2ND GLOBAL SUMMIT ON MANAGEMENT CASES (GSMC 2015)

Dates: December 18-19, 2015.
Organizers: Indian Institute of Management Raipur (IIM Raipur) and ET Cases.
Venue: Indian Institute of Management Raipur, GEC Campus, Sejbahar, Raipur, India – 492015
Telephone: + 91 771 2772110 /104/ 130/; Fax: +91 771 2772 102
E-mail: gsmc@iimraipur.ac.in Website: www.iimraipur.ac.in

Indian Institute of Management Raipur (IIM Raipur) is organizing the 2^nd Global Summit on Management Cases (GSMC 2015) during December 18-19, 2015 in association with ET Cases at Indian Institute of Management Raipur, India. This summit seeks to discuss cases in the various broad areas of business and management to highlight real challenges and incidents faced by corporate houses. This summit also aims to bring the scholars and experts together to discuss the practical and research issues related to teaching case studies. 

Following are the main highlights of this summit:

• Panel discussion on case base teaching. Panel will comprise eminent business executive and renowned faculty.
• Selected case abstracts will be published in The Economics Times.
• Best Case Award: Four best cases will be awarded.
• Selected cases will be published in a Management Case book by ET Cases.
• Selected cases will be hosted on ET Cases website www.etcases.com.

The Conference will witness a large gathering of eminent personalities from India and abroad in the field of management case development.

The case submission and registration details are mentioned at http://www.iimraipur.ac.in/gsmc.

The Last date for submission of abstract is July 15, 2015.

Conference Secretariat:

Indian Institute of Management Raipur

GEC Campus, Sejbahar, Raipur -492015, India

Email: gsmc@iimraipur.ac.in; website:http://www.iimraipur.ac.in

Phone: +91 771 2772110/104/130; Fax: +91 771 2772102

FDP ON "ADVANCED DATA ANALYSIS FOR BUSINESS RESEARCH USING STATISTICAL PACKAGES”

Dates: 22-June-2015 to 05-JULY-2015.

Organizer/Venue: Gujarat Technological University (GTU), Ahmedabad.

ABOUT THE FDP:

Under the banner of PG Research Centre for Governance Systems (CGS), Gujarat Technological University (GTU) is planning to organize national level two week faculty development programme on"Advanced Data Analysis for Business Research using Statistical Packages” during 22-June-2015 to 05-JULY-2015. The FDP aims to provide hands on experience to participants in using data analysis packages such as SPSS, AMOS, R, Minitab and Matlab.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The programme will be useful to the professors in field of Management / Commerce / Economics / Engineering / Pharmacy to upgrade their existing understanding and more importantly for the faculty aspiring to do their Ph.D. for further career advancement. In addition to this, participants from corporate who wish to pursue their Ph.D. will also benefit from this FDP. The fresh Ph.D. scholars, and Ph.D. Supervisors, who wish to enhance their computer based data analysis skills for future research projects will also benefit from this programme. Further, the working executives will be able to upgrade their knowledge in the areas of data analysis & quantitative techniques using statistical packages.

LINK FOR THE DETAILED BROCHURE & REGISTRATION GUIDELINES:

http://www.gtu.ac.in/circulars/15May/14052015_14.pdf

We humbly request you to forward this email in your reference groups who wish to join such FDP on Advanced Data Analysis.

For any query feel free to write to us on (ap_cgs@gtu.edu.in) or call us on +91-079-23267585.

CONTACT: 

Dr. Ritesh K. Patel, Management Section, Head (MBA, MAM, MPM, MTM),

Asst. Prof., Centre for Governance Systems (CGS), Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad.

Email: ap_cgs@gtu.edu.in,

Tel: (O) +91--079-23267585

URL: www.gtu.ac.in

Road most dangerous for men, home for women’

Road accidents are the biggest non-disease killers of men in India, and suicides the biggest killers of women, an analysis of National Crime Records Bureau data for 2013 shows.

The NCRB’s data is a compilation of police reports; all deaths reported to the police figure in these statistics. The vast majority of deaths in India are however on account of disease, which the NCRB does not count; of the 95 lakh annual deaths in India, only 5.7 lakh people died in 2013 in murders, natural disasters, accidents and suicides.

Road accidents killed over 1.17 lakh men in 2013, more than the number killed by the next two biggest causes of unnatural death – suicide and murder – put together. Railway accidents and drowning round off the top five causes of accidental deaths for men.

For women, however, suicides are the biggest cause of accidental death, killing over 44,000 women annually. Last year, an international study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation found that suicide had become the leading cause of death in women aged 15-49 in India, ahead of maternal disorders related to child birth, the historic big killer of women in developing countries. Road accidents come next killing over 20,000 women annually, followed by fire, poisoning and murder.

“These causes have a lot to do with occupational status in India. The bulk of travel for work is by men, and the road and rail accident statistics reflect that,” Dr. P Arokiasamy, professor in the department of Development Studies at the International Institute of Population Studies, and expert on fertility and mortality, told The Hindu. “Similarly for women, fire – whether accidents in the kitchen or from mala fide reasons – is a major cause of death,” Dr. Arokiasamy said.

Accidents are a major cause of death among younger adults, but for those 60 and above, non-communicable diseases are the biggest causes of death, he said. The ongoing Million Death Study, led by researchers from the Centre for Global Health Research in collaboration with the Registrar General of India, is finding that four categories of non-communicable diseases – vascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, tuberculosis and cancer – are the leading causes of death in adults aged 30-69.

Just three states – Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu – account for a third of all road accidents. Most deaths on the road involve two-wheelers, followed by trucks or lorries and car. Over 12,000 pedestrians died on India's streets in 2013.

“Family problems” are the biggest official cause of suicides for both men and women followed by illness. The two most developed states – Kerala and Tamil Nadu – have the highest suicide rates among the big states. In all states and across age groups, men commit suicide at a higher rate than women.

Keywords: National Crime Records Bureau, NCRB survey, road accident deaths, suicide deaths

Economic & Political Weekly: Table of Contents

India's Killer Heat Waves

Vol - L No. 22, May 30, 2015 

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