Browsing R & P Seminar by Title

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    • The Fallacy of National Culture 

      Venaik, Sunil Dr (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-10-30)
      The international business and management literature is dominated by the national culture perspective pioneered by Hofstede (1980) with his national culture dimensions and scores, and extended by Gelfand et al. (2011), ...

    • Financial Analyst: When Just One Method is Worse 

      Nathan, Siva (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014-12-23)
      The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on December 23, 2014 by Prof. Siva Nathan, Georgia State University, USA

    • Financialization of commodity markets 

      Basu, Devraj (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-01-21)
      The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on January 21, 2015 by Dr Devraj Basu, strathclyde Business School, Scotland

    • The formation of partnerships in social networks 

      Dutta, Bhaskar (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-08-17)
      This paper analyzes the formation of partnerships in social networks. Agents randomly request favors and turn to their neighbours to form a partnership. If favors are costly, agents have an incentive to delay the formation ...

    • A Framework Model on MNE's Impact on Global Development Challenges in Emerging Markets 

      Gupta, Suraksha (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-15)
      MNEmerge is a three-year (2014–2016) collaborative research project funded by the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under Grant Agreement No. 612889. The project ...

    • Fraud, Corruption and Bribery: How to Detect and How to Prevent 

      Kumar, Kuldeep (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-04-26)
      Much of the rhetoric from India's last electoral campaigns has focused on corruption. In fact billions of dollars are lost every year due to fraud related activities. Financial fraud and then the consequent bankruptcy of ...

    • From Clients to Citizens: Lessons from Brazil's Bolsa Familia for Delhi 

      Priyam, Manisha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-17)
      This presentation is a comparative reflection on welfare policy implementation in an Indian city--the city state of Delhi, which is also the national capital, in the light of lessons from Brazil's Bolsa Familia social ...

    • 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 ...

    • Geographical dissimilarity and team member influence: do emotions experienced in the initial team meeting matter? 

      Gupta, Vishal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-07-26)
      It is both important and challenging to gain influence within geographically diverse teams. In the present study, we argue that the emotions team members experience in their initial team meetings moderate the effect of ...

    • Global Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment 

      Naidu, Ravi (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-08-03)
      The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 Committee Room, IIM Ahmedabad on August 3, 2015 by Prof. Ravi Naidu, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation ...

    • Global sourcing of Services: Strategies, Issues and Challenges 

      Jain Palvia, Shailendra C. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-04-11)
      The world has gone through three waves of sourcing and we are on the cusp of fourth wave. These waves appear to parallel agricultural, industrial, information/Internet, and now the cloud age. It is crucial to pay attention ...

    • Globalization, Quality and Inequity in Education and Economic Growth - Lessons for India for China 

      Raut, Lakshmi K (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-02-12)
      The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on February 12, 2015 by Dr. Lakshmi K. Raut, Social Security Administration, Washington, DC, USA

    • Governance for premier business schools 

      Hawawini, Garbriel (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013-10-22)

    • The Growing Importance of Financial Spillovers from Emerging Markets 

      Surti, Jay (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-03-22)
      Has growing trade and financial integration resulted in an increase in outward shock spillover from emerging economies to global financial markets? Over the last two decades, transmission of emerging market shocks to equity ...

    • Growth out of the blue: nightlight and economic activity 

      Rama, Martin (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-14)
      Measuring GDP is especially challenging in developing countries, where the informal sector is large and institutional constraints can be severe. As a result, GDP growth estimates are often met with skepticism. But new ...

    • Health communications: Going from aversion to persuasion 

      Agarwal, Nidhi (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-13)
      In this talk, I will present a sampling of studies that investigate factors and processes that shape health persuasion. We will examine whether and why people are averse to health persuasion and how these barriers can be ...

    • Heisenberg's uncertainty: physics, ethics and politics 

      Mitra, Ranadhir (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013-03-07)

    • Help or hindrance? Implications of fully automated vehicles 

      Wadud, Zia (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-05-30)
      Experts predict that new automobiles will be capable of driving themselves under limited conditions within 5-10 years, and under most conditions within 10-20 years. Automation may affect road vehicle energy consumption and ...

    • Hierarchical decision-making produces persistent differences in learning performance 

      Warglien, Massimo (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-02)
      Human organizations are commonly characterized by a hierarchical chain of command that facilitates division of labor and integration of effort. Higher-level employees set the strategic frame that constrains lower-level ...

    • High Non-GAAP Earnings Predict Abnormally High CEO Pay 

      Kothari, S P (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-09)
      Using the standard academic model of executive compensation, we document excessive CEO pay for the S&P 500 firms that report non-GAAP earnings that are much higher than their GAAP earnings. We also find that, on average, ...