Indian and International B-school faculty vie for the ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition awards
September 3, 2015:
The Indian School of Business, India’s premier B-school, and Ivey
Business School, Canada’s leading business school, are delighted to
announce the results of the annual ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition.
Over the years, case studies outlining challenges faced by Indian
businesses have not only gained prominence in international classrooms
but are also attracting authors from international business schools.
This year, two case studies authored by faculty from international
B-schools have won places among the winners and honorable mentions at
the prestigious case writing competition. For the first time, the top
ten cases also include two finance case studies, highlighting the
growing adoption of the case study method in the finance area, a domain
that is generally considered largely quantitative.
The case “Price or Relationship: SECURENOW'S Dilemma” co-authored
by Ripsy Bondia and Ashutosh Dash, faculty at Management Development
Institute, Gurgaon, won the top prize of US $4000. Leslie Hitch and
Shreshthi Mehta from Northeastern University, Boston won the second
place for their case “Competence, Competiveness and Intercultural Conflict in Qatar” and will take home a cash prize of US $3000.
2015 Competition Highlights
This
year, the ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition received 86 entries from
more than 50 B-schools in India, the United States, Singapore, Spain,
Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. The cases spanned a wide
spectrum of management areas, from more traditional subjects such as
Strategy, Marketing, Finance and Leadership, to growing areas of
interest such as, Social Enterprise and Business Ethics.
The
competition plays a critical role in promoting the development of new
case material and the use of the case method in management education.
Commenting on the 2015 competition, Professor Arun Pereira, Executive
Director, Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Case Development, ISB,
observed, “The ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition continues to scale new
heights of quality and impact. We see more and more high quality cases
written that have the potential to make classroom learning very
compelling and impactful. The cases received reflect India’s varied
economic landscape, from family businesses to multinationals and from
social ventures to e-commerce entrepreneurs. This annual competition
ensures an ever increasing supply of current, high-quality India cases
for the global MBA classroom.”
Each
case was independently evaluated in a double blind review process by a
senior management faculty from a panel of B-schools comprising ISB,
Ivey, XLRI, TISS, CEIBS, Wharton, Babson College and IIM-C among
others. The top cases from the competition are put through an extensive
program of multiple reviews and mentoring and eventually published as
ISB-Ivey co-branded cases by Ivey Publishing, the largest source of
Indian business cases in the world.
Year
after year, the competition has also been instrumental in building and
refining case writing capability among B-school faculty submitting cases
to the competition. Professor David Sharp, Faculty Director, India and
Associate Professor, Ivey Business School remarked, “This year, again,
we saw a record number of high quality case submissions. It is
encouraging to see so many new case writers participating in our
competition, but also to see the improvement in quality from
participants from previous years – several of this year’s top cases were
from faculty who had taken part in previous years without success. It
just goes to show – if at first you don’t succeed…!!!”
Results:
OVERALL WINNER – 1st PLACE
(Award of $ 4000.00, sponsored by ISB)
“Price or Relationship: SECURENOW'S Dilemma”
Ripsy Bondia and Ashutosh Dash (Management Development Institute, Gurgaon)
OVERALL WINNER – 2nd PLACE
(Award of $ 3000.00, sponsored by ISB)
“Competence, Competiveness and Intercultural Conflict in Qatar”
Leslie Hitch and Shreshthi Mehta (Northeastern University, Boston)
WINNER – MARKETING CATEGORY
(Award of $ 2000.00, sponsored by Amazon)
“HCL Technologies: How Far Can We Push the Billion Dollar Website?”
Srividya Raghavan (IFIM Business School, Bengaluru), Apurva Chamaria (HCL Technologies) and Gaurav Kakkar (HCL technologies)
WINNER – ENTREPRENEURSHIP CATEGORY
(Award of $ 2000.00, sponsored by ISB)
“M/s Amarnath Gupta and Sons: The BUSINESS in Family Business”
Rajesh Panda, Madhvi Sethi and Pooja Gupta (Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Bengaluru)
About the ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition
Launched
in 2010, the ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition has rapidly gained
prominence in India and abroad and is widely considered an important
source for India-centric cases by B-Schools around the globe. A panel of
internationally acclaimed subject experts judges each case in a
double-blind review process and provides written feedback on each case.
The top cases from this competition are marketed to a global audience of
business schools through Ivey and distributed through Ivey Publishing
and Harvard Publishing, the two largest sources of business cases in the
world.
About the Indian School of Business
The
Indian School of Business (ISB) is a global business school offering
world-class management education across its two campuses – Hyderabad and
Mohali. The School has grown at a rapid pace over the fourteen years
since its inception and already has several notable accomplishments to
its credit – it is the youngest school ever to consistently rank among
the top Global MBA programmes, the first institution in South Asia to
receive the prestigious AACSB accreditation, one of the largest
providers of Executive Education in Asia, and the most research
productive Indian management institution. A vibrant pool of
research-oriented resident faculty, strong academic associations with
leading global B-schools and the backing of an influential Board, have
helped the ISB fast emerge as a premier global Business school in the
emerging markets. For more details visit www.isb.edu
About the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Case Development at ISB
The
Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Case Development (CTLC) at the
Indian School of Business is focused on enabling excellence in the
business classroom and aims to develop pedagogical tools that would
facilitate dissemination of knowledge at B-schools in accordance with
international standards.
About the Ivey Business School, Western University
The Ivey Business School (www.ivey.ca)
at Western University is Canada’s leading provider of relevant,
innovative and comprehensive business education. Drawing on extensive
research and business experience, Ivey faculty provide the best
classroom experience, equipping graduates with the skills and
capabilities they need to tackle the leadership challenges in today’s
complex business world. Ivey offers world-renowned undergraduate and
graduate degree programs as well as Executive Development at campuses in
London (Ontario), Toronto and Hong Kong.
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