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Fellow Programme in Management

Doctoral Programme 2014

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01 Message03 About IIMA04 Doctoral Programme at IIMA06 Programme Overview

AREAS

08 Agriculture 10 Business Policy 12 Economics 14 Finance and Accounng 16 Informaon Systems 18 Innovaon and Management in

Educaon

20 Markeng 22 Organizaonal Behaviour 24 Personnel and Industrial Relaons 26 Producon and Quantave Methods 28 Public Systems

30 Resources at IIMA32 Admissions and Financial Aid

34 Phase I and II Courses35 Area Courses45 Faculty49 Feedback

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IIM Ahmedabad is Indias premier management school, world renowned for its excellencein management research and education. FPM is one of the core programmes at IIMA. Itcontributes to the institutes mission by pursuing cutting edge research in management.

FPM prepares qualified and capable scholars who will shape management thought in academicinstitutions and management organizations. We recruit highly motivated individuals withoutstanding academic backgrounds to the FPM programme. The doctoral programme providesparticipants exposure to a broad variety of research interests and faculty deeply engaged

with industry and policy. Students develop a strong theoretical foundation through courseworkin particular areas and receive training in research methods. At the dissertation stage, theopportunity to engage actively and deeply with management practitioners and policymakersencourages students to conduct interdisciplinary research and provides them the flexibility touse the appropriate research method for their research questions.

The mix of breath of coverage, proximity to practice, and flexibility in methodology enablesdoctoral students to undertake meaningful research on complex and relevant topics. Supportingthe academic research is cutting edge infrastructure, including the best management library inIndia and state of out access to online resources for research.

The doctoral programme enrolled its first student in 1971 and graduated its first student in1974. Since then, 305 doctoral students have been conferred with the title Fellow of the IndianInstitute of Management Ahmedabad. They have gone on to contribute significantly tomanagement academies.

We invite you to consider our doctoral programme and would be happy to discuss youracademic interests if you have the inclination and commitment to undertake rigorous training,

conduct research relevant to management thought and practice, and subsequently pursue anacademic career with focus on research.

MessageAshish Nanda

Director


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Neharika Vohra

Chairperson, FPM

IIM Ahmedabad needs no introduction to those situated in business and governance in thecountry. There are various ways in which IIMA contributes to the business and governanceethos of the world. The FPM program at IIMA provides an opportunity to study complexissues that face organizations today.

The primary objective of this programme is to prepare academic leaders for the future whowill shape management thought in academic institutions and organizations and Institutions.

Towards this end, we seek highly motivated individuals with outstanding academic backgrounds,to apply to the FPM programme. Scholars from all disciplines and all ages, and related areinvited to apply.

The Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) is one of the core elements in the ongoingresearch effort at the Institute. The variety of research interests, exposure and involvementof faculty with industry and government of the faculty at IIMA provides opportunitiesto participants in the doctoral programme to pursue their research interests. With facultyinvolvement, students develop theoretical foundation through coursework in a given area,receive training in a variety of research methods, and work on their dissertation to make ascholarly contribution. The program provides opportunities to do interdisciplinary researchand also encourages the use of the most appropriate research method.

The academic infrastructure at the Institute enables a doctoral participant to undertakeinteresting, meaningful, and complex research topics. The Institute has one of the best librariesand has invested heavily in online resources for researchers.

As of date 305 FPMs have graduated to become Directors of IIMs, faculty at management

Institutes around the world, senior consulting positions etc. Come join this growing fraternityof people who have gone ahead to make progress in their dream careers.

Message


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Fellow Programme Management 3

The Indian Instute of Management, Ahmedabad

(IIMA) has over forty years of leadership in

management educaon. It was established

in 1961 as an autonomous Instuon by theacve collaboraon of the government of India,

government of Gujarat, and industry. Today, it is

not only a leader in applied management educaon

in Asia, but also one of the nest instuons of

management educaon in the world. Applicants

to FPM possess from diverse backgrounds; only

the best amongst them are admied.

IIMA was conceived as a school of management

and not purely as a business school. Its mission

is to contribute to development of managementthought through research, teaching, instuon

building, and consulng. It also aims to

professionalize some of the vital sectors of Indias

economy such as agriculture, educaon, health,

transportaon, energy, and public administraon.

IIMA has a large and disnguished faculty whose

contribuons to management research are

signicant. IIMAs faculty work on industry and

government sponsored research, and lend their

experse to industry and other strategic sectors.IIMAs emphasis on academics and the eorts

of its faculty are responsible for the Instutes

posion as a top management school in Asia.

Fellow Programme inManagement(equivalent to a Ph.D.)

FPM

PGP-ABM

PGPX

FDP

MDP

PGPPost-Graduate Programme inManagement(equivalent to an MBA)

Post-Graduate Programme inAgri-business Management

One year Post-GraduateProgramme in Management forExecuves

Faculty DevelopmentProgramme for teachers ofmanagement schools

Management DevelopmentProgrammes for execuvesin private and public

IIMA oers several programmes for the development of management

About IIMA


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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, AHMEDABAD4

The programme oers research training in the following eleven areas of specializaon:

Doctoral Programme at IIMA

The objecve of the Fellow Programme in Management

is to provide students with skills to idenfy and research

complex issues in the eld of management. FPM seeks

candidates with outstanding academic background

intellectual curiosity, and discipline needed to makescholarly contribuon.

FPM is a research programme. To selected students,

IIMA provides an excellent environment for carrying out

advanced research, thus creang highly commied re-

searchers trained in the most recent methodologies and

engaged in producing original research work.

The programme provides a diverse set of opportunies

for interdisciplinary educaon and research. The small

entering class ensures close interacon with the faculty;

students can determine their own direcons under the

guidance of the thesis advisory commiees.

The student becomes part of one of the eleven

funconal/ sectoral groups and acquires basic theorecal

knowledge and praccal aspects of the area. This allows

close interacon with faculty members, who provide the

intellectual smulaon and help develop the students

own research interests and professional goals. The

programme is strongly commied to preparing thought

leaders for the academic and corporate world.

Students spend generally a lile over four years that

includes two years of rigorous course work. From the

First term onwards students take advanced doctoral level

courses in the area of specializaon along with somerecommended PGP courses which provides a general

management overview and develop basic skills for

analyzing managerial problems. The doctoral dissertaon,

provides them with an opportunity to make original

contribuon to an area of management or to one of its

source disciplines.

Agriculture

Business Policy

Economics

Finance & Accounng

Informaon Systems

Innovaon and Management inEducaon

Markeng

Organizaonal Behaviour

Personnel and Industrial Relaons

Producon and QuantaveMethods

Public Systems

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IIMAs faculty have studied and worked in the best of

instuons within India and around the world. Their

involvement with public and private organizaons

internaonally allows them to bring relevant managerial

issues into the classroom and in their research. This

creates an exceponal environment for developing aresearch programme that can build sound theory for

analysing complex managerial problems.

Academic StandardsIIMA expects its doctoral students to achieve high levels

of academic scholarship and integrity. Candidates have

to meet the specifed academic requirements before

they can move from one phase of the programme to

another. Those who fail to maintain academic standards,

at any stage, may be advised to withdraw from the

programme. The programme helps build profciency in

undertaking original inquiry in a feld of management

by frst building an academic background in the areaof specializaon through course work, exhibingprofciencyin cung edge methodology and research by

compleng the comprehensive examinaon, and geng

trained to undertake original research by compleng the

dissertaon.

Academic AdvisorA member of the faculty from the students area in

consultaon with the Area Chairperson acts as an

academic advisor to the FPM students of the area. The

academic advisor acts as the students mentor ll the

TAC is formed. The Academic Advisor helps students

idenfy courses in their areas of interest, monitors theirperformance, and guides student during Phases I and II

of the programme. Students seeking summer projects

with the faculty may seek the help of the Academic

Advisor. Students are advised to closely interact with the

Academic Advisor of their area from the me they enter

the programme. This responsibility, however, is taken

over by the Thesis Advisor once the student enters Phase

III of the programme.

Faculty Seminars and WorkshopsFaculty seminars and research workshops are regularly

organized at the Instute. Doctoral students are expected

to regularly aend these acvies and acvely parcipatein them.


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Phase I

(First Year Course Work)

First Year FPM Compulsory

Courses

First Year Area FPM Courses

Courses from other Areas

and other Post Graduate

Programmes (PGP,PGP-

ABM,PGPX)

Programme Overview

Course Work:

The course work is spread across a minimum of ve terms. Each academicyear begins in June and ends in March/April and has three terms. All FPM

students, irrespecve of their areas of specializaon, take a set of compulsory

courses in their eld of specializaon and other interest areas. All students

are also required to take program-wide compulsory courses specially designed

to provide breadth of knowledge in the eld of management and also teaching

and research skills.

