STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT SOCIETY'S SPECIAL INDIA CONFERENCE
"EMERGING INDIA: STRATEGIC INNOVATION IN A FLAT WORLD"
Dates: December 12-14, 2008
Venue: Hyderabad, India (Indian School of Business)
Convenor: Prof. C.K. Prahalad
http://india.strategicmanagement.net
The rise of India Inc. presents exciting opportunities for you to extend your research, teaching and consulting activities. If you wish to network, learn from, and share your insights with strategy scholars and practitioners in India, this is a not to be missed opportunity! So, don’t miss this opportunity to develop networks with over 400 academics and business executives from India, US, Europe and the rest of the world this December 2008.
Strategic Management Society is pleased to announce a special conference focused on India. With Professor C K Prahalad at the helm, the conference will be hosted by Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India. The India conference will focus on the opportunities and challenges associated with enhancing innovation in a world which is becoming increasingly flatter. Businesses in India, both domestic and foreign, are redefining global industries through innovations in product, process and business models. Importantly, the emergence of innovations that are being targeted to the bottom of the pyramid, are heralding a significant shift to a more inclusive form of capitalism.
Along with several thought leaders, both scholars and practitioners, in the field of strategy, we are expecting over a dozen CEOs who are blazing new trails both in India and across the world to participate in the conference. The conference will provide an international forum to create a dialogue between industry and academia as they learn from one another, and define an ambitious research agenda that can help propel the next stage of inquiry in the field of strategy. Conference highlights include:
· Plenary sessions led by Bala Chakravarthy (IMD), Yves Doz (INSEAD), Tarun Khanna (HBS), and CK Prahalad (Univ. Of Michigan), among others, and attended by eminent corporate CEOs, addressing important topical issues, such as:
o Innovations as Strategy & Strategy as Innovation: How are Indian companies approaching the innovation challenge as they emerge as new multinationals? Do Indian companies approach the innovation challenge differently from their Western counterparts? What are the implications of this 'frugal innovation' model?
O Globalization of Indian Firms: Challenges and Opportunities: What is new and innovative about the internationalization moves of these Indian firms? How do they overcome the liability of foreignness? What are the challenges facing Indian companies as they internationalize?
O India as an Innovation Source - MNE Perspectives: What are some lessons learned from the successes and challenges of multinationals that have opened up new markets in India? What is the nature of the R&D mandate from Indian subsidiaries? What has been the experience of multinationals that have set up R&D labs in India?
· State of the art research presentations by leading scholars and executives from the US, Europe, and Asia with small group caucus sessions to facilitate enduring research partnerships across India and rest of the world.
· A Faculty Development Workshop chaired by Gerry George (Imperial) and Phanish Puranam (LBS) and a Doctoral Consortium to be chaired by Ram Mudambi (Temple) and Jasjit Singh (INSEAD) as a part of pre-conference agenda designed to bring together Indian scholars and doctoral students in an interactive workshop with some leading strategy scholars
· A Deans' Conclave which will bring together the deans of top-30 business schools in India and the Deans of Michigan, Kellogg, Chicago, IESE to initiate conversations on institutionalizing academic research in Indian business schools
You can view the call for proposals at http://india.strategicmanagement.net. Right now, we need only a proposal and the deadline is July 1, 2008.
We hope you will be able to participate.
Sincerely,
Charles Dhanaraj MB Sarkar
Indiana University University of Central Florida
Co-Chair Co-Chair
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