ICFAI Business School Wins ‘Outstanding Case Writer’ Award

6th March 2018, Hyderabad: The ICFAI Business School (IBS) case "Breaking the Code of Silence", written by Ms. Syeda Maseeha Qumer, Dr. Debapratim Purkayastha, and Dr. Vijaya N. Zinnoury (University of Denver, USA), won the highly prestigious 'Outstanding Case Writer' award, organized by the UK-based The Case Center.

The world’s largest and most diverse repository of management cases conducts the Case Centre Awards and Competition to celebrate worldwide excellence in case writing and teaching and are now considered the case method community’s annual ‘Oscars’. To win the 'Outstanding Case Writer' award, one has to beat off competition from the best writers in the world, as the case can be about any management topic cutting across disciplines.

“IBS’s winning case deals with the highly topical issue of sexual harassment in the workplace and allows instructors to bring critical issues to the classroom and also help find solutions. It provides an opportunity to discuss what to do and, more specifically, what to say when faced with sexual harassment. Broadly, it prepares students/trainees to speak up when confronted with ethical dilemmas,” said Dr. Purkayastha, who heads the world-class Case Research Center at IBS. IBS employs the case method of teaching and its Case Research Center has developed more than 6,000 cases. For the year 2017, a record eleven cases from IBS featured in the list of worldwide bestsellers.

The winners of other categories of this year’s Case Centre awards include Harvard, Stanford, INSEAD, Kellogg, HEC Paris, etc.

About Case Research Center: ICFAI Business School Hyderabad is one of the leading providers of cases worldwide. The Case Research Center (CRC) at the IBS has developed around 6,000 cases that are used by more than 800 B-schools in more than 75 countries annually.

About ICFAI Business School: The ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE) is a Deemed-to-be-University under section 3 of the UGC Act 1956. IBS (Faculty of Management) is a constituent of IFHE. Within a short span of time since it was established in 1995, IBS Hyderabad has grown impressively and achieved widespread recognition from the industry, academic circles and professional bodies in the last 20 years. It is a premier business school that has been consistently ranked by independent rating agencies as one of the top 10 B – Schools in India. It is one of the first business schools in South Asia to receive the prestigious SAQS accreditation. NAAC, an autonomous institute of University Grants Commission has also accredited The ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (Deemed to be University) with ‘A’ Grade with an impressive score (institutional CGPA) of 3.43 out of 4.

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