IMC Awards 2024: Theme seeks responses to recent Placement Challenges; More than Thirty Progressive B-schools Apply, Nominations Closing

XLRI and MBAUniverse.com are organizing the 14th INDIAN MANAGEMENT CONCLAVE (IMC) 2024 on September 20-21, 2024 at XLRI Jamshedpur campus. A key highlight of the Conclave is IMC Award for Excellence in Management Education. The theme for IMC Awards 2024 is Identifying Contemporary MBA Roles & Competencies: Initiatives by B-schools & Faculty. More than thirty leading B-schools have registered to submit their Nominations. Nominations for the Awards are closing very soon, and the last date to register is July 25, 2024. Register Now.

IMC Awards are recognized as Indias most prestigious awards in management education. IMC Awards 2022 were presented byHonble Former President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind on December 10, 2022. Awards 2024 will be judged by Indias leading management educators and subject experts.

Announcing the Awards, Mr Amit Agnihotri, Founder & Convenor, INDIAN MANAGEMENT CONCLAVE said: We are delighted to announce that nomination for IMC Awards 2024 is open. We invite B-schools to share nominate their initiative. We are particularly proud of the fact that IMC Awards is an independent not-for-profit initiative and no registration or participation fee is charged.

IMC Awards Theme 2024 addresses recent Placement Challenges
Organizers have shared that IMC Awards theme is based on important recent developments. MBA Placement 2024 season has been unlike any other in the recent history. A survey by MBAUniverse.com of Placement trends across Top 50 B-schools in India revealed that this year MBA salaries have come down by 5-15% compared to last year. Further, the percentage of MBAs who were left unemployed on the date of completion of their program was at a record high. So, have industry expectations from MBA Program and their graduates changed? Is there a disconnect between Industry talent expectations and the output of B-schools?

Commenting on the IMC Awards Theme, Mr Agnihotri said: Looking at the recent recruitment trends, it seems that there is a big disconnect between industry expectations and competencies possessed by MBA graduates. Corporates are increasingly hiring MBAs for specific roles, which require defined competencies. In this context, Identifying Contemporary MBA Roles & Competencies: Initiatives by B-schools & Faculty is the Award 2024 theme.

More than Thirty Progressive Universities & B-schools Apply
Organizers have shared that more than thirty progressive Universities B-schools have registered to apply for IMC Awards 2024. These institutions represent all leading centres of management education including Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Chennai.

Call for Nomination Closing Soon
The nomination for IMC Awards is now closing. B-schools are invited to register their interest to participate by filling up IMC Awards Registration Form. This registration process is open till July 25, 2024. After registration, Nomination Form with complete details on theme and submission process will be shared.

IMC Awards Highlights & Winners 2022
In 2013, to further the vision of IMC Conference of documenting best-practices in Indian management education, the 1st Indian Management Conclave (IMC) Awards for Excellence in Management Education, popularly known as IMC Awards, were launched. The core objective of IMC Awards is to identify, document and recognize the Best-practices and successful Initiatives undertaken by Indian B-schools in strategic areas like Admissions Policy, Curriculum & Pedagogy, Industry-engagement and Education Technology. Today, IMC Awards are Indias most prestigious awards for Excellence in Management Education.

IMC Awards Highlights

• Indias most prestigious awards for Excellence in Management Education
• Conceptualized for documenting & recognizing Best-practices from Indian B-schools
• Award selection by unbiased and eminent Jury purely on the merit of nominated initiative
• Award presented by Former President of India, HRD Minister, AICTE Chairman, Global management-thinkers and Business icons.

IMC Awards 2022 were presented by Honble Former President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind on December 10, 2022 at IIM Kozhikode.

(L-R) Dr Purnima Venkat, Assistant Professor, TAPMI Manipal; Dr NMK Bhatta, Professor & Dean, XIME Bangalore; Prof Edwin Moses, Jagdish Sheth School of Management (JAGSoM); Mr Amit Agnihotri, Founder & Convenor, IMC & MBAUniverse.com; Shri Ram Nath Kovind, Honble Former President of India; Mrs. Savita Kovind, Wife of Ram Nath Kovind; Dr Debashis Chatterjee, Director, IIM Kozhikode; Dr M K Badrinarayanan, Professor & Head, SoM, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai; Mrs. S.Usha, Assistant Professor, SoM, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai; Prof Aniruddha Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, TAPMI Manipal

IMC 2024, part of Platinum Jubilee Celebrations at XLRI Jamshedpur
IMC Awards are an integral part of 14th INDIAN MANAGEMENT CONCLAVE (IMC) 2024. In May, 2024, XLRI Director Fr S George, S J, had announced that XLRI will host the 14th IMC 2024 on September 20-21 at XLRI Jamshedpur. Welcoming the IMC to XLRI, Director Fr George said, XLRI is delighted to partner and host the 14th edition of Indian Management Conclave at XLRI Jamshedpur campus as part of our 75thYear Platinum Jubilee Celebrations. XLRI Xavier School of Management (formerly Xavier Labour Relations Institute) was founded in 1949 in the steel city of Jamshedpur as the oldest business school in India.

IMC Award 2024 Registration Close on July 25, 2024. Register Now.

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