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    • Optimization of farming value chain: scope and viability, actionable areas and model for interventions 

      Kumar, Abhay; Das, Pranab K.; Tiwari, Rakesh K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Rural distress has been the buzzword around which many policy narratives have been created and debated to make way for interventions in the rural sector with mixed results, while we have been able to make considerable ...
    • Investigating the temporal relationship between the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and fluctuations in market indices 

      Prasad, Bijay; Chhapia, Divyanshu; Thakur, Gaurav (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      The research paper develops an understanding of how Pandemic (COVID-19) affects the Indian Stock Markets and economy. We analyzed the most impacted industry due to COVID Crises using scenario-planning Methodology. We use ...
    • COVID-19: managing India's economy in challenging times 

      Abhishek; Mohanty, Debasis; Mishra, Suresh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      The outbreak of COVID-19 was reported first by China on December 31st, 2019. By March 11th, WHO had declared it a pandemic. The responses of countries worldwide have varied from scaling up the health facilities, widening ...
    • Solar powered electric vehicle charging station: viable proposition? 

      Kumar, Saurav; Gohel, Tushar; Maniyar, Mayur (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      India faces tough challenges due to increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other harmful gases in the atmosphere that has the damaging effects it has on the environment. The future also poses another challenge of securing ...
    • Strategic HRM best practices and operational excellence in IT industry during and after the Covid-19 incident 

      Das, Akhilesh Kumar; Sastry, Subbaraya C.V.R.; Tomar, Rajbahadur (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      There has been an increasing focus on HRM's best practices into the Organizations across the globe. Nevertheless, Covid19 has changed the business dynamics of the IT Industry across the world, and HRM think tanks have taken ...
    • Understanding the power of digital initiative to build a world-class brand for OnePlus 

      Mehta, Sankalp; M., Loganathan; Pal, Satyaveer (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      The study goes through all the initiatives like the invite system designed out of necessity. The initial target was to sell 50,000 devises, and they managed to sell over a million! The hype that they were able to creativity ...
    • Analysing citizenship rights in India 

      Maloo, Rishabh; Srivastava, Tanmay (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Citizenship is the legal contract, the legal institution which provides/grants an individual membership in a nation. The membership comes along with a set of rights and duties for the individual, which are defined by the ...
    • Casual sexism & its impact on the psychology & performance of women: a study on IIMA 

      Moosa, Laiba; Gupta, Sahil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Everyday incidents have a massive impact on people’s lives & when it comes to certain sections of the society that have been traditionally marginalized or oppressed, daily incidents involving prejudice form a substantial ...
    • Assessing factors influencing job attractiveness in emerging markets: an empirical study of IIMA students 

      Joshi, Aditya Bhausaheb; Alok, Aditya (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Emerging economies are taking the center-stage of the new business world. Countries like India and China, where the total consumer numbers run into billions can provide excellent business opportunities to the global MNCs. ...
    • Feasibility analysis and tentative business plan for subject labs catering to elementary classrooms in rural areas 

      Muthuraman, Venkatesh L.; Giri, Shankar K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Shiksharth (Shiksharth, n.d.) is a not-for-profit organization working towards improving the quality of education in rural and tribal areas through action-based research, design and implementation. Having its presence in ...
    • Affordable luxury: perceptions 

      Jhunjhunwala, Avantika; Patil, Disha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Affordable luxury is an intriguing concept that is gaining huge momentum, especially amongst the millennials in developing nations. Affordable luxury, in our opinion, is seeking quality, bespoke products at an affordable ...
    • Online portal leveraging chain guarantee for credit risk minimization 

      Mishra, Sabyasachi; Agrawal, Meet (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      There is a lack of credit options for small textile traders. Due to the strained cash flows, these traders often have to pay a 2% extra charge per month on their transactions. Effectively, it can be seen as 24-28% interest ...
    • Study on challenges faced by start-up during scaling up operations 

      Mavuri, Sarath Sai; Suda, Srikanth (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Most of the start-ups we see start with very flat organizational structure. Flat structure helps in lowering operational costs, improving fast decision making while also improving employee motivation and decision making. ...
    • Supply chain in pharmaceutical industry: analysis, challenges and way forward 

      Mundhra, Abhishek; Gupta, Khushbu (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      The Economic development of a country is largely dependent on the performance of its institutions. Among the primary institutions is Healthcare; within which Pharmaceuticals play a large role. This report aims to understand ...
    • Case study on factors behind WeWork’s IPO implosion 

      Gupta, Gunjan; Singh, Sonal (Indian Institute pf Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Coming on the heels of Uber’s IPO in May 2019, the initial public offering of the new age office space provider WeWork was highly anticipated on Wall Street- with a valuation of $ 47 Billion and explosive membership growth ...
    • Evolution of RegTech: a study of adoption of technologies to prevent money laundering 

      Mukhija, Sakshi; Gandla, Thumukunta Harishankar (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      The present slowdown in Indian economy has raised many questions about the fundamental structural issues in the Indian banking system. The lack of credit availability from the banks has led to decline in investments in the ...
    • Scalable benefits model for domestic help workers 

      Sethi, Samarth; Jacob, Dane Sabu (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Our project course focuses on piloting Help, a proposed one-stop platform to provide services related to the recruitment of part-time domestic-help and management of household chores. Managing household chores involves ...
    • A comprehensive study of slowdown in the Indian economy: evaluation of the structural underpinnings 

      Jain, Prince; Behera, Rishika (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      The current Indian slowdown has been particularly sticky with far-reaching consequences on policy-making. Studying the structural trends across sectors, we recognize poor crop production, fallout in construction, and slowing ...
    • Enabling environment for cooperatives in India: a case study 

      Agarwal, Pallavi; Shekhar, Shreyes (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      At the Rochdale Pioneers Museum in England, the following quotation is inscribed next to the Alliance Statement on the Co-operative Identity: “The co-operative ideal is as old as human society. It is the idea of conflict ...
    • Studying the impact of introduction of cash into ultimatum games due to endowment effect 

      Hans, Nikhila; Ganguly, Anik (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      The paper aims to study how the introduction of cash impacts an ultimatum game. Specifically, it was aimed to study the changes in their behavior due to the endowment effect by conducting the ultimatum game with real cash ...