2nd Conference On Management Case Developme At The ICFAI Inst of Science and Technology, Hyderabad

2nd Conference On Management Case Developme At The ICFAI Inst of Science and Technology, Hyderabad

CALL FOR CASES

It is now more than 100 years since business management was first introduced as a discipline in the world’s universities.
Initially, management education concentrated on teaching students the core knowledge and skills that are required of a manager in the form of management science and technology.
Yet educators increasingly recognized that business management is as much an art as a science. Therefore, educators inevitably had to grapple with the problem of finding a way to train students in the art of management if they had to make their
management education programs relevant to the world outside academia.
No management decision is simple and the decision maker must integrate complex ideas from different domains to optimize
outcomes given the current state of the environment and the specifics of a given situation. The challenge for educators was to devise a method by which students could experience situations that require such integrated thinking. To build industry ready management graduates they had to find a way of bringing the real world into the classroom so that students could develop an integrated cross domain approach to applied management decision making. Thus was born the case method of business education.
Traditional lecture oriented pedagogical methods prove to be less than satisfactory from the point of view of retaining student
interest and achieving required learning outcomes in a business school. It is an acknowledged fact that adult students learn by doing and not by listening. Case analysis and discussion provide a convenient way to provide management students with an opportunity to ‘do’.
Business decision making is a team sport and a vital skill that every business manager needs to have is the ability to participate in group based decision making processes. This soft skill involves the real time ability to speak, listen and assimilate within a group discussion forum in order to exploit the synergies of multiple points of view while driving towards an optimized decision in an uncertain environment. Cases provide students with the opportunity to develop these skills in a classroom.
Given its myriad advantages, it is not surprising that successful business executives repeatedly cite case discussions during their student days as the single most important academic source of their success.
This conference aims to provide a forum where developed cases in all domains of business management can be presented, discussed and analyzed.

Venue: IBS Bangalore

Domain Areas:

Cases in all management domains are welcome. A few indicative domains are listed here:

 Marketing Management
 Financial Management / Accounting
 Human Resources Management
 Quantitative Methods
 Operations Management
 Business Strategy
 Management Control Systems
 Business Ethics
 Marketing Research
 Securities Analysis
 Portfolio Management
 Financial Risk Management
 Economics
 Brand Management
 Organizational Behavior

Benefits to Participants:

Participants must submit the full case along with the corresponding teaching notes. All submitted cases and teaching notes will be reviewed through a double blind review process.
Selected cases will be presented by the respective authors during the conference and a distinguished panel of judges will select the best case cum teaching notes for the award of a prize of Rs.10,000/-.
A few selected cases will be published through one of the publications of the Icfai University Press, subject to the transfer of copyright by the authors.
The conference also includes a session on effective case development and teaching techniques which participants will find very useful in their case development endeavors. In addition, the authors will later be invited to attend a live classroom session at IBS
Bangalore where with their permission their case would be tested.

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Important Information:

Submission of Case and Teaching Notes : March 1st , 2011
Intimation of Acceptance of Submission : March 15th , 2011
Conference Date : April 8th , 2011

Cases and accompanying Teaching Notes must be submitted by soft copy only. Submissions are solicited from business school faculty only.

Registration Fee: Rs.2,500/-

DD / Cheque favoring ‘IBS Bangalore’, payable at Bangalore, and duly completed Registration Form, should be sent to the Conference Coordinator, along with the full case and corresponding teaching notes.

About IBS Bangalore

IBS Bangalore, established in 1995, is one of India’s leading institutions for management education and research. IBS Bangalore offers a two year post graduate program in management and placement assistance to students. This program is designed to develop students’ capabilities to meet the challenges facing managers in today’s dynamic and globalized business environment. Highly qualified and experienced faculty members ensure that the programs maintain high academic standards and are of practical relevance. A full range of management electives are also offered, to meet the career aspirations of individual students and to build professional competencies in all the important domains of management. Recognizing that these programs go beyond academic learning to become transformational experiences in the lives of our students, IBS Bangalore places great emphasis on the development of leadership and interpersonal skills. We are proud of our alumni, now numbering about 3000, who are pursuing fast track careers with several blue chip companies in India and abroad. Our alumni mentor current students and are also actively involved in the various events organized at IBS Bangalore to promote industry institution linkages.IBS Bangalore has over 35 full time faculty members with a rich blend of academic and industry experience. It also benefits from the association of
several leading executives and consultants from industry as adjunct and visiting faculty. Besides teaching,
faculty members actively pursue research and publishing, edit in-house journals and magazines, and offer
corporate consultancy and management development programs. The contemporary case studies
developed by IBS Bangalore faculty have won international acceptance, and are regularly used by reputed BSchools in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Currently over 450 students are pursuing the post graduate program in management at IBS Bangalore.

Communications should be sent to:

Prof. Jacob Chandy, Conference Coordinator IBS Bangalore, #19/3, Srinivasa Industrial Estate, Behind METRO, Kanakapura Main Road, Bangalore 560 062 Ph: +91-080-26860100 Fax: +91-080-26860029
E-Mail: ibscaseconf@gmail.com

Conference Information and Submission Guidelines are available at www.ibsindia.org

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