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BabySteps: Empowering parents to monitor the growth, development, and immunization of their children
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-07-10)In India, approximately 22 million children are affected by developmental delays that frequently go undetected or are detected late, at extensive cost to parents and irreversible damage to the child. In addition, 30% do ... -
Batching Decisions for E-Commerce Order Fulfilment: Technology, Models, and Data Insights
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-09-01)Due to today’s customer expectations of fast delivery of a wide-range of products, companies are under pressure to reduce the order fulfilment time, i.e., the time from receiving an order to the time it takes to get an ... -
Bayesian learning and it’s applications for image processing
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Bayesian Nonparametrics - Dirichlet Process and application
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015-12-15)This talk would present a brief overview of some popular priors studied in Bayesian nonparametrics. Starting with Dirichlet process, we will explore mixture models hierarchical models and indicate some applications. If ... -
Big Data, Big Promise, Big Challenge: Can Small Area Estimation Play a Role in the Big Data Centric World?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-09)The demand for various socio-economic, transportation, and health statistics for small geographical areas is steadily increasing at a time when survey agencies are desperately looking for ways to reduce costs to meet fixed ... -
The Biopolitics of Race and the Post-Genomic Turn to Caste
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014-12-29)At the turn of the twenty-first century, the Human Genome Project seemed to have dispelled finally the biological notion of race. This situation has changed over the last decade or so with the emergence of race-based ... -
Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood: evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-12-02)Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the ... -
Blowing Smoke: The Management of Moral Illegitimacy by the U.S. Tobacco Industry
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-13)U.S. corporations have had a remarkable history of overcoming challenges to their moral legitimacy. While a number of established theoretical positions have argued that organizational wrongdoing is likely to be a tremendous ... -
Building a Compassionate Organization
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-12-14)The CMHS seminar held at Wing - 11 Committee Room, IIMA on December 14, 2017 by Dr. Aravind Srinivasan, CMO, Aravind Eye Hospital, Chennai on Building a Compassionate Organization -
Building legitimacy in an adverse foreign environment: when the liability of foreignness can become a source of competitive advantage?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-29)Although the banking industry is by nature risk-prone, network-based and subject to strong institutional barriers, banks going international generally operate alone. Within a context of high liability of foreignness, how ... -
Can academic integration reduce the economic divide: An Analysis of the RTE Act in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-02-18)The Right to Education (RtE) Act enforced in 2009 requires all private schools in India to admit 25% children from economically weaker sections. If successful, the act may play a key role in reducing the widening social ... -
Can innovation help Entrepreneurs and enable service provision
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014-05-28)The seminar on R & P held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on May 28, 2014 by Prof. Vijay Modi, Columbia University, New York, USA -
Can we infer the "laws" of finance from big data?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-08-24)A distinction often made between the physical sciences and social sciences is that the latter are not as amenable as the former to controlled experiments for rigorously verifying predictions made from theory. However, ... -
Caring and Honoring of Female Organ Donors
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-09)The CMHS seminar held at KLMDC Auditorium-2, IIM Old Campus IIMA on March 09, 2018 by Dr. Manoj Gumber Consultant Nephrologist & Transplant Physician Apollo Hospitals International Limited, Ahmedabad on Caring and Honoring ... -
Cascading Pedagogy: Developing Critical Consciousness & Transferable Skills Whilst Teaching Gender Studies
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-09-07)In this paper I reflect on my own and my students' experiences within an elective course on Gender Studies to discuss how teachers might reconcile their responsibility for developing students’ critical consciousness along ... -
Causal inference and finite population sampling
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-17)In recent years, there has been a significant interest in causal inference in a potential outcomes framework, with applications to such diverse fields as sociology, behavioral sciences, biomedical sciences, and so on. The ... -
Census, national sample surveys and historical research methods
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Challenges in Creating a Premier Institute of Higher Technological Education in a Remote Area: A Case Study of IIT Mandi
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-07)In 2009, a picturesque 500-acre campus in a remote Himalayan river valley was selected for an IIT. With a population of barely 200, beset by landslides and bitterly cold winters, the village of Kamand is 45 minutes from ... -
Challenges in running a Tertiary/Quaternary Care Hospital
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-01-24)Provision of healthcare falls under the purview of the service sector and the consumer expectation is service excellence. Hospitals are being constantly compared to similar providers in the hospitality domain, financial services ... -
The challenges of opening up India's capital account
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014-02-17)A key objective for any open economy is to avoid a financial or balance of payments crisis – a goal that often calls for trade-offs between liberalisation and maintaining control of the economy. This column explores the ...