FPM Brochure 2018-19

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Index
Director’s Message................................................................................................................. 1
Chairperson’s Message..........................................................................................................2
About IIMA..............................................................................................................................3
Doctoral Programme at IIMA...............................................................................................4
Programme Overview............................................................................................................6
Areas
1 | Business Policy.............................................................................................................8
2 | Economics.................................................................................................................10
3 | Finance and Accounting..........................................................................................12
4 | Food & Agri-business...............................................................................................14
5 | Human Resource Management..............................................................................16
6 | Information Systems...............................................................................................18
7 | Innovation and Management in Education......................................................... 20
8 | Marketing.................................................................................................................. 22
9 | Organizational Behaviour Area............................................................................. 26
10 | Production and Quantitative Methods.............................................................. 28
11 | Public Systems Group........................................................................................... 30
Resources at IIMA................................................................................................................ 32
Life on campus..................................................................................................................... 35
Admission & Financial Aid................................................................................................. 36
Phase 1 Courses .................................................................................................................. 39
Phase 2 Courses....................................................................................................................41
Faculty................................................................................................................................... 60
Feedback............................................................................................................................... 65
Fellow Programme in Management

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Director’s Message
“ IIM Ahmedabad is India’s premier management school, world renowned for its excellence in research
and education. FPM is IIMA’s doctoral programme with high levels of specialization. It contributes
to the Institute’s mission by supporting the pursuit of cutting edge research.
FPM prepares qualified and capable scholars who will shape thought in academic institutions and
management organizations. We recruit highly motivated individuals with outstanding academic
backgrounds. The doctoral programme provides participants exposure to a broad variety of research
interests and faculty deeply engaged with practice and policy. Students develop strong theoretical
foundations through coursework in particular areas and receive training in highly specialized
research methods. At the dissertation stage, they have an opportunity to engage actively and
deeply with academics, practitioners, and policymakers as they conduct interdisciplinary research.
The programme affords doctoral students the flexibility to use appropriate research methods for
their research questions.
The mix of breadth of coverage, proximity to practice and policy, and flexibility in methodology
enables doctoral students to undertake meaningful research on complex and relevant topics.
Supporting the academic research is cutting edge infrastructure, including the best management
library in India, and access to state-of-art online resources.
The doctoral programme enrolled its first student in 1971 and graduated its first student in 1974. Prof. Errol D’Souza
Since then, 365 doctoral students have been conferred with the title Fellow of the Indian Institute of Director, IIMA
Management Ahmedabad, and have gone on to contribute significantly to management academies
and other institutions.
We invite you to consider our doctoral programme and would be happy to discuss your academic
interests if you have the inclination and commitment to undertake rigorous training, conduct
research relevant to management practice and policy, and pursue an academic career with focus
on research.
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Chairperson’s Message
“The Fellow Programme of Management (FPM) is the doctoral programme of IIMA. Introduced in
1971, it is one of the earliest doctoral programmes of Management Science in India. It remains the
preferred choice for students aspiring to pursue a career in Management at institutions of higher
learning such as business schools/universities as well as in consulting firms, think tanks and leading
corporates in India and abroad. So far, 365 students have successfully completed the programme.
Over a period of time, FPM has evolved gradually from its purpose of ‘knowledge dissemination’ to
‘knowledge creation’. This shift in emphasis has, thus, created an ecosystem of advanced research
and publications. FPM scholars investigate a wide range of highly specialised topics in the overall
gamut of management disciplines like marketing, finance, economics, public policy, business policy,
human resources, and organizations. Our FPM students come from diverse backgrounds, including
engineering, economics, psychology, public policy, management, and social sciences, and from
all stages of life. Some begin immediately after their undergraduate studies, while others pursue
their doctoral ambitions after a decade or more of professional experience. The first two years of
rigorous coursework provide the requisite theoretical foundation and in-depth understanding of the
respective areas of specialization. Successful completion of the course work makes students eligible
to pursue their dissertation. The FPM students have to demonstrate their independent research
thinking through publications in top class academic journals and make scholarly presentations of
their work. Their contributions extend not only to business practices, but also to public policy and
governance.
We provide a thriving intellectual environment for our doctoral students. The faculty at IIMA
brings tremendous research strength and a wide variety of industry and government experience
Prof. Abhiman Das across diverse sectoral and functional domains. The institute encourages cross-sectoral and cross-
Chairperson, FPM functional research. Research collaboration with faculty abroad is also supported and encouraged.
We provide excellent research facilities including a state-of-the-art library on management
literature, journals and databases, data labs with high computing facility, subject specific research
centers, housing on campus, a decent fellowship, and additional financial support for research and
conference attendance.
We invite you to consider our doctoral programme and would be happy to discuss your academic
interests, if you have the inclination and commitment to undertake rigorous training of the frontiers
of management and subsequently pursue an academic or a corporate career with a focus on research.
“
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About IIMA
Post Graduate Programme in
PGP Management (equivalent to an MBA) The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has over fifty years of
leadership in management education. It was established in 1961 as an autonomous
Institution by the active collaboration of the government of India, government of
PGP Post Graduate Programme in Food & Gujarat, and industry. Today, it is not only a leader in applied management education
Programmes offered by us
FABM
Agri-business Management in Asia, but also one of the finest institutions of management education in the world.
IIMA was conceived as a school of management and not purely as a business school.
Fellow Programme in Management Its mission is to contribute to the development of management thought through
FPM (equivalent to a Ph.D.) research, teaching, institution building, and consulting. It also aims to professionalize
some of the vital sectors of India’s economy such as agriculture, education, health,
transportation, energy, and public administration.
PGPX One year Post Graduate Programme in

Management for Executives
To this aim, IIMA has established 10 research centres over the years, name it Centre
for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Centre for Management of Health Services
(CMHS), Centre for Infrastructure Policy and Regulation (CIPR), Centre for Retailing
Faculty Development Programme for (CFR), IIMA-Idea Telecom Centre of Excellence (IITCoE), Ravi J. Matthai Centre
FDP teachers of management schools For Educational Innovation (RJMCEI), India Gold Policy Centre (IGPC), Centre for
e-Governance (CEG), and Centre for Innovation, Incubation & entrepreneurship (CIIE).
JSW School of Public Policy is also being established at IIMA.
EEP Executive Education Programme

IIMA has a large and distinguished faculty whose contributions to management
research are significant. IIMA’s faculty members work on industry and government
sponsored research, and lend their expertise to industry and other strategic sectors.
ePost Graduate Programme in IIMA’s emphasis on academics and the efforts of its faculty are responsible for the
ePGP Management - two year post

graduate diploma programme
Institute’s position as a top management school in Asia.

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Doctoral Programme at IIMA
The programme offers research training in the The objective of the Fellow Programme in Management knowledge and explore cross-functional perspectives.
following eleven areas of high levels of specialization: (FPM) is to provide students with skills to identify and Some recommended PGP courses provide a general
research complex issues in the field of management. management overview and develop basic skills from
FPM seeks candidates with outstanding academic a practitioner’s perspective. During these two years,
• Business Policy
background, intellectual curiosity, and discipline close interaction with the faculty members provide
needed to make scholarly contribution. intellectual stimulation and help develop students’
• Economics own research interests and professional goals.
FPM is a research programme. To the selected The doctoral dissertation provides them with an
students, IIMA provides an excellent environment for opportunity to make original contributions to an area
• Finance & Accounting carrying out advanced research, thus creating highly of management or to one of its source disciplines.
committed researchers trained in the most recent
• Food & Agri-business methodologies and engaged in producing original PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
research work. • FACULTY STUDENT RATIO IS ALMOST 1:1.
• Human Resource Management The programme provides a diverse set of opportunities • FREEDOM TO SELECT RESEARCH AREA /TOPIC.
for interdisciplinary education and research. The small
• Information Systems entering class ensures close interaction between the • CROSS DISCIPLINARY AND CROSS FUNCTIONAL
faculty and FPM students. The faculty-student ratio RESEARCH IS ENCOURAGED.
for the FPM programme is almost 1:1. After completing
• Innovation & Management in Education the two years of coursework and upon successful • RENOWNED FACULTY.
completion of comprehensive examination, students • STIMULATING INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE.
• Marketing have the freedom to select their area/topic of research
as well as their thesis advisory committee members.
• Organizational Behaviour Cross disciplinary and cross functional research is
encouraged at the institute.
• Production & Quantitave Methods Students join the FPM programme as a part of one of
the eleven functional/ sectoral groups. The students
generally spend a little over four years in the program
• Public Systems Group
including two years of rigorous course work. While the
advanced doctoral level courses in doctoral courses
from other areas to enhance the breadth of their

• GENEROUS FINANCIAL SUPPORT. comprehensive examination, and getting trained the faculty may seek the help of the Academic Advisor.
to undertake original research by completing the Students are advised to closely interact with the
• HOUSING ON CAMPUS. dissertation. Academic Advisor of their area from the time they
• EXCELLENT WORK LIFE BALANCE. enter the programme. This responsibility, however,
Academic Advisor is taken over by the Thesis Advisor once the student
IIMA’s faculty have studied and worked in the best A member of the faculty from the student's area in completes her comprehensive examination and starts
of institutions within India and around the world. consultation with the Area Chairperson acts as an working on her thesis proposal.
Their involvement with the public and private sector Academic Advisor to the FPM students during the
organizations within and outside India allows them to first year of the programme. The academic advisory Faculty Seminars and Workshops
bring relevant managerial issues into the classroom process operates as follows: Faculty seminars and research workshops are regularly
and in their research. This creates an exceptional organized at the Institute. Doctoral students are active
The Academic Advisor helps students identify courses members of the community that regularly attends and
environment for developing a research programme
in their areas of interest, monitors their performance, participates in these activities which provide great
that can build sound theory for analysing complex
and guides student during Phases I and II of the exposure and networking opportunities.
managerial problems.
programme. Students seeking summer projects with
IIMA attracts reasonable research funding every year
from multiple external agencies in additional to the
institute's internal fund. The FPM students can jointly
work on a research project with faculty members when
research interests align. This provides FPM students
with an additional avenue to get research exposure
and opportunities to publish their work.
Academic Standards
IIMA expects its doctoral students to achieve
high levels of academic scholarship and integrity.
Candidates have to meet the specified 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 proficiency in undertaking original
inquiry in a field of management by first building an
academic background in the area of specialization
through course work, exhibiting proficiency in cutting
edge methodology and research by completing the

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Programme Overview
Phase I Course Work The course work is offered in two tracks
(First Year Course Work) The coursework is spread across a minimum of six
terms. Each academic year begins in June and ends in Track I Course Work Credits: 30. 5
• First Year FPM Compulsory Courses Structure
March/April and has three terms. All FPM students,
• First Year Area FPM Courses irrespective of their areas of specialization, take a set FPM Core Courses 08.5 Credits
• Courses from other Areas and other Post Graduate of compulsory courses in their field of specialization Area Courses 16.0 Credits*
Programmes (PGP,PGP- FABM,PGPX) and other interest areas. All students are also required PGP Courses 06.0 Credits
to take program-wide compulsory courses specially Track II Course Work Credits: 34
Phase II designed to provide breadth of knowledge in the filed Structure
of management and also teaching and research skills. FPM Core Courses 06.0 Credits
(Second Year Course Work)
Area Courses 13.0 Credits*
• Second Year FPM Compulsory Courses PGP Courses 15.0 Credits
Course Work: Requirements and Structure
• Second Year Area FPM Courses The course work requirements have to be completed in *Area Core Courses are limited to 6 credits
• Courses from other Areas and other Post Graduate two years, including an Induction term. The Induction
Programmes (PGP,PGP- FABM,PGPX) term (which is common to all students), starting last During summer, at the end of the first year of
week of May/first week of June with duration of about coursework, students are required to do a research
• Preparation and Completion of Area
3 weeks, has a flexibility to take exams during the project either with a faculty member at the Institute
Comprehensive Examination
fourth week. FPM Core courses Mathematics (Math - or in any other organization. First year course work
0.75 credits) and Socio-Political Contexts for Research end with successful completion of all the courses with
in Management-I (SocPol I - 0.75 credits) will be taught a minimum prescribed proficiency. While students
Phase III to all FPM students during this term. need to meet certain academic requirements across
Doctoral Dissertation all courses, a higher performance is required in certain
Area Specified Courses. (see area pages for details of
• Formation of Thesis Advisory Committee such courses in each area).
• Approval of Thesis Proposal
• Research and Writing of Dissertation
• Thesis Seminar
• Thesis Defence

Comprehensive Examination student’s training at IIMA. Throughout the programme,
Upon completion of the coursework, the students starting as early as Phase I, students are encouraged
take the area comprehensive examination. The to be actively involved in research activities at the
area comprehensive examination tests whether the Institute and with faculty members.
student has obtained a satisfactory level of knowledge
Phase III begins with the formation of the Thesis
in his/her field of specialization and whether he/she
Advisory Committee in the initial part of the third year.
has satisfactorily integrated the various courses taken
Students are encouraged to meet faculty members
in the area.
with whom they share research interests and seek
If and only if a student passes the comprehensive their assistance in identifying a dissertation topic as
examination, he/she enters the Thesis stage. The early as possible. In addition to the close working
thesis stage consists of first developing a thesis relationship during the course work, this interaction
proposal, for which the student identifies a thesis helps the student find a thesis advisor and form the
topic, forms a Thesis Advisory Committee [TAC], thesis advisory committee. The thesis advisor advises
presents a seminar on the thesis proposal to the IIMA the student on his dissertation and chairs the thesis
academic community, and gets the thesis proposal advisory committee comprising at least two other
approved by the TAC. Then the student works closely members.
with the TAC on his/her thesis. On completion of the
The student develops a written proposal and with the
thesis research, the student submits the thesis, gives a
agreement of the thesis advisor gives a seminar on the
seminar, and defends the same.
thesis proposal. The proposal has to be approved by
Academic Assistance the thesis advisory committee. From then onwards,
the student works closely with her/his thesis advisory
All FPM students past the successful completion of
committee on the dissertation. When the candidate’s
their comprehensive exam must independently assist
advisor judges that the dissertation is complete, the
in two unique courses (postgraduate courses offered in
student gives a seminar on the dissertation work and
the institute/FPM compulsory courses).
subsequently defends orally the dissertation before a
Doctoral Dissertation thesis examination committee. The FPM Chairperson
appoints the thesis examination committee
The dissertation or thesis provides the student
comprising of two members from the thesis advisory
with an opportunity to undertake original research
committee and two other members. While the course
in the area of interest. The dissertation should be a
work formally gets over with the completion of
scholarly contribution to the knowledge pertinent
Phase II, doctoral students are encouraged to continue
to the understanding and resolution of management
taking advanced courses of interest even during this
problems. Research is an essential part of the doctoral
last stage of study.

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1 | Business Policy
`` Faculty
`` Agarwal, Anurag K. `` Maheshwari, Sunil `` Sharma, Sunil

`` Basant, Rakesh `` Mathur, Ajeet N. `` Singla, Chitra
`` Chatterjee, Chirantan `` Pathak, Akhileshwar `` Sud, Mukesh
`` Karna, Amit `` Ram Mohan, M.P. `` Sugathan, Anish
(Chairperson) `` Ravichandran, N. `` Verma, Sanjay
Karna, Amit
The focus of research, teaching and advisory service of the Business `` Corporate Governance for Shareholder Value
Policy area lies in issues of corporate and competitive strategy `` The Business Logic of Dotcom Businesses
formulation, execution, internationalization and legal aspects
of business. The area faculty have investigated organizational `` Strategies of Family Owned Companies
response to changes in the economic environment of business, `` Strategic and Organizational Contexts for Innovations in the
management and analysis of competitive forces, business growth Software Sector
and diversification, mergers and acquisitions, turnaround strategies,
`` Taking Charge and Reshaping Corporations
innovations and technology management, design of cross-border
value chains and constellations, governance, competitiveness and `` Governance of institutions
international economic relations. Further it has researched issues `` Strategy Formulation
in intellectual property and contract management. The context for
`` Strategic Leadership
area’s activities spans large public and private enterprises, startups,
small and medium enterprises and family owned organizations. `` Leadership Learning and Development
`` Understanding Dynamic Capabilities
Some of the recent research projects have been:
`` Reinternationalisation of enterprises
`` Co-evolution of capabilities in cross-border collaborations
The Doctoral programme of the area develops knowledge, skills and
`` Management of Innovations and Technology attitudes in students that would enable them to pursue rewarding
`` Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge based Technologies academic careers in strategic management, international business,
by Small Entrepreneurs: An Exploration of Strategic and Policy and corporate governance. Although the requirements for admission
Options to the programme are same as mentioned in the Admission

Requirements section, candidates entering this area would benefit
from work experience in an organization for at least two years.
The Programme
A student specializing in the Business Policy area takes a wide range
of courses, including those in areas of specialization. A typical course
set in the programme is as follows.
Students develop their own programme of study in consultation

with faculty to complete course requirements.
First Year Area FPM Courses

`` Strategic Management-I and II
`` Advanced Seminar on Action Research Methodologies
Second Year Courses
(This list is indicative and courses offered may differ)
`` Strategy & Innovation `` International Strategic
`` Economics of Strategy Management
`` Corporate Governance `` Seminar on Entrepreneurship
Third Year
``Comprehensive Examination
`` Dissertation
Fourth and Fifth Year
Dissertation
Some Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of students

Year Name Placement/Current Organization Thesis
Anish Purkayastha
2017 Lecturer, University of Sydney Business Internationalization of Emerging Market Firms: A dynamic capability
School
Abrar Ali Mohammad Usmanali Saiyed Patterns and Determinant of Internationalization by New Ventures in India: A Study of
2016
Ahmedabad University Entrepreneurial, Firm and Industry Factors
Kamal Sharma
2016 Impact of CEO Succession on Strategic Changes in Large Indian Firms
IIM Indore
2016 Samar Singh Community Influences on Strategy-as-Practice in Family Businesses

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2 | Economics
Faculty
`` Basant, Rakesh `` Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar `` Rampal, Jeevant
`` Chakrabarti, Anindya `` Khera, Reetika `` Ram Mohan, T T
`` Chatterjee, Chirantan `` Mathur, Ajeet `` Sahay, Arvind
`` Das, Abhiman `` Mohapatra, Sanket `` Sarin, Ankur
`` Dev, Pritha (Chairperson) `` Tumbe, Chinmay
`` Deodhar, Satish `` Morris, Sebastian `` Virmani, Vineet
Mohapatra, Sanket
`` D’Souza, Errol `` Pingali, Viswanath
Economics is a basic discipline for a well-rounded management `` The cooperative theory of matching problems
education. The curriculum for doctoral students, therefore, includes `` Sustainability of fiscal debt of states in India
several courses in theoretical and applied economics. Other than `` National agricultural policy
research in core areas of economics, significant research has been `` Regional dimension of economic growth in India
done by faculty members of the area on the efficiency of public `` Salary fixation for public and government sector employees
enterprises, fiscal and monetary policy, sources of economic `` Programme evaluation and impact assessment
growth, comparative rates of growth in developing countries, `` Centre-State relations, fiscal development & role of Finance
regional disparity in growth in India, planning for rural development Commission
and employment, entrepreneurship development, regulation `` Issues in fiscal responsibility and budget management
(especially that relating to infrastructure), innovation and alliances `` Capital market: efficiency and pricing models
at the firm level, labour market issues, agricultural policy and trade `` Evaluation of mid-day meal scheme
issues, and policies relating to IPRs and FDI. Recent faculty research `` Economics of food quality
projects have been on: `` Hedonic pricing
`` CSR and the government mandate
`` Reform of state owned enterprises in India `` Make in India theme and lessons from corporate world
`` Competition policy in India `` Economics of regulation
`` Monetary policy transmission `` Pharmaceutical economics
`` Measurement of inflation expectation `` Experimental economics
`` Finance and infrastructure development `` Mechanism Design
`` Measurement of efficiency and productivity `` Industrial Organization Theory
`` Technology capacity building within firms `` Behavioral Game Theory
`` Social security and personnel economics