A student is expected to complete 30 course credits over the two years of the

FPM program. Irrespecve of their areas of specializaon all FPM students

take a set of compulsory courses in their rst and second year worth 10 credits

(7.5 in the rst year and 2.5 in the second year).

The rst year course work carries a total minimum credit requirement of 14.5

credits and a maximum of 18.00 credits. The second year course work carriesa total minimum credit of 15.5 credits and a maximum of 18.00 credits.

A minimum of 6 credits have to be earned from taking courses at the post

graduate programmes over two years.

During summer, at the end of the rst year of course work, students are

required to do a research project either with a faculty member at the Instute

or in any other organizaon. First year course work ends with successful

compleon of all the courses with a minimum prescribed prociency. While

students need to meet certain academic requirements across all courses, a

higher performance is required in certain Area Specied Courses.

(see area pages for details of such courses in each area).

Phase II

(Second Year Course Work)

Second Year FPM Compulsory

Courses

Second Year Area FPM Courses

Courses from other Areas

and other Post Graduate

Programmes (PGP,PGP-

ABM,PGPX)

Preparaon and Compleonof Area ComprehensiveExaminaon

Course on Communicaon forManagement Teachers (CMAT)

Phase III

Doctoral Dissertaon Formaon of Thesis Advisory

Commiee

Approval of Thesis Proposal

Research and Wring of

Dissertaon

Thesis Seminar

Thesis Defence


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Comprehensive Exam & CMAT:

Upon compleon of the course work, the studentstake the area comprehensive examinaon. The area

comprehensive examinaon tests whether the student

has obtained a sasfactory level of knowledge in his/

her eld of specializaon and whether he/she has

sasfactorily integrated the various courses taken in the

area.

Post Comprehensive Examinaon, student is required to

take (01 Credit) Compulsory Course on Communicaon

for Managemet Teachers (CMAT). This course is designed

to provide formal inputs on teaching and learning in class.

If and only if a student passes the comprehensive

examinaon, he/she enters the Thesis stage. The thesisstage consists of rst developing a thesis proposal, for

which the student idenes a thesis topic, forms a Thesis

Advisory Commiee [TAC], presents a seminar on the

thesis proposal to the IIMA academic community, and

gets the thesis proposal approved by the TAC. Then the

student works closely with the TAC on his/her thesis. On

compleon of the thesis research, the student submits

the thesis, gives a seminar, and defends the same.

Academic AssistanceAll FPM students past the successful compleon of their

comprehensive exam must assist in courses worth at least

0.75 credit (PGP/FPM).

Doctoral Dissertaon

The dissertaon or thesis provides the student withan opportunity to undertake original research in the

area of interest. The dissertaon should be a scholarly

contribuon to the knowledge pernent to the

understanding and resoluon of management problems.

Research is an essenal part of the doctoral students

training at IIMA. Throughout the programme, starng as

early as Phase I, students are encouraged to be acvely

involved in research acvies at the Instute and with

faculty members.

Phase III begins with the formaon of the Thesis Advisory

Commiee in the inial part of the third year. Students

are encouraged to meet faculty members with whom they

share research interests and seek their assistance in

idenfying a dissertaon topic as early as possible.

In addion to the close working relaonship during the

course work, this interacon helps the student nd a

thesis advisor and form the thesis advisory commiee.

The thesis advisor advises the student on his dissertaon

and chairs the thesis advisory commiee comprising at

least two other members.

The student develops a wrien proposal and with the

agreement of the thesis advisor gives a seminar on the

thesis proposal. The proposal has to be approved by the

thesis advisory commiee. From then onwards, the student

works closely with her/his thesis advisory commiee onthe dissertaon. When the candidates advisor judges that

the dissertaon is complete, the student gives a seminar

on the dissertaon work and subsequently defends orally

the dissertaon before a thesis examinaon commiee.

The FPM Chairperson appoints the thesis examinaon

commiee comprising of two members from the thesis

advisory commiee and two other members.

While the course work formally gets over with the

compleon of Phase II, doctoral students are encouraged

to connue taking advanced courses of interest even

during this last stage of study.


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The Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA) at IIMA is an inter-disciplinary

group, which was set up in 1963 and designated as a Centre in 1971. CMA is involvedin applied, policy, and problem solving research in food and agribusiness, rural and

allied sectors. Much of this is relevant to organizaons dealing with agri-inputs and

services such as seeds, ferlizers, agrochemicals, farm machinery and equipments,

rural credit, insurance as well as organizaons involved in procurement, processing,

and markeng of outputs such as foodgrains, fruits, vegetables, livestock products,

sh, poultry, and forest produce.

The CMA undertakes applied policy research in a wide range of elds, relevant to the

public, cooperaves, voluntary/non-prot and private sectors. The research studies

undertaken at CMA include issues of farm and allied producon, farm and allied

inputs, nance, markeng,internaonal agro trade,rural organizaonal planning,

implementaon, and monitoring, producers instuons, and rural development

planning, and administraon. The CMA faculty also undertake a large number of

policy-related research studies for the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India

as one of its three Agro-Economic Research Units (AERUs) in India. CMA provides

consulng services to naonal and internaonal, private, public, cooperave, and

voluntary organizaons.

Major ongoing and recently completed research projects include:

` Assessment of Marketed and Marketable Surplus of Major Foodgrains in Gujarat.

` Producer Companies in India: Organizaon and Performance.

` Management of Agri-business Contracts and Organizaons.

` Biotechnology in Agriculture: Examining the Promise, Performance, Concernsand Economics.

` Sustainability of Self-help and Joint-liability Group Instuons under Micro-nance.

` An Analysis of Resource Conservaon Technology: A Case of Micro-irrigaonSystem (Drip Irrigaon).

` Problems and Prospects of Oilseeds and Oil Palm Producon in India.

` Assessment of Marketed and Marketable Surplus of Major Foodgrains in India.

` Soil Health, Plant Health and Human Health.

` Coping with Climate Change through Agro-Biodiversity: A View from Below.

` Agro-input Markeng Models in India: Performance and Potenal.

` Irrigaon and Entrepreneurship: Status and Lessons for Improvements andExpansion.

The doctoral programme with specializaon in agriculture aims at developinggraduates for academic careers in leading management educaonal instuons,

which need faculty members who can address managerial issues related to food and

agri-business, rural, and allied sectors. Requirements for admission to the doctoral

programme in agriculture are menoned in the secon on Admission requirements.

Applicants to this area must have an aptude for research and inclinaon to work in

agribusiness or related sectors.

The ProgrammeA student specializing in the Agriculture area takes a wide range of courses including

those in the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programme is as follows.

Areas

Agriculture01

FACULTY

Bhamoriya, Vaibhav

Dholakia, Ravindra H

Gandhi, Vasant P

(Chairperson, CMA)

Gupta,Anil K

Jaiswal, Anand K

Raghuram, G

Sharma, Vijay Paul

Singh, SukhpalVarma, Poornima


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Some Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of students

Year Name Placement/CurrentOrganizaon

Thesis

2014 Dinesh JainInstuonal Interacon and Parcipave Decision-Making inDevelopment Programmes: A Study of Their Importance in EecveNatural Resource Management

2014Varsha KhandkerFaculty, TAPMI

Challenges in the Introducon of New Technologies: A Study of thePerformance and Adopon of Hybrid Rice in India

2013 Debdaa PalIIM, Indore

Managing Rural Instuonal Credit: Lessons from InterlinkedTransacons

2011 Brajesh Kumar Modeling Price Behavior and Convenience Yield in Indian CommodityFutures Markets

First Year Area FPM Course

` Agro-Food Value Chain Management and

Development

Second Year Courses

(This list is indicave and courses oered may dier)

` Agricultural Management I

` Agricultural Management II

` Agricultural Development Policy

` Advanced Course on Strategic Management of

Intellectual Property Rights (SMIPR)

` Instuon Building

` Rural Banking and Financial Inclusion

Third Year

` Comprehensive Examinaon

` Dissertaon

Fourth Year

` Dissertaon


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The primary focus of the Business Policy area is in inter-disciplinary and mul-

disciplinary issues in strategy and internaonal business. The area has undertakenresearch and consulng on organizaonal response to changes in the economic

environment of business, management and analysis of compeve forces,

business growth and diversicaon, mergers and acquisions, turnaround strategies,

innovaons and technology management, design of cross-border value chains and

constellaons, governance, compeveness and internaonal economic relaons,

management of public enterprises, small enterprises and entrepreneurship,

management of family owned organizaons, strategic management of intellectual

capital and organizaonal knowledge, innovaons and corporate strategy, and

strategic context of knowledge management. Some of the recent research projects

have been:

