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    • What is Impactful Research? 

      Jain, Shailendra C. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-03-03)
      As researchers, we continue to do research in areas which appear to have buzzwords or perpetuated by researchers from so-called top universities or by so-called top researchers from other universities. There is a need for ...

    • Challenges in running a Tertiary/Quaternary Care Hospital 

      Narain, Ram K (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 ...

    • Quality Management and Institutionalized Hospital Care 

      Desai, Mahesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014-12-19)
      Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital was conceived to develop as a super speciality hospital in Kidney diseases in 1978. At that time there was no institutionalized hospital for catering to the kidney diseases. It was started ...

    • The Surprise that is the Indian Economy 

      Subramanian, Arvind (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-02-24)
      A public lecture on "The Surprise that is the Indian Economy" on 24 February 2017 by Dr. Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor to Government of India

    • Digital Solutions in Manufacturing Industry and the way forward 

      Tamura, Masayoshi (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-11-12)
      The Speaker Series Committee of PGPX Class of 2017 has organized a Speaker Series Session on Digital Solutions in Manufacturing Industry and the way forward by Masayoshi Tamura, General Manager, Digital Solutions and ...

    • Leadership and future of consulting across the globe 

      Pervaaz, Viq (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-11-15)
      The Speaker Series Committee of PGPX Class of 2017 has organized a Speaker Series Session on Leadership and future of consulting across the globe by Viq Pervaaz, Principal in E&Y, New York Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at CR1, ...

    • Real Estate and Infrastructure industry 

      Anand, Getamber (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-02-06)
      The Speaker Series Committee of PGPX Class of 2017 has organized a Speaker Series Session on Real Estate and Infrastructure industry by Mr. Getamber Anand, Chairman & MD of ATS Infrastructure Ltd Monday, 6th February 2017 ...

    • Health Care Management: Think Outside Disease Care, for NCD Prevention across the Lifespan 

      Joshipura, Kaumudi (IIM Ahmedabad, 2016-12-20)
      Health professionals often limit their goal to treating disease. Healthcare and other organization leaders can expand their mission to improving public health, lead changes and reduce healthcare costs. Non-communicable ...

    • Foundation of the System and its Healthy Implementation based on Philosophical, Scientific and Practical Approach 

      Swami, Shankaracharya (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-11-24)
      Talk by Puri Shankaracharya Swami H. H. Sri Sri Nischalananda Saraswati Swami on Foundation of the System and its Healthy Implementation based on Philosophical, Scientific and Practical Approach at IIMA on November 24, ...

    • Old and out? Age, learning and employability 

      Raemdonck, Isabel (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-10-06)
      Workforces across the world are aging, and governments are taking more and more policy actions to encourage aging workers to extend their working lives beyond the usual retirement age. In addition, employers are stimulated ...

    • Achieving social objectives using sponsorship-endorser portfolios 

      Pappu, Ravi (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-11-10)
      Increasingly, nonprofits are utilizing social partnerships, such as celebrity endorsements or commercial sponsorships, to realize their social objectives and donation goals. The impact of corporate sponsorship on consumer ...

    • Homeownership and the American Dream - An Analysis of Intergenerational Mobility Effects 

      Kulkarni, Nirupama (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-09-30)
      The benefits of homeownership feature prominently in the academic literature and policy discussion alike. Increasing homeownership has been a major policy goal in the US for decades, especially in low-income areas. We show ...

    • High-Cost Debt and Borrower Reputation: Evidence from the U.K 

      Pathania, Vikram (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-09-14)
      When taking up high-cost debt signals poor credit risk to lenders, consumers must trade off alleviating credit constraints today with exacerbating them in the future. We document this trade-off by exploiting the random ...

    • A mixed integer linear programming model for optimal sovereign debt issuance 

      Date, Paresh (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-09-02)
      Governments borrow funds to finance the excess of cash payments or interest payments over receipts, usually by issuing fixed income debt and index-linked debt. The goal of this work is to propose a stochastic optimization-based ...

    • Batching Decisions for E-Commerce Order Fulfilment: Technology, Models, and Data Insights 

      Roy, Debjit (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 ...

    • Building legitimacy in an adverse foreign environment: when the liability of foreignness can become a source of competitive advantage? 

      Caussat, Paul (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 ...

    • Econometric Identification of Causal Effects: Graphical Causal Models in Practice 

      Kallapur, Sanjay (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 ...

    • Taming Wicked Problems in Strategy Wicked Strategies and the Business of Humanity 

      Camillus, John C. (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 ...

    • Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship in India: Opportunity and Challenges 

      Jaisingh, Pradeep (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-24)
      Healthcare industry in India is one of the fastest growing one and presents tremendous opportunity for entrepreneurship across the entire spectrum. The industry is projected to grow to $ 280 billion by 2020 from the current ...

    • Disruption and Resilience Issues in Freight Transportation 

      Verma, Manish (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 ...