`` Applied game theory `` Business, Economic and Demographic History
`` Aggregate supply and growth – inflation trade-off `` Urban Economics
`` Inter-sectoral terms of trade and supply response in agriculture The programme has an explicit objective of training students in the tools of modern economic analysis
`` Primary healthcare and policies to make them competent researchers and teachers. Most students have taken up teaching and
`` Energy pricing and policies research careers in leading academic institutions or research and consultancy positions in business and
`` Missing markets in international business government. The environment at IIMA provides many opportunities to develop their skills by working
`` Labour markets regulation closely with faculty and attending workshops and seminars.
`` Trade, imported intermediate inputs and skills in India
`` Impact of FDI on labour The Programme
`` Role of IT in firm-level productivity and organizational change A doctoral student in the area takes a wide range of courses, including those in the area of specialization.
`` Role of technology in wage and employment trends in India A typical course set in the programme is as follows.
`` Industrial corridors and economic development
`` Impact of access to foreign markets on unskilled labour First Year Area FPM (Compulsory) Course `` Advanced Game Theory
`` Role of industrial clusters in economic growth `` Mathematics for Economists `` Computational Economics
`` Sovereign credit ratings and sub-sovereign (corporate) ratings `` Microeconomics I `` Microeconomics II - General Equilibrium
`` Unconventional monetary policy spillovers for emerging `` Macroeconomics I `` Business History
economies `` Econometrics I `` Data Envelopment Analysis
`` Global capital flows Second Year Area Elective Courses: `` International Macroeconomics
`` Migration and remittances `` Microeconomics II `` Public Policy and Economics of the Transport
`` Financial liberalization and inequality `` Macroeconomics II Sector
`` New Keynesian DSGE models: dynamics of inflation `` Econometrics II `` Decentralization and Public Policy
`` Network structure of the international trade network `` Development Economics `` New Institutional Economics
`` Emergence of Zipf’s law in size distributions of economic `` Public Finance – Joint Course With PSG Area Third Year
quantities `` Economics Of Strategy ``Comprehensive Examination
`` Endogenous business cycle models `` Economic Development And Growth ``Dissertation
`` Applications of evolutionary game theory to macroeconomics `` Network And Granularity
`` Networks `` Global Business And Economic History Fourth Year
`` Migration networks `` Time Series Analysis Dissertation
Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students

Deepak Bisht
2018 Explorations in Modeling and Forecast Assessment of Energy Derivatives
Associate, JP Morgan, Mumbai
P K V Kishan
2018 Assistant Professor, Institute of Rural An Empirical Exploration of Education and Inequality – Three Essays
Management Anand (IRMA)
Siddhartha Bhasker,
2017 Evolutionof new Freight Structure in India over the Long Run: A Policy Assessment
O P Jindal Global University

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3 | Finance and Accounting
Faculty
`` Agarwalla, Sobhesh `` Mohapatra, Sanket `` Sinha, Sidharth
`` Desai, Naman `` Nagar, Neerav `` Varma, J R
`` Gandhi, Shailesh `` Pandey, Ajay `` Venkateshan, Prahalad
`` Jacob, Joshy (Chairperson) `` Virmani, Vineet
`` Laha, Arnab `` Ram Mohan, T. T.
Pandey, Ajay
The teaching and research interests of the Finance and Accounting to engage in high quality research, candidates must possess a
Area spans a broad range of issues such as, earnings and cash flow strong aptitude for abstract thinking and quantitative analysis.
manipulation, corporate disclosure, management control, corporate Requirements for admission to FPM in Finance and Accounting are
finance, corporate governance, asset pricing, market microstructure, mentioned in the Admission Requirements section later.
management of financial institutions, risk management, financial
regulation and empirical methods in finance. The faculty members The Programme
are vigorously engaged in both academic and applied research. The The programme has a two-year coursework phase followed a
Area faculty members serve on several government committees and dissertation phase, which usually takes about two years. The
corporate boards. coursework takes the students through a range of courses, intended
to familiarize the participants with the core theoretical foundations,
Some of the recent research projects undertaken by faculty in empirical methods, and stylized empirical realities of modern finance.
the Area are: A student specializing in the Finance & Accounting Area takes wide
`` Do managers manipulate gross profits? Role of product market range of courses including those in the area of specialization. A
competition typical course set in the programme is as follows.
`` Liquidity and bid-ask spread behavior in the Indian market First Year Area FPM Course
`` Block trading and market microstructure issues `` Foundations of Finance
`` Systematic risk factors in the Indian stock market `` Asset Pricing
`` Seminar Course in Corporate Finance (Core/Elective*)
`` Influence of sentiment in market-wide pricing of assets
`` Seminar Course in Empirical Accounting Research (Core/Elective*)
`` Impact of the Introduction of Call Auction on Price Discovery `` Empirical Research in Auditing and Corporate Governance (Core/
As the primary emphasis of the programme is to prepare students Elective*)

Second Year
`` Seminar Course in Behavioural Finance (Elective)

`` Derivatives Pricing (Elective)
`` Empirical Asset Pricing (Core/Elective*)
`` Seminar Course in Accounting and Markets (Elective)
`` Seminar Course in Accounting and Organization (Elective)
`` Mathematical Finance (Elective)
`` Corporate Finance in Emerging Markets (Elective)
`` Applied Functional Analysis in Finance (Elective)
* Two compulsory courses either- (i) Empirical Asset Pricing AND (ii) Seminar Course
in Corporate Finance; OR (i) Empirical Accounting Research AND (ii) Empirical Re-
search in Auditing and Corporate Governance)
Third Year
`` Comprehensive Examination
`` Dissertation
Fourth Year
``Dissertation (continued from third year)

2018 Suman Saurabh
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Essays on Share Repurchases
and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur
2017 Preet Deep Singh Essay 1: Audit Committee Members’ Attendance and its Impact on Earnings Management,
Associate Vice President, EY Essay 2: Exogenously Reduced Busyness and its Impact on Earnings Management
2017 Monika Gupta
Impact of Regulation Change on Earnings Quality in India
Assistant Professor, FLAME

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4 | Food & Agri-business
Faculty
`` Gandhi, Vasant P. `` Jacob, Joshy `` Sinha, Sidharth
(Chairperson) `` Jaiswal, Anand K. `` Varma, Poornima
`` Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar `` Singh, Sukhpal `` Sharma, Vijay Paul (on leave)
Gandhi, Vasant P.
The Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA) at IIMA is an in the country. CMA also provides consulting services to national
inter-disciplinary research Centre, which was founded in 1963 and and international, private, public, cooperative, and voluntary
designated as a Centre in 1971. CMA is involved in applied, policy, organizations.
and problem solving research in food, Agri-business, rural and
allied sectors. The work is relevant to organizations dealing with Some of the major ongoing and recently completed research
agri-inputs and services including seeds, fertilizers, agrochemicals, projects are listed below:
farm machinery/equipments, rural credit and insurance as well `` Production, Markets and Trade: Analysis of Factors Affecting
as organizations involved in agri-outputs including procurement, Pulse Production in India
processing, and marketing of outputs such as foodgrains, fruits, `` Performance Evaluation of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
vegetables, livestock products, fish, poultry, processed foods and (PMFBY)
forest produce. It also addresses government policy on these sectors
at the union and state level. `` Decision-Oriented Information Systems for Farmers: A Study of
Kisan Call Centres (KCC), Kisan Knowledge Management System
The Centre undertakes policy research in a range of fields, relevant (KKMS), Farmers Portal, and M-Kisan Portal (All India Coordinated
to the public, cooperative, voluntary/non-profit and private Study – Coordination & Consolidation)
organizations in the sector. The studies include issues of farm and `` Decision-Oriented Information Systems for Farmers: A Study of
allied inputs, farm and allied outputs, agri finance, agro and rural Kisan Call Centres (KCC), Kisan Knowledge Management System
marketing, international agro trade, rural organizational planning, (KKMS), Farmers Portal, and M-Kisan Portal - Gujarat Study
implementation, and monitoring, producers’ institutions, and
rural development planning, and administration. The CMA faculty `` Enhancing Rice Productivity and Food Security: A Study of the
undertake a number of policy-related research studies for the Adoption of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Selected
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India States of India.
as one of its 15 Agro-Economic Research Centres/Units (AERC/Us)

`` Farmers’ Participation in India’s Futures Markets: Exploring Direct members who can address managerial issues related to food and
and Indirect Benefits. agri-business, rural, and allied sectors, as well as research and
`` Agro-input Marketing Models in India: Performance and Potential. training organizations. Requirements for admission to the doctoral
programme in Food & Agri-business are mentioned in the section
`` Irrigation and Entrepreneurship: Status and Lessons for on “Admission requirements”. Applicants to this area must have an
Improvements and Expansion. aptitude for research and inclination to work in food, Agri-business,
`` Coping with Climate Change through Agro-Biodiversity: A View rural or related sectors.
from Below.
The Programme
`` Soil Health, Plant Health and Human Health.
A candidate in the Food & Agri-business area takes a wide range of
`` Sustainability of Self-help and Joint-liability Group Institutions courses including those in the area of specialization as well as other
under Micro-finance. courses. The Area specialization courses are listed below (this list is
`` Assessment of Marketed and Marketable Surplus of Major indicative and courses offered may differ):
Foodgrains in India.
First Year Courses
`` Biotechnology in Agriculture: The Promise, Performance and `` Agro-Food Value Chain Management and Development
Concerns.
Second Year Courses
`` Problems and Prospects of Oilseeds Production in India. `Àgricultural Management I
`` An Analysis of Resource Conservation Technology: A Case of `Àgricultural Management II
Micro-Irrigation System (Drip Irrigation). `Àgricultural Development Policy
`Ìnstitution Building (Elective)
`` Producer Companies in India: Organization and Performance.
Third Year
`` Management of Agri-business Contracts and Organizations.
``Comprehensive Examination
This doctoral programme with specialization in Food & Agri- ``Dissertation
business aims at developing graduates for academic careers in
Fourth Year
leading management educational institutions, which need faculty
Dissertation
Some Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of students

Aashish Argade
Choice Determinants and Comparative Evaluation of Agri-output Marketing Channels – A Farmers’
2018 Assistant Professor, Institute of Rural
Perspective
Management Anand (IRMA)
Kanish Debnath
2016 The Role of Community Health Insurance in Perfecting Financial Inclusion
FLAME University
Institutional Interaction and Participative Decision-Making in Development Programmes: A Study
2014 Dinesh Jain
of Their Importance in Effective Natural Resource Management
Varsha Khandker Challenges in the Introduction of New Technologies: A Study of the Performance and Adoption
2014
Faculty, TAPMI of Hybrid Rice in India

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5 | Human Resource Management
Faculty
`` Agarwal, Promila `` Moses, Aditya `` Singh, Manjari
`` Chandwani, Rajesh `` Sarrion, Miguel `` Varkkey, Biju
`` Maheshwari, Sunil
(Chairperson)
Maheshwari, Sunil
The Human Resource Management area comprises faculty members having interest in First Year Area FPM Course `` Qualitative Methods in HRM
HRM, employee/Industrial relations and human behavior. `` Foundation Course in HRM `` Quantitative Techniques in
HRM
Current research interests of the faculty include-philosophical foundation of HRM, Second Year Courses `` Theoretical Underpinning in
psychology of HRM systems, strategic human resource management, international and `` Foundations of Research in HRM
cross cultural HR, performance management and high performing work organizations, HRM I Third Year
work climates, compensation and rewards, employee empowerment, employee `` Foundations of Research in
engagement, negotiation in business, and alternate dispute resolution, human resource ERM I
information systems, public personnel management, people management in services, `` Foundations of Research in Fourth Year
management of healthcare systems and hospitals, employment relations, business HRM II ``Dissertation
turnaround, organization, ethics in business and corporate social responsibility. `` Foundations of Research in
ERM II
The admission requirements for the area Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students
are given in the section on Admission
Requirements.
2017 Shrihari S Sohani, Linkages between Human Resource Flexibility, Ambidexterity and
The Programme Assistant Professor, IIM Indore Successful Outcomes in the Context of Information Technology Firms
2017 Jatin Pandey, Job Performance of Women at Work in Rural India: Job Demands-
A student specializing in the HRM area Assistant Professor, IIM Kozhikode Resources (JD-R) Perspective
takes a wide range of courses, including 2017 Jatinder Kumar, Institutionalization of Ethics at Workplace: Study of Contributory Role of HR
those in the area of specialization. A Assistant Professor, XLRI, Jamshedpur & Line Functionaries
typical course set in the programme is 2017 Pearl Malhotra, “Indirect” Impact of High-Performers on Subordinates’ Careers
as follows: Visiting Faculty, IIM Bangalore
2017 Rama Shankar Yadav, Exploring the Impact of Employee Perceptions of CSR on Work Related
Assistant Professor, IIM Rohtak Behaviour with Spirituality as a Moderator

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6 | Information Systems
Faculty
`` Aggarwal, Manish `` Krishnamoorthy Srikumar
`` Deodhar, Swanand (Chairperson)
`` Gupta, Samrat `` Ranganathan, Kavitha
`` Jain, Rekha `` Verma, Sanjay
`` Kandathil, George
Krishnamoorthy, Srikumar
The Information Systems area was set up to respond to the `` Designing and managing enterprise wide digital infrastructure
importance of, and need for, research in computer applications `` Design and analysis of algorithms for project management
in management of government, private and public enterprises,
`` Object oriented frameworks for parallelized nonlinear
and other forms of organizations. Starting in the 1970s in an
optimization
environment that was largely unaware of the potential benefits
of computerization, IS area has worked at identifying potential `` Modeling of supply chain management problems
applications, implementing these applications in public and `` Frameworks for evaluation of e-Government Projects
private sectors, and designing and offering courses related to its `` Data mining, machines learning and big data analytics
area of work.
`` Mining of complex networks and social network analysis
The thrust of the area is to stay at the cutting edge of management `` Effectiveness of data visualization constructs
computing and facilitate development of decision-making `` Knowledge management in software and other industries
capabilities for socio-economic development. Research in decision
`` Open innovation
support systems, expert systems, computer aided instruction,
management information systems, algorithm design, developmental `` Internet Governance
informatics, software export, etc. has been an important tool in `` Community radio service using mobile ad-hoc networks
achieving this objective. Recent research has been in mobile ad-hoc `` Peer-to-peer data sharing in mobile ad-hoc networks
networks, e-Governance, ICT for development, decision support `` Crowd-based platforms
systems, text analytics, social networks, multi-criteria decision
analysis, and crowd-based platforms. Some recent research projects `` Open source software communities
are: As the interests of the faculty are very broad, research topics chosen
by doctoral students also tend to have wide variety. Based on the

topic of dissertation, tools used in the research may vary and may The Programme
include user surveys, decision support systems, econometrics, A student specializing in the Information Systems area takes a wide
machine learning methods, and optimization techniques such range of courses including those in the area of specialization. A
as integer or non-linear programming. Some topics could need typical course set in the programme is as follows.
extensive software development.
First Year
A thesis in information systems could be conceptual and a researcher `` Systems Analysis and Design
could build on existing literature or develop case studies. While `` Framework for Information Systems
the dissertation need not necessarily use sophisticated technical `` Structure and Economics of IS-enabled Networks
tools, the topic should be necessarily concerned with information `` Networks and Distributed Systems
systems. It is essential that a doctoral student should have a good `` Data Structures and Programming
insight into and appreciation for the role of information technology `` Database Management Systems
in management and skills for model building and analysis to Second Year Courses
understand the impact of decisions involved in this area. (This list is indicative and courses offered may differ)
`` Exploratory Data Visualization
In the past, doctoral students have worked in areas like: Multi-mode
`` Knowledge Systems for Multi-criteria Decision Making under
multiple resource constraints in project scheduling and machine
Uncertainty
scheduling problems, Study of Indian telecom startup firms in the
`` Research Issues in Internet Governance and Policy
context of new firm formations, Developing e-Government impact
`` Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
assessment framework, Collaboration in Internet enabled supply
Third Year
chains, Developing and optimizing the distribution model for
electronic supply chain management systems in the Indian context,
`` Dissertation
Alliances and partnerships in electronic businesses, Studying the
Fourth Year
behaviour of buyers and sellers in an e-commerce context, and
`` Dissertation
Developing a framework for evaluating open innovation projects.
Anurag Saxena Analysis and Design of Public Policy Using System Dynamics Approach: A Case
2015
Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar in Healthcae Sector
Sudeep K. Krishnan Degree of Openness and Project Performance: A Multi-Country Empirical

2013
EXL Assessment of Open Innovation Information Technology Initiatives
Madhukar Dayal
Director Research (Engine Development), Ministry of New Exact methods for Scheduling Multi Mode Multiple Resource
2012
Railways, Government of India (Bharat Manak Nagar, Constrained Project Scheduling Problems
LucknowSarkar)

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7 | Innovation and Management in Education
Faculty
`` Chand, Vijaya Sherry `` Ravichandran, N. `` Vohra, Neharika
(Chairperson) `` Sarin, Ankur
`` Dongre, Ambrish `` Shukla, Kathan
`` Ranganathan, Kavitha
Chand, Vijaya Sherry
The Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation (RJMCEI) The requirements for admission to the doctoral programme in
was formally set up in 1991. The common thread running through “Innovation and Management in Education” are mentioned in the
the Centre’s activities is a focus on innovations in education and section on “Admission Requirements.” Applicants must have an
innovative approaches to solving problems in education. Most of aptitude for research and inclination to work in education or related
the Centre’s work has focused on basic and secondary education sectors.
and literacy; a few projects have addressed issues in higher technical
education. Members of the RJMCEI also provide consulting services The Programme
to national and international organizations. A student specializing in the Innovation and Management in
Education area will take a wide range of courses including those in
The doctoral programme with specialization in Innovation and the area of specialization. A typical course set in the programme is as
Management in Education aims at developing robust research follows; please note that elective courses are not listed.
scholars and teachers who can take up leadership roles in educational
First Year Techniques for Social
organizations and systems. The focus on innovation and management
`` Education: Theory, Policy, Research
will develop in the graduates a unique academic capability that
combines a management perspective with the broader theme of Practice `` Qualitative Research
innovation in education. This fits in with the emerging demand for Second Year Methods in Education
people with fresh perspectives on educational change from a wide `` Analysing and Evaluating Third Year
range of emerging academic institutions, organizations that provide Educational Policy ``Comprehensive Examination
services and ancillary support to the regular educational structures,
well-established national and international educational planning `` Change and Innovation in `` Dissertation
organizations and academic institutions, and various research Education
Fourth Year
bodies and social policy think tanks. `` Applied Quantitative `` Dissertation

