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Fellow Programme in Management
Doctoral Programme 2014
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01 Message03 About IIMA04 Doctoral Programme at IIMA06 Programme Overview
AREAS
08 Agriculture 10 Business Policy 12 Economics 14 Finance and Accounng 16 Informaon Systems 18 Innovaon and Management in
Educaon
20 Markeng 22 Organizaonal Behaviour 24 Personnel and Industrial Relaons 26 Producon and Quantave Methods 28 Public Systems
30 Resources at IIMA32 Admissions and Financial Aid
34 Phase I and II Courses35 Area Courses45 Faculty49 Feedback
Contents
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IIM Ahmedabad is Indias premier management school, world renowned for its excellencein management research and education. FPM is one of the core programmes at IIMA. Itcontributes to the institutes mission by pursuing cutting edge research in management.
FPM prepares qualified and capable scholars who will shape management thought in academicinstitutions and management organizations. We recruit highly motivated individuals withoutstanding academic backgrounds to the FPM programme. The doctoral programme providesparticipants exposure to a broad variety of research interests and faculty deeply engaged
with industry and policy. Students develop a strong theoretical foundation through courseworkin particular areas and receive training in research methods. At the dissertation stage, theopportunity to engage actively and deeply with management practitioners and policymakersencourages students to conduct interdisciplinary research and provides them the flexibility touse the appropriate research method for their research questions.
The mix of breath of coverage, proximity to practice, and flexibility in methodology enablesdoctoral students to undertake meaningful research on complex and relevant topics. Supportingthe academic research is cutting edge infrastructure, including the best management library inIndia and state of out access to online resources for research.
The doctoral programme enrolled its first student in 1971 and graduated its first student in1974. Since then, 305 doctoral students have been conferred with the title Fellow of the IndianInstitute of Management Ahmedabad. They have gone on to contribute significantly tomanagement academies.
We invite you to consider our doctoral programme and would be happy to discuss youracademic interests if you have the inclination and commitment to undertake rigorous training,
conduct research relevant to management thought and practice, and subsequently pursue anacademic career with focus on research.
MessageAshish Nanda
Director
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Neharika Vohra
Chairperson, FPM
IIM Ahmedabad needs no introduction to those situated in business and governance in thecountry. There are various ways in which IIMA contributes to the business and governanceethos of the world. The FPM program at IIMA provides an opportunity to study complexissues that face organizations today.
The primary objective of this programme is to prepare academic leaders for the future whowill shape management thought in academic institutions and organizations and Institutions.
Towards this end, we seek highly motivated individuals with outstanding academic backgrounds,to apply to the FPM programme. Scholars from all disciplines and all ages, and related areinvited to apply.
The Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) is one of the core elements in the ongoingresearch effort at the Institute. The variety of research interests, exposure and involvementof faculty with industry and government of the faculty at IIMA provides opportunitiesto participants in the doctoral programme to pursue their research interests. With facultyinvolvement, students develop theoretical foundation through coursework in a given area,receive training in a variety of research methods, and work on their dissertation to make ascholarly contribution. The program provides opportunities to do interdisciplinary researchand also encourages the use of the most appropriate research method.
The academic infrastructure at the Institute enables a doctoral participant to undertakeinteresting, meaningful, and complex research topics. The Institute has one of the best librariesand has invested heavily in online resources for researchers.
As of date 305 FPMs have graduated to become Directors of IIMs, faculty at management
Institutes around the world, senior consulting positions etc. Come join this growing fraternityof people who have gone ahead to make progress in their dream careers.
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The Indian Instute of Management, Ahmedabad
(IIMA) has over forty years of leadership in
management educaon. It was established
in 1961 as an autonomous Instuon by theacve collaboraon of the government of India,
government of Gujarat, and industry. Today, it is
not only a leader in applied management educaon
in Asia, but also one of the nest instuons of
management educaon in the world. Applicants
to FPM possess from diverse backgrounds; only
the best amongst them are admied.
