MDI Gurgaon wins global case competition

PUNE: The Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon emerged winner at the annual ISB-Ivey Global Case competition, the results of which were announced recently.
The case “Price or Relationship: SECURENOW'S Dilemma” co-authored by Ripsy Bondia and Ashutosh Dash, faculty at MDI, Gurgaon won the top prize of US $4000. There were total 86 entries from over 50 B-schools from the United States of America, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.
The cases spanned a wide spectrum of management areas, from more traditional subjects such as strategy, marketing, finance and leadership, to growing areas of interest such as, social enterprise and business ethics.
Leslie Hitch and Shreshthi Mehta from Northeastern University, Boston won the second place. Winner in marketing category was a case authored by Srividya Raghavan of IFIM Business School, Apurva Chamaria and Gaurav Kakkar of HCL technologies. The winner in Entrepreneurship category was a case authored by Rajesh Panda, Madhvi Sethi and Pooja Gupta of SIBM, Bengaluru.
Each case was independently evaluated in a double blind review process by a senior management faculty from a panel of B-schools comprising ISB, Ivey, XLRI, TISS, CEIBS, Wharton, Babson College and IIM-C among others. The top cases from the competition are put through an extensive program of multiple reviews and mentoring and eventually published as ISB-Ivey co-branded cases by Ivey Publishing, the largest source of Indian business cases in the world.