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    • Licensing Intellectual Property and the Dissemination of Technology 

      Ghosh, Shubha (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. ...
    • Whatever it takes: The Real Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy 

      Acharya, Viral (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 ...
    • Quality and Patient Safety 

      Kalra, K K (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-07-15)
      Patient safety has been conceptualized as the avoidance, prevention and amelioration of adverse outcomes or injuries stemming from structure & processes. Safety issues in medication, infection control surgery & ...
    • An Extraordinary Opportunity for Leading Indian Management Schools in MBA programs 

      Patel, Nitin (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 ...
    • Do Programs Mandating Small Business Lending Disincentivize Growth? Evidence from a Policy Experiment 

      Prabhala, N R (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 ...
    • Public versus Private Provisioning: Role of Education and Political Participation 

      Ray, Tridip (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-06-28)
      This paper studies the role played by education in the public provision of private ‘merit goods’, such as healthcare, schooling, security and so on. Corruption is endemic in public provision. Better educated individuals ...
    • Choice of IT Governance Mode:Effect of IT infrastructure Agglomeration 

      Setia, Pankaj (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-06-17)
      Information technologies have enabled growth of large firms with multiple business units spread across geographies and markets. Governance of IT infrastructure is a key strategic priority for managing digitally-enabled ...
    • Models for scaling up high quality affordable healthcare delivery: The case for Kidney care in India 

      Sankar, Suresh (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-03-30)
      Kidney disease is the laggard entrant into the Non communicable disease epidemic unfolding in India. Chronic kidney disease in its advanced stage has complex treatment options: Kidney Transplantation or Dialysis. Since the ...
    • 51st Annual Convocation (2016)  

      Bhattacharya, Arundhati; Patel, Pankaj; Nanda, Ashish (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-03-19)
      51st Annual convocation held at IIM Ahmedabad (1) Chief Guest - Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson, State Bank of India (2) Chairman - Shree Pankaj Patel (3) Director - Prof. Ashish Nanda
    • Medical Technology in Indian Context 

      Kakkar, Ashok (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-02-23)
      Increasingly medical technology is becoming a key enabler of healthcare right from prevention to treatment. While the rapid advances in technology have enhanced the precision & efficacy of healthcare interventions, it ...
    • Skilled Migrants' Relocation Decisions and Resettlement Processes: The Embedded Role of Emotional Labour 

      Sinha, Paresha; S., Dyer; M., Akoorie (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-03-11)
      International mobility of skilled migrants involves their agency in shaping their social, cultural, economic, and symbolic capitals. This research emphasises the rationality embedded in skilled migrants’ migration decisions. ...
    • Citius, Altius, Fortius: A History of How the World Became Efficient 

      Malghan, Deepak (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-03-09)
      The talk is derived from an early stage, multi-year book project that investigates the historical political economy of the idea of efficiency. The history and political economy of the spread of efficiency to distant corners ...
    • Supply Allocation under Sequential Advance Demand Information 

      Papier, Felix (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-03-08)
      We study the problem of allocating supply under advance demand information (ADI). We consider a company that must allocate limited inventory to different markets that open sequentially. To reduce uncertainty, the company ...
    • Mother Tongue Day Celebration - 2016 

      Unknown author (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-03-04)
      IIM Ahmedabad - Mother Tongue Day Celebration for year 2016
    • Aviation Trends and Airbus Strategy in India 

      Dwarakanath, Srinivasan (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-02-22)
      PGPX Class of 2016 has organized a Speaker Series Session on Aviation Trends and Airbus Strategy in India by Dr Srinivasan Dwarakanath, Managing Director, Airbus India on Monday 22 Feb, 2016 at CR1, IMDC Block New Campus, IIMA
    • When Near is Far and Far is Near:FDI, Geographic Location and Connectivity 

      Nachum, Lilac (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-02-01)
      Building on sociology theories that separate physical geography from its metaphorical connotations, we offer reconciliation for the theoretical ambiguity and conflicting empirical findings regarding the impact of countries’ ...
    • An Analysis of Multivariate final-offer arbitration 

      Powers, Brian (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-29)
      First proposed in 1966, in the United States Final-Offer Arbitration has been adopted by Major League Baseball as well as in the public sector in many states as a means or resolving negotiation impasses. We will discuss ...
    • Sports Management - The Indian landscape 

      Yadav, Rajiv (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-02-09)
      Guest session in SPM course on Sports Management - The Indian landscape by Sri Rajiv Yadav (IAS), GOI, Secretary, Ministry of Sports at CR4, IIM Ahmedabad
    • Game theory - The Mathematics for Conflict Resolution 

      Raghavan, T.E.S (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-28)
      Game theory can be broadly classified into cooperative and non cooperative games. In non-cooperative games the key solution concept is the notion of a Nash equilibrium. In cooperative games, the key issue is how to split ...
    • E-GOVERNMENT TO COMBAT CORRUPTION IN INDIA & JOURNAL OF IT CASE AND APPLICATION RESEARCH (JITCAR) 

      Jain Palvia, Shailendra C. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-18)
      Corruption in varying degrees exists in almost all countries. But its alarmingly high levels and persistence in developing countries such as India is a cause for deep concern. Indeed, international agencies and governments ...