IIMA was conceived as a school of management
and not purely as a business school. Its mission
is to contribute to development of managementthought through research, teaching, instuon
building, and consulng. It also aims to
professionalize some of the vital sectors of Indias
economy such as agriculture, educaon, health,
transportaon, energy, and public administraon.
IIMA has a large and disnguished faculty whose
contribuons to management research are
signicant. IIMAs faculty work on industry and
government sponsored research, and lend their
experse to industry and other strategic sectors.IIMAs emphasis on academics and the eorts
of its faculty are responsible for the Instutes
posion as a top management school in Asia.
Fellow Programme inManagement(equivalent to a Ph.D.)
FPM
PGP-ABM
PGPX
FDP
MDP
PGPPost-Graduate Programme inManagement(equivalent to an MBA)
Post-Graduate Programme inAgri-business Management
One year Post-GraduateProgramme in Management forExecuves
Faculty DevelopmentProgramme for teachers ofmanagement schools
Management DevelopmentProgrammes for execuvesin private and public
IIMA oers several programmes for the development of management
About IIMA
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The programme oers research training in the following eleven areas of specializaon:
Doctoral Programme at IIMA
The objecve of the Fellow Programme in Management
is to provide students with skills to idenfy and research
complex issues in the eld of management. FPM seeks
candidates with outstanding academic background
intellectual curiosity, and discipline needed to makescholarly contribuon.
FPM is a research programme. To selected students,
IIMA provides an excellent environment for carrying out
advanced research, thus creang highly commied re-
searchers trained in the most recent methodologies and
engaged in producing original research work.
The programme provides a diverse set of opportunies
for interdisciplinary educaon and research. The small
entering class ensures close interacon with the faculty;
students can determine their own direcons under the
guidance of the thesis advisory commiees.
The student becomes part of one of the eleven
funconal/ sectoral groups and acquires basic theorecal
knowledge and praccal aspects of the area. This allows
close interacon with faculty members, who provide the
intellectual smulaon and help develop the students
own research interests and professional goals. The
programme is strongly commied to preparing thought
leaders for the academic and corporate world.
Students spend generally a lile over four years that
includes two years of rigorous course work. From the
First term onwards students take advanced doctoral level
courses in the area of specializaon along with somerecommended PGP courses which provides a general
management overview and develop basic skills for
analyzing managerial problems. The doctoral dissertaon,
provides them with an opportunity to make original
contribuon to an area of management or to one of its
source disciplines.
Agriculture
Business Policy
Economics
Finance & Accounng
Informaon Systems
Innovaon and Management inEducaon
Markeng
Organizaonal Behaviour
Personnel and Industrial Relaons
Producon and QuantaveMethods
Public Systems
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IIMAs faculty have studied and worked in the best of
instuons within India and around the world. Their
involvement with public and private organizaons
internaonally allows them to bring relevant managerial
issues into the classroom and in their research. This
creates an exceponal environment for developing aresearch programme that can build sound theory for
analysing complex managerial problems.
Academic StandardsIIMA expects its doctoral students to achieve high levels
of academic scholarship and integrity. Candidates have
to meet the specifed academic requirements before
they can move from one phase of the programme to
another. Those who fail to maintain academic standards,
at any stage, may be advised to withdraw from the
programme. The programme helps build profciency in
undertaking original inquiry in a feld of management
by frst building an academic background in the areaof specializaon through course work, exhibingprofciencyin cung edge methodology and research by
compleng the comprehensive examinaon, and geng
trained to undertake original research by compleng the
dissertaon.
Academic AdvisorA member of the faculty from the students area in
consultaon with the Area Chairperson acts as an
academic advisor to the FPM students of the area. The
academic advisor acts as the students mentor ll the
TAC is formed. The Academic Advisor helps students
idenfy courses in their areas of interest, monitors theirperformance, and guides student during Phases I and II
of the programme. Students seeking summer projects
with the faculty may seek the help of the Academic
Advisor. Students are advised to closely interact with the
Academic Advisor of their area from the me they enter
the programme. This responsibility, however, is taken
over by the Thesis Advisor once the student enters Phase
III of the programme.