` Co-evoluon of capabilies in cross-border collaboraons

` Management of Innovaons and Technology` Commercializaon of Tradional Knowledge based Technologies by Small

Entrepreneurs: An Exploraon of Strategic and Policy Opons

` Corporate Governance for Shareholder Value

` The Business Logic of Dotcom Businesses

` Achieving Zero Customer Dissasfacon for Corporate Immortality

` Strategies of Family Owned Companies

` Strategic and Organizaonal Contexts for Innovaons in the Soware Sector

` Taking Charge and Reshaping Corporaons

` Governance of instuons

` Computaonal Models of Mergers and Acquisions

` Computaonal Models of Strategy Formulaon` Leadership Learning and Development

` Developing Mulcultural Teams

` Understanding Dynamic Capabilies

The programme develops knowledge, skills and atudes in students that will enable

them pursue rewarding academic careers in strategic management, internaonal

business, strategic organisaon development and corporate governance. Although

the requirements for admission to the programme are same as menoned in the

Admission Requirements secon, candidates entering this area would benet from

work experience in an organisaon for at least two years.

The Programme

A student specializing in the Business Policy area takes a wide range of coursesincluding those in the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programme

is as follows.

Students develop their own programme of study in consultaon with faculty to

complete course requirements.

FACULTY

Agarwal, Anurag K

Barua, S.K.

Basant, Rakesh

D Karthik

Dixit, M.R. (Area Chair)

Karna, Amit

Koshy, Abraham

Mamidi, Pavan

Mathur, Ajeet N.

N Ravichandran

Parmar, Ashis Jalote

Pathak, Akhileshwar

Sharma, Sunil

Singla, Chitra

Verma, Sanjay

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Some Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students


Thesis

2014 Kaushik RoyFaculty, Indian Instute ofManagement, Calcua

Development of Dynamic Capabilies in Internaonal Joint Ventures: AnInvesgaon Within the Context of Insurance Industry of an EmergingEconomy

2013 Rajnish Kumar Rai A study of Value Creaon and Value Appropriaon in Inter-Firm Alliancesof Simultaneous Cooperaon and Compeon

2013Sabyasachi SinhaIIM, Lucknow Managing Ambidexterity in Growthphase of Start-Up Firms

2012 Bhaskar BhowmickIIT, Kharagpur

Disconnuies of Environmental Elements, Firm Responses, andDynamic Capabilies: An Empirical Invesgaon of Interrelaons inSelect Indian Manufacturing Sectors


` Strategic Management I

Second Year Courses


` Advanced Seminar on Acon Research Methodologies

` Entrepreneurship

` Internaonal Strategic Management

` Strategic Management I and II

` Strategy and Innovaon

`

Economics of Strategy` Corporate Governance

` Data Management and Analysis for Organizaonal

studies

Third Year


` Dissertaon

Fourth Year

` Dissertaon


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Economics is a basic discipline for a well-rounded management educaon. The

curriculum for doctoral students, therefore, includes several courses in theorecaland applied economics. Signicant research has been done by faculty members

of the area on the eciency of public enterprises, scal and monetary policy,

sources of economic growth, comparave rates of growth in developing

countries, regional disparity in growth in India, planning for rural development and

employment, entrepreneurship development, regulaon (especially that relang

to infrastructure), innovaon and alliances at the rm level, labour market issues,

agricultural policy and trade issues, and policies relang to IPRs and FDI. Recent

faculty research projects have been:

` Small scale industries in India

` Reform of state owned enterprisesin India

` Compeon policy in India: Issuesfor a globalizing economy

` Technology capacity building withinrms

` Social security and personneleconomics

` The cooperave theory of matchingproblems

` Need assessment for achieving themillennium development goals

`

Development of Gujarat state:Selected aspects

` Sustainability of scal debt of statesin India

` Preparing an acon plan for thenaonal agricultural policy

` Regional dimension of economicgrowth in India

` Tax reforms in Gujarat state

` IT labour market

` Emerging IP policy needs for India

` Capability building in industrialclusters

` Savings and investment

` Salary xaon for public andgovernment sector employees[Studies for the Pay Commission]

` Programme evaluaon and impactassessment (NHRM, NREGS, RTE)

` Centre-State relaons, scaldevelopment & role of FinanceCommission

` Issues in scal responsibility andbudget management

` Use of input-output tables

` Economic and business forecasng

` Global economic environment andpolicy responses

` Capital market: eciency and pricingmodels

` SMEs, Reforms of PSUs, Compeon

` Informaon, Regulaon, Landmarkets, Educaon, Capital markets,

` Community failures, Labour andhuman capital, Corrupon

` Evaluaon of Mid-Day Meal Scheme

` Self-employment, Contracts

in academia, WTO & Texles,Agricultural issues,

` Reforms of agriculture, Inequality,Veterinary service delivery

` Economics of regulaon

` Pharmaceucal economics

` Experimental economics

` Applied game theory

` Applied econometrics

` Aggregate supply and growth

inaon trade-o

` Inter-sectoral terms of trade andsupply response in agriculture

` Primary healthcare and policies

` Energy pricing and policies

` Finland-India economic relaons

` Missing markets in internaonalbusiness

` How product markets and labourmarkets aect each other

` Are labour markets over-regulated orunder-regulated?

FACULTY

Basant, Rakesh

(Chairperson)

Deodhar, Sash


DSouza, Errol

Mathur, Ajeet

Morris, Sebasan

Pingali, Viswanath

Ram Mohan, T T

Sahay, Arvind

Sarin, Ankur

Sharma, Shru

Virmani, Vineet

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The programme has an explicit objecve of training students in the tools of modern economic analysis to make them

competent researchers and teachers. Most students have taken up teaching and research careers in leading academic

instuons or research and consultancy posions in business and government. The environment at IIMA provides

many opportunies to develop their skills by working closely with faculty and aending workshops and seminars.

The Programme

A student specializing in the Economics area takes a wide range of courses including those in the area of specializaon.A typical course set in the programme is as follows.


` Advanced Microeconomics

Second Year Courses


` Advanced Macro-economics

` Econometrics

`

Labour Markets in Developing Countries` Economics of Organisaon

` Monetary Theory and Policy

` Public Finance

(jointly oered with PSG Area)

` Game Theory and Applicaons

` Time Series Analysis

(jointly oered with Finance Area and P&QM Area)

` Economic Development and Growth

(jointly oered with Public Systems Group)

Third Year


` Dissertaon

Fourth Year

` Dissertaon

Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students


Thesis

2014 B. SundarRejoined his parent organizaon:Joint Director and Faculty (Foresteconomics), Andhra Pradesh ForestAcademy

Numeracy, Financial Literacy, Risk Atudes, and Impaence of ForestDependent Communies: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

2014 Indrajit Thakurata

Faculty, Indian Instute ofManagement, Indore

Rich Dad, Poor Dad: Life-Cycle Porolio Savings & Human Capital

Accumulaon

2013 Palakh JainConsultant, ICRIER

Determinants of Inter-Country Variaons in Outward Foreign DirectInvestment and Cases of Outward FDI from India


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The teaching and research interests of the Finance and Accounng Area spans a

broad range of issues such as, corporate disclosure, management control, corporatenance, corporate governance, asset pricing, market microstructure, management of

nancial instuons, risk management, nancial regulaon and empirical methods in

nance. The faculty members are vigorously engaged in both academic and applied

research. The Area faculty members serve on several government commiees and

corporate boards.

Some of the recent research projects undertaken by faculty in the Area are:

` Liquidity and bid-ask spread behavior in the Indian market

` Block trading and market microstructure issues

` Systemac risk factors in the Indian stock market

` Inuence of senment in market-wide pricing of assets

` Underpricing of IPOs in the Indian capital markets

As the primary emphasis of the programme is to prepare students to engage in high

quality research, candidates must possess a strong aptude for abstract thinking

and quantave analysis. Requirements for admission to FPM in Finance and

Accounng are menoned in the Admission Requirements secon later.

The ProgrammeThe programme has a two-year coursework phase followed a dissertaon phase,

which usually takes about two years. The coursework takes the students through a

range of courses, intended to familiarize the parcipants with the core theorecal

foundaons, empirical methods, and stylized empirical realies of modern nance.

A student specializing in the Finance & Accounng area takes a wide range of courses

including those in the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programmeis as follows.

