IIM Bodh Gaya organized its maiden edition of the International Management Conference on 23rd and 24th April 2021. The conference’s theme was “Post COVID Management Strategies: Recovery, Resilience, and Adaptation.”  A two-day pre-conference workshop preceded the conference. The workshop conducted on 21st and 22nd April had sessions by Prof. Teena Bharti, Assistant professor in Organization Behaviour and Human Resource Management, IIM Bodh Gaya; Dr. Nidhi Mishra, Assistant Professor, Organization Behaviour, IIM Bodhgaya; Dr.Subhadip Roy, IIM Ahmedabad; Prof. Ankush Agrawal, IIT Delhi; Prof. Aviral Kumar Tiwari, Rajagiri Business School; Prof. Sreejesh S, IIM Kozhikode; and Prof. Chandan Parsad, IIM Bodh Gaya.
The leading conference started on 23rd April and 24th April with sessions by Dr. Sanjay Madaria, Curators Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology & ACM Distinguished Scientist; Dr. Arun Elias, Associate Dean, Wellington School of Business, New Zealand; Dr. Yanki Hartijasti, Assistant Professor of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia; Mr. Neeraj Khandelwal, Vice President – Financial Services Analytics, GENPACT; and Prof. Justin Paul, Distinguished Professor, Editor-in-chief, International Journal of Consumer Studies, and Associate Editor Journal of Business Research. More than 275 papers were presented in 54 tracks by expert researchers, scholars, and industry specialists with deep insights on post -covid strategies for management during this two-day conference. The major themes that emerged were digitalization, Online Shopping, Mobile Marketing, Reinforcing Organisation values,  Indian economy,  Post covid tourism, online education, etc.