Faculty Seminars and WorkshopsFaculty seminars and research workshops are regularly
organized at the Instute. Doctoral students are expected
to regularly aend these acvies and acvely parcipatein them.
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Phase I
(First Year Course Work)
First Year FPM Compulsory
Courses
First Year Area FPM Courses
Courses from other Areas
and other Post Graduate
Programmes (PGP,PGP-
ABM,PGPX)
Programme Overview
Course Work:
The course work is spread across a minimum of ve terms. Each academicyear begins in June and ends in March/April and has three terms. All FPM
students, irrespecve of their areas of specializaon, take a set of compulsory
courses in their eld of specializaon and other interest areas. All students
are also required to take program-wide compulsory courses specially designed
to provide breadth of knowledge in the eld of management and also teaching
and research skills.
A student is expected to complete 30 course credits over the two years of the
FPM program. Irrespecve of their areas of specializaon all FPM students
take a set of compulsory courses in their rst and second year worth 10 credits
(7.5 in the rst year and 2.5 in the second year).
The rst year course work carries a total minimum credit requirement of 14.5
credits and a maximum of 18.00 credits. The second year course work carriesa total minimum credit of 15.5 credits and a maximum of 18.00 credits.
A minimum of 6 credits have to be earned from taking courses at the post
graduate programmes over two years.
During summer, at the end of the rst year of course work, students are
required to do a research project either with a faculty member at the Instute
or in any other organizaon. First year course work ends with successful
compleon of all the courses with a minimum prescribed prociency. While
students need to meet certain academic requirements across all courses, a
higher performance is required in certain Area Specied Courses.
(see area pages for details of such courses in each area).
Phase II
(Second Year Course Work)
Second Year FPM Compulsory
Courses
Second Year Area FPM Courses
Courses from other Areas
and other Post Graduate
Programmes (PGP,PGP-
ABM,PGPX)
Preparaon and Compleonof Area ComprehensiveExaminaon
Course on Communicaon forManagement Teachers (CMAT)
Phase III
Doctoral Dissertaon Formaon of Thesis Advisory
Commiee
Approval of Thesis Proposal
Research and Wring of
Dissertaon
Thesis Seminar
Thesis Defence
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Comprehensive Exam & CMAT:
Upon compleon of the course work, the studentstake the area comprehensive examinaon. The area
comprehensive examinaon tests whether the student
has obtained a sasfactory level of knowledge in his/
her eld of specializaon and whether he/she has
sasfactorily integrated the various courses taken in the
area.
Post Comprehensive Examinaon, student is required to
take (01 Credit) Compulsory Course on Communicaon
for Managemet Teachers (CMAT). This course is designed
to provide formal inputs on teaching and learning in class.
If and only if a student passes the comprehensive
examinaon, he/she enters the Thesis stage. The thesisstage consists of rst developing a thesis proposal, for
which the student idenes a thesis topic, forms a Thesis
Advisory Commiee [TAC], presents a seminar on the
thesis proposal to the IIMA academic community, and
gets the thesis proposal approved by the TAC. Then the
student works closely with the TAC on his/her thesis. On
compleon of the thesis research, the student submits
the thesis, gives a seminar, and defends the same.
Academic AssistanceAll FPM students past the successful compleon of their
comprehensive exam must assist in courses worth at least
0.75 credit (PGP/FPM).
Doctoral Dissertaon
The dissertaon or thesis provides the student withan opportunity to undertake original research in the
area of interest. The dissertaon should be a scholarly
contribuon to the knowledge pernent to the
understanding and resoluon of management problems.
Research is an essenal part of the doctoral students
training at IIMA. Throughout the programme, starng as
early as Phase I, students are encouraged to be acvely
involved in research acvies at the Instute and with
faculty members.
Phase III begins with the formaon of the Thesis Advisory
Commiee in the inial part of the third year. Students
are encouraged to meet faculty members with whom they
share research interests and seek their assistance in
idenfying a dissertaon topic as early as possible.
