Capstone®
Business Simulation Strategy Workshop
Faculty: Prof. S. Manikutty, IIM Ahmedabad & Mr. Dharam Pal, SansRisk Business Solutions
At IIM Ahmedabad
On June 17-20, 2009, November 09-12, 2009 & February 17-20, 2010

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Duration of the Program

Program duration is three and half days. On the first day, the participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of strategy and the way the simulation package works. This will be followed by two rounds. On the second and third days, three rounds each are run. On the last day, there will be a comprehensive debriefing lasting for half day. The program will conclude by lunch.

Faculty

The program will be delivered by a team consisting of Prof. Dharam Pal, SansRisk Business Solutions and Prof. S. Manikutty, Professor, Strategy Area, IIMA.

Prof. Dharam Pal holds an MBA from University of La Verne, California. He has over 20 years of professional experience in Banking and e-domain. He was with the SBI in India and with the DBS Bank in Singapore. Thereafter he was with the Singapore Network Services Private Ltd., a government of Singapore owned company into e-business, e-banking, e-payments, e-governance etc.

Dharam's team had topped the Capstone® Business Simulation competition during his MBA program. His team was also ranked, on a few parameters, among Top Ten of Capstone® teams worldwide.

Mr. Dharam teaches Strategic Business Management through Capstone® Business Simulation to corporate managers. He has a few pending patents in the realm of e-commerce / e-governance.

Prof. S. Manikutty has specialized in Business Policy and Strategy in his doctorate and teaching. His areas of interest include strategic management and competitive strategy, leadership, global competitiveness of industries, corporate governance and strategies for family businesses. His paper (coauthored with another person) won the award for the best paper on family businesses for 2003 awarded by the Family Firm Institute, Boston, U.S.A. His paper (coauthored) also won an award for the best empirical paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Small Business Institute, Clearwater Beach, Florida, February 11-15, 2004. His book on leadership, A Quest for the Essence of Leadership: Explorations from Literature, jointly authored with Sampath P. Singh is to be released shortly by Macmillan.

He teaches strategy and leadership in IIMA's long duration program as well as MDPs. He has been anchoring from IIMA the Capstone® exercise for the one year PGPX program for the last two years.

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