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8 | Marketing
Faculty
`` Aruna Divya T `` Jain, A. K. `` Mukhopadhyay, Soumya
`` Banerjee, Arindam `` Jaiswal, Anand Kumar `` Roy, Subhadip
`` Borah, Sourav (Chairperson) `` Sahay, Arvind
`` Chandwani, Rajesh `` Laha, Arnab `` Verma, Sanjay
`` Gandhi, Vasant P `` Mohan, Lil `` Vijayalakshmi, Akshaya
Jaiswal, Anand Kumar
Marketing Area faculty has wide range of interests in research and `` Cases in Retail
dominant interest in case writing. The research interests include `` Examining Service Profit Chain for Online Retail Store Using
consumer information search and consumer choice; consumer Individual Level Data
response to advertising, sales promotion, dynamic pricing, and
`` New Product Development Initiatives in India
country of origin; strategic response of organizations to dynamic
market conditions, sales people’s customer orientation, brand `` Store Cues and Shopper Values: A Means-End Chain Approach
extension strategies, relationship marketing, B2B marketing, ethic `` Path to Purchase
logistics, new product introduction and management, international `` Place of Origin Effects in Service Quality Perceptions among
marketing strategies of firms, different pricing strategies; strategic Indian Consumers
firm behaviour under competitive conditions (using mathematical
`` Path to Purchase
modeling techniques), competitive strategies, comparative impact
of marketing spend on shareholder value, alliances and firm `` Shopper Marketing
cooperation, market driving strategies, customer based business `` Legal and Ethical Issues in Advertising: A review of Indian
strategies, strategies for retailing, etc. Some recent research Advertisements
projects are: `` Interaction effects between consumers’ cognitive load and
promotion framing for strong and weak brands
`` Case Development on “Paradigm Shift of Apollo Tyres Ltd.”
`` Liberating yet stressful: the paradoxical implications of the use of
`` Examining Service Profit Chain for Online Retail Store Using
Mobile Communication Devices by professionals
Individual Level Data
`` Managing Emotions: Emotional Labor or Emotional Enrichment
`` Hedonic Shopping Behaviour: A Cross-Country Study
`` Use of social media for promotion related messages by Indian
`` New Product Development Initiatives in India
Brands

`` Impact of bundle forms on change in consumers’ Reference Price `` Selling Sketches - The case of Artistically Yours (A)
(IRP) of bundle components `` Selling Sketches - The case of Artistically Yours (B)
`` The effect of counting direction of time on hedonic / utilitarian `` ABC Films: Marketing Research on Product Placement (A)
preferences
`` ABC Films: Marketing Research on Product Placement (B)
`` Impact of interaction of primes on consumer behavior
`` ABC Films: Marketing Research on Product Placement (C)
`` Comparison of blind and sighted individuals on parameters of
`` Snapdeal: Business Models, Price Discounting and Consumer
memory, preference prediction on detection
Behavior in a Nascent Online Market
`` Identifying the Enablers of Reverse Innovation in Emerging
`` BART: Sales force and Pricing in B2B markets
Markets
`` Impact of Price Regulation on Availability of Pharmaceuticals in
`` In depth study of Analytics process development in Indian
India
Organizations - a few cases
`` Tensile Pricing
`` Brand Adoption by Retailers that Serve Customers at the Base of
Pyramid `` Impact of Price Discounts on a Bundle on Reference Price and
Purchase of Components
`` Turning Around the Business as Well Creating Sustainability
`` Building, Sustaining and Managing Brand Relationships
`` Green Advertising
`` Pricing Theory: A Neuroscience Perspective
`` Legal and Ethical Issues in Indian Advertisements
`` Cross-Cultural Content Analysis Studies in Advertising
`` Advertising and Promotions in Mobile Platform
`` Parental LOC as an antecedent to parental style
`` Ordering effect in alphanumeric brand names
`` Impact of price framing on quality perceptions Significant contributions in case research span business and non-
business enterprises and encompass almost all areas of marketing
`` Samsung Electronics in India: Challenges of Multi-Channel management in the Indian context. In the last three years, the
Retailing marketing area faculty have written more than 35 new cases based
`` Airtel Zero: Data Pricing, Two Sided Markets Led Business Models on field data. The business contexts covered include information
and Net Neutrality technology, manufacturing, automobiles, retailing, financial services,
`` Hippo on Twitter: Tracking Product Stock-outs in Retail Stores: other services, online recruitment, and media. The decision
`` The Quest for Gold: Communications Challenge areas covered by the case studies cover all areas of marketing:
segmentation and targeting, positioning, product, brand, price,
`` GE in India: Changing Healthcare advertising, sales promotion, distribution, retail, sales management,
`` Fruitzone India Limited (A): Designing the Research Questions organisation design, and strategy and strategic marketing.
`` Fruitzone India Limited (B): Designing the Research Questionnaire
Admission Criteria
`` Fruitzone India Limited (C): Data Collection & Analysis
The requirements for admission into the doctoral programme in
`` Fruitzone India Limited (D): Additional Conclusive Research marketing are the same as the ones mentioned in the Admission
`` Q-Connect: Reaching Rural Customers with Assam Mobile Requirement section. While it is not mandatory, prior academic
Theatre and/or experiential exposure to marketing and related areas

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would be of some help for aspiring applicants. Successful applicants in consultation with the faculty, can design the second year course
should show potential for developing abilities to (a) understand package from the three types of courses.
and crystallize important and interesting marketing problems, (b)
conceptualize a research plan, (c) implement the research plan, and The broad course designs in marketing in the first year are listed
(d) make original and substantial contribution to the knowledge below. (This list is indicative and courses offered may differ.) A
pool in the domain of their inquiry. typical course work in the second year also is given below.
The Programme First Year Area Specified Course

Student will undertake doctoral level courses from various domains `` Marketing Strategy
in first year. Students in the marketing area gain a basic Second Year
understanding of management through undergoing a few courses (This list is indicative and courses offered may differ.)
in the first year with PGP students. In the second year, students `` Behavioural Science Applications in Marketing
build a strong background through taking three different types `` Game Theory and Strategic Behaviour (jointly offered with
of courses. Required marketing area courses in the second year Economics area)
provide participants an opportunity to build strong background in `` Qualitative Method
quantitative models in marketing, marketing strategy, applications `` Seminar on Experimental Methods in Marketing
of behavioural sciences in marketing, marketing theory, and `` Seminar on Quantitative Models in Marketing
marketing management. They are expected to take courses in `` Business Strategies for BOP
research methodology such as econometrics, experimental analysis, `` Reading Seminar in Marketing Management
statistical analysis, and mathematical and applied game theory `` Marketing Theories and Contemporary Issues
models in marketing. Participants can gain a broad perspective in `` Structural Equation Modeling
the field of marketing management through taking a package of `` Neuroscience, Behavioural Theories and Marketing Applications
graduate level marketing elective courses in brand management,
sales and distribution management, marketing strategy, advertising Third Year
and sales promotion, retailing, logistics, internet marketing and `` Comprehensive Examination
e-commerce, strategic marketing, and customer based business `` Dissertation
strategies. In order to complete their requisite credits, a student, Fourth Year
``Dissertation
Some Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students
Biswajita Parida
2018 An Experimental Investigation of Advertising Effectiveness in Roadblock Advertising
Visiting Faculty, XLRI Jamshedpur
2018 Pinaki Roy A Strategic View of Refurbished Goods
Rajesh R. Nanarpuzha Interplay of Religion and Marketplace Transactions
2017
IIM Udaipur
Jithesh Kumar K.
The Influence and Interaction of Online Store Brand and Product Brand on Pre-Purchase and
2017 Assistant Professor, O P Jindal Global
Post-Purchase Consumer Behaviour
University
Deciphering the Choice Overload Phenomenon – Exploring the Role of Consideration Sets and
2017 Shawn Mathew
24 Anticipated Regret
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9 | Organizational Behaviour Area
Primary Faculty Members
`` Bhatnagar, Deepti `` Gupta, Parvinder `` Khokle, Pradyumana `` Sharda, Kirti
`` D’Cruz, Premilla `` Gupta, Vishal `` Nandkeolyar, Amit K. `` Sharma, Dheeraj
`` Gopakumar, K.V. `` Kandathil, George `` Noronha, Ernesto (on leave)
(Chairperson) `` Vohra, Neharika
Kandathil, George
The Organizational Behaviour (OB) area is internationally recognized `` Work-family issues

for its teaching and research. Faculty members in the area have If students have an interest to apply their knowledge in their basic
diverse research interests which include individual and interpersonal discipline such as psychology sociology, economics or political
effectiveness, job involvement, gender issues at the workplace, science to the organizational context, research in OB will allow them
work attitude, organizational excellence, human resources to do so. It is not necessary for candidates to have an MBA degree,
development, organizational culture, organizational dynamics and or a degree in psychology or sociology, to do an FPM in the area.
design, organizational learning, organizational change and strategic Rather, students from diverse disciplines are encouraged to apply
organizations. Recent research in the area has been on: for the doctoral programme in OB.
`` Alternative ways of organizing The programme
`` Cross-cultural issues A doctoral student in the OB area takes a wide range of courses,
`` Ethnicity and diversity at the workplace including those in the area of specialization. A typical course set in
the programme is as follows.
`` Leadership
`` Organization citizenship behaviour First Year courses
`` Basics of Micro OB
`` Organizational commitment and psychological well-being
`` Organizational Structure and Processes
`` Organizational sense making
Second Year Courses
`` Team work (This list is indicative and courses offered may differ)
`` Technology, power, and work `` Advanced Micro OB
`` Transformation of organization and industry `` Advanced Topics in Quantitative Methods

`` Classics in OB
`` Crafting and Publishing of Research
`` Leadership in Organizations: A Review of Theory and Practice
`` Methods of Qualitative Research: Gathering and Analysing Data
`` Organization Theory and its Social Context
`` Organizational Change
`` Organizational structure and processes
`` Psychometric Methods
`` Quantitative Methods and Analysis
Third Year
`` Comprehensive examination
`` Dissertation
Fourth Year
`` Dissertation

Avina Jenifa Mendonca
2018 Beauty Service Work as Dirty Work: Understanding Employees’ Lived Experiences
Assistant Professor, IIM Nagpur
Sanket Sunand Dash
2017 Assistant Professor, Xaiver University, Antecedents and Consequences of Job Crafting by School Teachers
Bhubneshwar
Supriya Sharma
Contradictions Between Identity & Image of an Organization: Exploring Responses in New
2017 Vice-President, CIIE; Visiting Faculty,
Entrepreneurial Ventures
IIM Nagpur
Smriti Agarwalla
2017 Assistant Professor, Antecedents and Consequences of Job Crafting by School Teachers
Xaiver University, Bhubneshwar

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10 | Production and Quantitative Methods
Faculty
`` Bandyopadhyay, Tathagata `` Jayaswal, Sachin `` Roy, Debjit (on leave)
`` Bhadra, Dhiman (Chairperson) `` Sinha, Ankur
`` Dutta, Goutam `` Laha, Arnab K `` Soman, Chetan A
`` Ghosh, Diptesh `` Mukherjee, Saral `` Sriram, Karthik
`` Guha, Apratim `` Ravichandran, N `` Venkateshan, Prahalad
Jayaswal, Sachin
The Production and Quantitative Methods (P&QM) area offers statistics are modeling discrete and financial data, survey sampling,
courses on Operations management, Operations research, and finite population inference, biostatistics, longitudinal and survival
Statistics. Doctoral students in the area are required to be proficient analysis, Bayesian inference, reliability analysis, time series analysis,
in all the three areas while developing advanced level skills in statistical genetics, directional statistics, functional data analysis
at least one of the three. The area offers doctoral level courses and stochastic processes.
in mathematical programming, statistics, stochastic processes,
operations management, technology management, modelling and The Programme
contemporary manufacturing methods and techniques. First and Second Years
During the two-year coursework phase, students take a wide range
Faculty research interests in Operations management are on
of courses, including those in their area of specialization and other
strategic or operational issues related to manufacturing and service
management areas.
planning, supply chain coordination, shop floor scheduling and
improving productivity of plant operations, design of operations, Area students are required to take course work of 5.5 credits of core
technological change and innovation, R&D capabilities, economics courses in the first two years. In addition to this, 8.5 credits of FPM
of flexible operations and process planning. In operations research, core courses, 10.5 credits worth of Area courses (Area Elective +
faculty interests include linear and integer programming, large scale Project Course/Special Topic Course + Other Area Core/Elective +
optimization, combinatorial optimization, revenue management FPM Electives) and 6 credits of PGP Courses are required over entire
and network optimization. Interest in this area is both in modeling course work.
as well as in development of algorithms and heuristics for such
problems. Typical application areas for research include finance, An indicative list of electives that students can choose from is given
logistics, and the process industry. Faculty research interests in in the next section.

Third Year and later `` Bayesian Methodology for Business Research
At the beginning of the third year, a student is required to appear `` Convexity & Optimization
for and pass a comprehensive examination on the courses that s/he
`` Game Theory for Operations Management
has credited in the first two years. On successful completion of the
comprehensive examination, a student decides on a topic of her/ `` Large Scale Optimization
his research and her/his thesis advisor. The student then presents `` Non-linear Optimization
and defends her/his thesis proposal and works on her/his doctoral
`` Problem Solving With Heuristics
thesis.
`` Queuing Models
First Year & Second Year Area FPM Core Course
`` Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing
`` Linear Algebra
`` Real Analysis
`` Operations Research
`` Statistics II
`` Advanced Probability for Management
`` Stochastic Processes
`` Classical Operations Management
`` Systems Analysis and Simulation
Second Year Elective Courses
`` Survey of Statistical Methods Used in Management Research
`` Time Series Analysis
`` Algorithms on Graphs and Networks
Third Year
`` Applied Multivariate Analysis `` Comprehensive examination
`` Applied Regression Analysis `` Dissertation
`` Applied Statistical Inference Fourth Year
`` Approximate Methods in Solving Real World Complexities `` Dissertation

Prasanna R
2018 Post-Doctoral fellow, John Molson School of Hub Interdiction Problems: Models and Solution Approaches
Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Poonam Rathi
2018 Change Point, Prediction and Classification with Functional Data
American Express
Kavitha Chetana Didugu
2018
HCL Technologies, Associate technical architect
Sayan Putatunda Streaming Data: New Models and Methods with Applications in the Transportation
2017
Data Scientist, Amazon Industry

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11 | Public Systems Group
Faculty
`` Basant, Rakesh `` Khera, Reetika `` Pandey, Ajay
`` Chakrabarti, Sandip `` Maheshwari, Sunil `` Sahay, Arvind
`` Dutta, Goutam `` Mathur, Navdeep `` Sarin, Ankur
`` Garg, Amit `` Morris, Sebastian `` Sugathan, Anish
`` Jain, Rekha `` Narayanaswami, `` Turaga, Rama Mohana R
Sundaravalli (Chairperson)
Turaga, Rama Mohana R
The Public Systems Group (PSG) undertakes cutting edge `` Techno-economic Assessment of CO2 Capture and Storage
research, training, and organizational work on strategic public Potential in India: A Policy Perspective
management, public and social policy. The objective of the group `` Application of Remote Sensing for Integrated Land Use, Water and
is to promote research that will generate concepts and theory for Energy Management in Rural Areas: Exploring Energy Plantation
effective management of public systems, as well as gain a scholarly Opportunities
understanding and articulation of social and political processes `` Corporate Social Responsibility Expenditure Patterns among
that underpin policymaking. The group integrates wide disciplinary Indian Firms
backgrounds and topics in management, social sciences and the `` Innovation in Small and Medium Industries in India
humanities. `` Analysis of India’s Electronic Waste Management Regulations
`` Environmental Impact Assessment in India
Current research interests of the faculty include energy and climate `` Impact Assessment of Wireless Technology and Broadband
change, the environment, social policy, hospital and health systems, Connectivity in Rural India
urban management, public finance, education policy, transport, `` Leveraging Knowledge Networks for Enabling Innovations in
infrastructure, rehabilitation, community development, marketing Higher Education and Research Institutes in India and UK
of public services, impact assessments and telecommunications. `` Impact Assessment of USOF Wire Line Broadband Scheme
Current and recent faculty research projects are: `` Imperatives for Future Growth of National Internet Exchange of
India
`` Prosumer Driven Peer to Peer Power Trading using Block Chain
`` MIS for Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
`` Electric Vehicles
`` Rural Road Assessment
`` Grid Responsive Buildings
`` Model for internet Governance for India
`` A Study under the Energy and Mass Exchange in Vegetative
`` Estimating the Economic Value of Unlicensed Spectrum in India
Systems
`` PPPs in Infrastructure and Transportation / Public Systems

`` Mobility Challenges in Urban Areas `` Action Research on Implementation of the Right to Education
`` Issues in High Speed Rail Development `` Innovations in Social Protection Policies for Children
`` Trucking Sector: Policy and Service Challenges `` Accountability Mechanisms in Social Policy.
`` Public Private Partnerships in Warehousing `` Social Entrepreneurship
`` Pricing in Urban Transport Systems `` Role of Digital IDs in Welfare
`` Agent Based Transport Modeling and Analysis The research work of faculty members is published in highly-acclaimed international and national
`` Transportation Operations Modelling and Automation of journals. We produce publications based on high quality research projects that bridge the gap between
Transportation Operations academics and practicing managers/policy makers, and original case studies that are used in international
`` Gender and Social Justice policy and management institutions. Doctoral students are encouraged to produce scholarly research
`` Urban Governance Reforms and Public Service Delivery papers and present their work in national and international conferences, individually or in collaboration
`` Development-Induced Displacement and Rehabilitation with faculty members with whom they share common research interests. Institute has provision for
`` Developmental Participatory Theatre sponsorship of doctoral students to present their work in international and national conferences.
`` Corporate Social Irresponsibility
`` Globalization, Social Movements and Public Participation The Fellow Programme
`` Natural Resource access and equity A student specializing in the PSG Area takes all common FPM core courses together with core and
`` Coal-by-wire Policy of India elective courses offered by PSG. A typical set of PSG courses in the FPM is as follows:
`` Externalities of Thermal Power
`` Strategic determinants of Corporate Social Responsibility First Year Area FPM Core Courses `` Public Policy Instruments for Environmental
`` Impact Evaluation of Delhi’s even-odd Traffic Policy on Ambient `` Public Policy Management
Air Quality and Personal Exposure `` Methods for Policy Analysis and Research `` Public Policy and Economics of the Transport
`` Mobility implications of relocation vs. aging in place in California Second Year Area FPM Core Courses Sector
`` Time-use and travel patterns of the elderly in Hong Kong `` Public Finance `` Telecom/ICT Policy & Regulation
`` Development and application of the National Capital Region `` Public Management `` Quantitative Methods for Causal Inference in
Travel Survey, India FPM Elective Courses Social Policy
`` The rise of ride-hailing, and implications for urban travel: A case (This list is indicative and the courses offered may Third Year
study of Ahmedabad change from year to year) `` Comprehensive Examination
`` A new market segmentation approach for predicting public `` Energy and Environment Policy `` Dissertation
transport customer retention in Edmonton, Canada `` Interpretive Research Methods Fourth Year
`` OR Applications in Public Systems `` Dissertation

