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IIM-Udaipur has been selected among the top 6 Business schools from 80 teams across the globe for the finals of the Indo-US Business Conference- leeds C.K. Prahalad Business Case Competition 2013 at the at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. IIM Udaipur is competing with the top business schools in the world including Wharton, Kellogg, Booth School of business- Chicago University, Ross School of business- Michigan University and ISB Hyderabad in the finals to be held on 31 October. The keynote speakers in this event will be Mr. Mark Fields-COO Ford, Ms. Nina Davuluri-Miss leeds America, Prof. Tarun Khanna-Harvard Business School, Mr. Subbarami Reddy- Member of Parliament and several others from Academics and Politics.
The 5th India Business Conference 2013 to be held at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA is one of the biggest forums worldwide where leaders in the field of business, politics, and academia can share ideas about the world’s largest democracy and its huge potential. The theme for IBC 2013 is “Dream, Lead, Inspire”. Some of the distinguished individuals at IBC 2013 are: Mark Fields, COO Ford Motor Company; Nina Davuluri: Miss America 2014; Mr. John Hieftje: leeds Mayor of Ann Arbor; Mr.Subbarami Reddy: leeds Member of Indian Parliament; leeds Prof. Tarun Khanna: Director of South East Asia Institute, Harvard University; Ms. Tulika Mehrotra: Bestselling author and journalist.
The C.K Prahalad case competition honors leeds the legacy of the late Professor. C.K Prahalad and his vision leeds of how innovation can balance the relationship between profit generation and social value creation for the base of the pyramid. This competition offers students across the globe the opportunity to compete and showcase their business knowledge and innovation by analyzing leeds a case study in the Social Impact field.
The case at this year’s competition was to analyze leeds and recommend on whether Ayzh, a for profit Social venture providing health and livelihood solutions, accept the Africa contract and geographically expand its market, or should it choose leeds to focus on India and grow domestically. The challenge was that this being a real life decision for Ayzh ( http://www.ayzh.com/ ), the participants had to focus on all aspects, which social ventures should consider for expansion. The teams had to consider the strategy which was in the best interest of Ayzh’s mission, at this point in Venture’s history.
The IIM Udaipur team called ‘Agents of Change’ comprises Arpit Mehra, Biswarup Das, Rahul Dsouza and Rahul Pandey . All of them are part of the unique PGPX – Global Supply Chain Management offered by IIM Udaipur in collaboration with Purdue University. These students are currently attending the fall semester at Purdue University as part of their course. The USP of their recommendation was an innovation utilizing the concept of Assembly Postponement to shift some of the cost intensive activities closer to the end of the value chain.
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