The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) has chosen IBA Karachi’s Womenx Program as the winner of ‘Outstanding Specialty Entrepreneurship Program Award’ 2017.
The Womenx by IBA Karachi is a World-Bank funded initiative targeted at supporting women business owners via business education, networking and mentorship opportunities. USASBE is the largest professional organization of the world dedicated to advancing entrepreneurship.
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Its mission is to provide the framework to advance knowledge and foster business development through entrepreneurship education and research.
The Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Awards were established by USASBE to recognize excellence in entrepreneurship education at the programmatic level.
The ‘Outstanding Specialty Entrepreneurship Program Award’ is given to an educational institute that provides high-quality innovative programs to educate future generations of entrepreneurs in a niche or specific zone.
This award is given on annual basis for a program that shows modernization, quality, sustainability, comprehensiveness, depth of support as well as impact.
IBA Karachi represented Pakistan and was competing along with a lot of international universities. The other two finalists were WIN Lab, Babson College and Meadows School of the Arts and Southern Methodist University.
Dr. Shahid Qureshi, Program Director AMAN Center for Entrepreneurial Development (AMAN-CED), got the award on behalf of IBA.
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The ceremony was organized on January 21st, 2017 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This is for the very first time in the history USASBE awards that a university outside the USA has won this award.
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