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21st AIMS Annual Management Education Convention 2009
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August 27-29, 2009
Venue: Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
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Agenda
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Day One - Thursday, August 27, 2009
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4:00pm onwards
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Registration
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5:30pm - 7:00pm
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Inaugural Session
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Chief Guest: Smt D Purandeswari, Hon’ble Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Government of India
Special Address: Captain Gopinath, Chairman and Managing Director, Deccan Cargo and Express Pvt Ltd
AIMS an Overview: Professor J Philip, President, XIME, Bangalore |
The global economic crisis has brought business schools across the world, face to face with some of their biggest challenges in recent times. On one hand, they will now have to find a way to make themselves and the graduating MBAs more relevant in the new economic era. On the other, many are asking whether b-schools themselves are in some way responsible for the current crisis.
It is in this backdrop that we will be deliberating the Indian landscape on how we can jumpstart management education in the country. This will entail new policy initiatives at the government level, recreating industry-business school relationships and reinventing the very core of management education internally.
Two Eminent and respected leaders from the government and industry will give an overview of their perspectives on the way forward. |
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7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Welcome Dinner (Recreation Centre Lawns, ISB)
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Day Two - Friday, August 28, 2009
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9:30am - 11:00am
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Plenary Session I
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| Governance in B-schools, Governance for B-schools: A New Agenda |
The current financial crisis has put the spotlight on the very mission of business schools, their future, current governance mechanisms in place, the existing focus on placements and even the nature of MBA programmes. While the crisis has in some ways looked at the responsibility of companies and managers within them, there are many who argue that the current governance mechanisms in place for business schools also need to be reviewed. At a time when the government is looking at liberalising further the higher education sector, there is a need to differentiate between the good and the bad in the business school firmament.
By doing this, business schools will in some way take responsibility not only for what has happened but also think beyond to ensure their role in a future crisis will be limited. This is the time to take responsibility for the future, if not the past. Business schools can do this best by creating a new governance model.
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Chair: Dr Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research
Panellists:
- L Brooks Entwistle, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs India
- Professor Shefali Gautam, Director, Shiva Institute of Management Studies and President, AIMS
- Dr Eileen Peacock, Vice President, AACSB
- Dr B V R Mohan Reddy, Chairman, Infotech Enterprises
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11:00am - 11:30am
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Tea
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11:30am - 1:00pm
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Concurrent sessions
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| Concurrent Session 1: A new Vision…A new Value System |
In the last few years, there have been many initiatives at innovating management education. Issues of ethics, challenges and new value systems are given more weightage than ever before. Accordingly, new courses have been developed in social responsibility, ethical thinking and sustainability. MBAs are also given the opportunity of practical field experience, to enhance their business understanding in different environments.
But in the backdrop of the current global crisis, the question to ask is: Is this enough? There is a need to reinforce and update courses on ethics, business and society; leadership and corporate responsibility, compensation systems and their impact on short vs long-term value creation, corporate governance, board composition and responsibilities. Another important issue is whether business schools have a responsibility to prepare their students for a new business system so that public needs are met. |
Chair: Professor Abad Ahmed, Past President, AIMS
Panellists:
- Professor Sarosh J Ghandy, JRD Tata Professor of Business Ethics, XLRI Jamshedpur
- S Sivakumar, Chief Executive - Agri Business, ITC Limited
- Sarath Sura, Managing Director, Sierra Atlantic
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| Concurrent Session 2: Recreating a new culture |
With higher salaries as the dominant driver for the choice of an MBA programme and with a significant chunk of the top schools’ graduates taking jobs in a few select industries that offer highest salaries, business schools seem to have turned a blind eye to signals warning of a gap between technical knowledge and personal judgment development in their overall value offerings. Additionally, there is a need for schools to account for how well their graduates do in the career span than the present focus on starting salaries. In short, a clear lesson from the current economic crisis is that there is a need to build a new culture within schools and companies alike.