FACULTY

Agarwalla, Sobhesh K.

Barua, Samir K.

Desai, Naman

Gandhi, Shailesh

Jacob, Joshy

Laha, Arnab K.

Nagar, Neerav

Pandey, Ajay

Patel, Rajendra

Premchander

Ram Mohan, T T

Sinha, Sidharth

Varma, Jayanth R.

(Chairperson-F&A)

Venkateshan, Prahalad

Virmani, Vineet

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` Asset Pricing

Second Year Courses


` Asset Pricing

` Empirical Methods in Finance` Seminar Course in Corporate Finance

` Derivaves Pricing

` Seminar Course in Empirical Accounng Research

` Empirical Research in Auding and Corporate

Governance

` Mathemacal Finance

` Time Series Analysis

` Behavioural Finance and Accounng

` Seminar on Privazaon

` Advanced Management Control Systems

Third Year


` Dissertaon

Fourth Year

` Dissertaon (connued from third year)



Thesis

2011 Priyanka SinghAnalystHSBC, Bangalore

The Dynamics of Bid-Ask Spread in an Order Driven Market: The Case ofIndian Stock Market

2010 Sobhesh Kumar AgarwallaIIM, Ahmedabad

Intraday Acvity Paerns and Market Microstructure Eects in IndianCapital Markets: An Empirical Invesgaon Using High Frequency Data

2007 Nishant JainGTZ, Delhi

Managing Transmission System Inadequacy Using Duals in RestructuredElectricity Markets


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The Informaon Systems Area was set up to respond to the importance of,

and need for, research in computer applicaons in management of government,private and public enterprises, and other forms of organizaons. Starng in the

1970s in an environment that was largely unaware of the potenal benets

of computerizaon, IS Area has worked at idenfying potenal applicaons,

implemenng these applicaons in public and private sectors, and designing

and oering courses related to its area of work.

The thrust of the Area is to stay at the cung edge of management compung

and facilitate development of decision-making capabilies for socio-economic

development. Research in decision support systems, expert systems, computer aided

instrucon, management informaon systems, algorithm design, developmental

informacs, soware export, etc. has been an important tool in achieving this

objecve. Recent research has been in e-Governance, mobile ad-hoc networks, ICT

for development, decision support systems, public administraon, design of networkconguraons and informaon integraon. Some recent research projects are:

` Knowledge management in soware and other industries

` Design and analysis of algorithms for project management

` Modeling of supply chain management problems

` Designing and managing enterprise wide digital infrastructure

` Community radio for rural mobile ad-hoc networks

` Object oriented frameworks for parallelized nonlinear opmizaon

` Frameworks for evaluaon of e-Government Projects

` Business intelligence

` Open innovaon

As the interests of the faculty are very broad, research topics chosen by doctoralstudents also tend to have wide variety. Based on the topic of dissertaon, tools

used in the research may vary and may include user surveys, decision support

systems, and opmizaon techniques such as integer or non-linear programming.

Some topics could need extensive soware development.

A thesis in informaon systems could be conceptual and a researcher could

build on exisng literature or develop case studies. While the dissertaon need

not necessarily use sophiscated technical tools, the topic should be necessarily

concerned with informaon systems. It is essenal that a doctoral student should

have a good insight into and appreciaon for the role of informaon technology in

management and skills for model building and analysis to understand the impact of

decisions involved in this area.

In the past, doctoral students have worked in areas like: Mul-mode mulple

resource constraints in project scheduling and machine scheduling problems, Study

of Indian telecom startup rms in the context of new rm formaons, Developing

e-Government impact assessment framework, Collaboraon in Internet enabled

supply chains, Developing and opmizing the distribuon model for electronic

supply chain management systems in the Indian context, Alliances and partnerships

in electronic businesses, Studying the behaviour of buyers and sellers in an

e-commerce context, and Developing a framework for evaluang open innovaon

projects.

The ProgrammeA student specializing in the Informaon Systems area takes a wide range of courses

including those in the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programmeis as follows.

FACULTY

Barua, Samir K

George, Kandathil

Jain, Rekha (Chairperson)

Krishnamoorthy Srikumar

Ranganathan, Kavitha

Verma, Sanjay

(Adjunct Faculty)

Bhatnagar, Subhash

Jajoo, B H

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` Data Structures and Programming

Second Year Courses


` Algorithms and Data Structures

` Computer Architecture and Systems Soware

` Database Management and Online Transacon

Processing

` Data Mining Algorithms and Systems Soware

` Informaon Systems Frameworks

` Programming

` Distributed Compung Systems

` Systems Analysis and Design

Third Year


` Dissertaon

Fourth Year

` Dissertaon

Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students


Thesis

2013 Sudeep K. KrishnanEXL

Degree of Openness and Project Performance: A Mul-CountryEmpirical Assessment of Open Innovaon Informaon TechnologyIniaves

2012 Madhukar DayalDirector Research (EngineDevelopment), Ministry of Railways,Government of India (Bharat ManakNagar, LucknowSarkar),

New Exact methods for Scheduling Mul Mode Mulple ResourceConstrained Project Scheduling Problems

2011 Prageet AeronAssistant Professor,Jindal Global Business School,Sonipet, Delhi

Capability Building Leading to Commercializaon: A Study of ProductBased Indian Telecom Start-Ups


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The Ravi J. Mahai Centre for Educaonal Innovaon (RJMCEI) was formally set upin 1991, aer a group of faculty members had worked for three years on educaonal

training and research, and instuon building in educaon. From an inial focus

on instuon building and higher educaon, the mandate of the RJMCEI has

gradually expanded to include primary educaon, literacy and secondary educaon.

The common thread running through the Centres various acvies is a focus on

innovaons and innovave approaches to countering problems in educaon. The

RJMCEI is involved in applied and policy research in educaon that is relevant to public

educaon systems. Research undertaken at the RJMCEI has included innovave

responses to the issues of basic educaon and literacy, and to management issues in

higher educaon, including management and technical educaon. Members of the

RJMCEI also provide consulng services to naonal and internaonal organizaons.

Major on-going and recently completed projects include:

` Mainstreaming the Knowledge of Innovave Praconers: Research into thepracces of outstanding elementary teachers working in state-run systems.

` The antecedents and consequences of teacher-driven innovaons in publicschooling systems.

` Case studies of Innovave schools (ongoing): Nilobray Vidyalaya, RalegaonSiddhi (a school which takes in failed and ansocial students), Parikrama School,Bangalore (English medium school for slum children), and other schools.

` Project Based method of teaching and learning: Its relaonship to cognive-movaonal aspects of students learning and to teachers job sasfacon, self-esteem and creavity.

` Leadership training in the engineering and industrial training sectors.

` Same Language Subtling: This project built on the principle of reinforcingthe learning of newly-literate people through sub-tling of songs in the samelanguage. Same Language Subtling (SLS) on TV for Naonal Literacy won theBest Social Innovaon for the year 2000 in the Educaon category from TheInstute for Social Invenons, London (U.K.), and was winner at DevelopmentMarketplace, World Banks Global Innovaon Compeon, January 9-10, 2002.

` Instuon Building at IIMA: a three-volume series (starng in 1993 and ending in2011) which is a collecon of reecons of various stakeholders.

` Innovaons in Rural Higher Educaon.

In addion, the RJMCEI has prepared a number of case studies on Indian, Asian

and African management educaon instutes, and on higher technical educaon

in Germany. Members of the RJMCEI have parcipated in assessments of primary

educaon programmes like the District Primary Educaon Programme/ SarvaShiksha Abhiyan, and systems like the Navodaya Vidyalayas and Nehru Yuvak

Kendras.

The doctoral programme with specializaon in Innovaon and Management inEducaonaims at developing robust research scholars and teachers who can take upleadership roles in educaonal organizaons and systems. The focus on innovaon

and management will develop in the graduates a unique academic capability that

combines a management perspecve with the broader theme of innovaon. This

ts in with the emerging demand for people with fresh perspecves on educaonal

change from a wide range of emerging academic instuons, organizaons that

provide services and ancillary support to the regular educaonal structures, well-

established naonal and internaonal educaonal planning organizaons and

academic instuons, and various research bodies and social think tanks.

The requirements for admission to the doctoral programme in Innovaon

and Management in Educaon are menoned in the secon on Admission

Requirements. Applicants must have an aptude for research and inclinaon to

work in educaon or related sectors.

