculty interaction outside the classroom is very essential for the overall development of the students academically and also attitudinally. The students have three kinds of needs viz. academic, emotional and career needs. It is in the context of these needs, that the role of faculty, as a mentor, becomes crucial. Every student is assigned a faculty member as mentor who acts as a friend, philosopher and guide and helps in his / her development. Apart from the faculty mentor, it is being contemplated that every student should be given an opportunity to interact closely and continuously with the industry, through an industry-mentor.

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Tutorials

In addition to the classroom teaching, AIBS encourages outside the class contact between faculty and students. Enough spare time is provided to make these sessions possible. These sessions intend to re-enforce what is taught in a regular class and provide opportunity for better interaction among students since these sessions are planned essentially for smaller groups.

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Dissertation

Students of AIBS attending various programs are required to complete a Dissertation prior to completion of their course, on a topic of their interest. The aim of the dissertation is to provide the students with an opportunity to further their intellectual and personal development in their chosen field by undertaking a significant practical unit of activity, having an educational value at a level commensurate with the award of their degree. This will provide students an opportunity of studying in-depth a topic of their interest. It may sometimes help in filling knowledge gaps that may be present in the core program or the functional specialization.

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Teaching Methodology

AIBS endeavours to make teaching participative and experiential. Learning process is intended to be student-centric and not teacher-centric meaning that the onus of learning is on the students. This essentially involves use of innovative pedagogy to be adopted by the faculty. Case studies, projects & presentations / viva, assignments, management games and role-plays are used extensively to achieve this objective. Students are encouraged to be fully involved in these activities to make use of their latent capabilities.

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Foreign Business Language

AIBS firmly believes that knowledge of Foreign Business Languages is essential in the global corporate world of today. It thus offers Foreign Business Language courses from Semester I through III. Every student is required to opt for one such language compulsorily. Apart from giving weight age in the evaluation system, a separate certificate of having elementary / working knowledge of language is also issued to successful candidates. The coverage of each language ensures its business applications so that the student can effectively converse and correspond in that language on various issues related to business management.