‘Case studies less in management institutes of developing nations'
World class management institutes teach hundreds of case studies to their students
during the two year MBA programmes, while the same is much lesser for the similar institutes in developing countries. This was said by SB Singh while inaugurating the three-day national case writing workshop at the Prestige Institute of Management Gwalior on Sunday.
The chief guest SB Singh and special guest S Mazumdar inaugurated the workshop by lighting light and garlanding the portrait of Goddess Saraswati. After that the convener of the workshop Shailja Bhakar gave information about the subject of the workshop. The director of the institute SS Bhakar greeted the chief guest and said that case writing plays an important role in management.
He said that all the students of MBA Programme of eminent management of the institute of world Harvard Business School study more than 900 cases during two years of training period.
The IIM Ahmedabad, Kellog of Stanford, London Business School and the likes follow the pattern of Harvard Business School. Bhakar said that the Harvard Business School included more than 12,000 cases in the year 2008 for study. But in the developing countries, the number of cases to be developed is much less.
The chief guest said that this programme is being organised for the last nine years. This is laudable development of industries and Information Technology were made to a great extend. But to make the country superpower it would have to be self-sufficient in other fields also, in which the agriculture is important. In the end, the director of the institute Prof SS Bhakar thanked the guest.
Case studies less in management institutes of developing nations'