FACULTY

Gupta, Anil K

Ranganathan, Kavitha

Sarin, Ankur

Sharma, Rajeev

Vijaya Sherry Chand

(Chairperson-RJMCEI)

Vohra, Neharika

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The ProgrammeA student specializing in the Innovaon and Management in Educaon area takes a wide range of courses including

those in the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programme is as follows.


` Educaon: Theory, Policy, Pracce

Second Year Courses


` Analyzing and Evaluang Educaonal Policy

` Change and Innovaon in Educaon: Structure,

Processes, Strategy and Leadership

` Educaon: Theories, Policies and Performance

` Advanced Qualitave Research Methods in Educaon

` Public Financing of Educaon

` Understanding Higher and Professional Educaon

` Organizaonal Development and Change in

Educaonal Instuons

` Technology in Educaon

` Innovaon and Change in Educaon

` Using Quantave Methods for Causal Inference in

Educaon Research

Third Year


` Dissertaon

Fourth Year

` Dissertaon


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FACULTY

Abhishek

Banerjee, Arindam

G Raghuram

Gandhi, Vasant P

Jaiswal, Anand Kumar

Koshy, Abraham

Laha, Arnab

Mukherjee, Saral

Sahay, Arvind

Sharma, Dheeraj

(Chairperson-

Markeng)

Sinha, Piyush Kumar

Subramaniam,

Ramanathan

Tripathi, Sanjeev

Verma, Sanjay

Markeng Area faculty has wide range of interests in research and dominant

interest in case wring. The research interests include consumer informaonsearch and consumer choice; consumer response to adversing, sales promoon,

dynamic pricing, and country of origin; strategic response of organizaons to

dynamic market condions, sales peoples customer orientaon, brand extension

strategies, relaonship markeng, B2B markeng, ethic logiscs, new product

introducon and management, internaonal markeng strategies of rms, dierent

pricing strategies; strategic rm behaviour under compeve condions (using

mathemacal modeling techniques), compeve strategies, comparave impact

of markeng spend on shareholder value, alliances and rm cooperaon, market

driving strategies, customer based business strategies, strategies for retailing, etc.

Some recent research projects are:

` Market driven vs. market

driving: A conceptual framework` How to use dynamic pricing for

prots

` Consumer informaon searchprocess prior to making a purchase

` Adversing compeon in marketsthat exhibit brand loyalty

` E-word of Markeng

` Stochasc versus EDLP pricecompeon

` Aect and Cognion in ConsumerBrand Relaonships

` Impact of new brand entry onconsideraon sets

` Impact of markeng spend onshareholder value

` Markeng Organisaon

` cognive load and consumer choice

` Ethics in Markeng

` Customer Informaon SearchProcess and Movaon.

` Eect of Language Adaptaon onEcacy of Adversements.

` Strong vs weak brands

` Sequalizaon of ComparaveAdversing and its Strategic Eects

` Business to Business Relaonship

` Framing Eects of User Generated

Reviews in Online Environment` Country/Place of Origin Biases in

Consumer Percepons

` Neuroscience and consumerbehavior

` A customer oriented approach tocompeve advantage

` Managing brand personality andbrand relaonships (inuence offamily, gender, and peers on level ofbrand relaonships and impact onpurchase behavior)

` Behavioral dierences in customerreacons to pricing in emerging vs.developed markets

` Shopper Markeng

` Price Framing

` Public Policy and Markeng

` The Role of Hapc Touch on ProductEvaluaon in Dierent ShoppingSituaons

` Relaonship between Sasfacon,Loyalty and Protability

` Private Labels

`

Social Markeng` Gratude, Obligaon and

Relaonship investment

` Organisaonal Ethics

Signicant contribuons in case research span business and non-business

enterprises and encompass almost all areas of markeng management in the

Indian context. Between April 2007 and March 2012, the markeng area faculty

have wrien more than 50 new cases based on eld data. The business contexts

covered include informaon technology, manufacturing, automobiles, retailing,

nancial services, other services, online recruitment, and media. The decision areas

covered by the case studies cover all areas of markeng: segmentaon and targeng,

posioning, product, brand, price, adversing, sales promoon, distribuon, retail,

sales management, organisaon design, and strategy and strategic markeng.

Admission CriteriaThe requirements for admission into the doctoral programme in markeng are

the same as the ones menoned in the Admission Requirement secon. While it

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is not mandatory, prior academic and/or experienal

exposure to markeng and related areas would be of

some help for aspiring applicants. Successful applicants

should show potenal for developing abilies to (a)

understand and crystallize important and interesng

markeng problems, (b) conceptualize a research plan, (c)

implement the research plan, and (d) make original andsubstanal contribuon to the knowledge pool in the

domain of their inquiry.

The ProgrammeStudent will undertake doctoral level courses from various

domains in rst year. Students in the markeng area gain a

basic understanding of management through undergoing

a few courses in the rst year with PGP students. In

the second year, students build a strong background

through taking three dierent types of courses. Required

markeng area courses in the second year provide

parcipants an opportunity to build strong background in

quantave models in markeng, markeng strategy,applicaons of behavioural sciences in markeng,

markeng theory, and markeng management. They are

expected to take courses in research methodology such as

econometrics, experimental analysis, stascal analysis,

and mathemacal and applied game theory models in

markeng. Parcipants can gain a broad perspecve

in the eld of markeng management through taking a

package of graduate level markeng elecve courses inbrand management, sales and distribuon management,

markeng strategy, adversing and sales promoon,

retailing, logiscs, internet markeng and e-commerce,

strategic markeng, and customer based business

strategies. In order to complete their requisite credits,

a student, in consultaon with the faculty, can design

the second year course package from the three types of

courses.

The broad course designs in markeng in the rst year

are listed below. (This list is indicave and courses oered

may dier.) A typical course work in the second year also

is given below.


` Markeng Strategy

Second Year Courses


` Understanding Markeng Funcon and Markeng

Strategy (UMFMS)

`

Behavioural Science Applicaons in Markeng` Game Theory and Strategic Behaviour

` Seminar on Experimental Methods in Markeng

` Qualitave Method (Tentave).

` Seminar on Quantave Models in Markeng

` Mental Accounng, Pricing & Neuro Markeng

` Structural Equaon Modelling

` Markeng Theories and Contemporary Issues

` Reading Seminar in Markeng Management

` Internaonal Markeng Research and Teaching

Third Year


`

Dissertaon

Fourth Year

` Dissertaon



Thesis

2014 Bipul KumarFaculty, Indian Instute ofManagement, Indore

Broadening the Concept of Sustainability and Measuring its Impact onFirms Performance

2014 Manoj MoaniFaculty, Indian Instute ofManagement, Indore

Instrumental Leadership as a Determinant of Salesperson Performance:Applying the Extended Full Range Leadership Theory (FRLT)

2013 Basant Kumar PurohitSLRI

Impact of Perceived Overqualicaon on Salesperson Performance

2013 Mayank Jyotsna SoniAssistant Professor (Markeng),Delhi School of Business

Impact of Quanty Scarcity and Time Scarcity Appeals on ConsumersResponse: Role of Need for Uniqueness and Deal Proneness


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The Organizaonal Behaviour (OB) area is internaonally recognized for its teaching

and research. Faculty members in the area have diverse research interests whichinclude individual and interpersonal eecveness, job involvement, gender

issues at the workplace, work atude, organizaonal excellence, human resources

development, managerial culture and values, organizaonal dynamics and design,

organizaonal learning, management of change and strategic organizaons. Recent

research in the area has been on:

` Ethnicity and diversity at the workplace

` Work-family issues

` Technology, power, and work

` Organizaonal sense making

` Team work

`

Transformaon of organizaon and industry` Leadership

` Organizaonal commitment and psychological well-being

` Organizaon cizenship behaviour

` Cross-cultural issues

If students have an interest to apply their knowledge in their basic discipline such

as psychology or sociology to the organizaonal context, research in OB will allow

them to do so. It is not necessary for candidates to have an MBA degree, or a degree

in psychology or sociology, to do an FPM in the area. Rather, students from diverse

disciplines are encouraged to apply for the doctoral programme in OB.

The programme

A student specializing in the OB area takes a wide range of courses including thosein the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programme is as follows.