Essays on Corporate Social Performance (CSP) & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A Global to Firm
2018 Debdatta Mukherjee
Level Analysis
Deepika Saluja A Process Evaluation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) Enrolment Process: Lens of
2018
Associate Professor, Jindal Global Business School Accountability
G V Radhakrishnan
2018 Private Sector Participation and Container Terminal Efficiency Issues and Evidence from India
Post-Doc Fellow, Indian Institute of Mangement Ahmedabad
Saritha Sudharmma Vishwanathan
2018 Integrating Water and Energy Systems for India
Post-Doc Fellow, Indian Institute of Mangement Ahmedabad
2018 Shuchi Srinivasan Essays on Frontline Workers’ Motivation and Performance under Public Programs: A Multi-Method Study
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The main campus LIBRARY (Online), CMIE – PACE, CMIE - Prowess dx , CMIE – Prowess IQ,
The Vikram Sarabhai Library is committed to providing widest Compustat (North America University Package), Corporate Social
houses the academic possible access to information and this commitment is reflected in Responsibility, CRISIL Research, CRSP (Center for Research in Security
Prices), Dion INSIGHT, EMIS Intelligence (ISI Emerging Markets
complex including the the range of services provided by it. Its website http://library.iima.
(Asia)), Euromonitor Passport, Frost & Sullivan Growth Partnership
ac.in is linked to various online databases that are available from any
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office, most of the The library spares no efforts to fulfill its mission by selecting, Services (ISS), MarketLine Advantage, Moody’s Analytics BankFocus,
NASSCOM Member Directory, SeekEdgar, Statista, Thomson
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facilities, eighteen resources that address the interest and needs of the members. : M&A Deal Database, Venture Intelligence : Private Equity Deal
Database, Venture Intelligence : Real Estate Deal Database, WARC
student dormitories, Resources (World Advertising Research Center), WRDS
the library, and a No. of items
Items as on Economics & Statistics
Particulars added during the
31.03.2018
sports complex. The year 2017-18 CEIC database, CMIE – CapEx, CMIE - CapEx DX, CMIE – Commodities,
Books 2,551 1,96,795 CMIE - Economic Outlook, CMIE - Industry Outlook, CMIE - States
new campus has Bound Volumes of Periodicals 1,051 52,805 of India, CMIE Trade DX, Datastream, District Metrics, DSI Data
Working Papers 82 3,821 Service & Information, EPWRF Economic and Market Review and
seventeen additional Research, EPWRF India Time Series, Indiastat.com, MICA Indian
Thesis 18 346
dormitories for Project Reports 96 2,283 Marketing Intelligence
CDs / DVDs 2 2,530
students, family Current Subscription to Journals - 19,815
Datasets
ASI- Unit level data (1974-2015), CDP Global Dataset, Census of
accommodation for News Papers - 25
India-CD’s (1991, 2001 & 2011), Daily Rainfall Data - Ahmedabad
married students, and E-Resources Station (1975-2006 & 2012), Daily surface data (India) for 10
The library subscribes to a number of company and industry stations (2004-2011), DGCIS monthly time series data (January
a classroom complex. databases, bibliographic databases and E-journals to provide latest 2002 to August 2017), District GDP of India (2001-2002 to 2015-
scholarly information to the users. 2016), District Wise Monthly Rainfall Data (1901-2010), IMS Anti
A new state-of-the- TB-Data, Meteorological Data (Ahmedabad & Gandhinagar) (2014-
Company & Industry 2016), Monthly Surface Data (1961-2014), NSE - CM & FAO (1999-
art sports complex is
ACE Equity (Offline), ACE Knowledge and Research, ACE Mutual 2018), NSS Data (Round No 51-71) (1994-2014), UCLA-LoPucki
also coming up in the Fund (Offline), Bloomberg, CAPITALINE (Offline), CAPITALINE Bankruptcy Research Database
new campus.
Legal Wiley Online Library.
AIR Criminal Law (1950-2017), AIR High Court (1950-2017), AIR
Others
Privy Council (1900-1950), AIR Supreme Court (1950-2017), Kluwer
Arbitration Law, LexisNexis Academic, Westlaw (Including INDLAW) World Bank Data, Encyclopedia of Britannica, Power Lingo Fx25
Research Support Tools/Databases Specialized Search Tools

Avoiding Plagiarism, COS Papers Invited, EBSCO American Doctoral EBSCO Discovery, EBSCO A to Z and RemoteXs for internal users.
Dissertations, 1933 – 1955, EBSCO Research Starters – Business, Services
Grammarly, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text: The
`` Circulation Programme
Humanities and Social Sciences Collection, Sage Research Methods
`` Reading Facility `` Online Public Access
Online, Scival Funding (Funding Institutional), Scopus
`` Mail Alert Service Catalogue
News Papers & Magazines `` Reference and Information `` Current Awareness Service
Business Standard Newspaper Archive (1997 onwards), FT `` Scanning `` Research Assistance
Archive (1888-2010), FT.com, India Business Insight (IBID), `` Database Search Service `` E-Book Reader Lending
Magzter, New York Times/ NYTimes.com, Pressreader.com, `` Document Delivery Service
ProQuest ABI/INFORM (Dateline, Global, Trade & Industry) (1971 `` Inter Library Loan `` Book Drop Box Facility
- current), ProQuest Times of India Archive (from 1838-2008), The `` Photocopy `` 3D Printer Facility
Economist (1997 onwards), The Economist - Historical Archive `` Indexing and Bibliography `` Topical Book Display
1843-2014, Wall street Journal, EBSCO Newspaper Source Plus, `` Abstracting `` Online Chat Facility
EBSCO Newswires, EBSCO Regional Business News `` Orientation Programme `` JAWS Talking Software and
`` Information Literacy SARA CE Book Scanner
E-Books Institutional Repository:
Business Expert Press E-Books, e-Bookcentral (ebrary : Academic The IIMA Institutional Repository has been created to collect,
Complete), EBSCO e-books collection, IMF e-Library, OECD preserve and distribute the scholarly output of Indian Institute
Agriculture & Food, OECD iLibrary (Education), Taylor & Francis of Management, Ahmedabad. It is an important tool to facilitate
eBooks, World Bank eLibrary, World eBook Library scholarly communication and preserve institutional knowledge.
E-Journals Currently the repository contains more than 17000 items consisting
ABI/INFORM Complete, Academic Search Premier, ACM Digital of faculty publication, thesis and dissertation, student’s project,
Library, Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost Web, Emerald working papers, IIM news etc.
Insight, Expert Insights Article, AEA & AMA Journals, Cambridge
University Press, New England Journal of Medicine, Academy of Publications:
Management Journal/Review/Annals, University of Chicago Press, The library has been publishing two quarterly information bulletins
Institute of Mathematical Statistics Journals, IEEE Xplore, IGI since 1998
Global, Indian Journals.com, INFORMS PubsOnline, JSTOR, Oxford
University Press, Project MUSE, ProQuest PsycARTICLES, SAGE `` Current Contents in Management: Marketing
Journals, Science Direct (Elsevier), Springer Link, Taylor and Francis, `` Current Index of Management: Marketing.

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It has started NICMAN (National Information Centre for Management) Membership apps, Google sites and few other facilities as well. The main web server (http://www.
in order to help/facilitate business/management related researchers in their research. iima.ac.in) carries information on IIMA. Another web server (http://stdwww.iima.ac.in)
provides facilities for individual participants to host their home pages.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AT IIMA
Every dormitory has a high-speed shared network printer with web based print
A Local Area Network (LAN) with more than 2000 nodes connects all the members of billing software. In addition, participants are provided centralized high speed printers
the Institute community with each other. This network has a single mode backbone having username/password based printing facility. There is a wide variety of software
capable of 10/40 Gbps network speed. packages available to the participants and faculty for their academic and research work.
There are more than 120 managed network switches which handle the internal These packages include several language processors, statistical, math programming,
data traffic. The Institute has installed a high end core Cisco 6807-XL L3 switch in simulation, project management, CASE tools, etc.
high availability (HA) at the data center to enhance security and improve network Every classroom is equipped with a projector, a PC, and a DVD player. Some of the
throughput. Every workplace on the campus including program participants’ rooms in classrooms are equipped with IP/ISDN based video conferencing capability. A fully
dormitories, faculty offices, classrooms, management development center, computer equipped computer classroom is also available in the computer center where on-line
lab, FPM lab, and administrative offices has network connectivity. Using long range computer based training can be imparted. The IIMA website includes payment gateway
Ethernet technology, faculty /staff residences have been also provided network and offers access to a large repository of IIMA case studies and research reports.
connectivity to the Institute’s LAN.
IIMA is also planning number of initiatives in very near future like implementing ERP
The Institute has put a wireless layer (Wi-Fi) on top of this LAN with high level of solution, IP Telephony, Campus wide CCTV surveillance system, Automated Backup
security using username password based authentication. More than 1000 Access for end user devices, building Smart Classrooms, Build Mobile Application as a one
Points have been installed throughout the Campus for a superior Wi-Fi experience. stop portal for all academic, administrative, cultural and general activities etc. as a
The WLAN infrastructure is also upgraded to the 802.11ac Wave 2 standards. A Next part of journey goal to make IIMA a truly SMART CAMPUS. The idea is to do digital
Generation Firewall is installed to enhance the network security. transformation to enrich “Digital Experience”.
Every participant and faculty member has a networked, business-performance
personal computer or laptop. The Institute’s network is linked to the Internet via a set
of three leased lines enabling round-the-clock Internet connectivity on the campus. All
the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from whom the Institute has procured Internet
bandwidth have installed fiber optics link from the campus to their hub. This ensures
very high quality of bandwidth to the Internet. The Institute has recently upgraded
internet bandwidth to 250 Mbps bandwidth from Ishan through TCL, 250 Mbps
bandwidth from Ishan and up to a 1 Gbps link from National Knowledge Network
(NKN).
The campus network is supported by a large server farm with more than 100 high speed
servers, running on a wide variety of platforms. Servers are virtualized using VMware
hypervisor. Many servers on this network make use of Linux and open source software
for providing the necessary services. For every workgroup (faculty, participants, staff,
etc.), there is a set of dedicated servers which provide a core layer of services like
Internet access, and file/print services. The E-mail facility is managed through Google
which provides us web based email client, built in chat facility, Google docs, Google

Life on campus
Life on Campus of FPM students at a
Decision to join a long-duration program and to live in a campus nominal rate.
might be a challenging task for the family. However, the IIMA
Professional
campus ecosystem and the cooperation from the FPM community
opportunities
will make the transition less taxing.
Ahmedabad is a fast growing
Accommodation city that offers interesting
All FPM students are provided with free accommodation on campus. career opportunities. It is
Unmarried FPM students stay in one of the new dormitories with a hub of industrial activity in
spacious rooms, an attached bathroom, and ample storage space. Western India and is home to
The married students are provided a spacious 1-BHK accommodation several renowned institutions of higher
(based on availability) complete with all furniture including beds, education. The city provides opportunities
table, chairs, study table, cupboards, and a dining table. The kitchen for spouses of students to work. Additionally,
comes equipped with piped gas supply and a gas stove. Campus has the family members can explore opportunities
24X7 electricity and water supply and a high speed WiFi connection. within the campus in various centres and administrative
A bank and post office are also located within the campus premises. departments.
Healthcare Activities and amenities

IIMA values the health of its community members. All FPM The campus has a diverse population from all states of India and
students are covered under institute’s group insurance facility. The several festivals are celebrated with fervor round the year. The
institute has a dispensary with full-time residential doctors and an student body organizes various events including cultural festivals,
ambulance is parked 24*7 at the old campus. Referrals to specialists plays, dance and singing events, movie screening, food festival
at leading hospitals are also made available as and when needed. A etc. There are more than 45 clubs run by students that organize a
medical store is also located inside the campus. Both heritage and wide range of events round the year. The research seminars, Annul
new campuses have well-equipped gyms, which can be used by the lectures and informal debates enrich the academic environment.
family members. Several activities, except those specifically related to courses, are
open to the entire FPM community including family members. The
Childcare family members also get access to the huge library collection and all
The campus has reputed schools in its vicinity, where admission has the sports facilities. There are more than 5 food joints within campus
to be sought individually. It also has a professionally-maintained with facility for room delivery and many of them stay open till 4AM.
crèche, the benefits of which can be availed by residents of campus at The FPM community also conducts and encourages initiatives such
a nominal rate. The safe and secure campus houses well maintained as family dinners and get-togethers that promote healthy interaction
indoor and outdoor sports facilities which can be availed by children among the members of FPM community.

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Admission & Financial Aid
The Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) is the doctoral Basic Eligibility Criteria:
programme of IIMA. FPM admits students who have a strong The candidate must hold, subject to the condition laid down below,
academic background, are highly motivated and who have the
intellectual curiosity to undertake original research. The doctoral 1. “A Master’s Degree in any discipline, with at least 55 percent
programme prepares students for a career in academia or research marks, AND with at least 50 percent marks in the Bachelor’s
positions in industry. degree/equivalent qualification (minimum three years of
bachelors level education after the completion of higher
Students spend generally a little over four years that includes two secondary schooling (10+2) or equivalent”.
years of rigorous course work. From the First term onwards students
take advanced doctoral level courses in the Area of high levels of (OR)
specialization along with some recommended Post Graduate 2. Five year/four year Integrated Masters Degree programme in
Programme (PGP) courses which provides a general management any discipline, with at least 55 percent marks, obtained after
overview and develop basic skills for analyzing managerial problems. completing Higher Secondary schooling (10+2) or equivalent.
After completing the course work, students have to pass an Area
Comprehensive Examination to demonstrate that they have reached (OR)
a level of proficiency in the Area of high levels of specialization. 3. A professional qualification like CA, ICWA, CS, with at least 55
Subsequently, students work on their doctoral dissertations. These percent marks.
dissertations are expected to make original contributions to an Area
of management or to one of management’s source disciplines. (OR)
Students admitted to the programme receive a comprehensive 4. A 4-year/8-semester Bachelor’s degree with at least 60 percent
fellowship that covers all costs and in addition provides a modest marks or equivalent grade point average.
living allowance. IIMA has excellent facilities in computing, library, Condition:
and faculty resources. IIMA faculty members publish actively in The Master’s degree or equivalent qualification/Bachelor’s degree or
scholarly journals and consult with industry and government within equivalent qualification should be: (a) from any of the Universities
the country and outside. Case writing and related research are incorporated by an act of the central or state legislature in India or
actively pursued by faculty and students. other educational institutions established by an act of Parliament
Graduates of the FPM are placed in world class organizations in or declared to be deemed as a University under section 3 of UGC
teaching, research and consulting positions. A total of 365 doctoral Act, 1956; or (b) recognized by the Ministry of HRD, Government of
students have graduated from IIMA so far. India or (c) possess an equivalent qualification from an institution
approved by AICTE. The Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification
obtained by the candidate must entail a minimum of three years of
education after completing Higher Secondary schooling (10+2) or
equivalent.

Candidates who are in the final year of their Master’s/Bachelor’s
Area of high levels of
Programmes that would make them eligible, can also apply. Such Standard Test in lieu of CAT *
specialization
candidates, if selected, will be allowed to join the programme
provisionally only if they submit a certificate latest by June 30, 2019 Business Policy GRE/GMAT
from the Principal/Head of the Department/Registrar or Director Economics GRE/GMAT
of the university/institute (issued on or before June 30, 2019)
stating that they have appeared for the examinations (including Finance & Accounting GRE/GMAT
practical examinations) in all the subjects required for obtaining GRE/GMAT
the Master’s/Bachelor’s degree/equivalent qualification. Their UGC-JRF (Economics/Development
admission will be confirmed only when they submit the mark
Food & Agri-business Studies/Development Economics/
sheet and a certificate of having passed the master’s/bachelor’s Business Economics/ Management)
degree/equivalent qualification referred to in the certificate issued
ICAR-SRF (PGS – merit list for award of
by Principal/Registrar of their college/institute. The deadline for SRF)
submission of mark sheet and the certificate is December 31, 2019.
Please note that those candidates who have applied on the basis of GMAT/GATE/GRE/UGC-JRF in relevant
Human Resource Management
their master’s degree will have to meet the 55% marks stipulation, discipline
and those who have applied on the basis of their bachelor’s degree Information Systems GMAT / GATE / GRE
will have to meet the 60% marks stipulation. Non-fulfilment of
Innovation and Management in GMAT/ GRE/ GATE/ UGC-JRF in rele-
these conditions will automatically result in the cancellation of the
Education vant discipline
provisional admission.
Marketing GRE/GMAT
Selection Process
GRE / GMAT / UGC-JRF in relevant
Candidates applying to the Fellow Programme in Management are Organizational Behaviour
discipline
required to take the Common Admission Test (CAT) or a standard
test in lieu of CAT. For NRIs and Foreign students this standard test Production and Quantitative GMAT / GATE / GRE / UGC- NET JRF in
is the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT). Methods Mathematical Sciences
GRE/GMAT/GATE/UGC-JRF (in relevant
Standard Test Score not required if an applicant is: Public Systems Group
discipline)
`` PGP Alumni of any IIM
* Valid for two years from the date of the standard test and should be valid on the
`` PGPX/PGP-PMP Alumni of any IIM where such courses are offered deadline of submission of the application form
(Part-time/evening/week-end/Distance Learning programmes of
IIM are NOT considered)
Scores of CAT 2016, 2017 and 2018 are considered valid for
Different Areas of high levels of specialization of IIMA have specified application to the Fellow Programme in Management in 2019.
different standard tests that candidates applying to the Fellow
Candidates will be short listed and called for an interview at
Programme in Management in their Areas can take in lieu of CAT.
Ahmedabad during March-April 2019 for final selection on the basis
These standard tests are given in the following table:

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of their performance in CAT or the standard test in lieu of CAT,
academic background, and experience.
Fellowship and Expenses

IIMA provides a comprehensive fellowship that covers all academic
expenses including tuition, computer, library, medical insurance,
placement and alumni fees, and in addition includes a monthly
subsistence allowance of INR 32,800/- (Slab A) for first and second
years, INR 35,400/- (Slab B) after completing comprehensive
examination and INR 39,300/- (Slab C) after submitting the TAC
approved thesis proposal.
A Contingency Allowance of INR 25,000 per year (for five years) to

cover research expenses, expenses on books, photocopying etc. are
also available to all students. Students are entitled to get up to an
amount of INR 1,75,000/- (upper limit) for attending international
conference/workshop/summer school during their entire tenure with
FPM system (maximum 5 years). (Further details are described in the HOW TO APPLY
FPM Brochure).
Application Form and Brochure will be available online. Candidates
Since the FPM is a full time residential programme, bachelor can fill-up the application form online and is eligible to apply for
accommodation is provided to all the students in dormitories. a maximum of three Areas of high levels of specialization. An
A fixed number of houses for married students are available on application fee of INR 500/- can be paid through IIMA gate way.
campus. The last date for submitting the application will be January 24, 2019.
Also please refer to the IIMA’s advertisement for FPM that will
appear in leading newspapers during September 2018.
Important Dates to Note:

