ICFAI Business School is the Biggest Winner in Case Method ‘Oscars’ 2019

Dr. Purkayastha’s hat trick of awards puts IBS ahead of Harvard Business School

Hyderabad, February 25, 2019: ICFAI Business School won a stunning three awards in The Case Centre’s Award and Competition. These annual awards are widely hailed as the case method community’s Oscars, and celebrate worldwide excellence in case teaching and writing.

Richard McCracken, Director of The Case Centre, said: “ICFAI Business School (IBS) are the most successful school in our Awards and Competitions 2019, winning three out of 16 categories. This outstanding achievement highlights the school’s dedication to producing high-quality, topical, innovative classroom materials that are used in business schools worldwide. We are proud that our annual case ‘Oscars’ shine a light on these impactful achievements.”

The winning cases from IBS are:

Employee Training & Development at Ritz-Carlton: Fostering an Exceptional Customer Service Culture by Debapratim Purkayastha, in the ‘Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour’ category
Amazon’s Big Data Strategy byDebapratim Purkayastha and Adapa Srinivasa Rao, in the ‘Knowledge, Information and Communication Systems Management’ category

Turbulence on the Tarmac by Debapratim Purkayastha and Sid Ghosh, in the ‘Outstanding Compact Case’ category.

Harvard Business School, with two awards, is the next most successful institution, while other institutions with one award each include Stanford, INSEAD, IMD, Cornell, Oxford, Kellogg, Columbia, ESCP Europe, etc.

Dr. Purkayastha said, “We are proud to be the inaugural winner of the Outstanding Compact Case competition with a comic book case (with Sid Ghosh). I am even prouder as ICFAI emerged as the biggest winner in this prestigious event. Our success demonstrates ICFAI’s ability to consistently come out with cases on innovative topics and in innovative formats that educators worldwide love to take into their classrooms.”