In addion to the close working relaonship during the
course work, this interacon helps the student nd a
thesis advisor and form the thesis advisory commiee.
The thesis advisor advises the student on his dissertaon
and chairs the thesis advisory commiee comprising at
least two other members.
The student develops a wrien proposal and with the
agreement of the thesis advisor gives a seminar on the
thesis proposal. The proposal has to be approved by the
thesis advisory commiee. From then onwards, the student
works closely with her/his thesis advisory commiee onthe dissertaon. When the candidates advisor judges that
the dissertaon is complete, the student gives a seminar
on the dissertaon work and subsequently defends orally
the dissertaon before a thesis examinaon commiee.
The FPM Chairperson appoints the thesis examinaon
commiee comprising of two members from the thesis
advisory commiee and two other members.
While the course work formally gets over with the
compleon of Phase II, doctoral students are encouraged
to connue taking advanced courses of interest even
during this last stage of study.
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The Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA) at IIMA is an inter-disciplinary
group, which was set up in 1963 and designated as a Centre in 1971. CMA is involvedin applied, policy, and problem solving research in food and agribusiness, rural and
allied sectors. Much of this is relevant to organizaons dealing with agri-inputs and
services such as seeds, ferlizers, agrochemicals, farm machinery and equipments,
rural credit, insurance as well as organizaons involved in procurement, processing,
and markeng of outputs such as foodgrains, fruits, vegetables, livestock products,
sh, poultry, and forest produce.
The CMA undertakes applied policy research in a wide range of elds, relevant to the
public, cooperaves, voluntary/non-prot and private sectors. The research studies
undertaken at CMA include issues of farm and allied producon, farm and allied
inputs, nance, markeng,internaonal agro trade,rural organizaonal planning,
implementaon, and monitoring, producers instuons, and rural development
planning, and administraon. The CMA faculty also undertake a large number of
policy-related research studies for the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India
as one of its three Agro-Economic Research Units (AERUs) in India. CMA provides
consulng services to naonal and internaonal, private, public, cooperave, and
voluntary organizaons.
Major ongoing and recently completed research projects include:
` Assessment of Marketed and Marketable Surplus of Major Foodgrains in Gujarat.
` Producer Companies in India: Organizaon and Performance.
` Management of Agri-business Contracts and Organizaons.
` Biotechnology in Agriculture: Examining the Promise, Performance, Concernsand Economics.
` Sustainability of Self-help and Joint-liability Group Instuons under Micro-nance.
` An Analysis of Resource Conservaon Technology: A Case of Micro-irrigaonSystem (Drip Irrigaon).
` Problems and Prospects of Oilseeds and Oil Palm Producon in India.
` Assessment of Marketed and Marketable Surplus of Major Foodgrains in India.
` Soil Health, Plant Health and Human Health.
` Coping with Climate Change through Agro-Biodiversity: A View from Below.
` Agro-input Markeng Models in India: Performance and Potenal.
` Irrigaon and Entrepreneurship: Status and Lessons for Improvements andExpansion.
The doctoral programme with specializaon in agriculture aims at developinggraduates for academic careers in leading management educaonal instuons,
which need faculty members who can address managerial issues related to food and
agri-business, rural, and allied sectors. Requirements for admission to the doctoral
programme in agriculture are menoned in the secon on Admission requirements.
Applicants to this area must have an aptude for research and inclinaon to work in
agribusiness or related sectors.
The ProgrammeA student specializing in the Agriculture area takes a wide range of courses including
those in the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programme is as follows.
