The 'Director's Panel' Is Co-Hosted By IIM Bangalore, IIM Ahmedabad, And ISB

At the IIM-B campus, IIM Bangalore, IIM Ahmedabad, and ISB Hyderabad presented a 'Director's Panel' with Prof. Bharat Bhasker, Director, IIM Ahmedabad, Prof. Madan Pillutla, Dean, Indian School of Business, and Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director, IIM Bangalore. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Raveendra Chittoor, Dean of the Jio Institute.

This panel explored the issues that academics in management would face in the following decade, as well as the opportunities in the Indian setting.

Prof. Gurneeta Singh Vasudeva of the University of Minnesota delivered the keynote presentation. Naming her session 'Unpacking the Publication Process', she spoke about her work titled, 'Public-Private and Private-Private Collaboration as Pathways for Socially Beneficial Innovation: Evidence from Antimicrobial Drug Development Tasks'.

In addition, over 150 academic presentations covering a wide range of topics were presented during the conference's final two days. These topics included technology, innovation and digital transformation, business and corporate strategy, ESG and non-market strategy, internationalisation and global strategy, family business and entrepreneurship, and leadership and human capital.

Professor Rishikesha T. Krishnan emphasised the growing significance of online learning and the initiatives taken by IIMB to stay up to date, such as the introduction of Hospital Management and AI for Managers programmes. Our standard MBA curricula now include online modules, such as the accounting module. As academics, we must be considerate of practitioners, gain their perspectives, and improve the relevance and understandability of research, he stated.