IBS Hyderabad wins 1st prize in all 3 tracks at 2018 Oikos Case Writing Competition

ICFAI Business School (IBS) Hyderabad won the First prizes in all the three tracks in the prestigious 2018 Oikos Case Writing Competition, organized by Oikos International, Switzerland. Putting the success in perspective, Dr. Debapratim Purkayastha, Dean, IBS Case Research Center, said, “IBS Hyderabad made a clean sweep of all the First Prizes while competing with globally reputed schools such as Harvard University, INSEAD, Babson College, and so on. This is the best ever performance by any B-school in the history of this prestigious competition!”

Details of prize-winning cases:

• The case “Eliminating Modern Slavery from Supply Chains: Can Nestlé Lead the Way?” by Syeda Maseeha Qumer and Debapratim Purkayastha won the First prize in the Corporate Sustainability track.
• The case “Jaipur Rugs –Empowering Communities at the Bottom of the Pyramid through Social Innovation” by Syeda Maseeha Qumer and Geeta Singh won the First prize in the Social Entrepreneurship track.
• The case “Can Barry Callebaut Attract Sustainable Investment with its 'Forever Chocolate' Strategy?” by Debapratim Purkayastha, Benudhar Sahu and Trilochan Tripathy (XLRI), won the First prize in the Sustainable Finance track.
• The Second prize in the track also went to the ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad case “Saudi Aramco” by Alok Kavthankar and Indu Perepu.
• ICFAI Business School Hyderabad also won the Runner Up position for the case “Babban Gona’s Agri-Franchising Model: Scaling up Challenges” by Manish Agarwal and D Satish.
• ICFAI Business School, Gurgaon also won the Runner Up position for the case “Employee Diversity at High Beam Global: An Inclusive Approach” by Reshmi Manna, Richa Bajpai and Ankit Singh (Pantaloons, India).

Please follow the link given below under ‘Winners’ section for complete details:

https://oikos-international.org/programmes/cases-program/

About Case Research Center: ICFAI Business School Hyderabad is one of the leading providers of cases worldwide. The Case Research Center (CRC) at the IBS has developed around 6,000 cases that are used by more than 800 B-schools in more than 75 countries annually.

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About ICFAI Business School: The ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE) is a Deemed-to-be-University under section 3 of the UGC Act 1956. IBS (Faculty of Management) is a constituent of IFHE. Within a short span of time since it was established in 1995, IBS Hyderabad has grown impressively and achieved widespread recognition from the industry, academic circles and professional bodies in the last 20 years. It is a premier business

school that has been consistently ranked by independent rating agencies as one of the top 10 B – Schools of India. It is one of the first business schools in South Asia to receive the prestigious SAQS accreditation. NAAC, an autonomous institute of University Grants Commission has also accredited The ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (Deemed to be University) with ‘A’ Grade with an impressive score (institutional CGPA)
of 3.43 out of 4.