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What is Impactful Research?
(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 ...
Indian Brand of Crony Capitalism: The Cultural Underpinnings
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-01-06)
One grave concern that the Indian economy/society face today is that of ubiquitous corruption/cronyism. Despite its importance, there is dearth of scholarly treatment of this phenomenon. In this presentation, we examine ...
Development Conflicts We Know Nothing Of
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-02-08)
The typical narrative of development conflict is of a rapacious industry that is unwilling to share the gains of development with people affected by projects and, instead, prone to paying off politicians, bureaucrats and ...
Selection of Inputs and Outputs in Data Envelopment Analysis
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-01-09)
Productive efficiency lies in producing the maximum output from a given bundle of inputs or using the minimal input for a target bundle of outputs. The method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) introduced in the OR/MS ...
Art and science of financial analysis using simple cases
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-01-04)
In my own teaching experience at top business schools, I have found that the MBA curriculum often lacked the one class that brings together knowledge from diverse areas such as accounting, economics, finance, production ...
Are Subsidies on Drip Irrigation Working? Evidence from Gujarat?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-02-21)
Subsidies on technologies that reduce environmental externalities are popular with policy makers in developing countries. However, given “investment inefficiencies” and the multiple other factors potentially inhibiting ...
Designing retail stores to maximize visual experience
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-03-07)
The physical layout of a retail store is known to influence the stimuli and behavior of shoppers, eventually affecting their personal experience and store performance. This talk will focus on the visual stimuli of a shopper ...
The US-China Business Relationship - Bi-Polar or the Two Pillars of a Stable World Economy – With Implications for India?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-03-06)
This is more of a policy-oriented presentation discussing the extent of trade and FDI involvement between the US and China and what is at stake in the relationship in terms of money, jobs, manufacturing competitiveness, ...
The Growing Importance of Financial Spillovers from Emerging Markets
(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 ...
Global sourcing of Services: Strategies, Issues and Challenges
(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 ...