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IMC 2014 concludes with recommendations on improving management education

IMC 2014 concludes with recommendations on improving management education

India Blooms News Service | | 11 Aug 2014, 08:58 pm
Kolkata, Aug 11 (IBNS): The 5th edition of the Indian Management Conclave (IMC), the flagship event of MBAUniverse.com which began on Friday, came to a befitting conclusion on Saturday with the IMC Awards 2014 being conferred upon the winners by Sunil Kant Munjal, Joint Managing Director, Hero MotoCorp and by Subramanian Swamy, Former Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Senior BJP Leader.
The finalists from different B-schools from across the country presented their case-studies, including presentations by Deans of IIMs, XLRI, SPJIMR, NMIMS, and Symbiosis, talking about the best practices for improving the landscape of management education in India. 
 
The two day conference saw several workshops being conducted including on Curriculum Development, Business Simulation, Case Study Teaching, MBA Education in SAARC Countries etc.  
 
The conclave came to a close with the IMC award ceremony as an initiative to recognize the best practices in Curriculum, Pedagogy & industry engagement in Indian Management Education.
 
The IMC Award were judged by three MBA educators – Dr. Bakul Dholakia, Former Director, IIM Ahmedabad; Dr. Rajan Saxena, Vice Chancellor, NMIMS University and Dr. Rishikesha Krishnan, Director, IIM Indore. 
 
Global publisher McGraw Hill will be publishing ‘IMC 2014 Conference Proceedings’, a hard-copy 200 page book, documenting and highlighting the learning’s from each of the IMC Award Winners. This in turn, will help B-schools in the future to learn and adopt these best practices.
 
The first day of the conclave also saw the unveiling of the EPSI-MBAUniverse.com approach paper -‘Vision 2025 for Indian Management Education’, by Mr. Amit Agnihotri, Convener, Indian Management Conclave (IMC) and Dr. H. Chaturvedi, Alternate President, Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI). 
 
The document examines the history, progress and current state of Indian management education, and also provides the much needed recommendations to improve the current state of affairs in next 10 years by taking policy measures which are aligned with the Government of India’s National Vision & Priorities. Vision 2025 became the topic for many a discussions during the two day conclave, for taking steps towards improving the future of the management education in India.
 
“I am happy to announce the conclusion of a very productive two-day Indian Management Conclave 2014, which brought together some of the brightest and most intelligent minds from across the world to discuss the future of management education in India. I am greatly humbled by the presence of the stalwarts of the education industry and look forward to the recommendations of the Vision 2025 document being taken up for discussion now at the policy change level to usher in the new changes," said Amit Agnihotri, Convener, Indian Management Conclave & Chairman, MBAUniverse.com.
 
 
A Director’s Round Table during the second day of the conclave, chaired by Dr. Pritam Singh, Director General, IMI, New Delhi, saw the delegates review, analyze and discuss the Vision 2025 document which can serve as the foundation stone for building the future roadmap. 
 

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