Areas
Agriculture01
FACULTY
Bhamoriya, Vaibhav
Dholakia, Ravindra H
Gandhi, Vasant P
(Chairperson, CMA)
Gupta,Anil K
Jaiswal, Anand K
Raghuram, G
Sharma, Vijay Paul
Singh, SukhpalVarma, Poornima
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Some Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of students
Year Name Placement/CurrentOrganizaon
Thesis
2014 Dinesh JainInstuonal Interacon and Parcipave Decision-Making inDevelopment Programmes: A Study of Their Importance in EecveNatural Resource Management
2014Varsha KhandkerFaculty, TAPMI
Challenges in the Introducon of New Technologies: A Study of thePerformance and Adopon of Hybrid Rice in India
2013 Debdaa PalIIM, Indore
Managing Rural Instuonal Credit: Lessons from InterlinkedTransacons
2011 Brajesh Kumar Modeling Price Behavior and Convenience Yield in Indian CommodityFutures Markets
First Year Area FPM Course
` Agro-Food Value Chain Management and
Development
Second Year Courses
(This list is indicave and courses oered may dier)
` Agricultural Management I
` Agricultural Management II
` Agricultural Development Policy
` Advanced Course on Strategic Management of
Intellectual Property Rights (SMIPR)
` Instuon Building
` Rural Banking and Financial Inclusion
Third Year
` Comprehensive Examinaon
` Dissertaon
Fourth Year
` Dissertaon
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The primary focus of the Business Policy area is in inter-disciplinary and mul-
disciplinary issues in strategy and internaonal business. The area has undertakenresearch and consulng on organizaonal response to changes in the economic
environment of business, management and analysis of compeve forces,
business growth and diversicaon, mergers and acquisions, turnaround strategies,
innovaons and technology management, design of cross-border value chains and
constellaons, governance, compeveness and internaonal economic relaons,
management of public enterprises, small enterprises and entrepreneurship,
management of family owned organizaons, strategic management of intellectual
capital and organizaonal knowledge, innovaons and corporate strategy, and
strategic context of knowledge management. Some of the recent research projects
have been:
` Co-evoluon of capabilies in cross-border collaboraons
` Management of Innovaons and Technology` Commercializaon of Tradional Knowledge based Technologies by Small
Entrepreneurs: An Exploraon of Strategic and Policy Opons
` Corporate Governance for Shareholder Value
` The Business Logic of Dotcom Businesses
` Achieving Zero Customer Dissasfacon for Corporate Immortality
` Strategies of Family Owned Companies
` Strategic and Organizaonal Contexts for Innovaons in the Soware Sector
` Taking Charge and Reshaping Corporaons
` Governance of instuons
` Computaonal Models of Mergers and Acquisions
` Computaonal Models of Strategy Formulaon` Leadership Learning and Development
` Developing Mulcultural Teams
` Understanding Dynamic Capabilies
The programme develops knowledge, skills and atudes in students that will enable
them pursue rewarding academic careers in strategic management, internaonal
business, strategic organisaon development and corporate governance. Although
the requirements for admission to the programme are same as menoned in the
Admission Requirements secon, candidates entering this area would benet from
work experience in an organisaon for at least two years.
The Programme
A student specializing in the Business Policy area takes a wide range of coursesincluding those in the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programme
is as follows.
Students develop their own programme of study in consultaon with faculty to
complete course requirements.
FACULTY
Agarwal, Anurag K
Barua, S.K.
Basant, Rakesh
D Karthik
Dixit, M.R. (Area Chair)
Karna, Amit
Koshy, Abraham
Mamidi, Pavan
Mathur, Ajeet N.
