XLRI and the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB), will participate in a four-day case research workshop to be held here between June 10 and 13. Two faculty members from the Philippines-based, Asian Institute of Management (AIM), will conduct the workshop where 18 faculty members each from XLRI and XIMB will take part.
XLRI signed a memorandum of understanding with the AIM in February this year, which, among other things, enables the two institutes to jointly spread management education in the southeast Asian countries and China.
“Two faculty members from the AIM are coming to conduct the workshop, which will strengthen the case research and teaching skills of the faculty of both XLRI and XIMB,” Father E Abraham, director of XLRI, told FE recently.
Under the faculty exchange programme with the AIM, one teacher from XLRI will go to the AIM for a three-month semester beginning September this year. Similarly, AIM faculty members too will visit XLRI.
The participating faculty of the Indian B-schools will benefit from the workshop as the 40-year-old AIM, considered to be the top-most B-School in Asia, is very strong in case studies as it is helped by the Harvard Business School, with which it has a tieup.
The link is expected to give XLRI access to the Harvard case studies in the future.
Both XLRI and AIM offer a range of management development programmes (MDPs), which they jointly intend to take to other Asian countries like Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and China.
AIM, which enjoys support of both the World Bank and the Asian
Development Bank, is currently offering MDP courses in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and South Korea, while XLRI offers such courses in India, the UAE (Dubai) and Singapore.
