katastasi.fiib.edu.in 2015 Internship Based Case Writing Competition : Fortune Institute of International Business

Organization : Fortune Institute of International Business
Competition Name : Katástasi 2015 Internship Based Case Writing Competition
Applicable For : Management Students (MBA/PGDM )
Registration Last Date : 20th July 2015

Website : http://katastasi.fiib.edu.in/

Katástasi 2015 Internship Based Case Writing Competition:
FCRC, the Case Research Centre at Fortune Institute of International Business (FIIB), is organizing Katástasi 2015, an Internship Based Case Writing Competition for the Management students (MBA/PGDM) of business schools and allied courses who wish to engage in writing a management case based on their summer internship or class project work experience.

The Competition derives its name from Greek word, Katastasi, meaning ‘situations’. It is a unique initiative of FIIB Case Research Centre (FCRC) to project the Student Internship or other Class Project experiences in the form of a Case. This will encourage and reward the students substantially with much sought after skill of Case Writing. The student/ intern may choose a Faculty Mentor to guide through the case -writing process.

Case writing stimulates critical intellectual abilities of a student empowering them with deeper and wider understanding of changing business scenarios. Generally, cases are written by faculty and not students. Since ‘internship’, class or live projects are integral part of the curricula at most higher education institutions, the students are exposed to practical experiences. Such experiences have the potential to be exploited for developing cases that involve business issues/problems along with their solutions. Describing such experiences through case writing gives a leap to the analytical skills of the students as they are not only solving but also knitting a story by putting together the situations, issues and relevant information.

Win Cash Prizes Worth Rs.30000, Rs.20000, Rs.10000

Additionally, the top 5 cases would be considered for publication in FIIB Business Review

Eligibility:
The entries for participation shall be in teams of 2 or 3 members. Registrations are allowed for a Team consisting of a Student and a Faculty Mentor or 2 Students and a Faculty Mentor. The student should be Masters Program (Masters Degree or equivalent to Masters or an allied course such as Business/ Management/ Commerce/ Economics/ Statistics/ Mass Communication) and have successfully completed their internship (training), or have passed out the course. They may participate in case writing either independently or in collaboration with a faculty member of the business school/university where they are studying/ have studied.

Competition Calendar:
The competition will have 2 rounds- The Preliminary Round and the Finale. In the event of the case getting short-listed to the top 10, it is necessary that the participants produce the permission of the company/institution upon which the case is being written.

1. Team Registration – Last Date 20th July 2015:
Submit the Registration Form duly filled in either by post, or by e-mail to fcrc@fiib.edu.in. Alternately, register online on website katastasi.fiib.edu.in/index.php/registration

2. Submit Draft Cases – Last Date 30th July 2015:
Student(s) along with their Faculty Mentor have to submit first drafted cases after following the following steps:
a) Identify business issues/processes executed during internship/project at the placement organization
b) Study the company’s industrial relevance and its positioning
c) Identify information required for case development and its sources (personal interviews, secondary sources) and develop an interview schedule as per requirement
d) Identify management theories/methods to be applied for learning from the case
e) Submit 1st Draft

3. Declaration of Shortlisted Teams – 10th August 2015:
The case drafts shall be referred to a panel of judges. Based on the judges’ review, shortlisted Cases (Teams) shall be announced.

4. Submit Full Length Case – Last Date 20th August 2015:
The teams who are shortlisted have to submit complete cases then keeping in mind the aforesaid points and also dwell on:
a) Learning objectives from Case and
b) Questions that can generally arise from the Case
The shortlisted teams will develop this design into a written case, and any advisory help required will be provided by FCRC Team at FIIB.

5. Declaration of Top 10 Entries : 25th August 2015

6. Grand Finale: Case Presentation – 5th September 2015:
A panel of experts shall identify Top 10 Cases. The authors of the top 10 cases shall be invited to present their Case before a select audience. The presentation has to be developed based on their learning and the scope of learning the Case shall provide to others. This will be a competitive round and will carry weightage. The best three Cases will be adjudged as Winners. The top 3 contenders would be awarded the prize of Rs.30000/-, Rs.20000/- and Rs.10000/- respectively. Also, top 10 cases will be considered for publication in a special issue of FIIB Business Review, a leading management research and practice journal from FIIB.

Frequently Asked Questions:
1. I am not doing an MBA but pursuing some other Master’s course such as MFC (Master of Finance and Control). Am I eligible for the competition?:
Yes you are. The eligibility norms allow a Masters Student (Master’s Degree or equivalent to Master’s or an allied course of Business/Management/Commerce/Economics/Statistics/Mass Communication), the name of the course is not important.

2. Can I participate in Case Writing competition if I have completed my MBA/PGDM Program?:
No, only students currently pursuing their course of study and have completed Internship / Live Project are eligible to participate.

3. Can I participate if there is no faculty member willing to work with me for case writing?:
You are required to have a Faculty Mentor work along with you since this a competition is based on Student-Faculty partnership. You may discuss it with FCRC (FIIB’s Case Research Centre, the Competition holding authority) team for allocation of a suitable Faculty for you in case of unavailability of a Faculty Mentor.

4. Can I work on writing multiple cases?:
You may join multiple case writing teams who are writing cases on the basis of different Internship / Live Project reports. However, multiple cases cannot be written on the basis of same Internship Report.

5. How can I collect sufficient information for the work I have done during Internship to write a case?:
If the work is not sufficient, you can plan to collect additional information from the organization where you did your Internship/Live Project, or plan for a short case.

About FCRC:
FCRC, which stands for FIIB’s Case Research Centre, is a Centre of excellence set up in 2011 by Fortune Institute of International Business (FIIB) for promoting and researching case-based teaching and case writing in the Indian context to management faculty in business schools. We at FCRC understand very well that case teaching is critical to business education quality in India and many of the faculty members do use cases to support their teaching, but a difficult issue related to this is to have a continuous supply of effective case method teachers as well as a continuous supply of new management cases which are relevant to local business environment. Since case writing is not an easy task for all management faculty members, currently our main goal at FCRC is to research on simpler methods of case writing and student-driven case writing. This event of Student Case Writing Workshop-cum-Competition is part of FCRC’s case writing research. Another research project underway at FCRC is ‘case-framing methodology’ for case writing.

FCRC is staffed and supported by FIIB faculty who have considerable experience in writing and teaching cases and whose cases have been published by Asia Case Research Centre, Hong Kong and Ivey Case League, Canada. All enquiries related to FCRC should be sent at fcrc@fiib.edu.in

About Fortune Institute of International Business:
Fortune Institute of International Business (www.fiib.edu.in) is a well-established business school of repute in New Delhi, which is committed to provide high quality management education focusing specially on leadership development and ‘high employability’ among its graduates. The Institute ensures a high-quality learning experience through its commitment to excellence and innovative learning approach realized through 4 key pillars: (a) a reflective and rigorously designed industry – need based curriculum delivered with a learner-centric approach; (b) active collaborative teaching/ research among FIIB’s academic network partners [University of Tampere, Finland; INPAQT, Netherlands, and Sam Walton University; (c) learning experience which goes beyond the classroom; and (d) sustained recruiter relationships for pull-based graduate employability.