N Ravichandran
Parmar, Ashis Jalote
Pathak, Akhileshwar
Sharma, Sunil
Singla, Chitra
Verma, Sanjay
Business Policy02
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Some Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students
Year Name Placement/CurrentOrganizaon
Thesis
2014 Kaushik RoyFaculty, Indian Instute ofManagement, Calcua
Development of Dynamic Capabilies in Internaonal Joint Ventures: AnInvesgaon Within the Context of Insurance Industry of an EmergingEconomy
2013 Rajnish Kumar Rai A study of Value Creaon and Value Appropriaon in Inter-Firm Alliancesof Simultaneous Cooperaon and Compeon
2013Sabyasachi SinhaIIM, Lucknow Managing Ambidexterity in Growthphase of Start-Up Firms
2012 Bhaskar BhowmickIIT, Kharagpur
Disconnuies of Environmental Elements, Firm Responses, andDynamic Capabilies: An Empirical Invesgaon of Interrelaons inSelect Indian Manufacturing Sectors
First Year Area FPM Course
` Strategic Management I
Second Year Courses
(This list is indicave and courses oered may dier)
` Advanced Seminar on Acon Research Methodologies
` Entrepreneurship
` Internaonal Strategic Management
` Strategic Management I and II
` Strategy and Innovaon
`
Economics of Strategy` Corporate Governance
` Data Management and Analysis for Organizaonal
studies
Third Year
` Comprehensive Examinaon
` Dissertaon
Fourth Year
` Dissertaon
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Economics is a basic discipline for a well-rounded management educaon. The
curriculum for doctoral students, therefore, includes several courses in theorecaland applied economics. Signicant research has been done by faculty members
of the area on the eciency of public enterprises, scal and monetary policy,
sources of economic growth, comparave rates of growth in developing
countries, regional disparity in growth in India, planning for rural development and
employment, entrepreneurship development, regulaon (especially that relang
to infrastructure), innovaon and alliances at the rm level, labour market issues,
agricultural policy and trade issues, and policies relang to IPRs and FDI. Recent
faculty research projects have been:
` Small scale industries in India
` Reform of state owned enterprisesin India
` Compeon policy in India: Issuesfor a globalizing economy
` Technology capacity building withinrms
` Social security and personneleconomics
` The cooperave theory of matchingproblems
` Need assessment for achieving themillennium development goals
`
Development of Gujarat state:Selected aspects
` Sustainability of scal debt of statesin India
` Preparing an acon plan for thenaonal agricultural policy
` Regional dimension of economicgrowth in India
` Tax reforms in Gujarat state
` IT labour market
` Emerging IP policy needs for India
` Capability building in industrialclusters
` Savings and investment
` Salary xaon for public andgovernment sector employees[Studies for the Pay Commission]
` Programme evaluaon and impactassessment (NHRM, NREGS, RTE)
` Centre-State relaons, scaldevelopment & role of FinanceCommission
` Issues in scal responsibility andbudget management
` Use of input-output tables
` Economic and business forecasng
` Global economic environment andpolicy responses
` Capital market: eciency and pricingmodels
` SMEs, Reforms of PSUs, Compeon
` Informaon, Regulaon, Landmarkets, Educaon, Capital markets,
` Community failures, Labour andhuman capital, Corrupon
` Evaluaon of Mid-Day Meal Scheme
` Self-employment, Contracts
in academia, WTO & Texles,Agricultural issues,
` Reforms of agriculture, Inequality,Veterinary service delivery
` Economics of regulaon
` Pharmaceucal economics
` Experimental economics
` Applied game theory
` Applied econometrics
` Aggregate supply and growth
inaon trade-o
` Inter-sectoral terms of trade andsupply response in agriculture
` Primary healthcare and policies
` Energy pricing and policies
` Finland-India economic relaons
` Missing markets in internaonalbusiness
` How product markets and labourmarkets aect each other
` Are labour markets over-regulated orunder-regulated?
FACULTY
Basant, Rakesh
(Chairperson)
Deodhar, Sash
Dholakia, Ravindra H
DSouza, Errol
Mathur, Ajeet
Morris, Sebasan
Pingali, Viswanath
Ram Mohan, T T
Sahay, Arvind
Sarin, Ankur
Sharma, Shru
Virmani, Vineet
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The programme has an explicit objecve of training students in the tools of modern economic analysis to make them
competent researchers and teachers. Most students have taken up teaching and research careers in leading academic
instuons or research and consultancy posions in business and government. The environment at IIMA provides
many opportunies to develop their skills by working closely with faculty and aending workshops and seminars.
The Programme
A student specializing in the Economics area takes a wide range of courses including those in the area of specializaon.A typical course set in the programme is as follows.