FACULTY

DCruz, Premilla

Gupta, Parvinder

(Chairperson-OB Area)

Gupta, Vishal

Kandathil, George

Khokle, Pradyumana

Noronha, Ernesto

Sharda, Kir

Sharma, Dheeraj

Sharma, Rajeev

Vohra, Neharika

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` Basics of Micro OB

Second Year Courses


` Advanced Micro OB

` Organizaon Structure and Processes` Organizaonal Diagnosis and Change 1

` Organizaonal Diagnosis and Change 2

` Organizaon Theory and its Social Context

` Classics in OB

` Perspecves of OB

` Quantave Methods and Analysis OR Qualitave

Methods and Analysis

` Craing and Publishing of Research

` Technology and Organizing

` Naonal Culture: Myths, Meaning and Measurement

` Leadership in Organizaons: A Review of Theory and

Research

Third Year` Comprehensive examinaon

` Dissertaon

Fourth Year

` Dissertaon


Year Name Placement/Current

Organizaon

Thesis

2013 Rahul Chandra Sheel Studying the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Percepons

on Employee Work Atudes

2012 Twisha Anand From Needing Help to Seeking Help: A Cross-Cultural Exploraon of

Interpersonal Help Seeking Behaviour in the Soware Industry

2012 Arvind Shatdal

Faculty, IIM Indore

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The Personnel and Industrial Relaons area comprises faculty members having

interests in HRM, employee/industrial relaons, labour economics, and industrial

sociology.

Current research interests of the faculty include -- philosophical foundaons of

HRM, strategic human resource management, internaonal and cross cultural HR,

performance management and high performing work organizaons, execuve

compensaon, employee empowerment, negoaons in business, and alternate

dispute resoluon, human resource informaon systems, public personnel

management, employment relaons, ethics in business, and corporate social

responsibility.

The admission requirements for the area are given in the secon on Admission

Requirements.

The ProgrammeA student specializing in the P&IR area takes a wide range of courses including those

in the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programme is as follows.

FACULTY

Agarwal, Promila

Chandwani, Rajesh

Jerome, Joseph

Maheshwari, Sunil

Singh, Manjari (Area Chiar)

Varkkey, Biju

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YearName Placement/Current

OrganizaonThesis

2013 Manisha Mishra

Asst Prof. (Human Capital

Management), Jindal Global Business

School (Sonipat)

An Exploratory Study of Post Implementaon Experienal Perceponsof Reservaons with Focus on Sgmazaon Processes in the HigherProfessional Educaon Context

2011 Mridul Maheshwari Workplace Gender Dilemmas: Insights from Womens Narraves

2011 Pauraja SelvarajIIM, Indore

A Study of Execuve Percepons of the Determinants of CompensaonDesign and Sasfacon

2011 Srinath Jagannathan A Study of Worker Insecurity in Four Industrial Relaons Contexts: APost Structural Approach

First Year Area FPM Course` Foundaons Course in HRM

Second Year Courses


` Foundaons of Research in HRM I

` Foundaons of Research in ERM I

` Foundaons of Research in HRM II

` Foundaons of Research in ERM II

` Internaonal Human Resource Management

` Qualitave Research Methods in HRM

` Quantave Techniques in HRM

Third Year` Comprehensive Examinaon

` Dissertaon

Fourth Year

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The Producon and Quantave Methods (P&QM) area oers courses on operaonsmanagement, operaons research, and stascs. Doctoral students in the area are

required to be procient in all the three areas while developing advanced level skills

at least one of the three. The area oers doctoral level courses in mathemacal

programming, stascs, stochasc processes, operaons management, technology

management, modelling, and contemporary manufacturing methods and techniques.

Faculty research interests in operaons management are on strategic or operaonal

issues related to manufacturing and service planning, supply chain coordinaon,

shop oor scheduling and improving producvity of plant operaons, design of

operaons, technological change and innovaon, R&D capabilies, economics of

exible operaons, process planning, etc. In operaons research faculty interests

include linear and integer programming, large scale opmizaon, combinatorial

opmizaon, revenue management and network opmizaon. Interest in this areais both in modeling as well as in development of algorithms and heuriscs for such

problems. Typical applicaon areas for research include nance, logiscs, and the

process industry. Faculty research interests in stascs are modeling nancial data,

modeling discrete data, nite populaon inference, survival analysis, reliability

analysis and stascal genecs.

The Programme

First and Second Years

During the two-year coursework phase, students take a wide range of courses,

including those in the area of specializaon and other management areas.

In the rst year, a student is required to take courses worth 14.5 to 18 credits. Thisincludes 7.5 credits of FPM courses common to all FPM students, and a 1 credit

area course specied by the P&QM area. The remaining courses to be credited are

decided upon jointly by the student and her/his academic advisor.

In the second year, a student is required to take courses worth 14.5 to 18 credits.

Among these, 2.5 credits are FPM compulsory courses common to all FPM students

and a few compulsory courses specied by the P&QM area. The remaining courses

to be credited are decided upon jointly by the student and her/his academic advisor.

An indicave list of elecves that students can choose from is given in the next

secon.

FACULTY

Bandyopadhyay, Tathagata

Barua, Samir K

Bhadra, Dhiman

Dua, Goutam

Ghosh, Diptesh

(Chairperson P&QM)

Guha, Apram

Jayaswal, Sachin

Laha, Arnab K

Mukherjee, Saral

Ravichandran, N

Roy, Debjit

Soman, Chetan A

Sriram, Karthik

Venkateshan, Prahalad

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Third Year and laterAt the beginning of the third year, a student is required to appear for and pass a comprehensive examinaon on the

courses that s/he has credited in the rst two years. On successful compleon of the comprehensive examinaon, a

student decides on a topic for her/his research and her/his thesis advisor. The student then presents and defends her/

his thesis proposal and works on her/his doctoral thesis.



Thesis

2013 Harish Venkatesh Rao Stochasc Opmizaon Based Decision Support System for Asset-liability Management in Life Insurance Firms

2013 Ravi KothariHSBC

Metaheuriscs for the Single Row Facility Layout Problem


` Introducon to Mathemacal Programming

Second Year Courses


` Advanced Probability in Management

` Mathemacal Programming and Discrete Opmizaon

` Seminar in Operaons Management I and II

` Systems Analysis and Simulaon

` Applied Mulvariate Analysis

` Applied Mulvariate Analysis for Qualitave

Dependent Variable

` Modelling for Management Decision Making

` Real Analysis` Stochasc Processes

` Network Opmizaon

` Stochasc Opmizaon

` Large-Scale Opmizaon

Third Year

` Comprehensive examinaon

` Dissertaon

Fourth Year

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The Public Systems Group (PSG) undertakes cung edge research, training, and

organizaonal work on strategic public management, public and social policy. Theobjecve of the group is to promote research that will generate concepts and theory

for eecve management of public systems, as well as gain a scholarly understanding

and arculaon of social and polical processes that underpin policymaking. The

group integrates wide disciplinary backgrounds and topics in management, social

sciences and the humanies.

Current research interests of the faculty include energy and environment, hospital

and health systems, urban management, public nance, educaon policy, transport,

infrastructure, rehabilitaon, community development, markeng of public services,

impact assessments and telecommunicaons. Current and recent faculty research

projects are:

` Grid responsive buildings (EEB)

` A study under the Energy and Mass Exchange in Vegetave Systems [SAC]

` Techno-economic Assessment of CO2 Capture and Storage Potenal in India: APolicy Perspecve (CCS)

` Applicaon of Remote Sensing for Integrated Land use, Water and EnergyManagement in Rural Areas: Exploring Energy Plantaon Opportunies (MoEF)

` Impact Assessment of Wireless Technology and Broadband Connecvity in RuralIndia

` Leveraging Knowledge Networks for Enabling Innovaons in Higher Educaonand Research Instutes in India and UK

` Impact Assessment of USOF Wire Line Broadband Scheme

` Imperaves for Future Growth of Naonal Internet Exchange of India (NIXI)

` PPPs in Airport Sector` PPS in Port Sector

` Mobility Challenges in Urban Areas

` Issues in High Speed Rail Development

` Trucking Sector: Policy and Service Challenges

` Public Private Partnerships in Warehousing

` An agent-based approach to network compeon and sustainable growth inIndian Air Transport, IRCC-project

` An agent-based framework for network compeon and sustainable growth inAir Transport Systems, Marie-Curie & FCT sponsored

The Fellow ProgrammeA student specializing in the PSG area takes a wide range of courses including thosein the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programme is as follows.

