How can B-schools prepare MBAs for contemporary Roles & Competencies? AICTE Chief, AACSB Asia Chief, Directors from Triple-Crown Global B-school, IIMs, IITs, XLRI, SPJIMR, MDI, others to discuss this at IMC 2024 on Sep 20-21

The fourteenth edition of India’s iconic management education conference is now just a few days away! XLRI and MBAUniverse.com are organizing INDIAN MANAGEMENT CONCLAVE (IMC) 2024 on September 20-21, 2024 at XLRI Jamshedpur campus. IMC 2024 will see a confluence of 25+ distinguished speakers including CXOs, Academic Leaders, Journal Editors, Researchers and other stakeholders. 

IMC 2024 Theme: Calling B-schools to focus on New MBA Roles & Competences 
The Theme for IMC 2024 is ‘Identifying Contemporary Roles & Competencies for Reshaping MBA Program’. As our previous article highlighted, Corporate Expectations & Requirements from MBA graduates are changing rapidly.

Offering the context, IMC 2024 Theme Paper notes that, “As the rules of business value creation in today’s age of disruption change, MBA hiring approach has also changed. Today, large MBA recruiters, particularly from the IT, Consulting and Banking & Financial Services, expect to hire MBA graduates directly for specific job roles. These job roles have defined responsibilities and expectations that measure how an employee contributes to corporate objectives.” 

The Theme Paper highlights primary placement data collected from large B-schools in India that corroborates this point. The data, published in the theme paper, reveals that majority of MBA jobs, offered by large recruiters in IT, Consulting and BFSI sectors at these B-schools, were for well-defined specific roles. An important trend observed is that more specific Job roles attracted higher pay packages and richer job descriptions.

The Theme Paper will be released at IMC 2024 Inaugural Session on September 20 at XLRI Jamshedpur. The paper is co-authored by Dr SR Singhvi (Former Senior Faculty, IIM Indore & MDI Gurgaon) and Mr Amit Agnihotri (Founder & Convenor, IMC). India’s leading CXOs & CHROs from UBER, KPMG, PWC, AXIS Bank, TATAs, ITC and several other companies will share industry expectations, and the new MBA Roles & Competencies that they are looking for. Read more.

So how should MBA Program change to meet Industry expectations? What can progressive B-schools do to meet industry expectations. Chief of India’s MBA Regulator - AICTE, Asia Chief of World’s leading Accreditation body, Director General of Triple-Accredited Global B-schools and Directors from IIMs, IITs, XLRI, SPJIMR, MDI will deliberate on this burning issue at IMC 2024 on Sep 20-21.

India’s MBA Regulator, AICTE Chairman Dr T G Sitharam to deliver Keynote Address 
Dr T G Sitharam, Chairman, AICTE New Delhi and the key MBA Policy Maker will address Conclave Theme as Guest of Honour and Key Note Speaker for the Inaugural session of IMC 2024. AICTE is the statutory body, and a national-level council for technical education, under the Department of Higher Education. AICTE is responsible for proper planning and coordinated development of the technical education and management education system in India. In recent years, AICTE has adopted a pro-development approach where it has become more transparent, inclusive and enabling organization. 

In Dr Sitharam’s leadership, AICTE has taken many forward-looking steps including the integration of Under Graduate Management Education (BBA/BMS courses) within its purview and the release of model curriculum for BBA courses.

AACSB’s Asia Chief & Director General of Triple-Crown Global B-schools to Offer International Perspective 
To offer a global perspective, IMC Conclave has invited two well known international voices. Dr Geoff Perry, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, AACSB and Mr Alexandre de Navailles, Director General, Kedge Business School France will address the conclave’s inaugural session. 

Dr. Geoff Perry is Managing Director (Asia Pacific) for world’s premier accreditation body – AACSB International. He is a member of the AACSB Executive Team and leads the Global Membership Team and the Asia Pacific Team. With senior management experience in the university sector, having served as business school dean, pro vice chancellor, and deputy vice chancellor at Auckland University of Technology—a 28,000 student, research-intensive university—he has strong strategic, financial, and people management capabilities.

Mr Alexandre de Navailles, Director General, Kedge Business School France will share his views and will deliver International Keynote Address at the Inaugural session of IMC 2024. A seasoned leader, he had taken on multiple managerial responsibilities within Hertz, both in France and throughout Europe. 

Directors from IIMs, IITs, XLRI, SPJIMR, MDI to discuss B-schools can Prepare for Change
How should B-schools prepare themselves for changing industry expectations… Directors from leading institutions will discuss this question at the IMC DIRECTOR’S ROUNDTABLE on September 20 evening. During this important session, India’s top academic leaders will discuss: 

• What are the key changes impacting the MBA program? 
• How should the MBA programs be redesigned to meet the changing expectations?
• What specific interventions are required to make MBA graduates ready for contemporary Roles and Competencies? 

Key speakers, who will be addressing the prestigious forum include:

Fr Sebastian George, S.J, Director, XLRI Jamshedpur is an avid Researcher, accomplished author, industry consultant and a teacher. Fr Sebastian has authored and co-authored number of books and research papers. He has undertaken consultancy projects and conducted MDPs for RBI, Reliance, TATAs, Aditya Birla amongst others. XLRI is known for its focus on Human Resources Management and Competency Development programs.

Former Silicon Valley CXO and Dean of SPJIMR Dr Varun Nagaraj will share his perspectives on the Director’s RoundTable. With 30-year career in product innovation in Boston and Silicon Valley, during which he held CEO and other executive leadership roles at several venture-funded start-ups and public companies developing communications, computing, IoT, and AI products, Dr Nagaraj was also a partner at PRTM Management Consulting (now part of PwC), working with Fortune 1000 companies on their organizational innovation initiatives.

Dr Arvind Sahay, Director, MDI Gurgaon will address the issues at IMC 2024 Directors RoundTable on September 20. Carrying a rich industry and academic experience of more than 35 years, Dr Sahay has served on the board of several listed and unlisted companies. As the former Dean of IIM Ahmedabad, Dr Sahay has consulted and done corporate training for more than 50 clients in India and abroad and has written 34 international peer reviewed articles, 65 cases and more than 50 articles for business magazines and newspapers. 

Other distinguished speakers for the session include:

• Dr Deepak Kumar Srivastava, Director, IIM Ranchi 
• Dr H. Chaturvedi, Director General, IILM New Delhi; Member, ACITE Board of Management Studies
• Dr Raman Ramachandran, Director, K J Somaiya Institute of Management 
• Dr Rajeev Kumra, Director, TAPMI Manipal 
• Dr Asit K Barma, Director, BIM Tiruchirappalli 
• Dr Subhajyoti Ray, Director, Jaipuria Institute of Management Noida 

Mr Gaurav Srivastava, Regional Director - South Asia, Middle East & Africa, GMAC will share the highlights from GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey 2024 during this session.

Organized by MBAUniverse.com in partnership with India’s top B-schools and knowledge Organizations, INDIAN MANAGEMENT CONCLAVE (IMC) is India's definitive annual Management Education Conference & Awards Platform. IMC is hosted by India’s leading Institutions who contribute as Knowledge Partners. Past Partners & Hosts include: ISB Hyderabad (2015), IIM Ahmedabad (2016), IIM Lucknow (2017), IIM Bangalore (2018), MDI Gurgaon (2021), IIM Kozhikode (2022) and SPJIMR Mumbai (2023). Policy Makers, CEOs from marquee companies, Who’s Who from Indian management education, and 200 delegates from almost all Top 100 B-schools are all set to congregate at XLRI Jamshedpur on September 20-21, 2024. 
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