Student Projects: Recent submissions

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    • Issuance of green bonds: its impact on market capitalisation 

      Mundhra, Abhishek; Kumar, Akash (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      We, humans, have pursued growth relentlessly since our inception and because of that we have made vast progress in terms of technological development. We have big automobile and power industries which have made our life a ...

    • COVID-19 & science, narratives & mental wellness (WIP) 

      P., Vaishak (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      A majority of the current generation has not seen a pandemic in full force. The COVID-19 has disrupted the world over in ways never seen before. Healthcare systems, supply chain and whole economies have been disrupted the ...

    • Socially conscious advertising: examining its effectiveness in the Indian context 

      Bakshi, Abhinav; Bansal, Tarang (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      This study aims to explore which aspects of a socially conscious advertisement lead to a successful cause-based connect with the customer, or alternately ends up stirring anger or protest, in the Indian context. The factors ...

    • Analyzing data on Kiva: a microfinance company 

      Subuddhi, Achyutananda; Bagchi, Bishwadeep (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Crowdfunding is an initiative undertaken to raise funding for a project by collecting small investments from a large number of people. This is typically done over the internet through a multi-sided platform which serves ...

    • Disaster management: a study in effectiveness 

      Chaturvedi, Anuvrat; Govil, Vishesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      On August 09 2018, the state of Kerala was hit by the worst floods in the past 100 years. Within a week (News18.com, 2018), 324 people had lost their lives, and more than 220,000 people were displaced from their homes. ...

    • Role of mergers & acquisitions and new entry in shaping the e-commerce sector 

      Chakraborty, Ayan; Jain, Swapnil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      The Indian E-commerce sector is one of the faster growing sectors in India, which is expected to surpass the US to become the 2nd largest E-commerce sector worldwide by 2034. ( (IBEF, E-commerce, 2019). Until a few decades ...

    • Growth strategies for a theatre company in India 

      Sagar, Akanksha; Mehrotra, Shivam (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Theatre and India have unbroken ties of over two thousand years. Ancient India produced its own encyclopedic manual on theatre called Natyashastra which guided performances for centuries to come. While the first millennium ...

    • Understanding narratives of leaders: speech analysis 

      Giria, Sharad; Agarwal, Pallavi (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Through this project, our aim is to analyse the narratives of leaders to understand the following:  What are the broader narrative structures being used by the speakers to create a cohesive and appealing speech?  In ...

    • Socio-economic impact of urban infrastructure 

      Chopra, Manyata; Behera, Rishika (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Infrastructure development is considered a significant factor in public policy frameworks. The development of infrastructure is a significant facilitator of economic growth in most developing and developed nations. In ...

    • Digitization of financial services: payments and alternative lending in India a deep dive 

      Lahoty, Arpit; Jobalia, Jinesh Rajendra (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Technology has had and continues to have a profound impact on provision of financial services the world over, and India is no different. A combination of demographic advantages, favourable regulatory mechanisms, enabling ...

    • Determinants of mindset in Indian college students: an exploratory study 

      Krishnan, Jisha; Harikrishnan (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      Mindset & its relation with demographics has been widely researched with little conclusive results. The aim of the current study is to identify if demographic parameters like age, gender, education level, income & year of ...

    • Understanding gendered workplace behaviour and its implications on the parenting ecosystem at work 

      Chowdhary, Divyanshi; Thosani, Janvi (2019)
      In the latest round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) conducted in 2015-16, the proportion of working women has witnessed a sharp decline compared to a decade ago. In 2005-06, when the last NFHS survey was ...

    • A comprehensive study of public housing in India 

      Jaiswal, Himanshu; Chavan, Kushal Shah (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      In India the current housing conditions are rooted in the post-independence era of housing policies. The government initially focused its effort on facilitation of industrial activities to foster production of goods and ...

    • Business modelling of a multi-sided platform: recommendation engine & goal accomplishment platform 

      Doshi, Raj (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      A broad outlook of the overall objective of the platform and the features included in the platform • To provide a platform for users to discover and share new activities around them • To effectively track their goals as ...

    • Risk-taking ability at different development stages: a comparative study across biological genders 

      Divya (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      The importance of healthy risk-tolerance is critical for success as an entrepreneur and a leader. However, women have been consistently rated low for risk-taking ability (Gary Charness, 2012; Peggy D. Dwyer, 2002) which ...

    • Predicting participation in digital crowdsourcing contests: determining association of duration and total prize with participation 

      Kumari, Dipti; Panigrahi, Niril (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      The aim of this project is to determine whether the number of registrations for a crowdsourcing contest is dependent on the endowments and prizes given to the winner(s). Over that, it is also analyzed if the duration of ...

    • Evolution of e-commerce in India: a study on the effect on retail industry and the implications of public policy 

      Gupta, Chhavi (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      There has been a massive change in the retail landscape in India in the past few decades. Just observing it from a consumer journey perspective, initially there were small stores which could cater to multiple consumer ...

    • Impact of autonomous vehicles on the taxi-cab industry in India 

      Muthuraman, Venkatesh L.; Jeetesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      The aim of the project is to analyze the impact of self-driving autonomous cars on the taxi-cab industry, specifically in India. This includes analysis of the benefits, value chain, unemployment issues, technology, legal ...

    • Understanding potential risks of algorithmic policing in the Indian context 

      Agarwal, Aaditya; Seth, Archit (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      There is a significant push towards increasing use of data across all domains of human life and in the Indian context, a foray has been made in policy making. Within this larger domain, our focus is policing. While still ...

    • Improving customer experience: a natural language processing (NLP) approach 

      Jangid, Anil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      In the current business environment, the need for customer relationships for any company across domains and geographies is only increasing with time. This was not exactly the case earlier. Until the 1990s, the companies ...