TARUNDEEP SINGH ANAND FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN
(UNIVERSAL BUSINESS SCHOOL)

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Universal Business School™, in the close environs of Mumbai, India. As a Business School our Mission is to transform the lives of our students and provide the industry with ethical global leaders for the 21st century, who are sensitive towards protecting the environment and are passionate about making significant societal contributions. We aspire to develop business leadership which is capable of building resilient organisations, whilst adhering to the highest standards of Corporate Governance. We will continuously seek to create an enriching educational environment, where innovative thinking becomes a way of life.

We will impart experiential learning and thereby progressively enhance the competencies of our teaching staff and our students. We seek to build bridges globally, thereby giving impetus to universalism and humanism, enhancing the quality of relationships amongst people of all continents and races. We believe in the values professed by Mr. Narayana Murthy and will create an educational Institute where ‘ people from different nationalities, races and religious beliefs work together in an environment of intense competition, but with utmost harmony, courtesy and dignity, to add more and more value to’ themselves and our institution, with collaborative study and research. Our students will be valued as high performing managers in the service of national and international businesses corporations, Government Institutions and NGOs.

I invite you to join our movement to create Corporate Citizens who become role models, wherever they go, for developing their professional career. I promise you a challenging academic experience, with an international flavor.

Late Sardar Gurdip Singh Anand

Our beloved Chairman Gurdip Singh Anand, worked across multiple continents and managed billion dollar businesses across his professional career. He was as much at ease dealing with Swiss, Dutch, British, American top executives as dealing with the tough Indian labour unions or bureaucrats. His managerial acumen and expertise allowed him to effortlessly work across multiple industries during his life time, like Oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Air-Conditioning, Industrial Projects, Music, Software, Hardware, Security Services and Bottled Water.  Even though he was a world class management professional, his first love was teaching and he spent every weekend for over 35 years teaching and mentoring students at leading b-schools like JBIMS (his alma mater), SPJIMR, NMIMS and SIMSR. As a Management Consultant, he trained corporate CEO’s and Top Management from the leading MNC’s and Indian conglomerates from the Tata Group to Mahindra Group and even left his impact on the Indian Army and the Indian Navy.

In 2008, he decided that Mumbai needs a world class residential business school. Toward this endeavour, he sacrificed all his earnings over the decades to build Universal Business School where he selflessly worked for over a decade to establish it into the Top 5 B-schools in Mumbai without even taking a single rupee as salary. He was a voracious reader and a fabulous and captivating Professor. Students loved him and he gained the distinction of being called a ‘Superman’ by the students of SPJIMR. He played sports with the UBS students and would sing and dance with them even at 75 years of age and would compete enthusiastically with them.

He followed the most ethical values, was extremely passionate about saving the planet by protecting the environment and practiced giving through a number of CSR projects. Thus he laid the foundation of UBS and we will always follow in his footsteps

This was our beloved Chairman’s favourite poem which exemplifies his life…

INVICTUS

I am the Master of my Fate, I am the Captain of my Soul.

Our Diversity Policy is driven by the belief that it is an important strategy for organisational success, to harness the different types of intelligence / capabilities that are available to us. The Universal Business School™ values people with different experiences and styles of working, thinking, communicating, challenging, and leading, arising out of working with members of different creeds, ethnicities, sex, race, casts and nationalities. The ‘Universal’ in our school’s name, was derived out of these beliefs. We know that diverse teams are the best teams, as they can make informed decisions, by considering multiple points of view.

At Universal we provide equal opportunities to all. We take pride in our admissions policy which ensures that, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, age or any other protected classification, you will be admitted to the Institution.

We continuously seek to enhance the understanding of diversity issues, by encouraging frank discussion of ‘tough’ diversity related issues, so that our students and faculty arrive at mature & socially responsible responses. We will encourage our students to deal with conflicting views, by coaching them both in terms of emotional intelligence & respect for others views. We shall ensure that we create an inclusive work environment, at our Business School.