Link open for Online Application
September 12, 2018
Last date for submitting Online Application
January 24, 2019
For further information/clarifications, please contact:

In-charge
38 Vastrapur, Ahmedabad 380 015
Phone :079-66324638/39, email: inchg-fpm@iima.ac.in
Phase 1 Courses
TRACK – I COURSE WORK
Total Credits: 30.5 (FPM Core Courses: 8.5 Credits, Area Courses: 16.0 Credits#, and PGP Courses: 6 Credits*)
FPM CORE/COMPULSORY COURSES (with credits)
Induction Term Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6

Mathematics (0.75) Psychology-I (0.5) RM-I (1.0) CMAT (0.5) Research
Communication
SocPol-I (0.75) PGP – QM-1a (0.5) RM-II (1.5) (1.0)
Excel Workshop PGP – QM-1b (0.75)
(Compulsory but Non-credit)
PGP – Microeconomics (1.25) --- ---
FPM ELECTIVE COURSES

Statistics-II (1.0) Business SocPol-II (1.0)
History (1.0)
Psychology-II (0.5)
# 16 credits worth of Area Courses (Area Core/Elective + Project Course/Special Topics Course + Other Area Core/Elective + FPM Electives). The Project
Course/Special Topics Course (1.5 credits) is a compulsory requirement.
It is to be noted that Area Core Courses are limited to 6 credits.
*6 credits of PGP courses are required over entire course work

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TRACK – II COURSE WORK
Total Credits: 34 (FPM Core Courses: 6.0 Credits, Area Courses: 13.0 Credits# and PGP Courses: 15 Credits*)
FPM CORE/COMPULSORY COURSES (with credits)
Induction Term Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6

Mathematics (0.75) Psychology-I (0.5) RM-I (1.0) CMAT (0.5) Research ---- ----
Communication
SocPol-I (0.75) PGP – QM-1a(0.5) RM-II (1.5) (1.0)
Excel Workshop PGP – QM-1b (0.75)
(Compulsory but
Non-credit) PGP–Microeconomics
(1.25)
FPM ELECTIVE COURSES
Statistics-II (1.0) Business History SocPol-II (1.0)
(1.0)
Psychology-II (0.5)
# 13 credits worth of Area Courses (Area Core/Elective + Project Course/Special Topics Course + Other Area Core/Elective + FPM Electives).
The Project Course/Special Topics Course (1.5 credits) is a compulsory requirement.
It is to be noted that Area Core Courses are limited to 6 credits.
*15 Credits of PGP Courses (12.5 credits in Terms 1, 2 and 3 combined. These to compulsorily include QM-1a, QM-1b and Microeconomics.
Additional 2.5 credits across the entire course work)

Phase 2 Courses
BUSINESS POLICY Economics of Strategy
[Jointly offered with Economics Area]
Advanced Seminar on Action Research Methodologies
This specialized course in hermeneutic research methodologies using The course exposes the participants to various neoclassical and
action research context focuses on inquiry frames to understand non-neoclassical theories of the firms along with concepts and
dynamics of management processes. This is particularly useful tools of industrial organization that may help them understand firm
where the lived reality is to be phenomenologically experienced strategy.
and interpreted especially where controlled experimentations are
impossible. International Strategic Management
This course aims to deepen understanding of management
The specific learning aims of this seminar are:
challenges associated with discovering and inventing international
`` to understand the systemic underpinnings of different action business strategies for managing cross-border value chains. The
research approaches and how they impact systems, structures course exposes students to complexities of strategy and develops
and processes conceptual foundations by introducing them to prevailing terms and
concepts and emerging praxis around complex activities of global,
`` to review the scope and application of action research
international and multi-domestic product-services linkages of
methodologies in a variety of contexts and inquiries
business organizations with due regard to developments in various
`` to become familiar with the pitfalls of attributing motivations in international fora.
management research and to distinguish between conscious and
unconscious feedback loops Seminar on Entrepreneurship
`` to develop research design strategies for using action research The elective on Entrepreneurship is designed to familiarize students
methodologies and hermeneutically resolving the constraints of with the theoretical and empirical perspectives in the field of
transference and subjectivity to gain some first-hand experience Entrepreneurship. Specifically, the course enables students to
of action research methodologies appreciate the different perspectives in entrepreneurship research,
develop skills in evaluating this literature, and develop and evaluate
Corporate Governance research questions in this field.
The course focuses on the main theoretical perspective of “Agency
Theory” to study mitigation mechanisms like boards, executive Strategy and Innovation
compensation, ownership structure and the market for corporate The focus of this course is on innovation as a strategy for
control to deal with corporate governance issues/agency issues with sustainable competitive advantage. It emphasizes understanding
emphasis on unique governance issues in an emerging economy and application of concepts that address the content and process
context. issues for managing innovations.

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and hence, will develop the necessary methods during the course.
The goal of this course is to introduce the course-participants
to the basic tools used in modern macroeconomics. We will also
use computer programs to simulate the models and test their
implications on data.
Econometrics I
The course acquaints the students with the idea of econometrics, use
of regression techniques in a research context, and understanding
of various issues and solutions to those issues. The first module
provides an introduction and deals primarily with cross sectional
models. The second module introduces the participants to the
basic ideas and tools of time series econometrics. The third module
provides a comprehensive approach to panel data techniques.
Microeconomics I
The microeconomics course builds the foundations for understanding
Strategic Management I and II of the decision of rational individual decision makers. We first
The objectives of these courses are to strengthen the theoretical understand individual decision making by consumers and producers.
underpinnings of students, and expose them to the extensive The next part of the course looks at how these consumers and
research carried out both in the domain of strategy formulation and producers interact in markets, the different forms of markets as well
implementation. as market failures.
ECONOMICS Computational Economics

This is a course on computational economics, not on numerical
Mathematics for Economists
methods although we will use numerical methods to a large extent
Mathematical rigor has become an integral part of economics
to solve the models. Over the last two decades, there has been
literature, and this course serves as an introduction to such rigorous
an enormous change in how economists and finance people do
thinking. The course aims to provide in-depth treatment to various
research. Availability of large scale data and computational power
mathematical concepts used in subsequent advanced coursework
has ushered in a major change in terms of how modern economics
in economics: microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics,
is done. Applications of computational models are wide-ranging;
game theory, etc.
from macroeconomic DSGE style models to time-series models
of forecasting, empirical industrial organization to agent-based
Macroeconomics I
models.
This is a course on macroeconomic modeling. We will work through
a sequence of standard models to understand the dynamics and
Microeconomics II - General Equilibrium
comovements of aggregate variables like consumption, output,
This course provides a formal theoretical description of general
inflation etc. We will use dynamic programming as the basic tool

equilibrium for different types of economies. This course describes exposes students to the theory, concepts and tools of organization
the mathematical properties of general equilibrium, its welfare economics that may help them understand firm strategy, and the
properties, and the its applications to various fields in economics. economic roots of many concepts they learn in various courses on
Applications include securities markets, macroeconomics, strategy, marketing etc.
international trade, and welfare economics.
Econometrics II
Business History The course is designed to review various advanced analytical tools
“Business History” is important to understand the evolution of firms, from econometrics/data analysis which are important and relevant
markets and societies over time. It imparts a historical sensibility to for empirical research across disciplines. The objectives are to
contemporary issues, provides lessons from the past and broadens understand the advanced analytical tools which are developed in
the horizon of the management scholar. The course introduces key recent times and are commonly used in the applied research today,
concepts, events and business practices that mark the evolution of learn how these new methods are getting used in today’s empirical
modern business at both a global and Indian scale. research methods and published papers, expose to a number of
examples and new data, and provide with software tool kits that
Macroeconomics II will enable students apply these methods to real data. This course
This is an advanced course on macroeconomics. We will go through complements Econometrics I.
set of tools and a series of models to understand macroeconomic
phenomena in time domain and frequency domain. In particular, we Advanced Game Theory
will explore extensions and foundations of the representative agent This course provides a formal theoretical treatment of essential
economy and discuss models with heterogeneous agents. topics and a selection of advanced topics in game theory. All major
game-theoretic solution concepts are defined, and their properties
Data Envelopment Analysis and applications are discussed. Applications include mechanism
This course provides the students with conceptual foundations design, auctions, bargaining and pricing strategies under repeated
of productivity and efficiency from the perspective of production interactions. The course includes a discussion of recent research and
economic theory, Operations Research (OR) and also to show how open research areas related to game theory.
one can use real life data to measure and compare performance of
different decision making units. This is an advanced doctoral level Networks and Granularity
course in DEA. The emphasis of this course is both on understanding This is an elective course for FPM second year students. The first half
the production theory and OR applications using mathematical of the course deals with macroeconomic networks. The second half
programming. of the course looks at economic motivations for network formation
and how people interact strategically over networks
Economics of Strategy
Organizational economics encompasses various levels of analysis Time Series Analysis
at the same time. OE literature (broadly defined to include both This course introduces the theory and methods of time series
the neo-classical and non-neoclassical strands) is perhaps the analysis for research in economics and finance. The objective of
only strand of economic literature which simultaneously provides the course is two-fold. First is to give participants enough technical
insights at the firm, industry and the economy levels. The course background to enable them to read research papers in applied time

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series analysis. The second is to introduce select advanced topics improve transportation system performance; understand the urban
useful for analysis of macroeconomic and financial time series. transportation policy development process: fighting congestion and
air pollution, provision of mass transportation, and increasing safety
Decentralization and Public Policy of travel; and develop a research agenda around the sector
The purpose of this course is to illustrate the role of decentralization
FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
in enabling the formulation of effective public policies. In these
lectures, we will show that decentralization is at best a necessary Applied Functional Analysis for Finance
condition for effective public policy. Democratization, however, is a The objective of the course is to provide the students intending
sufficient condition, since it enables households to participate in the to do research in the areas of Mathematical Finance/Quantitative
process of design, provision and management of public goods and Finance /Financial Economics a rigorous introduction to Functional
services. The first half of the course will focus on explaining some of Analysis and Operator Theory.
the theory related to decentralization and democratization. In the
second half specific problems that could be addressed by policy will Asset Pricing
be discussed. The design of this course is such that the theory will be Asset Pricing is the first F&A area FPM course for finance-track
discussed first followed by presentation of empirical results. candidates. The objective of this course is to introduce the basic
principles of financial economics. Beginning with a recap of essentials
Foundations of new Institutional Economics from PGP-I Financial Markets, the first half of the course would
This course aims to equip participants with tools and frameworks to cover the theory of choice under uncertainty and the classical mean-
identify institutions and institutional change in the policy process. variance approach to CAPM. The second half of the course would
This course begins by laying down the necessary ground-rules for cover the modern stochastic discount factor approach to asset
understanding institutional evolution and design, such as: agency pricing in incomplete markets using the geometry of state-space
and contracts; incentives and transaction costs; property rights diagrams. The course ends with a review of stylized facts about asset
and firm behavior; collective action and human nature. The major returns and empirical performance of asset pricing models.
works of important institutionalists such as Ronald Coase, Douglass
North, John R. Commons, Oliver Williamson, Mancur Olson, Elinor Corporate Finance in Emerging Markets
Ostrom and Daniel Bromley, amongst others are covered. It then This seminar course focuses on research in emerging economy
works through the transcripts to understand real economic systems context in the domain of corporate finance. This course provides
through empirical examples and cases. Subsequently, the course an overview of research in corporate finance issues in emerging
engages with participants in identifying institutional aspects in their economies. It attempts to aid students in their pursuit of research
individual research programs. in the domain of corporate finance in the emerging economies by
discussing issues that are germane to unique conditions that prevail
Public Policy And Economics of the Transport Sector in these economies.
The objectives of the course are to understand current issues and
trends in the transportation industry; understand the economics Derivatives Pricing
of transportation systems, across multiple modes: demand, cost, The objective of this second year F&A area FPM course is to provide
regulation, pricing, quality of service, subsidies, competition, and an introduction to the theory of derivatives pricing. Beginning with
project appraisal; learn the principles of applying economic tools to a review of relevant prerequisites from “Asset Pricing”, the course

first builds the intuition of necessary concepts using discrete time Foundations of Finance
models before moving to derivatives pricing in continuous time. The The objective of this course is to introduce essentials of utility
course uses a mix of readings from textbooks, review papers and theory, financial economics and mathematical preliminaries for
select classic papers from the field of derivatives pricing. asset pricing and corporate finance. The course is divided into four
parts. The first part covers microeconomics of asset pricing and
Empirical Accounting Research builds basics of expected utility theory and risk aversion. The second
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the ever growing part reviews main results from mathematics of vector spaces and
field of empirical accounting research. Students get an opportunity random variables. The third part covers portfolio theory, separation
to read, present and critically analyze influential research papers theorems and static CAPM. The fourth and the final part introduces
in the area. They are able to get an insight into the reasons why economics of information asymmetry, signaling and agency theory
certain questions have been asked by the researchers, and how they to build foundations for corporate finance.
have attempted to answer. Students then suggest the improved
questions, improved ways in which the questions could have been Mathematical Finance
answered, and the unanswered questions which can pave the way This course helps to prepare for the rigors of analysis by imparting
for future research. Domains covered are earnings management, the skills of analytical tools. The course would help in identifying
executive compensation, corporate governance, disclosure, etc. the right tool to apply in diverse situations, interpretation of the
After undergoing the course, students are able to make an informed results and the theoretical underpinnings of how mathematics can
choice whether their dissertation can be in any of the domains. be effectively used in complex financial functions.
Empirical Asset Pricing Seminar in Behavioural Finance

The course exposes the participants to the interplay among the Most of the models in financial economics assume complete
financial economic theory, data availability and econometric rationality of economic agents and assume efficiency of the financial
methods while studying asset pricing. This course complements markets. However, several features of the asset prices remain a
the compulsory FPM course Àsset Pricing’ by discussing (a) the puzzle for the traditional finance theories. Behavioral finance makes
empirical properties of asset returns and (b) issues in the estimation an attempt to improve the understanding of several features of
of asset pricing models. This course mostly covers asset pricing asset prices by assuming that at least of some of the agents are not
issues related to stocks. fully rational. The course offers a survey of the advances in asset
pricing, investor and firm behavior, brought about by the behavioral
Empirical Research in Auditing and Corporate Governance finance theories.
The purpose of this course is to expose FPM students to the most
relevant research being conducted on various topics related to Seminar Course in Accounting and Markets
the field of Auditing and Corporate Governance. The course helps The purpose of this course is to expose FPM students to the manner
the participants to identify possible directions for future research in which accounting information is evaluated by corporate investors
in related fields and also helps them to learn the necessary while determining their trading and investing securities. The course
methodologies that are needed to conduct high quality research in also highlights the fact that investors do not always evaluate
related fields. accounting information rationally and that their evaluations are
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FOOD & AGRI-BUSINESS
Agro-Food Value Chain Management and Development

Major objectives of the course are to familiarize the participants
with the concept and the theory behind value chain framework and
its relevance for Agri-business; to expose participants to specific
applications of this framework in the subsectors of Agri-business like
garments, horticulture, food service and the like; to help participants
apply global and Indian learning in this field to understand and
tackle issues of management and development in such chains.
Agricultural Management I
The objective of this course is to introduce advanced concepts of
consumer behavior, demand, supply, economic systems, water
and decision making. The course helps the participants to identify and input management, agricultural marketing, risk analysis,
possible directions for future research in related fields and also helps development and institutional economics.
them to learn the necessary methodologies that are needed to
conduct high quality research in related fields. Agricultural Management II
The objective of this course is to familiarize participants with concepts
Seminar Course in Accounting and Organization in natural resource economics, agricultural finance, management of
The purpose of this course is to expose FPM students to the manner technical change, agricultural trade and public policy.
in which accounting information impacts organizational behavior
of different types of managerial personnel. The course highlights Agricultural Development Policy
how accounting information could be utilized to develop effective The objective of this course is to develop a conceptual understanding
evaluation and incentive schemes and also highlights the interactive and empirical perspective of major problem areas in development of
impact of accounting information and various heuristics and biases agriculture and rural sector in India. In accomplishing this objective
on organizational behavior. The course helps the participants to a range of past, current and emerging agri-food policy issues and
identify possible directions for future research in related fields and instruments, besides policy formulation process and the institutions
also helps them to learn the necessary methodologies that are or groups involved in this process, are considered. The course
needed to conduct high quality research in related fields. provides participants with a comprehensive exposure to the national
and international dimensions of the agricultural economy using a
Seminar Course in Corporate Finance business perspective. Additional emphasis is placed on the role of
This course covers selected theoretical and empirical work in the agriculture in economic development and international trade issues.
area of corporate finance. The emphasis is on recent developments The course analyzes implications of farm sector reforms and trade
in Corporate Finance based on information asymmetry and conflicts policies for businesses, farmers, consumers, and the larger economy.
of interest between managers and shareholders and between
“insiders” and “outsiders”.

Institution Building
The course provides an opportunity to explore the dynamics of
institution building as a process of political economy, ethical and
value dilemmas, and generating durable but systematic responses
to various stimuli in the environment.
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Foundations of Research in HRM I

This course revolves around research issues related to human resource
planning, acquisition, performance management, competence
development, career planning, and development issues.
Foundations of Research in HRM II

The anchoring topics in this course are compensation dynamics, the
empowerment discourse, labour rationalization dynamics, human
resource strategies in the context of mergers and acquisitions, sick
unit turnarounds, corporate restructuring, and internationalization
exposure to significant qualitative research tools and techniques;
processes.
and develop hands on experience in analytical, interpretative and
writing skills in the employment of qualitative research approaches.
Foundations of Research in ERM I
Issues dealt with in this course revolve around the economic,
Quantitative Techniques in HRM
political, social, legal, and collective trade union action determinants
This course provides doctoral students with the opportunity to apply
of employee relations.
the tools and methodologies learnt in the core curriculum to their
research in the field of HRM. This course also exposes the students
Foundations of Research in ERM II to latest development in the quantitative techniques in HRM. The
This course focuses on technological determinants of employee focus of this course is to study various quantitative techniques used
relations, employee grievance and discipline management, employee in processes related to employees in an organization. Apart from
involvement initiatives, the social clause- trade regime debate in the the organizational context, the course also looks into quantitative
employee relations context, and employee relations dynamics in the approaches used in the analysis of labor markets.
mergers / acquisitions and turnaround contexts.
Theoretical Underpinning in HRM
Qualitative Methods in HRM This course will focus on the scholarship in the functional areas
The learning objectives of this course are to enhance appreciation under the broad umbrella of HRM, such as Recruitment, Training
for the potential and relevance of qualitative research methodology; and Development, Compensation, Organizational Structures etc.
develop insights into the logic of qualitative research enquiry; gain The key emphasis would be developing understanding about the
understanding of some major qualitative research approaches like highlighting the research issues related to the respective functional
the ethnography, video-ethnography and phenomenology; get areas and corresponding application of theoretical frameworks.

