Winning Strategies for International Business
Last date for registration: 27 Jan, 2023
End Date : 08 Feb, 2023
Early Bird Discount Date : 16 Jan, 2023
Residential Early Bird Fee(excluding GST) : Rs. 90,450
Non-Residential Fee(excluding GST) : Rs. 90,000
Non-residential Early Bird Fee(excluding GST) : Rs. 81,000
Programme Overview
Increasing globalisation in today’s business landscape requires leaders who can effectively lead their organisations in the competitive global marketplace. This programme is intended for participants who aspire to lead their organisations across borders by creating winning strategies for the global marketplace. An integrative and multidisciplinary case-based approach will be used to analyse and critique the core international business issues, including the processes involved in analysing the differences between global markets and implementing strategies across culturally diverse and geographically dispersed regions. Participants will develop insights on the process of diagnosing differences between countries and analysing how firm advantages could be transferred across borders. They will also learn how to integrate local and global perspectives in creating winning strategies, managing culturally diverse and geographically dispersed teams, and bridging differences across cultures and borders. They will be exposed to the challenges faced while entering foreign markets and how to overcome them with emphasis on emerging markets. The course focuses on outcome and developing the skills required to be successful global managers.
Who Should Attend
The programme is designed for:
- Middle-to senior-level managers, who are leading or likely to lead their organisation’s operation in foreign markets
- Managers based at headquarters but in charge of liaisoning with international operations
- Managers involved in international outsourcing, cross-border mergers and acquisitions and international business
- Managers leading the coordination of globally dispersed work teams operating in diverse markets
Programme Fee
INR 1,00,500/- Residential [Hotel accommodation] and INR 90,000/- Non -Residential (+ Applicable GST) per person for participants from India and its equivalent in US Dollars for participants from other countries.
Early Bird Discount
Nominations received with payments on or before 16-January-23 will be entitled to an early bird Discount of 10%.
Early Bird Fee (Residential [Hotel accommodation]) INR 90,450/-(+ Applicable GST)
Early Bird Fee (Non-Residential) INR 81,000/- (+ Applicable GST)
Group Discount
Group Discount of 5% percentage can be availed for a group of 3 or more participants when nominations received from the same organization.
Please Note
All enrolments are subject to review and approval by the programme director. Joining Instructions will be sent to the selected candidates 10 days prior the start of the programme.
The programme fee should be received by the Executive Education Office before the programme commencement date.
In case of cancellations, the fee will be refunded only if a request is received at least 15 days prior to the start of the programme.
If a nomination is not accepted, the fee will be refunded to the person/ organisation concerned.
A certificate of participation will be awarded to the participants by IIMB.
Programme Director's
Professor Ganesh from Strategy area of IIMB holds a post graduation from of Rural Management Anand and is a Fellow of IIM Ahmedabad. He won the Best Young Teacher Award and Best Research Paper Award from the Association of Indian Management Schools. Since 1996 he teaches strategy courses across programs and offers an elective on new product development in the post-graduate program at IIMB. He jointly created the popular course Business Planning for International Markets that involves MBA students from IIMB visiting an international market location (Dubai) and developing a business plan for an Indian firm of their choice entering that market. His research has been published in many journals including two FT50 journals - Academy of Management Review and Research Policy. He has conducted several senior management team visioning workshops and been actively involved in mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs, start-ups and small firms. He was earlier a nominated member of the India Design Council. While at IIMB he has consulted on major turnaround projects and prior to his doctoral studies he was an Executive Assistant to the Managing Director of the Punjab Milk Federation for a year on a major turnaround project.
Mr. Arijit Sikdar is Associate Professor (International Business and Strategy) and Associate Dean (Education) at the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD). The University of Wollongong (UOW) is the leading institution in Australia and for the ninth year UOW is ranked in the top 1% of universities in the world in the QS World University Rankings Graduate Employers survey. Arijit did his B.Tech for IIT-ISM Dhanbad and is a Fellow of IIM Ahmedabad. Prior to UOWD, he has taught at IIM Indore and MDI Gurgaon. Arijit’s research interests are in the areas of International Business, Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Technology Management and he has obtained research grants from DSIR India, AICTE India and UOWD. His research work has been published in leading journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Business Process Management Journal, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, International Journal of Emerging Markets and Journal of Entrepreneurship. Arijit has co-edited a book of business cases in South Asia. He has won UOWD’s best research award in 2009. Arijit has extensive experience in designing and delivering open and customized management development workshops for different organizations in India and UAE. Arijit has also worked in management consultancy and thus brings the industry perspective to his teaching.