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Influence of board diversity and characteristics on CEO compensation: contingent effects of concentrated ownership
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The crisis in the financial and the banking sectors in 2008-2009 brought back into focus the issue of CEO and top management compensation. The unconscionably high compensations, unjustified even remotely by performance, ...
Financial literacy among working young in urban India
(Elsevier, 2015)
The working young in urban India exhibit inferior financial knowledge, inferior financial attitude, and superior financial behavior compared to their counterparts elsewhere. While both men and women require intervention ...
Simulation model for sizing decision in a large irrigation/power project in India
(2010-03-12)
This paper describes our experience with construction and use of a simulation model for a large Irrigation and Power Project in a state in India. The project has an estimated outlay of Rs.5000 million (U.S. $ 5 billion) ...
Rural development programmes: a management approach
(2010-03-14)
Rural development programmes (RDPs) can be broadly classified as enterprise oriented and labour service oriented programmes. This paper discusses the strategy that needs to be adopted for ensuring effective implementation ...
A First Cut Estimate of the Equity Risk Premium in India
(2009-08-08)
We estimate the equity risk premium in India using data for the last 25 years. We address the shortcomings of existing indices by constructing our own total return index for the 1980s and early 1990s. We use our estimates ...
Lighting up lives through cooking gas and transforming society
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
The study, reported in the form of a case, narrates the story of a major attempt at social transformation through a simple mechanism of providing cooking gas (LPG) to the marginalized in society. Targeting about 100 million ...