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INNOVATION AND MANAGEMENT IN EDUCATION `` Learn to critique and develop on existing research in the area
Education: Theory, Policy and Practice `` Learn to practically apply methods

The course presents an overview of contemporary issues in education, `` Develop an independent research project based on the ideas in
with the predominant focus being on the Indian experience. the course
Educational policy-making in independent India has been driven
by a variety of values, including equity and faith in education as an Change and innovation in Education
instrument to reduce social inequalities. The efforts of the Centre Change and innovation are essential parts of any dynamic
and the states, which have been guided by the recommendations organization. This course examines the various aspects of change
of various education commissions and committees, have resulted in and innovation in the Indian educational context. These will
significant improvements in educational performance—both at the be examined at individual, group, organizational and societal
school and higher, especially technical education, levels. Yet, the levels, across different sectors, namely literacy, school and higher
goal of education for all and the quality of educational outcomes education. Major educational initiatives within the country and
remain problematic. The last three decades have added a new selected innovations in other countries will be examined with
dimension to the context of educational policy and performance, respect to their role in effecting change and innovation in education.
with liberalization and globalization significantly influencing
The objectives of the course are:
educational directions. Against this backdrop, this course provides
a broad perspective on the issues confronting education today, and `` To appreciate the nature of educational change with a particular
focuses specifically on the nature of educational policy making in focus on innovation in education.
India.
`` To identify salient factors like role of leadership, vision, ideology
and role of stakeholders in initiating and sustaining innovation.
Analyzing and Evaluating Educational Policy
The search for causality in relationship between variables is as Applied Quantitative Techniques for Social Research
frustrating as it is necessary. As elusive as they might be, claims This applied course builds on the insights and knowledge obtained
about causality form the basis of much policy advice and advance in the first-year research methodology courses (Survey of Statistical
our understanding of factors influencing human development. Methods, and Statistics). Regression analysis is one of the most
Relatively recent advances in the development and application commonly used quantitative techniques used across various fields
of quantitative methods in identifying and estimating causal such as economics, education, psychology, sociology, and business.
relationships also make this an exciting and productive line of The course is designed to help students become more informed
research. The methods covered will include experiments, ‘natural’ consumers of research and be able to apply these analytic techniques
experiments, instrument variables, regression discontinuity designs, in their own research. The course will be based on a combination of
propensity score matching and value-add models. The purpose of theoretical and practice-oriented sessions that will provide working
this course will be introduce, explain and study the application of knowledge of statistical software like SPSS, STATA and R.
these techniques in the specific context of gathering evidence on
different dimensions of education. Specific goals would be: Qualitative Research Methods in Education
`` Introduce participants to methods that are at the cutting edge of This course provides an in-depth understanding of some of
quantitative empirical research the approaches within the ‘qualitative’ tradition of research in

education. While the use of the phrase ‘qualitative research’ is not Data Structures and Programming
unproblematic, we use it here to capture the broad approaches The objective of this course is to introduce the participants to the
which fall under the constructivist/ critical paradigms of research. concept of data structures such as linked lists, stacks, queues,
The course builds on the basic exposure that participants would hash tables, trees, and graphs. The course will help the participants
have had in the Research Methods course. Three traditions of understand the fundamentals of algorithm design, development
qualitative inquiry (and the associated philosophical and theoretical and computational complexity analysis.
frameworks), grounded theory, ethnography and case study, will
constitute the focus of the course. Data analysis techniques relevant Database Management Systems
to these traditions are discussed. The objective of this course is to help the participants understand
the fundamentals of database design and development. The basic
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS The participants will also learn the emerging research issues in
database management.
Systems Analysis and Design
This course exposes students to issues in the analysis and design Research Issues in Internet Governance and Policy
of systems through formal methods. It deals with both structured The course will provide an overview of research issues and
and object oriented approaches to development of solutions in frameworks for analysis involved in policy design, implementation
the emerging environments and addresses process management, and evaluation for Internet and telecommunications, with a focus on
quality, and productivity issues. developing countries such as India.
Framework for Information Systems Structure and Economics of IS-enabled Networks

This course will provide an overview of research issues and This course exposes students to the large-scale globally distributed
frameworks in the selection, design, implementation and evaluation IS-enabled networks prevalent in contemporary digital world. These
of Information Systems in a managerial context. It will provide the IS-enabled networks are increasingly informing the human action at
participants with the tools and insights for developing, building and all levels ranging from individuals to firms. This course will cover two
evaluating research and research proposals in the area of IS. critical aspects of IS-enabled networks: structure and economics.
While the former depicts how these networks are organized through
Networks and Distributed Systems a common set of mathematical principles, the latter focuses on the
The objective of this course is to introduce the participants to underlying operating mechanisms from an economic standpoint.
fundamentals of computer networks. The course will enable
the participants to learn the basic concepts of Open System Exploratory Data Visualization
Interconnection model, P2P, mobile and wireless networks, and Exploratory Data Visualization is an approach that uses visual
distributed systems. The participants will also be exposed to recent constructs and techniques to analyze a dataset, get maximum
advances in networks and distributed systems. insights into the data and summarize its main characteristics.
EDV tries to see what can be found beyond the formal modeling
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underlying structure. This course will expose participants to a range an important analytical methodology for their dissertation research.
of exploratory data visualization methods, tools and techniques.
Seminar on Experimental Methods In Marketing
Knowledge Systems for Multi-criteria Decision Making under The purpose of this course is to provide technical skills for the design
Uncertainty and implementation of experimental methods used in marketing.
Multi criteria decision aiding (MCDA) is an important and pervasive While the focus is on marketing, most of the techniques and
subfield of operations research. This course would discuss the recent discussion is relevant for any experimental research in social science/
developments in the area of MCDA. The confluence of uncertainty behavioural research. Accordingly, the papers discussed in this
representation methods, popular MCDA models, and emerging course though majorly from marketing also have a fair mix of papers
machine learning techniques shall be investigated in detail. from other related disciplines. A key objective of this course is to
get the participants to ‘dirty their hands’ on actual experimentation.
Data Mining Algorithms and Applications The project in this course is oriented towards getting doctoral
This course will introduce the participants to the key data mining candidates to conceptualize and design a simple experiment and
concepts, methods and processes. The participants will get an then analyse the results from the study. The aim is to give the
opportunity to learn and apply data mining methods for solving participants the necessary understanding as well as confidence to
real-world business problems. It will also help the participants start doing experimental research.
understand the key issues, challenges and open research problems
in mining large data repositories. The course will be useful to participants from marketing as well as
those from other disciplines who plan to do behavioural research.
MARKETING Even for those who do not plan to do their doctoral research using
experiments it might be a good skill to develop.
Behavioural Science Applications in Marketing
The objectives of this course are to expose students to the diverse Seminar on Quantitative Models in Marketing
approaches and sub-fields of behavioural science relevant for an The objectives of this course are to expose students to diverse model
understanding of consumer behaviour, enable students to identify building approaches like deterministic, stochastic, and simulation
research issues, and develop the ability to conduct consumer models for decision making in marketing, study the state of art
research relevant to Indian conditions. in marketing model building in selected sub-areas of marketing
decision making, and provide an experience in model building.
Game Theory and Strategic Behaviour (jointly offered with
Economics area) Mental Accounting, Pricing & Neuro Marketing
The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the Behavioral economics is increasingly becoming mainstream as social
basic concepts, scope, and methodology of game theory to analyse scientists understand the limits of neo-classical economics. Similarly,
strategic behaviour of/among ‘agents’ such as firms, consumers, advances in neuroscience are having an increasing impact on how
competitors, regulators, policy makers etc. This course examines marketing research is done. Increasingly, the stimulus response
the applications of game theory in various academic disciplines, approach in consumer behavior is seen as being incomplete as it
especially in marketing, applied micro-economics and oligopoly does not explain what happens in the brain when the consumer is
theory and strategy. Experimental methods in game theory are also behaving in a particular way; in a way the efficiency and effectiveness
covered in this course with a view to equip doctoral candidates with of the stimuli that we think lead to certain behaviors are open to

question without bringing on board how that stimuli leads to the
behaviour. This course is an attempt to address this gap by looking
at three specific topics in the area – that of mental accounting that
provides the underlying presently understood theoretical basis for
consumer behaviour, of behavioural pricing and the neuroscience of
human behaviour in a bid to connect the three and develop a new
and better understanding of the field.
Reading Seminar in Marketing Management

The main objective of this course is to make students go through
selected readings and research materials on various aspects of
marketing management, selected from major works (articles,
literature and research experience) on current marketing
management problems. Seminal research on the major domains
of marketing science is highlighted in this course with a view to ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
motivate students to identifying their own line of future research.
Basics of Micro OB
Marketing Theory and Contemporary Issues This course introduces students to basic concepts relating to
The objectives of this course are to review and evaluate major individuals and groups in organizations such as personality, attitudes,
literature on the foundation of marketing, to provide an in depth motivation, perception, attribution, learning and leadership. It
understanding of the theory of marketing and their conceptual provides an insight to the essence of research and research-based
basis, provide an insight into selected contemporary issues in writing, initiating students into the discipline and exposing to the
marketing, and initiate discussion regarding the potential application fundamentals of scholarship, knowledge-generation and theory-
of marketing knowledge to address these issues. building. The teaching pedagogy emphasizes the foundations of
research skills through academic readings, discussion critiques and
Structural Equation Modeling term papers.
SEM, also known as covariance structure analysis and latent variable
analysis, is extensively used for theory development in all major fields Organizational Structure and Processes
of research such as marketing, psychology, sociology, organization This course looks at how an organization as a unit interacts with
behaviour and life sciences. It is an advance multivariate technique the environment in terms of its structure, systems, management
which examines multiple dependence relationship simultaneously. of its resources, survival, growth, and effectiveness. This course
Models in which a dependent variable becomes an independent introduces participants to the above issues concerning behaviour
variable in subsequent dependence relationships can be tested of organizations. The main objectives of the course are to (1)
using SEM. acquaint the participants with different streams of thought and
terminology in organization-level phenomenon, (2) develop an
ability to understand existing research in some prominent areas of
macro-organizational behaviour, and (3) learn to apply conceptual
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in the evolution of the field and may have helped define a new
direction for OB. Emphasis is on not only building familiarity with
such writings, but also on exploring what made these works seminal
and to what extent such characteristics may be relevant today for
advancing frontiers of knowledge in the field.
This course introduces doctoral programme participants to a variety

of broad theoretical approaches located within a range of theoretical
perspectives varying from social constructionism to critical realism.
Further, the participants will explore select themes using multiple
theoretical approaches, discussing relevant scholarly works. They
will also explore the possibility of synthesizing or juxtaposing various
theoretical approaches in order to examine a specific theme of their
interest.
Advanced Micro OB
Quantitative Methods and Analysis
This course, focusing on behaviour at individual, interpersonal
The course builds on the insights and knowledge obtained in first
and small group levels within workplaces, extends the elementary
year research methodology courses (Survey of Statistical Methods,
understanding acquired during the preceding courses which
Introduction to Research Methods and Qualitative Techniques)
introduced the subject. Through in-depth analyses and rigorous
and provides a hands-on training on using methods to perform
critiques of research work in the substantive area and inclusion of
empirical research. The course will be largely divided into two
contemporary and emerging topics in the field, the course covers
parts. The first part shall introduce the participants to quantitative
important arguments, perspectives, conceptual frameworks and
research designs (experimental, survey based) and the analytic
theories, builds disciplinary knowledge and develops research skills.
techniques used to analyze the data collected. This part will also
provide inputs relating to measurement theory and concepts related
Organization Theory and its Social Context to scale design. The second part will build on the concepts learnt
This course is designed to acquaint students with the evolution and in part one and will introduce the participants to advanced data
theories of organizations. The primary objective is to help students analyses using structural equation modeling methodology. The
examine the basic question “Why do organizations behave the way course will be based on a combination of theoretical and practice-
they do?” Alternative ways of answering this question from diverse oriented sessions that will provide working knowledge of statistical
theoretical bases are explored. Sociological roots of organization software like R, SPSS and LISREL. Upon the completion of this
theory and the impact of the specific social context on organization course, the participants would: (1) understand the experimental,
theory are also discussed. quasi-experimental and survey based research designs and the
technicalities involved in the analysis of data collected using these
Classics in OB designs, (2) understand the process of designing a questionnaire, the
This course covers studies and articles on different aspects steps involved, and guidelines that must be followed at each step,
organizational behaviour that are considered historically important (3) understand concepts like correlations, reliability, measurement
error, validity, regression, causality, cross-sectional design, common

method variance, mediation, moderation and other such terms used will be familiarized both with the core theories, models, frameworks
in the design and conduct of management research, (4) understand and concepts of leadership, as well as with current research findings
analysis techniques like t-tests, ANOVA, regression analysis, factor and a range of techniques, practices and skills that may be used
analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM), and (5) get hands- in a professional environment. The course will be implemented
on training on statistical analysis packages like R, SPSS and LISREL. as a seminar course featuring regular interactive activities such as
presentations and class discussions. Upon the completion of this
Methods of Qualitative Research: Gathering and Analysing course, the participants will be able to (1) understand established
Data theories and models of leadership in organizations, (2) critically
The course aims to (a) acquaint participants with different reflect on the strengths and limitations of these theories and
research paradigms and their importance, building on participants’ models and how they may be applied in an organizational, social,
prior understanding of qualitative methods, (b) build a deep environmental and multicultural context, (3) examine current
awareness about challenges and boundaries of various qualitative leadership research and debates, (4) understand and study the
methodologies, and (c) illustrate the implementation of different relationships between leadership theory and professional practice
strategies and inquiries within each methodology. and (5) consider a range of techniques, practices and skills used to
understand the contingent nature of leadership – both in scholarly
Crafting and Publishing of Research and practical applications.
The course is designed to help students develop an understanding
of the process of publishing research in peer-reviewed academic Advanced Topics in Quantitative Methods
journals. The course is open to FPM students in all areas although The course builds on the insights and knowledge obtained in first
the readings are primarily drawn from research in organizational two years of quantitative research methodology courses and
behavior, personnel and industrial relations, business policy, and provides a hands-on training on advanced methods of empirical
economics. The course is especially appropriate for students research like mediated-moderation, moderated-mediation, multi-
interested in academic careers, which require publishing research level modeling and longitudinal data analysis. The course will blend
in high quality peer-reviewed journals. The course format will be theory will practice and will introduce the participants to advanced
a mix of lectures, class discussions (predominant), and interaction data analyses techniques and modeling methodology. The course
with guest speakers. The primary requirement for the course is a will be based on a combination of theoretical and practice-oriented
publishable research paper on a topic of interest to the students. sessions that will provide working knowledge of statistical software
like R and SPSS.
Leadership in Organizations: A Review of Theory and Practice
This course focuses on managerial leadership and will enable Psychometric Methods
participants to equip themselves with a broad survey of theory Measurement is fundamental to social sciences research and
and research on leadership in formal organizations. The topic of application. The purpose of this course is to introduce to the
leadership effectiveness is of special interest, and the discussion participants the central concepts of psychological measurement.
keeps returning to the question of what makes a person an effective The course takes a “nuts and bolts” approach, covering the critical
leader. The course aims to conduct a detailed and critical evaluation aspects of psychometric theory including test construction, item
of major leadership theories, and a comprehensive review of analysis, reliability, validity, and measurement error. The course
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measurements to perform empirical research in business areas. The algorithms. The takeaways from this course will be useful to students
seminar will be structured around a framework of measurement in a variety of courses in logistics and supply chain management.
principles and will be based on a combination of theoretical and
practice-oriented sessions that will provide working knowledge of Applied Multivariate Analysis
concepts using statistical software like R, SPSS and LISREL. This course gives a balanced emphasis on theory and applications. It
covers the following broad areas: Multivariate Normal Distribution
PRODUCTION AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS
and Related Inference Problems, Assessing Normality, Outlier
Linear Algebra Detection, Multiple Linear Regression Analysis, Variable Selection
This is an introductory course in Linear Algebra. The aim is to provide Problems, Multicollinearlity, Heteroscedasticity, Regression Plots,
a strong foundation in concepts to help participants understand and Regression Diagnostics, Model Specification Tests, Auto correlated
apply the ideas in their area of research. and Longitudinal Data Analysis.
Operations Research Applied Regression Analysis

