Student Projects: Recent submissions

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    • Industry & developing a business plan 

      Ashtekar, Abhinav; Madhoor, Navaneet; B, Sailesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      E-Sports is a multi-million dollar market worldwide especially in China, Korea, Japan and United States. But in India it is at a very nascent stage. Famous E-Sports companies are looking to invest in India in the next few ...

    • Public service provisioning by innovation driven startups 

      Dalal, Prerna Jawahar; Addagatla, Praveen Shreenivas (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      A variety of early stage social ventures are participating in the provision of public goods in India today. These ventures broadly fall in three categories: (a) Those which ‘substitute’ state efforts by replacing the state ...

    • To develop business model canvas for a stationery brand offering designer diaries and journals, handcrafted by local Indian artists 

      More, Kalyani (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      ‘Stationery’ refers to material used for formal or personal correspondence. The Indian stationery market is dominated by the low-end commoditized products. While there has been seen a rising demand for uniqueness in this ...

    • Do low risk stocks give higher returns in Indian market? 

      Lathi, Vinay (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      Since, the advent of ‘Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)’ in 1965, factor theory has been the most widely accepted framework of understanding return on financial assets. As rightly explained by Andrew Ang in his book on ...

    • Evaluating strategic positioning for a school of Public Policy in India 

      Singh, Apoorvi; Fernandes, Beverly; Kumar M, Vijay (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      JSW is in the process of setting up a school of Public Policy in India in association with IIM Ahmedabad. Public Policy as an academic subject has been gaining traction in India only in the last few years. This is in stark ...

    • Modeling high resolution spatial poverty distribution using satellite images 

      Desai, Ankur V. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      In developing countries, despite the best efforts of Government bodies and the international development community, accurate estimates of poverty and economic welfare in vast area remain rare. The major reason for this ...

    • Business strategy simulation development 

      Jain, Ishan; Pal, Avneesh; Gupta, Aashish (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      Epicenter is a platform for designing and hosting simulations. It supports multiple languages for logic building (model). Through its interface builder tool, it provides fast and simple way to create interfaces using a ...

    • Social capital valuation framework for Tata sustainability group 

      Patil, Shriniket; Manoj, Sistla Sai; Goel, Vasu (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      In order to measure the impact of corporate social responsibility on corporate financial performance (CSF), various researchers arrived at divergent results (Michael, 2007). After 30 years of extensive research utilizing ...

    • Strategic decision making for growth in Startup/Entrepreneurial business 

      Singhal, Apaar; Garg, Surbhi (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      On the eve of 5th January 2016, Ashwarya Singh, CEO of Justride, a car rental platform, was looking at the company’s financial statement. The company had started operations in Powai, Mumbai last year and now, they were ...

    • Processes of strategic decision making in family-owned firms 

      Lakdawala, Akash; Satyam, Shlok; Grewal, Vaibhav (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      Rohit Thawani completed his mechanical engineering in 1987. During his undergraduate days, he used to read a lot of Novels and was highly influenced by the book fountainhead of Ayn Rand. It was only then, that he had decided ...

    • Positioning JSW School of Public Policy 

      K., Balachandar; Goyal, Kshitij; Singhal, Harshit; Mondal, Rittik (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      The project tries to benchmark best practices across the globe for the top schools in Public Policy. The project benchmarks best practices by Harvard Kennedy School, Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP), London School ...

    • Corporate diversification and refocussing by Indian business groups 

      Memon, Farman; Gupta, Naman (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      Strategies involving business groups and their diversification have been an interesting research area for academicians and corporate professionals. A lot of work has been done on understanding the effect the corporate ...

    • Corporate entrepreneurship: an Indian context 

      Kumar, Prashant; Harshwardhan (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      One can observe a paradigm shift in the way businesses are paving the way for becoming a lean and agile firm. They name most of their efforts as a part of corporate entrepreneurship. Instances of a firm’s agility and ...

    • M-BACHAT: a collaborative project by Boston University, IIM Ahmedabad and Newcastle University 

      Rankin, Nathan; Steele, Sabrina; Shubhankar, Shobhit (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), whose acronym translates into "service" in several Indian languages, is a trade union based in Ahmedabad, India that promotes the rights of low-income, independently-employed female ...

    • Impact of GST on the supply chain networks in India 

      Vishal P, Balaji; Kumar P, Ajay; Chanda, Rajdeep (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      Supply chain networks of most companies are often not optimized based on warehouse location and capacity which ultimately translates to higher costs. There are many factors that often render any network sub-optimal. Changes ...

    • Understanding solar industry marketing plan for solar micro grids for the bottom of pyramid segment 

      Somani, Himanshu (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      In less than a decade, the solar-photovoltaic (PV) sector has transformed from a cottage industry centered in Germany to a $100 billion business with global reach. Among the factors contributing to its growth have been ...

    • Analyzing impact of trading cost on Fama French and momentum factor (Four Factor Model) 

      Kumar, Akshay; Wachche, Somshekhar (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      Fama French three factor model and momentum factor explains the stock returns using, outperformance of small cap stock against big cap stocks, outperformance of high B/M stocks against low B/M value stocks and effect of ...

    • Reflections on PGP 1 

      Jha, Chirag; Gupta, Aarushi (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      The PGP1 course of IIMA is a much vaunted curricula that draws in lakhs of applicants each year. Notable alumni like Raghuram Rajan have been quoted saying “If you survived the first term at Ahmedabad, you can survive ...

    • Development of an ability based measure of emotional intelligence for the Indian context 

      Singh, Gurkaran; Madan, Madhujot (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      Emotional Intelligence (EI) can be defined as the ability to perceive, apprehend and manage emotions. It can be applied to both self and others. The previous decade has seen much of the overall research done in this field. ...

    • West Bengal to Gujarat: effect of the displacement on farmers due to the TATA Nano factory 

      Bafna, Aman; Mishra, Ambuj; Gupta, Nikhil; S., Prashanth (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      The Tata Nano project in Sanand is a live case-study on the implementation of the “Gujarat Model” of economic development. The Gujarat government, under the leadership of Shri Narendra Modi, wanted to spur growth by ...