Student Projects: Recent submissions

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    • Identifying influential nodes in a social network 

      Magadi, Pranav (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      Detecting influential nodes in a complex network is an on-going field of research with much practical interest. It has applications in a variety of fields, such as neuroscience, zoology, marketing, sociology, cybernetics, ...

    • Correlation between cryptocurrency prices and search engine trends 

      Acharya, Upamanyu; Lall, Neha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      The objective of the project is to understand whether online popularity, channelled through socialmedia and the volume of search engine searches, can be used to influence asset prices on financial markets. Cryptocurrencies, ...

    • Leadership style in times of crisis: managing COVID-19 pandemic 

      Goyal, Madhurika (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      The importance of leadership is a well-deliberated concept that emphasizes that the leaders create a vision and act as change agents as compared to the managers who set goals and maintain the status quo. A leader's role ...

    • India’s personal data protection bill: impact on technology and tech-firms 

      Adarsh, Kumar; Kunwar, Suja (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      India’s Personal Data Protection Bill has been under draft process, headed by the Srikrishna committee since 2018. Tabled in the Parliament in the Lok Sabha in 2019, the bill has since been a major point of contention ...

    • Millennial workforce shaping HRM practices in the organization 

      Mhaiskar, Akash; Supraja, Devarasetty Hari (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      Major studies have forecasted that by 2025, millennials (born between 1980 and 2000) will comprise 75% of the global workplace. It has been noticed that the millennials and their expectations about the workplace are different ...

    • Exploring consumer behaviour on digital space related to ad fatigue and banner blindness 

      Rohilla, Kartik; Mohanta, Arnab (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      Banner blindness is a phenomenon in web usability where visitors to a website consciously or unconsciously ignore banner-like information, which can also be called ad blindness or banner noise. (Wikipedia, 2020) Banner ...

    • A bilevel optimization formulation for the setting of minimum required maintenance margins in stock exchanges 

      Yayavaram, Anish Pratik; Sandeep, Nagamalla Sai (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      This report addresses a hierarchical margin setting decision problem. There are two decision makers, namely, the stock exchange and the investor. The stock exchange, which is the leader in the hierarchical process, controls ...

    • A strategic roadmap for enhancing port performance and improving operational effectiveness of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust 

      Rathi, Aman; Singh, Ambesh Pratap (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      Ports are critical infrastructure and contribute significantly to international trade. They play a crucial role in connecting developing countries to the global market and boost the business and growth of the economy. This ...

    • Study of corporate diversification of Indian firms strategy area 

      Gupta, Aayush; Garg, Anubhav (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      While the qualitative aspects of corporate diversification have been widely researched, there have been varied results regarding diversification advantages. Since the success and failure of such a move are widely dependent ...

    • Developing an understanding of soft computing paradigms in data mining 

      Prasoon, Pranjal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      In traditional Boolean computing, the employed logic classifies things in a binary fashion – into absolute truths (1s) or absolute fallacies (0s). However, there are a multitude of real-life scenarios wherein a binary ...

    • Implications of Indian warehousing: pre and post GST 

      Amarnath, V. J.; Kumar, Arun (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is the biggest indirect tax reform undertaken in India since independence. Under the GST regime, a host of indirect taxes including the Value Added Tax (VAT), Excise Duty, Sales Tax, Octroi ...

    • Changing consumer behaviour in dining out and online food ordering due to Covid 19 

      Bajpai, Utkarsh; Patel, Darshan (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      This study describes the impact COVID 19 has had on consumer behaviour concerning dining out in restaurants and ordering food online. It does so via a three-pronged approach – changes in online sentiments, exploratory ...

    • Relative deprivation of marginalised groups: an exploration of variations in school participation across states 

      Vijayvargiya, Priyal; Nahar, Tanisha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      Muslims, constituting around 14 per cent population of the country, has been one of the most disadvantaged section of the Indian society. On most socio-economic indicators, they are on the margins of structures of political, ...

    • Project Aanglam: a study on the introduction of English medium education in Andhra Pradesh government primary schools 

      Tadanki, Bency Joseph; Karri, Surya Prakash (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      The government of Andhra Pradesh moved to introduce English medium education in all primary schools from 1st to 5th standard and gradually convert the entire public education into English medium starting from 2020. In this ...

    • Hedonic price analysis for smartphones in the Indian market 

      Mittal, Kartik; Lohani, Swapnil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      The aim of this project is to apply Hedonic Pricing approach to calculate the equilibrium shadow price of various features of a smartphone and to understand the preference of consumers towards them. Smartphone market is ...

    • Personalisation of e-commerce checkout donations 

      Arora, Harshita; Dutta, Soham (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      How can donor behaviour be influenced through principles of psychology and behavioural economics? This paper develops a mathematical model to determine the willingness to donate online which is influenced by several factors, ...

    • Evolution in value relevance of accounting information post IFRS convergence in India 

      Gupta, Aayush; Modi, Siddharth (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      This project study examines the value relevance of accounting information after IFRS adoption in India and identifies reasons for the same. Value relevance is often linked to the reliability and relevance of accounting ...

    • Reduction in bias against outgroup through reflection on self ’s discriminatory past 

      Singhal, Shubham (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      “It turns out that while each of these individual differences is siloed -- there are only so many families dealing with schizophrenia, only so many families of children who are transgender, only so many families of prodigies ...

    • Electric vehicle routing problem 

      Satardekar, Shreyas; Pingale, Varad (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      There has been a global push towards protecting the environment, and adaptation of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is one of the crucial initiatives taken by multiple governments. EVs are expected to reduce pollution by decreasing ...

    • Activist campaigns and the resultant change in performance 

      Salvi, Deepa; Sureka, Rishika (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      Since the 2008 financial crisis, shareholder activism has been gaining traction and is now playing a prominent role in public markets. The need for shareholder activism arises from the agency problem in companies which is ...