VGSOM Assigns COVID Case Study
KGP Chronicle (March 31, 2020)
IIT Kharagpur's Vinod Gupta School of Management assigns Pandemic Case Study for Organizational Leadership education
It has been almost 2 weeks since the teaching and learning at IIT Kharagpur has gone virtual. The Center for Educational Technology at the Institute has been using the online interface Webex for conducting classes across all levels of study. Shorter sessions are also being conducted through Zoom.
Several research groups are also conducting studies on people's perception and behaviour towards COVID-19 through progression of time. In one such initiative, the Vinod Gupta School of Management, business school in India of IIT Kharagpur ranked among the top ten in India, has launched a project based on COVID-19 pandemic. The project titled "Invisible Leadership and the Coronavirus Pandemic" is being assigned 126 students in the second year MBA class at the School as part of the Organisational Leadership course.
Speaking about the project Prof. Susmita Mukhopadhyay said, "Pandemic or any other wide spread disease such as COVID-19 demand exemplary leadership and decision-making capabilities to manage finances, human resources, supply chain and overall business operations. Managers if prepared for desperate times may even plan and improvise the desperate measures. The project aims to teach the students to see the power of invisible leadership in the fight against the pandemic." (Read More)