FACULTY

Bhat, Ramesh

Barnhardt, Sharon


Dua, Goutam

Garg, Amit

Huber, Hans

Jain, Rekha

Mathur, Navdeep

Narayanaswami,Sundaravalli

Pandey, Ajay

Pangotra, Prem

(Area Chair-PSG)

Raghuram, G

Sahay, Arvind

Sarin, Ankur

Shukla, P R

Turaga, Rama Mohana

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` Public Policy I

Second Year Courses


` Public Finance` Public Management

` Public Policy II

` Public Policy Instruments for Environmental

Management

` Health Policy and Planning

` Interpreve Research Methods

` Using Quantave Methods for Causal Inference in

Social Policy Research

` Energy and Environment Policy

` Health Care Financing

` Health Insurance

` Venturing in Health Care

` Electronic Power Economics and Policy

` FPM Summer School

` Economic Development and Growth

` Seminar on Transportaon

` Emergency Management in Urban Logiscs

` FPM Summer School` Research and Publicaons

Third Year


` Dissertaon

Fourth Year

` Dissertaon



Thesis

2014 Hem Himanshu DholakiaIIMI

Climate Change, Air Polluon and Public Health in India: ImpactAssessment and Adaptaon Strategies

2014 Prakri Naswa Uncertainty and Risk Management of Climate Change Impacts onInfrastructure Assets

2014 Shivika Mial Sustainable Low Carbon Transport: An Integrated Policy Framework andAssessment for India


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Resources at IIMAThe main campus houses the academic complex including

the doctoral programme oce, most of the faculty

and student housing facilies, and the library. The new

campus has addional dormitories for students and a

classroom complex.

Vikram Sarabhai LibraryThe Vikram Sarabhai Library, considered as one of the

best management libraries in the country, is commied to

providing access to its resources for students, researchers

and faculty. It has over the years built a robust collecon

of over 2 lakh books in addion to Journals & Newspapers,

Databases, Working Papers, Thesis, Project Reports, CDs

and Videos.

The strength of the library is its digital collecon that

can be accessed campus-wide through its website hp://

www.iimahd.ernet.in/library/. The website links its in-

house catalogue in addion to the 68 databases that

provide scholarly, company and industry informaon.

E-Resources: The library subscribes to a number of

company and industry databases, bibliographic databases

and E-journals to provide latest scholarly informaon to

the users.

Company & Country DatabasesACE Knowledge and Research Portal, ACE Equity, ACE

Mutual Fund, CAPITALINE, CMIE CapEx, Commodies,

Economic Outlook, Industry Outlook, India Trade,

Prowess & States of India, CRISIL Research, Datastream

(Incorporang world scope), Dion Insight, District GDP

of India, DSI Data Service & Informaon, EPWRF India

Time Series, EPWRF Economic and Market Review and

Research, Euromonitor Passport, Frost & Sullivan Growth

Partnership Services, GARTNER, Indiastat.Com, Indian

Boards, Infraline Coal Sector, Oil & Gas Sector & Power

Sector, ISI Emerging Markets Asia, Marketline Advantage,

NASSCOM Member Directory, Thomson Reuters Eikon,

Venture Intelligence Private Equity Deal Database, M&A

Deal Database & Real Estate Deal Database.

Scholarly Resources` E-Journals Databases

ABI/Inform (ProQuest), ACM Digital Library,

EBSCO Academic Search Premier, Business SourceComplete, EconLit, Entrepreneurial Studies Source,PsycARTICLES, Elsevier (Science Direct), EmeraldManagement Extra, IEEE ASPP + POP, IGI Global FullText, Indian Journals.com, INFORMS, JSTOR, SpringerLink, Oxford University Press, Project MUSE, Sage +HSS Collecon, Taylor and Francis Online, Wiley + HSSOnline library.

` Back-Files of E-Journals

Elsevier Back Files (Business, Management &

Accounng, Decision Sciences, Economics,

Econometrics and Finance, Agriculture & Biological

Science, Social Science, Pharmacology, Toxicology

& Pharmaceucs), Emerald Back Files (Business and

Management), INFORMS Archives.

` E-Books: Ebrary, OECD iLibrary (Educaon).

` News Papers & Magazines Databases

FT.com, FT Archive (1888-2010), India Business

Insight, Press Display (Newspaper Direct).

` Legal Databases: AIR (All India Reporter)High Court,AIR Criminal Law, AIR Supreme Court, AIR PrivyCouncil, Kluwer Arbitraon Law, Westlaw.

` Others:Encyclopedia of Britannica, IMS An TB-Data,ISI Web of Knowledge, IMF eLibrary and Data, MICAIndian Markeng, Power Lingo Fx25, ProQuest Thesis

& Dissertaons, Sage Research Methods Online,WARC Database, World Bank Databases.

` Specialized Search Tools: EBSCO Discovery Serviceand EBSCO A-Z.

The Vikram Sarabhai Library parcipates in a strong Inter-

library co-operaon programme that provides access

to collecons of other leading libraries in the country

through various library networks. The library is commied

to fullling its mission by facilitang access to current,

global and relevant informaon by idenfying, acquiring,

organizing and retrieving informaon in various formats

(print & non-print) to serve the informaon needs of the

IIMA fraternity for teaching, research, consulng, trainingand learning requirements.

Publicaons: The library has been publishing two

quarterly informaon bullens since 1996.

` Current Contents in Management: Markeng

` Current Index of Management: Markeng

It has started NICMAN (Naonal Informaon Centre for

Management) Membership in order to help/facilitate

business/management related researchers in their

research. Recently it has also started documenng

research in markeng in the context of emerging

economies.

Compung FaciliesA state-of-the-art computer network with more than

2000 nodes connects all the members of the Instute

community with each other. This network has a mulmode

ber opc backbone with one or more ber segments

reaching every building on the campus.

There are more than 200 high-end managed network

switches which handle the internal data trac. The

Instute has recently installed a high end Cisco L3 switch

at the data center to enhance security and improve

network throughput. Every workplace on the campus

including program parcipants rooms in dormitories,

faculty oces, classrooms, management development

center, computer lab, FPM lab, and administrave oces

has network connecvity. Using long range Ethernet


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technology, faculty /sta residences have been alsoprovided network connecvity to the Instutes LAN.

The Instute has put a wireless layer (Wi-Fi) on top of

this highly dense network with high level of security using

username password based authencaon. More than 300

Access Points have been installed throughout the Campus

for a superior Wi-Fi experience. A Next Generaon

Firewall has recently been installed to enhance the

network security A storage server with VPN based access

and username password based authencaon is also in

place for accessing data from outside the campus. This

facility is currently available for the Faculty of IIMA.

The campus network is supported by a large server

farm with more than 70 high speed servers, running on

a wide variety of plaorms. About 40 servers have been

virtualized using KVM. Many servers on this network

make use of Linux and open source soware for providing

the necessary services. For every workgroup (faculty,

parcipants, sta, etc.), there is a set of dedicated servers

which provide a core layer of services like Internet access,

and le/print services. The E-mail facility is managed

through Google which provides us web based email client,

built in chat facility, Google docs, Google apps, Google

sites and few other facilies as well. The main web server

(hp://www.iimahd.ernet.in) carries informaon on IIMA.Another web server (hp://stdwww.iimahd.ernet.in)

provides facilies for individual parcipants to host their

home pages. Every dormitory has a high-speed shared

network printer with web based print billing soware.

There is a wide variety of soware packages available

to the parcipants and faculty for their academic and

research work. These packages include several language

processors, stascal, math programming, simulaon,

project management, CASE tools, etc.

Every parcipant and faculty member has a networked,

business-performance personal computer or laptop. The

Instutes network is linked to the Internet via a set of

three leased lines enabling round-the-clock Internet

connecvity on the campus. All the Internet Service

Providers (ISPs) from whom the Instute has procured

Internet bandwidth have installed ber opcs link from

the campus to their hub. This ensures very high quality

of bandwidth to the Internet. The Instute has a 70

Mbps bandwidth from TCL, a 16 Mbps bandwidth from

BSNL, and up to a 1 Gbps link from Naonal Knowledge

Network (NKN).

Every classroom is equipped with a projector, a PC, and

a DVD player. Some of the classrooms are equipped with

IP/ISDN based video conferencing capability. A fully

equipped computer classroom is also available in thecomputer center where on-line computer based training

can be imparted. The IIMA website includes payment

gateway and oers access to a large repository of IIMA

case studies and research reports.

Research CentresNine major research centres provide opportunies for

doctoral students to carry out a broad variety of interdis-

ciplinary research and access focused resources amongst

faculty and vising experts from other academic instu-

ons, industry, and government. The centres, in addion

to carrying out focused research, are also involved in a

range of academic and service acvies. These are:

` Centre for e-Governance

` Centre for Innovaon, Incubaon, and Entrepreneur-ship

` Centre for Management of Health Services

` Centre for Retail Management

` Centre for Infrastructure Policy and Regulaon

` Group on Telecom

` Naonal Informaon Centre on Management

` Innovaon and Management in Educaon

Conferences and Field Research SupportThe Instute provides compeve opportunies to

present research papers at naonal and internaonal

conferences and spend a term or more for eld work at

collaborang universies within the country and outside.

