Research is accorded top priority at the Institute of Business Management.

IoBM has a full fledged research program with the following components:

The CBM MBA is research intensive and every optional course is designed to include a research component.

.::| Pakistan Business Review |::.

IoBM publishes Pakistan’s only business research quarterly. It is supervised by an international advisory board of business academics from national and international organizations, such as the London School of Economics, the University of Sussex, the University of San Diego, Bochun University, Germany, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the International Association for Clean Technology, Austria, the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan, the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, the Applied Economic Research Center, and The Aga Khan University, Karachi. All CBM full time faculty members are on the editorial board and contribute research papers on a regular basis.

.::| INFLATION AND GROWTH: ESTIMATION OF THRESHOLD POINT FOR PAKISTAN |::.

Manzoor Hussain*
Economic Policy Department, State Bank of Pakistan

.::| External Research |::.

Consultancy work has been undertaken for The Aga Khan Education Service, Karachi, the Institute of Bankers in Pakistan, Deloitte, Touche International Chartered Accountants, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna, SBP and Doha Bank. CBM papers are regularly presented at the annual meetings of the Pakistan Society for Development Economics, Islamabad. A book on Money and Banking in Pakistan has been published by the Oxford University Press in the year 2001. A new addition of this book appeared in 2003. Another book Financial Management in Pakistan was recently published by the Oxford University Press. A book on Case Studies on Organizational Behavior in Pakistan is under preparation.

IoBM subscribes to JSTOR, an on-line access to multidisciplinary and discipline specific collections. It allows access to 46 core business journals with permission to download and print all the articles. This facility is very useful in research activities – a core goal of IoBM. This facility is available for the faculty, students and management of IoBM.