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An Extraordinary Opportunity for Leading Indian Management Schools in MBA programs
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-07-15)
The dramatic increase in fine grained digital data is pervading functions in organizations that range from from finance and marketing to human relations and supply chain operations. At the highest strategic level it is ...
Disruption and Resilience Issues in Freight Transportation
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-08)
Freight transportation is crucial to the lifeline of modern society because it connects the producers to geographically dispersed consumers. In North America, this connection is facilitated by an extensive freight ...
Taming Wicked Problems in Strategy Wicked Strategies and the Business of Humanity
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-22)
In business, some problems are easy, some problems are hard, and some problems are so complex, so intractable, and so threatening to organizations - or entire industries that they are best described as 'wicked'. These ...
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 ...
Whatever it takes: The Real Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-04)
On July 26, 2012 the ECB’s President Mario Draghi announced to do “whatever it takes” to preserve the Euro and subsequently launched the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) Program, which led to a significant increase in ...
Do Programs Mandating Small Business Lending Disincentivize Growth? Evidence from a Policy Experiment
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-07-04)
Exploiting discontinuities in program eligibility, we show that small-firm lending mandates inhibit firm growth. Firms newly qualified under lending mandates near the upper threshold for treatment have lower growth in ...
Econometric Identification of Causal Effects: Graphical Causal Models in Practice
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-23)
It is well known that causal inference relies on untestable a-priori causal assumptions. Identification refers to whether a causal relationship can be inferred from observed statistical associations; it requires an ...
Licensing Intellectual Property and the Dissemination of Technology
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-05)
While the exclusive rights provided by intellectual property law are touted as promoting the creation and spread of new technologies, equally important is the role of contract law in supporting the dissemination of technology. ...
52nd Annual Convocation (2017)
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-03-25)
52nd Annual convocation held at IIM Ahmedabad
(1) Chief Guest - Smt. Shikha Sharma, CEO and Managing Director, Axis Bank Ltd.
(2) Chairman - Shree Kumar Mangalam Birla
(3) Director - Prof. Ashish Nanda