Research grants are also provided on a compeve basis

for summer projects. Doctoral students receive an annualconngency grant to fund research related expenses.

IIMA Idea Telecom Centre of ExcellenceFellowshipIIMA IDEA Telecom Centre of Excellence (IITCOE) has

instuted fellowships for those FPM Students whose

thesis is in telecom sector. For relevant details please

log on to hp://www.iimahd.ernet.in/programmes/

programmes.htm under the head Doctoral Programme.

Housing

IIMAs doctoral programme is fully residenal. Studentsand the faculty stay in a 100 acre green campus designed

by Louis Kahn. The community is cosmopolitan with both

students and faculty hailing from dierent parts of India.

An internaonal avour is added by students from various

countries who come here every year as part of exchange

programme. Two types of housing are available on

campus: dormitories and family housing. Dormitories on

campus provide single room for single students. Limited

housing is available on campus for students with family.

The campus has an inrmary with dedicated doctors in

aendance. A doctor lives on campus and is available on

call all the me. The campus also has a post oce, State

Bank of India branch with an ATM, photocopying facility,a late night cafeteria and several recreaonal facilies.

Oce SpaceLimited oce space is available for doctoral students.


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IIMAs doctoral programme aims to admit individuals with

exceponal academic background, strong movaon and

discipline, and potenal to become excellent researchers

at internaonal level. Our students come from a variety

of disciplines ranging from social sciences and humanies

to physical sciences and engineering. Applicants

are evaluated on their past academic achievements,movaon and preparaon for the programme, scores on

standard tests, and a personal interview with the faculty.

Admission Requirements

Candidates must possess one of the following

qualicaons to apply for IIMAs doctoral programme:

(a) A Masters Degree in any discipline, with at least 55

percent marks, with a Bachelors degree/ equivalent

qualicaon with at least 50 percent marks obtained

aer a minimum of three years of educaon aer

compleng higher secondary schooling (10+2) orequivalent.

(OR)

(b) Five year/four year Integrated Masters Degree

programme in any discipline, with atleast 55 percent

marks, obtained aer compleng higher secondary

schooling (10+2) or equivalent.

(OR)

(c) A professional qualicaon like CA, ICWA, CS, with

at least 55 percent marks.

(OR)

(d) A 4-year/8-semester Bachelors degree with at least

60 percent marks or equivalent grade point average.

The candidate must hold a Bachelors/Masters degree

of any of the universies incorporated by an Act of the

Central or State Legislature in India or other educaonal

instuons established by an act of parliament or declared

to be deemed as a university under secon 3 of UGC Act,

1956, or possess an equivalent qualicaon recognized

by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India, or possessan equivalent qualicaon from an instuon approved

by AICTE. Those in their nal year of Masters or Bachelors

degree (B.E / B. Tech) in any discipline can also apply.

Such candidates have to complete the requirements for

the course before 30 June 2015and produce the original

cercates/mark sheets by 31 December 2015.

The standard test score requirements forvarious areas of specializaon are:

Agriculture:Common Admission Test (CAT) of the Indian

Instutes of Management / UGC JRF (Economics/

Development Studies/Development Economics/BusinessEconomics/Rural Economics/ Public Administraon/

Sociology)/ICAR-SRF/GRE

Deadlines

January 30 2015:Last date for online applicaon & Payments of fees.

March/April 2015:Interviews for shortlisted candidates.

Last week of April 2015:Oer of admission mailed to selected candidates.

Business Policy, Markeng :CAT/GMAT/GRE

Economics:CAT/GRE/GMAT

Finance and Accounng:CAT/GMAT/ GRE

Informaon Systems:CAT/GMAT/GRE/ GATE

Innovaon and Management in Educaon: CAT/GMAT/

GRE /GATE/UGC-JRF in relevant discipline

Organizaonal Behaviour:CAT/GMAT/ GRE/UGC-JRF in

relevant discipline

Personnel and Industrial Relaons: CAT/GMAT/GRE/

GATE/UGC-JRF in relevant discipline.

Producons and Quantave Methods: CAT/GMAT/

GRE/ GATE/UGC-JRF in Mathemacal Sciences.

Public Systems:CAT/GRE/GMAT/GATE/UGC-JRF in

relevant discipline

Standard test scores not required for:

(Part-me/Evening/Distance Learning Programmes are

NOT considered)

PGP Alumni from all IIMs

PGPX and PGP-PMP Alumni of all IIMs where such

courses are oered

MBA / PGDM programmes from other Universies/

Business Schools: Standard Test Scores required

Those applying to the Fellow Programme in Management

on the basis of the above tests in lieu of CAT should havescored more than 50% mark in their bachelors degree to

be considered for selecon to the Fellow Programme in

Management.

Candidates residing outside India could choose to take

any of the above tests (depending on the area to which

they are applying) or write GMAT. CAT is administered

only in India. The doctoral programme accepts test scores

that have been taken in the last two years.

CAT is the common admission test required for admission

to the Post-Graduate Programmes of the Indian Instutes

of Management. CAT will be administered tentavely on

November 16 and 22, 2014, at various centres in India.

Admissions and Financial Aid


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Validity of Score (Other than CAT)

Two years from the date of the test and should be valid onthe deadline of submission of the applicaon form.

Scholarship/Financial Aid

All students admied to the programme are provided

fellowships. The fellowship covers all academic expenses

(consisng of tuion, computer, library, placement, and

alumni fees) and living expenses (comprising medical

insurance, boarding and lodging). In addion, a student

in the rst and second year will be entled to a monthly

spend of ` 27,500 per month, aer clearing the

Comprehensive Exam he/she will be eligible for `29,700

per month and aer submission of the TAC approved

thesis proposal he/she will be eligible for ` 33,000 permonth which will be inclusive of food allowance.

An addional allowance of `50,000 is provided to enable

students to purchase their own personal computer. The

Instute provides sucient funds to meet conngency

expenses to cover research work. The Instute may nd

support for exceponal internaonal students.

Merit Awards

Every year students are given various merit awards:

1. Thesis Award Titled Industrial Finance Corporaon

of India (IFCI) best Thesis Award.

2. Thesis Award Titled Professor Tirath Gupta Award

for the best Thesis

3. Compeve Naonal and Internaonal Conference

Travel Grants.

Admission Process

Applicaon Form and Brochure will be available online.

Candidates can ll-up the applicaon form online and an

applicaon fee of `500/- can be paid through IIMA gateway. The last date for subming the online applicaon

will be January 30, 2015. Faculty will then evaluate

the applicaons that have been submied, and invite

a selected group of candidates for personal interviews

with the faculty and members of the FPM Execuve

Commiee, who recommend candidates for admission.

Interviews will be held in March/April and admission

decisions made by last week of April.


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First Year Courses (FPM/PGP)

FPM compulsory courses in the rst year

Term wise distribuon of FPM compulsory courses in rst year

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3

Mathemacs

(1 credit)

Stascal (contd)

(1 credit)

Socio-Polical Contexts for Research in Management

(1 credit)

Stascs

(1 credit)

Micro-economics

(1.5 credit)

Research Methods

(1 credit)

Psychology

(1 credit)

Area FPM Courses for rst year

Term wise distribuon of Area FPM course


Strategic Management I (BP)Basics of Micro OB (OB)

Foundaon Course in HRM

(P&IR)

Agro Food Value Chain Management andDevelopment (AGRI)

Introducon to Mathemacal Programming

(P&QM)

Data Structures and Programming (IS)

Markeng Strategy (MKTG)

Advanced Micro-economics (ECO)Asset Pricing (F&A)

Educaon: Theory, Policy, Pracce

(IME)

Public Policy 1 (PSG)

PGP core courses from which FPM students can choose

Term wise distribuon of PGP Courses that can be taken for FPM rst year credit


Financial Reporng & Analysis (1.5) Business Taxaon (0.5) Corp Fin (1.25)

FM (0.5) MCCS (1) DM 2 (0.5)

Markeng 1 (0.5) LAB (1) EEP (0.75)

Macroeconomics (1) ISB (1)

Markeng - I (0.5; connued from Term 1) Markeng II (1)

OM 1(1) OM - 2 (1.25)

OD (0.75) PCCBS (1)

DM 1 (0.5) SM (1.25)

FM (0.5; connued from Term 1)

In addion, students can also choose PGP, PGP-ABM, PGPX core or elecve courses in consultaon with their academic

advisor.

Phase I Courses

Documents

FPMAdmission2014 15 Brochure