This is an introductory doctoral level course in Mathematical This course is designed to provide a comprehensive exposition on
Programming. The emphasis of this course is on understanding the scope and applicability of regression modelling techniques in
the theory of mathematical programming. While the subject of solving real-life problems. In doing so, the aim will be to inculcate a
Operations Research is much more diverse than mathematical sound understanding of both the underlying theoretical aspects of
programming, we focus on fundamentals of the deterministic linear modelling as well as various issues that are encountered in applying
and network programming in this course. the models in real-life scenarios. Real datasets and cases from
diverse areas (like business administration, economics, engineering
Classical Operations Management and social, biological and ecological sciences) will be analysed
This course provides the basic theory and methodology inputs which will help the participants in reinforcing their methodological
required for understanding key issues in Operations Management. and conceptual understanding. It is expected that by the end of
The objective of the course is to expose the students to the classical the course, the participants will gain a thorough understanding
themes and material in OM and prepare them for research in OM. of various aspects of regression models and their applicability
The course comprises of the following modules: in analyzing datasets they may encounter during their FPM
coursework/programme and beyond. Since all applications will be
carried out in the R programming language, this course can also aid
Advanced Probability in Management
the participants in learning this important statistical programming
The course builds the theory of probability confining the discussion to
language at some length.
the discrete sample space avoiding the measure theoretic approach.
Besides getting a reasonably good understanding of the important
concepts related to probability theory, the students are exposed to Applied Statistical Inference
the mathematical rigour of proving theorems. Also it helps them to This course will explore the concepts of statistical inference with
learn how to formulate a mathematical problem and solve it. applications in management research in mind. This course will start
with basic inference but will also cover situations where assumptions
about situations being ‘nice’ do not work, and one needs to go
Algorithms on Graphs and Networks
beyond the obvious. Estimation techniques, both theoretical
The course aims to introduce students to graph and network
and empirical, will be covered. Asymptotic as well as data-driven

estimates will be derived. Examples will be discussed in detail. The convex sets in a normed vector space. In optimization, convexity
theoretical discussions will be backed up by hands-on training to plays a very important role in proving optimality results in both linear
apply the methodology to data sets using R. Both standard packages and nonlinear optimization. For instance, the concept of a separating
and non-standard coding will be discussed. hyperplane between two disjoint convex sets helps establish the
sufficiency of KKT conditions for optimality of convex programming
Approximate Methods in Solving Real World Complexities problem. However, to prove the existence of a separating hyperplane
Exact approaches in solving problems are highly dependent on between two disjoint convex sets requires knowledge of continuous
definitive problem structuring and on computational sophistication. functions, affine transformations, dimension of sets, hyperplanes
They generate superior solutions, but with huge computational time and uses other topological properties of sets such as closure,
and overhead. In solving real-world problems, very often heuristic relative interior, relative boundary and compactness, amongst
procedures are applied as a trade-off for acceptable, but quick others. This course is aimed at establishing these results from basic
solutions. Meta-heuristic procedures are standardized and advanced results in set theory and topology. Among the topics discussed are
procedures that operate iteratively to generate improved solutions basic properties of convex sets (extreme points, facial structure of
under dynamic system variations. In fact, most of the problems in polytopes), separation theorems, duality and polars, propertes of
real world are prone to dynamic and uncertain changes that are convex functions, mimima and maxima of convex functions over a
difficult to solve using standard and bespoke heuristics. This course convex set and various optimization problems.
discusses a host of meta-heuristic algorithms that can effectively
address the real world complexities and inter-dependencies. Game Theory for Operations Management
Discussions shall cover some of the distinctive characteristics of Game Theory deals with problems of strategic interaction between
these meta-heuristics such as learning, self-correction and adaption. two or more players, wherein each player needs to decide its best
action, while anticipating the reaction from the other(s). In business,
Bayesian Methodology for Business Research such strategic interactions occur at various levels. If the decision
Application of Bayesian methodology in solving business research making within a firm is decentralized, then such interactions may
problems is a fast growing area of research. In this course we will manifest between two of its functions; for example, between
start from the scratch assuming no prior knowledge of Bayesian marketing and production for price and leadtime decisions (Pekgun et
Methodology. Before getting into deeper issues of Bayesian al., 2008). This also often manifests between two retailers deciding
modelling, we plan to devote adequate number of sessions at the the stocking (newsvendor) quantity of a limited shelf-life product
beginning to acquaint the students with the basic tools and concepts for the next period (Lipman and McCardle, 1997), or between two
of Bayesian inference. In this course, our emphasis will be on the manufacturers/service providers for price and delivery leadtime (So,
modelling aspect of business data arising in different functional 2000), or between a retailer and a manufacturer in a supply chain
areas of management from a Bayesian perspective. In this context, (Tsay and Agarwal, 2000; Camdereli and Swaminathan, 2005; Wang
we will discuss hierarchical Bayesian models, model checking (both and Zipkin, 2009), or between two supply chains (Liu & Tyagi, 2011).
data model consistency and model selection) and implementation The objective of this course is to prepare students to analyze such
of the methodologies through Bayesian computation. problems of strategic interactions that are pertinent to Operations
Managers. It also covers such problems that lie at the interface
Convexity & Optimization between Operations and other functions like, IT (Camdereli and
Convex analysis is the analysis of properties of convex functions and Swaminathan, 2005); Marketing (Pekgun et al., 2008; Goic et al.,
2011); Environment (Orsmedir et al., 2015; Zhou et al., 2016; Park

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et al., 2015); and Finance (Dada and Hu, 2008; Lai et al., 2011; Lai and their solutions using cutting plane techniques. Towards the end,
et al., 2012). the course also introduces Stochastic Optimization and Database
Optimization Interface.
The course assumes no prior background on Game Theory. It will,
therefore, begin with the basic concepts of elimination of dominated This is an applied course, and hence its focus is more on understanding
strategies and Nash Equilibrium to arrive at the outcome of a game. and applications of the techniques rather than on formal proofs.
We will discuss four classes of games: static games of complete The course introduces several practical applications from Hub-
information; dynamic games of complete (perfect/imperfect) and-Spoke Network Design, Facility Location, Telecommunication
information; static games of incomplete information; and dynamic Network Design, etc.
games of incomplete information. Corresponding to these four
classes of games, we will discuss the four notions of equilibrium Non-linear Optimization
in games: Nash equilibrium, subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium, The course introduces students to the fundamentals of non-linear
Bayesian Nash equilibrium, and perfect Bayesian equilibrium. After optimization and then builds on it to introduce other advanced
developing the idea of corresponding equilibrium concept, we topics in the area of optimization. It enables students to enhance
will study one or two problems of strategic interactions arising their understanding of optimization methods that may be suitable
in each of the four categories of the games, which are relevant to for problems with complexities such as non-linearity, non-convexity,
Operations/Supply chain Managers. We will see how to arrive at the discontinuity and non-differentiability.
corresponding equilibrium for each of the games, and derive useful
insights for Operations managers. To this end, the course will also Around 50% of the course focuses on the conventional techniques
introduce Bilevel Mathematical programming & its solution methods for solving non-linear optimization problems. 20% of the course
for Stackelberg Games (2-stage Dynamic games with complete and focuses on non-traditional optimization techniques. Remaining 30%
perfect information). of the course discusses extensions of single objective optimization
to multiobjective optimization, bilevel optimization and robust
Large Scale Optimization optimization.
Real world optimization problems often tend to be large Integer
Program/ Mixed Integer Program (IP/MIP) problems, often to an Problem Solving With Heuristics
extent that even the standard IP/MIP solvers, which use Branch & Many real-world optimization problems belong to the class of
Bound and Branch and Cut algorithms, fail to solve them in reasonable NP-hard problems, which mean that there are no methods that
time. In this course, students learn how to take advantage of the guarantee optimal solutions to large instances of such problems
often hidden special structures of such problems either by relaxation within reasonable time. However obtaining good quality solutions
or by decomposition into relatively easier/smaller problems, which to such problems are important in practice, and research has focused
can be solved efficiently using their special structures. The challenge on developing heuristic methods for such problems. In this course
then is how to recover the solution to the original problem from the the participant is exposed to the current state of knowledge about
solution to its relaxation/decomposition. To this end, the introduces heuristic techniques to solve large instances of combinatorial
several decomposition techniques, namely, Cutting Plane Method, optimization problems.
Lagrangian Relaxation, Benders Decomposition, Column Generation,
and Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition methods. The course also Queuing Models
introduces linearization techniques for non-linear IP/MIP problems The participants will be able to appreciate the various queuing

modelling constructs and solution algorithms as an analytical Stochastic Processes
toolkit. Further, the participant will be able to develop customized The objective of this course is to provide the theoretical foundation
models to analyse the performance of a practical system, and obtain for modelling and analysis of variety of processes in service and
design insights. No prior working knowledge of measure theory or manufacturing environments that are characterized by uncertainty.
stochastic processes is required. However, participants should have Topics include birth and death processes, Markov chains, Markov
a prior course on basic probability theory. processes, renewal theory, martingales and optimal stopping,
processes with independent increments (e.g. Poisson, Wiener
Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing processes), Brownian motion and the theory of weak convergence,
Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing (RMDP) is the method application of stochastic processes in logistics, inventory,
of selling right product to the right customer at the right price at the manufacturing, marketing, and finance.
right time. It is the scientific way of dynamically managing prices,
inventories, and capacities of perishable services. Although core of Systems Analysis and Simulation
RM is related to OR/Statistics, it has relationship with economics, To introduce the participant to the idea of simulation in management,
marketing, information technology, human resources and legal and to expose them to the latest software and statistical techniques
dimension. In this doctoral courses, we plan to discuss those in simulation. The broad topics that will be covered are: Introduction
topics that cuts across four disciplines, PQM (OR/OM/Statistics), to Simulation, Building Simulation Models, Input Modelling,
economics, marketing and information technology. Conceptually Generating Random Input, Output Analysis, Comparing and
the course focuses on two three aspects, economics of pricing, Optimizing Systems, and Variance Reduction.
optimization of perishable resources and forecasting of demand of
perishable products. We discuss several aspects related to design of Survey of Statistical Methods Used in Management Research
revenue management system. At end we discuss emerging research This is close to a comprehensive review of major statistical methods
areas on the topic. that are used extensively in management research. This course
should serve the purpose of exposing the student to these prolifically
Real Analysis used statistical/empirical methods. While all attempts have been
The course analyses basic concepts in certain areas of mathematics made to make the course comprehensive enough to include major
and prepares students to take advanced courses. The topics covered techniques, it is not necessarily exhaustive. Additionally, this is a
include : structure of the real number system, infinite sequence- generic survey course to provide exposure to the methods to FPM
convergence and divergence, subsequence – Bolzano-Weierstrass students. Students are advised to acquire additional expertise in
Theorem, Cantor intersection property, Cauchy sequences, infinite any specific topic by choosing advanced courses offered by various
series - convergence and divergence, tests for convergence, Metric relevant academic Areas of the institute.
Spaces - limits, continuity, Compactness – Heine-Borel theorem,
connectedness and uniform continuity. Time Series Analysis
This course introduces the theory and methods of time series analysis
Statistics II for research in economics and finance. The objective of the course is
The course will provide an understanding of the statistical methods two-fold. First is to give participants enough technical background to
that are useful for carrying out research in management. enable them to read research papers in applied time series analysis.
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research, the course draws on a vast international and Indian social
science, humanities and philosophy literature to aid critical policy
analysis.
Public Finance
This course aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the
principles and concepts of public finance. It examines the economic
rationale for government activity and fiscal policies of different
levels of government, and some major policy issues arising out of
the process of macroeconomic reforms.
Public Management
This course presents a broad overview of the problem of organizing
governmental processes and institutions to adopt and implement
public policy. It will discuss specific management practices for
directing large public systems.
of macroeconomic and financial time series. After introducing
fundamental concepts in time series analysis, the course covers Methodologies for Policy Analysis and Research
the theory of stationary ARMA processes and reviews the relevant This course uses a seminar format, training students to develop
asymptotic distribution theory. This forms the bulk of roughly half effective research designs for public policy analysis and formulation.
the course and the basis for studying Vector Autoregressions (VARs) The course moves from an overview of philosophical worldviews
which is discussed next. Moving on from considering covariance such as positivism and social constructivism to procedures of inquiry
stationary processes, the course next introduces the econometrics such as ethnography and experiments, and finally to methods of
of unit roots. The core of the remaining portion consists of studying data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Students also learn
linear combinations of unit root processes, i.e. Cointegrated Systems about critical elements of research such as hypotheses and research
(VECMs) and models with conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH). questions, literature reviews, writing styles, and ethical principles.
We end the course by introducing State Space representations of In addition to analysis of published work across a broad range of
time series models and Bayesian methods. social science disciplines, the course relies heavily on presentations
by academics about their ongoing research and conversations with
PUBLIC SYSTEMS GROUP policy-makers about translating research into practice.
Core courses Elective Courses

Public Policy Energy and Environment Policy
This course provides an advanced level introduction to different The objective of the course is to provide theoretical understanding
theories of policy sciences, as well as training in the methodological of policy issues concerning energy and the environment, and the
tools and research processes enabling application to concrete policy learning of analytical tools such as energy environment policy
issues. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary character of public policy models and their applications.

Interpretive Research Methods Telecom/ICT Policy & Regulation
This is an advanced seminar on interpretive research methods. The course provides an overview of research issues and frameworks
These methods are explicitly concerned with meaning making in for analysis involved in policy design, implementation and evaluation
social science research. Interpretive methods draw instead on the for the telecom sector. Convergence and Internet are developments
philosophical orientations of hermeneutics and phenomenology. that have given rise to or created the need for new instruments and
They are widely practiced in and relevant to the areas of public institutions. Spectrum management and broadband growth are two
policy, organizational studies and management, political science, areas where developments in policy and regulation are important
sociology and other inter-disciplinary fields. for national competitiveness. The role of national institutions in
standards is gaining importance. The course will examine research
OR Applications in Public Systems issues related to the above.
Social impact of any decision is huge in managing public systems.
Therefore uncertainties due to random incidents are difficult Quantitative Methods for Causal Inference in Social Policy
to handle leading to failures. This course deals with Operations The search for causality in relationship between variables is as
Research as a tool for modelling and analysis of issues and challenges frustrating as it is necessary. As elusive as they might be, claims
in managing public systems. about causality form the basis of much policy advice and advance
our understanding of factors influencing human development.
Public Policy Instruments for Environmental Management Relatively recent advances in the development and application
This course is a survey of the policy instruments used in environmental of quantitative methods in identifying and estimating causal
management across the world with special emphasis on India. The relationships also make this an exciting and productive line of
course draws primarily on the environmental economics literature research.
while bringing perspectives from other disciplines wherever possible.
Public Policy and Economics of the Transport Sector

This is an advanced course in transportation economics, policy and
planning. The course begins by introducing theories and fundamental
concepts of transportation economics across multiple modes. Topics
include demand analysis, cost assessment, regulation, pricing,
quality of service, subsidies, competition, and project appraisal.
Principles of applying economic tools to improve transportation
system performance are covered. We also discuss about the urban
transportation policy development process, focusing on strategies
to fight congestion and air pollution, design efficient mass
transportation systems, and increase safety of travel. Students get
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Faculty
Areas of Research Interest Ram Mohan, M P Economics Dev, Pritha
Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur Ph.D. (New York University)
Business Policy Basant, Rakesh
Energy and environmental law, and its Ph.D. (Gujarat) Microeconomics, Game Theory and
Agarwal, Anurag K interaction with policy and society. Development Economics
Technology Strategy and Management,
LL.M. (Harvard), LL.D (Lucknow)
Intelectual Property Rights, Industrial
Business Dispute Resolution, Contracts Sharma, Sunil D’Souza, Errol
Organization, and Public Policy and
and Arbitration, Legal issues in Fellow, IIMA Regulation Ph.D. (JNU, Delhi)
Infrastructure and Intellectual Property, Capability building, Strategic decision Tax Reforms and Fiscal/Monetary Policy,
Strategic Management. making, entrepreneurship, risk and Chakrabarti, Anindya Structure of Corporate Finance, Social
uncertainty, innovation, organizational Ph.D. (Boston University) Security and Livelihood Issues in the
Karna, Amit learning, leadership, strategic thinking, Informal Sector, Personnel Economics,
Fellow, IIM Ahmedabad Strategy and organization consulting Intersection of Macroeconomics & and Governance Issues
network theory with particular emphasis
Capabilities of the firm, industrial on frictions in economic linkages and the
clusters, innovation and industrialization Singla, Chitra Reetika Khera
resultant macroeconomic volatility
of emerging market multinations. Fellow, (IIMB) Ph.D, Uni. Of Delhi
Strategic Management, International Social policy issues such as hunger,
Das, Abhiman
Mathur, Ajeet N Business, Corporate Governance, Family
Ph.D. (IIPS, Mumbai)
nutrition, public health, corruption, and
Ph.D. (IISc Bangalore) Business Firms. basic education in India
Monetory Economics, Applied
Strategic Management, International Econometrics & Time Series Analysis,
Business, Corporate Governance, Action Sud Mukesh Mohapatra Sanket
Theory of Firms, Banking Effficiency and
Research Methodologies, Discovery Fellow, IIMB Ph.D. (Columbia University, NY)
Productivity using both Parametric &
and Design of Institutions, Group Corporate Entrepreneurship & Nonparametric methods, Survey Data International Macroeconomics, private
Relations, Law and Economics, Strategic Internationalization Analysis, National Account Statistics, capital flows, sovereign and sub-sovereign
Management of Intellectual Capital Measurement of Macro-Economic credit ratings, financial liberalization,
and Organisational Knowledge, Missing Sugathan Anish Indicators, Demography and Quantitative globalization, economic growth, poverty
Markets, Social Capital, International Fellow, IIMB Techniques. and inequality, and the development
Economic Relations, Competitiveness, implicatinos of migration and remittances
Institutional & Governance Infrastructure
Local-Global Dialectic in Governance,
of Emerging Economies that fosters Deodhar, Satish
Community sustainability and the Morris, Sebastian
sustainable development of private & Ph.D. (Ohio State University)
Behavioural Foundations of Economics. Fellow (IIMC)
public stakeholders. Microeconomics, Agricultural Trade and
Policy, Imperfectly Competitive Market International Trade and Investment,
Pathak, Akhileshwar Economic Development, Public Sector,
Ph.D. (Edinburgh) Structures, and Food Safety and Quality
Issues Small Firms,Public Policy Analyses,
Law, Liberalization, and Globalization and Infrastructure Development and
financing

Pingali, Viswanath Jacob, Joshy Food & Agri-business Human Resource Management
PhD (Northwestern University), MS (QE) FPM, IIM Lucknow
(ISICal- cutta) Volatility Modelling, Market
Gandhi, Vasant P Aggarwal, Promila
Microstructure, and Portfolio Ph.D. (Stanford) Ph.D. (Delhi)
Industrial Organization, Applied
Econometrics, Behavioral Economics, Optimization Agri-business, Marketing of Agricultural Examining employee-employer
Pharmaceutical Economics Inputs and Food, Economic and Technical relationship, human resource
Nagar, Neerav Policies in Food and Agriculture, and management systems, the role of
Rampal Jeevant Fellow, IIM Culcutta Investment Behaviour in Agriculture organizational culture and organizational
outcomes.
Ph.D, Ohio State University Accounting and Earnings Management.
Ranjan Kumar Ghosh
Behavioral Theory, Experimental
Ph.D, (Germany) Chandwani, Rajesh
Economics and Microeconomic Theory. Pandey, Ajay
Institutional Economics, Development Fellow (IIM Calcutta)
Fellow (IIMA)
Tumbe, Chinmay Studies and Agri-food Value Chains. Human resource management practices
Corporate Governance, Capital Market,
in Indian organizations, mindfulness in
Fellow (IIMB) and Financial Sector Regulations
Sharma, Vijay Paul* organizations, healthcare, and scaling up
Business and Economic History, Urban of affordable healthcare services for the
Ph.D. (NDRI)
and Public Economics and Migration Ram Mohan, T T underprivileged.
Studies. Ph.D. (NYU) Agri-food Policy, International Trade
and Devel- opment Including the World
Finance and Accounting Banking Sector Reforms, Privatization and
Trade Organization (WTO), Commodity Maheshwari, Sunil
Corporate Governance Fellow (IIMA)
Markets and Risk Manage- ment, Food
Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar Retailing, Agri-business Competi- Human Resource Management and
Fellow (IIMA), A.C.A, Grad. C.W.A., C. S. Final Sinha, Sidharth tiveness, and Food Safety and Quality Corporate Strategy.
Markets, Corporate finance, Accounting Ph.D. (University of California) Issues
and Corporate laws Corporate Finance, Derivatives and Risk Sarrion, Miguel
Management Singh, Sukhpal Ph.D. (Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow,
Desai Naman Ph.D. (Bangalore) UK)
Ph.D., (Florida State University); Chartered Varma, Jayanth R Agri-business Management, Vertical Co- Employee Engagement, Leadership,
Accountant (Institute of Chartered Fellow (IIMA) ordination, Food and Agricultural Input Organizational Climates, links between
Accountants of India); M.Acc (University of Financial Markets and Pricing Models, Marketing HR practices and Organizational
Alabama) Financial Sector, and International Performance in Service Industries, in
Auditing and corporate governance. Finance Varma, Poornima particular Tourism and Hospitality.
Ph.D. (JNU)
Gandhi, Shailesh Virmani, Vineet Market Distortions and Indian Agriculture: Singh, Manjari
Fellow (IIMA) Fellow, (IIMA) A Study in the Context of US and EU Fellow (IIMC)
Financial restructuring, business systems Model Uncertainty in Economics and Agricultural Support Policies. Human Resource Information Systems,
development, Accounting & costing Finance, Measurement of Macroeconomic Strategic Executive Compensation,
systems, and Corporate Performance Variables, Term Structure Models, and Reward Systems, and Human Resource
Measurement and Management Estimation of Stochastic Volatility Management in Small and Medium
Models. Enterprises

