IIM Lucknow inaugurates National Management Faculty Development Center; holds Case Workshop with Ivey

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September 16, 2017
IIM Lucknow inaugurated its ambitious project National Management Faculty Development Center (NMFDC) at its Noida campus on September 11. Renowned educationist Ajay Shriram, CMD, DCM Shriram inaugurated the NMFDC. The Centerhas successfully conducted ‘Case Teaching and Writing Workshop’, in collaboration with Ivey Publishing
IIM Lucknow-NMFDC
Dr. Ajit Prasad, Director IIM Lucknow and his colleagues have envisioned NMFDC as a Pan IIM initiative, where various IIMs shall collaborate to enhance the quality of management faculty

IIM Lucknow inaugurated its ambitious project 'National Management Faculty Development Center (NMFDC) at its Noida campus on September 11. Renowned educationist Ajay Shriram, CMD, DCM Shriram inaugurated the NMFDC.

The inauguration took place in presence of Prof. Ajit Prasad, Director, IIM Lucknow; Prof. Abad Ahmad, Member, BoG-IIM Lucknow; Mr. Firdose Vandrevala, Member, BoG-IIM Lucknow; Prof. Krishna Kumar, Former Director, IIM Kozhikode; Prof. Amit Mookerjee, Dean and Head-Noida Campus and Chairperson, NMFDC and Prof. Neerja Pande, Executive Head of NMFDC.

Dr. Ajit Prasad, Director IIM Lucknow and his colleagues at IIM Lucknow have envisioned NMFDC as a Pan IIM initiative, where various IIMs shall collaborate to enhance the quality of management faculty in the country.

Mr. Ajay S. Shriram, while taking up the theme of addressing paucity of adequately equipped faculty in India, said that it was desirable that the delivery of programmes at the centre be benchmarked with world-class institutions. “There is strong need for such an institution in this country to serve the needs of all types of institutions towards the national level initiative for management faculty development,’ said Mr Shriram.

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Dr. Neerja Pande, Professor of Communication, IIM Lucknow and  Executive Head, National Management Faculty Development Centre (NMFDC) IIM Lucknow – NOIDA campus said, “The NMFDC is envisioned as a high quality capacity building Centre for creating and strengthening the knowledge base and pedagogical techniques of faculty of management institutions globally.”

IIML NMFDC conducts Case Workshop with Ivey Publishing
With its mission to train and equip faculty from all the B-schools in India, IIM Lucknow-NMFDC conducted the Case Teaching and Writing Workshop’ (CTWW), in collaboration with Ivey Publishing, Canada at the Noida campus from September 5 to 8, 2017. The workshop was a great success with 50 participants that included 19 women participants from 30 leading B-schools. Participants at CTWW included Management Faculty in B-schools, Directors and Deans of B-schools and Research Scholars of B-schools

Professor David J. Sharp, Emeritus Faculty at Ivey Business School at Western University, Ontario, Canada was the facilitator at the IIM Lucknow - NMFDC work shop and took the sessions. Prof David earned his Ph.D. in International Management at the MIT Sloan School in 1987.

The Sessions included the aspects on Introduction to Case Method and Case Writing; Case discussions and presentations; Institutional issues for case teaching and writing; Teaching Note; Group exercises and writing the first draft; Managing student, low contributors, grading and evaluation, assignments; Case writing for publication and use of technology; Advanced issues for really good cases.

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Among the 30 participating B-schools were IIM Jammu, IIM Raipur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Lucknow, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), IMT Ghaziabad, BIMTECH Noida, DMI Patna, KJ Somaiya, Mumbai, VJIM Hyderabad and Gitam University, Visakhapatnam.

Directors, Deans, CEOs at IIML-NMFDC inauguration
Directors and Deans of various institutions and organizations attended the event. Amongst those present were Dr Atish Chattopadhyay, Director, IMT Ghaziabad; Dr Gautam Sinha, Director, IIM Kashipur; Dr Ravikesh Srivastava, Dean-Academics, IMT Ghaziabad; Dr Abhijit Bhattacharya, Dean-Faculty, IIM Lucknow; Prof. Satish Kalra of IIM Lucknow and Mr. Amit Agnihotri, CEO, MBAUniverse.com.

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