B-schools are long overdue in addressing such questions. |
Chair: Professor V Panduranga Rao, Chief Academic Advisor, ICFAI
Panellists:
- Dr Vijay Chandru, Chairman and CEO, Strand Life Sciences
- Sanjeev Jain, CEO, GE Money Servicing
- Shakti Sagar, Managing Director, ADP India
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| Concurrent Session 3: Human Capital Plus: Investing in People and beyond; seeing more than immediate Return on Investments |
| At a time when the business world is going through a profound re-evaluation, fundamental assumptions about the purpose of business schools and the roles of the various stakeholders in it are changing fast. Internally, there are three crucial sets of stakeholders: the B-school management, faculty and the students. While the role of a new governance model is being debated, the issue of building a better cadre of teachers and addressing the shortage of faculty should receive the highest priority. Additionally, with focus on a new role for MBAs and greater professionalisation of corporate managements now, students are also waking up to a new model of wealth distribution. In fact, many see this as the right time to reshape the purpose of management education itself when MBA and other executive programmes go beyond just acquisition of management knowledge to creating leaders with character. Additionally, continued focus on learning even after acquiring an MBA is the need of the hour. |
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Chair: Dr Rakesh Khurana, Chairman, Knowledge Network India (P) Ltd
Panellists:
- Dr Prasad Kaipa, Executive Director – Centre for Leadership, Innovation and Change Management, ISB
- S V Nathan, Vice President – HR, Deloitte India
- Professor N Ravichandran, Director, IIM Indore
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1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Lunch
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2:00pm - 3:30pm
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Plenary Session II
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| Partnering in a new era |
One of the key lessons from the current crisis is that industry and business schools should work together much more closely. Over the years while this interaction has been going on in many ways, the intensity and scale should be taken to a higher level. Greater participation from industry in the management and governance of business schools could be a starting point. More specific research for industry needs could be another way. Participation of industry leaders and managers in the teaching process could bring in greater relevance to the curriculum. There have been calls for revamping the case method of teachings.
Finally, greater involvement of alumni in management education will be critical in creating a new path forward. Not only can this be done with their closer participation in the affairs of business schools, but B-schools themselves should chalk out programmes where continuous learning of the managers who have passed out can be done in a more structured way. All of these will take industry-B-school interaction to the next level. |
Chair: Professor M Rammohan Rao, Dean Emeritus, Indian School of Business
Panellists:
- Professor Bala Balachandran, Founder, Great Lakes
- Dr Sanjaya Baru, Consulting Senior Fellow, International Institute of Strategic Studies, London
- Ganesh Natarajan, CEO, Zensar
- Anand Sudarshan, CEO, Manipal Universal Learning Pvt Ltd
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3:30am - 4:00pm
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Tea
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4:00pm - 5:30pm
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Presentation of Papers and Award Competitions
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Concurrent Session 4: Best Student Paper Presentations
- Professor S Padam
- Dr Anil Rao Paila
- Dr Anand Samuel
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Concurrent Session 5: J L Batra Best Research Paper Award
- Dr O P Gupta
- Dr Venkata Ramana
- Dr C S Venkata Ratnam
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Concurrent Session 6: Best Case Writing and Presentation
- Professor Prabir Pal
- Professor D Panduranga Rao
- Dr P S Rao
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Concurrent Session 7: AIMS WeSchool Innovation Competition
- Professor Masood Ahmed
- Dr Shefali Gautam
- Dr D Y Patil
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5:45pm - 6:45pm
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AIMS Annual General Meeting (open only to members)
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7:30pm - 9:30pm
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Gala Dinner
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Day Three - Saturday, August 29, 2009
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9:30am - 11:00am
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Plenary Session III
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| The Road Ahead |
This session in essence will have representatives from various fields—business schools, government and industry—trying to capture the essence of the deliberations over the past two days and will chalk out a roadmap for Indian business in the future.
A slice of the deliberations that will come under the spotlight:
- How can MBAs and professional managers commit to continuous education and to the improvement of the profession at large through the education and development of other managers?
- How can business schools move towards accepting the broader responsibilities of management in society?
- How should schools deal with ethical challenges?
- How can we inculcate a multidimensional approach to management education?
- How can B-schools play a greater role in raising the standard of professional management?
- What are the lessons for business schools from the current global economic crisis?
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Chair: Dean Ajit Rangnekar, Indian School of Business
Panellists:
- Dr Shekhar Chaudhuri, Director IIM Calcutta
- Srini Koppolu, Managing Director, Microsoft India
- Dr R Natarajan, former Chairman - AICTE and former Director - IIT Madras
- Srinivasan K Swamy, Chairman and Managing Director, R K SWAMY BBDO Pvt Ltd and President, AIMA
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11:00am - 11:30am
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Tea
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11:30am - 1:30pm
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Valedictory Address and Awards Ceremony
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Valedictory Address: Dean Dipak Jain, Kellogg School of Management on Globalisation of management education and the Indian context
Awards Ceremony: Award presentation and felicitation of past presidents of AIMS |
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1:30pm - 2:30pm
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Lunch
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* Invited
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