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Assessing the Changing Employment Profiles in the Telecom Sector: Implications for Education and Training
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2008)
The telecom sector in India has been growing very rapidly. This means that this sector offers attractive employment opportunities. To exploit these opportunities, the sector needs people with appropriate employment profiles ...
Price and Volatility Spillovers across North American, European and Asian Stock Markets: With Special Focus on Indian Stock Market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
This paper investigates interdependence of fifteen world indices including an Indian market index in terms of return and volatility spillover effect. Interdependence of Indian stock market with other fourteen world markets ...
Managing M&A from strategic intent to integration : IOC's acquisition of IBP and after
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
This paper, in the nature of a case study, discusses the entire range of managerial issues addressed by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOC) in the acquisition, subsequent merger and post-merger integration of IBP Co. ...
Toilets and Trains
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
Indian Railways (IR) is a large transport organization running 8700 trains, reaching 7000 stations and handling about 1.6 crore passengers per day. IR runs several long distant trains, some of which involve journeys upto ...
Development of Utility Function for Life Insurance Buyers in the Indian Market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
Insurance as a financial instrument has been used for a long time. The dramatic increase in competition within the insurance sector (in terms of providers coupled with awareness for the need for insurance) has resulted in ...
Grading Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in India’s Capital Markets A Globally Unique Concept
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
IPO grading assesses the fundamentals of the Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and is reflected on a five-point point scale (1-5) with a higher score indicating stronger fundamentals of the IPO issuing firm. SEBI (India ...
Loyalty Programmes: Practices, Avenues and Challenges
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
Complexity of modern business requires managers to strive for innovative strategies to acquire and retain customers in any product market field. As acquiring new customers is getting costlier day by day, business organizations ...
An Optimization-Based Decision Support System for Strategic Planning in a Process Industry: The Case of an Aluminum Company in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
We describe how a generic multi-period optimization-based decision support system (DSS) can be used for strategic planning in process industries. The DSS is built on five fundamental elements- materials, facilities, ...