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    • Is a bad bank a good idea for India? 

      Bansal, Kshitij; Choraria, Rohan (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-08-07)
      The banking sector in India has been facing the twin balance sheet crisis for a number of years. The balance sheets of banks are filled with stressed advances given to business that have failed to take off. The balance ...
    • Assessing the policy ecosystem for startups in India 

      Khatri, Lovish Kumar; Bhalekar, Sanika Sanjay (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      According to Startup India, a startup is defined as "an entity that is headquartered in India, which was opened less than ten years ago, and has an annual turnover less than ₹100 crores". A softer requirement is that the ...
    • Understanding the relationship between fiscal deficit, taxation, and government spending in India 

      Sheth, Jay Bhavin; Ramakrishnan, K R (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      The budget deficit of a country is the situation where the expenses of the government are greater than its income (Barone, 2021). This means that the income generated by the government from its direct and indirect tax ...
    • Impact of social media on political campaigns with a special emphasis on Indian political scenario 

      Sapra, Oshin; Mishra, Sourav (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      During the 2008 US Presidential elections, Obama’s campaign managers used social media as a primary campaign strategy. The innovative media was used to make his presence felt and effectively market himself. Likewise, a ...
    • Activity-based costing of transplant surgery 

      Chopra, Ankush; Prajapati, Ayush (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      The project aims to investigate the implementation of Activity-Based Costing in healthcare sector. The purpose of the research is specifically the hepatic transplant surgery, most commonly known as liver transplant. By ...
    • Privacy paradox – consumers data sharing preferences for advertising 

      Das, Anmol; Jain, Divij Kishore (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      The data driven world today has multiple sources of data collection – from usage patterns to voice-based profiling of consumers. Through this paper, we aim to examine the industry practice of data collection by companies ...
    • Human resource strategies in a post-COVID era: education industry 

      S, Lalith Raj; S, Pavithran (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      COVID 19, the pandemic of this century, began as a small viral outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Soon, the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2, the causative agent of the disease, spread across the continents, ...
    • Marketing practices in export industry in India 

      Pandey, Abhay Kumar; Mishra, Palak (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
    • Fake news detection 

      Soni, Jyotsna; M, Prashanth (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      Rumors are one of the oldest mass mediums in the world. Primarily writing and spreading false information over the internet, recently, they have emerged as a dangerous threat to governments, businesses, and citizens. In ...
    • Hydrogen energy: transition from research to economy and its applications in Indian core sectors 

      Pawar, Rajas (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      Over the advent of the past 5 years, there have been multitude of technologies developments that are fostering the path to enable the hydrogen penetration of hydrogen. Some of these factors include: • Strong growth in ...
    • Study of impulse buying behavior among consumers after consuming alcohol 

      Joshi, Rohit; Kapoor, Ritvick (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      One of the most defining aspects of the consumer world has always been impulse buying. This has been the background for a lot of below-the-line strategies for marketing of products in front of the consumer. The landscape ...
    • Municipal corporation expenditure analysis 

      Bhatt, Pritish (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      The Twelfth Schedule of the Constitution lists the various Functions of Municipalities which majorly includes activities related to the town's upkeeping, alleviation of poverty, safeguarding the interests of the weaker ...
    • Consumer perception and behaviour to privacy policy on whatsApp and other apps 

      Dave, Manya; Singhal, Tanmay (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      In today’s world, data has become an important resource. The one who has data is considered very powerful. Companies are actively trying to collect all kinds of data, especially that of users. This is done through various ...
    • Predicting stock prices using options data 

      Aggarwal, Ashutosh; Gaurav, Nishant (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      The parameters of the Black Scholes model, such as the time to maturity, the strike, the risk-free interest rate, and the current underlying price, are unequivocally observable. However, if the Black–Scholes model held, ...
    • Challenges faced by women entrepreneurs: financial constraints 

      Gora, Aditya; Kumari, Sakshi (2021-09-07)
      Women entrepreneurship is rather a recent phenomenon in India relatively to the global context. In recent years, women entrepreneurship has evolved quite significantly in the wake of development, policy changes, increased ...
    • Viral marketing 

      Agarwal, Shiv Kumar; Mummidisetti, Vinod (Informs, 2021-09-07)
      Any business, be it big or small, spends a lot of money to market themselves and their offerings to their target consumers. It takes a lot of effort, careful planning and seamless execution in raising brand awareness. Even ...
    • Game theory in military strategy 

      C S K, Pranav; Jain, Rahul Kumar (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      The 21st century is widely being regarded as the Asian Century. With its growing economic clout, favourable demographics and improving living standards, Asia is expected to shape a new global order. India and China, ...
    • Understanding switching and exiting behaviour in consumers of addictive smartphone apps 

      Avchare, Kundan R; Abhishek, R (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      There are more than six billion smartphone users in the world. [1] China, India, and the US are the leading countries with 911.92 million, 439.42 million, and 270 million smartphone users respectively, as of May 2021. ...
    • Understanding the customer perception of a virtual tourism product 

      Waghmode, Avdhoot; Laskar, Sneha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      The tourism industry is a very vast, dynamic, and rapidly growing industry. It comprises all the organizations providing services meant for and used by tourists for various purposes at any stage of their travel. Tourists ...
    • Movie success prediction using script and summary analysis 

      Bansal, Annu; Khanna, Ishaan (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      A SVM (Support Vector Machine) approach is employed to predict financial success of a film based on summary analysis. The approach analyzed 2090 films and achieved a 55.5% precision accuracy. A method to extract the emotional ...