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Varkkey, Biju Jain, Rekha Dongre, Ambrish Jaiswal, Anand Kumar
Fellow (NIBM) Ph.D. (IIT, Delhi) Ph.D. (University of California) Fellow (XLRI)
Strategic HRM, Performance Telecom policy and regulation in the areas Implementation and effectiveness of Services Management, Customer
Management, Compensation Studies, of IT implementation, Rural telecom, ICT education policies in India, through Satisfaction, Business - to - Consumer
Organisational Restructuring, strategy and management, spectrum quantitative methods. His broader Ecommerce, and Brand Extension
Employment Relations, Public management and local exchange research interests are in development Management
Management, and Infrastructure Studies competition. economics
Moses, Aditya Christopher
Information Systems Shukla, Kathan
Krishnamoorthy, Srikumar FPM (IIMB)
Aggarwal, Manish Fellow (IIM Lucknow) Ph.D. (University of Virginia) Institutional Logics, Management
Ph.D. (IIT, Delhi) Personalization in Electronic Commerce, Applications of latent variable modeling, Processes and Healthcare
Social Media and Web Analytics. multilevel modeling, survey research,
Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM),
school climate, and peer victimization. Mukhopadhyay Soumya
Ma- chine Learning Techniques in
MCDM, Prefer- ence Learning, Fuzzy Ranganathan, Kavitha Marketing Ph. D. (NTU, Singapore)
Optimization, Fuzzy Decision Analysis, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, US) Quantitative Modeling and Bayesia
Fuzzy Sets and System Analysis, Rough Research interests broadly include Aruna Divya T Statistics in Marketing
Set Theory, Aggregation Operators, Non- distributed computer systems with a Fellow (IIM Bangalore)
classical Logics, Approximate Reasoning, focus on resource scheduling and user Intersection of Behavioral Economics Roy, Subhadip
and Plausible and Analogical Reasoning behavior in large scale Grids and peer-to- and Marketing, with focus on consumer Ph.D. (ICFAI, Dehradun)
with Applications to Artificial Intelligence. peer systems. Current research interests decision making in risk, uncertainty and Celebrity Endorsements, Brand
also include the use of technologies for inter-temporal contexts. She worked in Management and Social Media
Deodhar, Swanand emerging markets. broad topics such as Mental Accounting, Advertising
Ph.D. (University of Minnesota) Behavioral Pricing, Judgment and
Instrumental Ties, Online Financial and Verma, Sanjay Decision Making and Service Evaluations Sahay, Arvind
Investment Platforms and Open Source Fellow (IIMC) among others. Ph.D. (Texas University, Austin)
Software communities E-Commerce and Knowledge
Marketing Strategy, Pricing, High Tech
Management Economics Banerjee, Arindam Marketing, International Trade and
Gupta, Samrat Ph.D. (SUNY at Buffalo)
Innovation & Management in Investment, Strategic Management, and
FPM (IIML) Quantitative Modelling of Marketing Marketing Metrics and Brand
Education
Mining of Complex Networks and Problems, Development of Decision
Heterogeneous Information Networks, Chand, Vijaya Sherry Support Systems Based on Market, and Sharma, Dheeraj*
Soft Computing and Machine Learning, Ph.D. (Education, Gujarat) Customer Inputs Especially in the Realm Ph.D. (LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY)
Ensemble Modelling and Predictive of IT Enabled Marketing Services
Innovations of Primary School Teachers, Business-to-Business Marketing,
Analytics
Teacher Development, Decentralized International Marketing, Sales and
Management of Education, Development
Sourav B. Borah Distribution Management, Strategy,
Communication, Social Entrepreneurship FPM (IIMB) Marketing Channels and Business Ethics
and Assessment of Social Development International Marketing, Services
Programs Marketing and Network Theory

Vijayalakshmi, Akshaya implementation, particularly in
Ph.D. (University of South Dakota, USA) crosscultural contexts. Technology
induced institutional change. Politics
Understanding the effects of marketing
of sensemaking in the context of
on children and influence of individual
organizational change. Organizational
differences in response to advertisements.
theories of power
Organizational Behaviour
Khokle, Pradyumana
D’Cruz, Premilla Fellow (IIMA)
Ph.D. (Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Management of Organizational Change
Mumbai) and Transformations, and Organizational
Emotions in Organizations, ICTs and Commitment, and Leadership
Organizations, Self and Identity, Development and Operational Research in Developing
Organizational Control Sharda, Kirti Countries
Fellow (IIMC) Production and Quantitatitive
Gopakumar, K V Methods Ghosh, Diptesh
Individual dynamics, leadership skills,
Fellow (IIM Bangalore) inter-personal and group processes, Fellow (IIMC)
Bandyopadhyay, Tathagata
Institutional Theory, Discourse, entrepreneurship, and organizational Computational Operations Research,
Ph.D. (Calcutta University)
Social Entrepreneurship and Diversity diagnosis. Combinatorial Optimization, Local Search
Management. Nonparametric Inference, Generalized
Based Metaheuristics, and Location and
Linear Models and Measurement Error
Nandkeolyar, Amit Routing Problems
Gupta, Parvinder Models, Categorical Data Analysis,
Ph.D. (Lowa)
Ph.D. (IIT, Kanpur) Reliability Theory, Survey sampling and
Personality and Individual Differences, Statistical Genetics, and discrete data Guha, Apratim
Management of Change, Societal and Multilevel Modeling, Abusive Supervision modeling Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley, US)
Corporate Cultures, Team Development, and Cross-Cultural Negotiations Time Series Analysis, Categorical Data
Management Education, Human Resource Analysis, Information Theory and Medical
Bhadra, Dhiman
Development, and Executive Success Noronha, Ernesto Statistics.
Ph.D. (University of Florida)
Ph.D. (TISS)
Gupta, Vishal Bayesian Analysis and its Applications,
Current Research is on Work Relations in Biostatistics, Longitudinal and Spatial Jayaswal, Sachin
Fellow (IIM Lucknow), B.E. (BITS-Pilani) ITES Organizations, Headload Workers Ph.D. (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Data Analysis, Small Area Estimation,
Leadership, Creativity and Innovation of Kerala, and Management of Change in Environmental and Ecological Statistics. Operations Marketing Interface: pricing,
management, R&D management, Justice, Cochin Port leadtime and capacity decisions;
High-Performance HRM, Organizational product differentiation; competition in
Dutta, Goutam
Citizenship Behaviour Vohra, Neharika service industries; revenue management;
Ph.D. (Northwestern University)
Ph.D. (Manitoba) large-scale optimization
Kandathil, George Decision Support Systems, Large Scale
Cross-Cultural Understanding of Human Optimization in Process Industries,
Ph.d (Cornell University, USA) Behaviour; Commitment; Alienation; Practice of Management Science,
The politics of information systems Leadership; Women in Organizations; Revenue Management, System
Indigenization and Discipline Dynamics, Operations Management,

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improvement strategies (Lean, Six and environment modeling, water- Environmental Policy and Management,
Sigma, Quick Response Manufacturing), energy-agriculture nexus, and aligning Public Policy Analysis, Environmental
Stochastic processes, Queuing theory, climate change with sustainable Risk Assessment and Communication,
Simulation modeling development. Quantitative Research Methods,
Environmentally Responsible Behavior
Sinha Ankur Mathur, Navdeep
Communications
Ph.D. (Aalto University, Finland) Ph.D. (Rutgers University)
Interpretive Research Methodology, Kaul, Asha
Soman, Chetan A Qualitative Methods, Public Policy
Karthik Sriram Ph.D. (IITK)
Ph.D. (University of Groningen, The Analysis, Public Management Reform with
FPM(IIMB) Communication Patterns in Ordinary and
Netherlands) a Focus on Public Participation, Design of
Bayesian Methods, Mis-specification Theater Talk, and ‘Genderlect’
Food Supply Chains, Advanced Planning Collaborative Governance Institutions,
and Scheduling in Process Industries, and Democratic Performance of Gover-
Laha, A K Kulkarni, Vaibhavi
Application of Simulation for Decision nance and Policymaking Institutions,
Ph.D. (ISI) Ph.D. (Rutgers)
Making Affirmative Action, and Urban Human
Quantile, Regression Model, Statistical Displacements and Rehabilitation Discourse of institutional change within
Process Control, Change Point Problems, Venkateshan, Prahalad organizational fields.
Outlier Problems, Analysis of Directional Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University) Sundaravalli, Narayanaswami
Data, Analysis of Rank Data, Monte-Carlo Ph.D. (IITB) Sharma, Meenakshi
Large-Scale Optimization, Combinatorial
Methods, Applications of Statistics to Ph.D. (Queensland)
Optimization, Network Design, Facility ICT, Evolutionary Methods, Operations
Finance, Marketing, Computer Science, Re- search in Scheduling and Ethical Communication, and
Location, Vehicle Routing
and Medicine Rescheduling, Transportation Operations, Organizational Change, Communication
Public Systems Group Meta-Heuristics and Complexity Study, and Corporate Culture, English in India,
Mukherjee, Saral Pricing and Revenue Management and Postcolonialism,Indian Writing in English
Fellow (IIMC) Chakrabarti, Sandip
Knowledge based systems.
Ph.D. (University of Southern California, Los * on leave
Inventory Policies, Project Management,
Angeles)
Operations Strategy, Process Analysis, Raghuram, G*
Supply Chain redesign, Resource Transportation economics and policy, Ph.D. (Northwestern)
Scheduling, and Sequencing and environmental and health impacts of
Railways, Ports, and Shipping, Roads,
Metaheuristics transportation policies and projects, and
Service Organizations and Issues in
the application of new and emerging
Logistics, and Supply Chain Management
Roy, Debjit* data sources for improving urban policy-
Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) making.
Sarin, Ankur
Logistics and distribution systems, Ph.D (University of Chicago)
container terminal operations, Garg, Amit
Fellow (IIMA) Evaluation of Social Policies, and Social
humanitarian and non-profit supply Entrepreneurship
chains, manufacturing systems and Carbon finance, energy policy, corporate
supply chain operations, continuous accounting of greenhouse gases, energy
Turaga, Rama Mohana
Ph.D. (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Feedback
DEEPTI MOHAN If you join the program for the love of learning, you will never KARAN BABBAR FPM gives me an opportunity to enter an academic career
regret your decision. After having worked with two of the top
PQM MNCs for over 4 years, I realised that what I love the best IME in the field of management in India. I define my experience
about my jobs was the learning involved. I followed my inner at IIMA as rewarding and enriching. Coursework is
voice and joined the fpm program of IIMA. With passionate
and world-class faculties, fpm courses here go as deep as it helping me a lot especially because of the peadological
can get, something which is personally very satisfying for me.
experience which in turn allows me to discover my niche
Teachers are very cordial and helpful and you would at once
feel at home here. Being the mother of a 4 year old, initially and work towards making an indispensable contribution
I had apprehensions about managing everything amidst the
towards it. IIMA has also helped me in exploring myself
intense academic rigour. However, within a month of joining, I
realised my concerns were out of place. This is one of the few as a person and modifying my approach professionally as
IIMs which provides married student housing, has a very good
well as personally.
community support, and has a safe environment for families to
be in. IIMA is one of my best decisions ever.
SWARNA If you are the inquisitive type with a thirst to gain expertise in management fields, then the FPM at IIM Ahmedabad would be one of the best programmes
PARAMESWARAN to explore. FPM has equipped me with the necessary skills to identify complex issues in the field of economic management and conduct research on them.
ECONOMICS The programme has provided me with a myriad set of opportunities for interdisciplinary education and research and enabled me to pursue research in
my own direction under the guidance of highly qualified faculty members. The fellows are trained in the most recent methodologies, motivating them in
bringing out original research work and thereby enabling them to make significant scholarly contributions. The two years of coursework are designed
to equip the students with basic skills required for analysing managerial problems which are honed by faculty whose involvement with domestic and
international, public as well as private organizations enables them to bring relevant managerial issues for classroom discussions. The course work also
gives the fellows deeper insights into their respective areas. The programme also provides opportunities where students are encouraged to pursue their
research interests through publications and conference presentations. In addition, students are given a chance to enhance their personal growth by
acknowledging and questioning their assumptions, beliefs, goals and objectives.
SUMAN SAURABH Finance & Accounting
The FPM programme at IIM Ahmedabad is known for its rigorous curriculum design, which undergoes timely changes to match the global standards. The
coursework provides a good training in mathematics, statistics and economics, which are key building blocks of all business-related disciplines. As part
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Ayush Gupta Life at IIMA: it includes lots of academics and Disha Bose The experience in one word would be
PQM lots of assingment and quizs.But they actually FAB stimulating. The FPM courses through way of
help to shape you as a competent academician discussions help you to cultivate an insightful
and researcher. The amount of diversity a class comprehension ability. The faculty provides
showcases in terms of experience or academic opportunities for conversation that enhance your
background just hits you hard. Then tge seminar knowledge base. The accomodation provided is
lectures by industry pros and finest professors comfortable and all amenities are available on
from accross the world is the iceing on the cake. campus.
Siddharth Purohit
Finance and The program has been quite enriching
LN Yashaswy Akella The FPM program at IIMA is awesome. The
academically and socially. The opportunity to
Accounting Marketing faculty, FPM office, peers and seniors are really
interact with professors and discuss ideas is
supportive. The FPM courses start right from
immense especially in FPM courses. Professors
basics and move on to advance levels as the
are always welcoming and warm to when we
term progresses. Being a person from a non-
reach out to them for any suggestions. MBA background, I found the PGP courses
The opportunity to choose courses suited to one's giving a broader view of marketing and other
research interests is one of the best parts of the areas and the FPM ones giving a narrow and
FPM course design. deep view of one particular concept. The
The FPM office staff is always warm and very faculty are also approachable with a prior
accommodative of our concerns and resolves appointment. There are regular seminars and
them earnestly. Their constant support ensures talks by Professors from other institutes which
our journey as doctoral candidates is smooth. keeps us up to date with the latest happenings
in the research. Accommodation is the best
with regular room cleaning service and I believe
clean surroundings are necessary for focus on
our research. Ultimately, we have the FPM office
to look up to guide us in case anything falls
behind. I highly recommend the candidates to
apply and join FPM at IIMA..

Pranjal Srivastava
Finance and The experience has been nothing like what I had before coming to campus. Academic experience is enriching, be it the in-depth area FPM courses
that help understand and appreciate the theoretical basis of your area or the more general PGP courses, that give a taste of what management is
Accounting about. Its as an FPM student that you recognise just how much you do not know in the subject that everyone including yourself, thought that you were
an expert in. You realise where the frontiers of research in your domain may lie and you meet your passion. I personally felt that I had to really apply
myself after a long while. PGP courses are fun and if you see them from the perspective that you may be the one delivering it a few years from now
to the brightest minds in the country that you are seated with, its a whole new experience and a learning opportunity.
Teachers act not only as instructors but also as mentors and seniors, in some cases, which is extremely inspiring. They are more than willing to
accommodate one on one interaction to guide you on matters of research or life.
The FPM office and community is extremely supportive and you are likely to feel almost pampered.
Life beyond academics is mostly about family for a married person like me. Accommodation for a married people is excellent. The campus is a calm
quiet place in the middle of the city and the facilities like sports, gym, eateries etc. are very good. It's a fantastic home for the tenure of your stay here.
Another element that deserves a special mention is the library. It has one of the finest collection of books, journals and databases that you may come
across and that is definitely very helpful in the FPM journey, especially in the advanced stages.
Overall, you will feel proud to be a part of this institute as a Fellow student.
Abinash Mishra Three months into the program, I have found Santosh The journey of FPM is a great learning experience
that it has been way past my expectations. The due to the quality of pedagogy followed by
Economics Public Policy IIMA. The unique design of the programme has
FPM program is tailored to suit the needs of any
graduate interested in exploring the frontiers offered me enriching opportunities to scale up
of what is driving businesses, public systems, my knowledge. Further, the level of academic
expectation of FPM has allowed me rapidly
governments and economies. What makes the
gain knowledge in a short period. IIMA makes
FPM program at IIMA special and sought after is
available best on-campus and off-campus
the fact that this program is flexible and rigorous resources to expand the horizon of knowledge;
at the same time and it goes a long way in shaping with enriched multi-disciplinary studies, fellows
the student’s acumen in research right from day could make a meaningful contribution to the
one. The program starts with a coursework that research domain.
spans for two years and at IIMA one is free to
choose from a very wide spectrum of courses offered. The courses are a treat
for the mind looking for depth and clarity. The exclusivity of the FPM program at
IIMA can be judged from the kind of attention received from the faculty during the
coursework. It is no news that IIMA eclipses any other B-school in India when it
comes to the library facility, the talks and seminars by luminaries and legends in
their fields. The learning curve for the brave is steeper than at anywhere else. Last
but not the least, the place grows on you and makes you feel at home and thanks
to the people here which includes peers, the faculty and most importantly, the
FPM admin office, the same has happened with me.

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Shreya Sharma I have always had a fascination for the study of public policies and other allied areas that have an astounding relevance to the current global scenario.
IME To be able to work with forerunners in research at this top-ranked institution is helping in honing myself in research with an aim of striving towards
heralding success.
The interdisciplinary nature of an FPM Programme at the IIM Ahmedabad and the distinguished faculty along with the availability of state-of-the-art
facilities create a myriad of possibilities for you. The programme provides the necessary coursework and research training to expand my skill sets with a
strong focus on fundamentals. The flexibility to customize a right mix of PGP courses and the FPM courses helps us to pursue our own individual subject
interests. The in-class interactions with the fellow classmates and with the professors has been a great delight, enabling me to experience the exchange
of perceptions and ideas originating due to the diversity in cultures. The FPM classes, in particular, have enabled me to link the empirical reality with the
policy framework and comprehend the challenges in the policy formulation domain by evaluating them through newer lenses.
The learning pedagogy with a strong focus on building fundamentals, the fellow mates from diverse cultures, the infrastructure from the lush- green
lawns to the FPM labs, and most importantly the informal/ formal interactions with the extremely cooperative professors have all contributed to make
this experience an enriching and enjoyable one. IIMA has, indeed, provided the necessary launchpad for a career in research.
J S Vijayapriya The FPM seeks candidates with outstanding academic credentials, intellectual
In-charge, FPM curiosity and discipline needed to make scholarly contribution. It provides a
diverse set of opportunities for interdisciplinary learnings and research. The
academic environment at IIMA helps participants to develop and sharpen
their on intellect. The unique pedagogy and programme structure provide
and enriching environment for personal and professional growth. Over the
years, our students have been placed in Indian educational institutions such
as IIMs and other leading management institutes, universities around the
world as faculty members and also in domestic and international companies
for consulting and corporate think-tank positions.

For further information/clarifications, please contact:
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Vastrapur, Ahmedabad 380 015
Phone :079-66324638/39
email: inchg-fpm@iima.ac.in

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