Case Name :      Convocation at the National Institute of Management’s Central India Campus (A)

Authors :           Srinivasan Maheswaran, Jitendra R. Sharma, John S. Haywood-Farmer

Source :             Ivey Publishing

Case ID :            W13039

Discipline :        Operations Management

Case Length :    10 pages

Solution Sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

The (A) case involves managing the planning and execution of the first convocation held at one of the campuses of a business school in Nagpur, India, at fairly short notice. The school’s chairperson of post-graduate studies in management programs has been appointed as the chief co-ordinator of the event. Leveraging his operations-management background and working in collaboration with other faculty, he sets about identifying the required activities and their precedence relationships in order to ascertain the time required to complete these activities.