First Year Area FPM Course
` Advanced Microeconomics
Second Year Courses
(This list is indicave and courses oered may dier)
` Advanced Macro-economics
` Econometrics
`
Labour Markets in Developing Countries` Economics of Organisaon
` Monetary Theory and Policy
` Public Finance
(jointly oered with PSG Area)
` Game Theory and Applicaons
` Time Series Analysis
(jointly oered with Finance Area and P&QM Area)
` Economic Development and Growth
(jointly oered with Public Systems Group)
Third Year
` Comprehensive Examinaon
` Dissertaon
Fourth Year
` Dissertaon
Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students
Year Name Placement/CurrentOrganizaon
Thesis
2014 B. SundarRejoined his parent organizaon:Joint Director and Faculty (Foresteconomics), Andhra Pradesh ForestAcademy
Numeracy, Financial Literacy, Risk Atudes, and Impaence of ForestDependent Communies: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh
2014 Indrajit Thakurata
Faculty, Indian Instute ofManagement, Indore
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: Life-Cycle Porolio Savings & Human Capital
Accumulaon
2013 Palakh JainConsultant, ICRIER
Determinants of Inter-Country Variaons in Outward Foreign DirectInvestment and Cases of Outward FDI from India
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The teaching and research interests of the Finance and Accounng Area spans a
broad range of issues such as, corporate disclosure, management control, corporatenance, corporate governance, asset pricing, market microstructure, management of
nancial instuons, risk management, nancial regulaon and empirical methods in
nance. The faculty members are vigorously engaged in both academic and applied
research. The Area faculty members serve on several government commiees and
corporate boards.
Some of the recent research projects undertaken by faculty in the Area are:
` Liquidity and bid-ask spread behavior in the Indian market
` Block trading and market microstructure issues
` Systemac risk factors in the Indian stock market
` Inuence of senment in market-wide pricing of assets
` Underpricing of IPOs in the Indian capital markets
As the primary emphasis of the programme is to prepare students to engage in high
quality research, candidates must possess a strong aptude for abstract thinking
and quantave analysis. Requirements for admission to FPM in Finance and
Accounng are menoned in the Admission Requirements secon later.
The ProgrammeThe programme has a two-year coursework phase followed a dissertaon phase,
which usually takes about two years. The coursework takes the students through a
range of courses, intended to familiarize the parcipants with the core theorecal
foundaons, empirical methods, and stylized empirical realies of modern nance.
A student specializing in the Finance & Accounng area takes a wide range of courses
including those in the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programmeis as follows.
FACULTY
Agarwalla, Sobhesh K.
Barua, Samir K.
Desai, Naman
Gandhi, Shailesh
Jacob, Joshy
Laha, Arnab K.
Nagar, Neerav
Pandey, Ajay
Patel, Rajendra
Premchander
Ram Mohan, T T
Sinha, Sidharth
Varma, Jayanth R.
(Chairperson-F&A)
Venkateshan, Prahalad
Virmani, Vineet
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First Year Area FPM Course
` Asset Pricing
Second Year Courses
(This list is indicave and courses oered may dier)
` Asset Pricing
` Empirical Methods in Finance` Seminar Course in Corporate Finance
` Derivaves Pricing
` Seminar Course in Empirical Accounng Research
` Empirical Research in Auding and Corporate
Governance
` Mathemacal Finance
` Time Series Analysis
` Behavioural Finance and Accounng
` Seminar on Privazaon
` Advanced Management Control Systems
Third Year
` Comprehensive Examinaon
` Dissertaon
Fourth Year
` Dissertaon (connued from third year)
Some Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students
Year Name Placement/CurrentOrganizaon
Thesis
2011 Priyanka SinghAnalystHSBC, Bangalore
The Dynamics of Bid-Ask Spread in an Order Driven Market: The Case ofIndian Stock Market
2010 Sobhesh Kumar AgarwallaIIM, Ahmedabad
Intraday Acvity Paerns and Market Microstructure Eects in IndianCapital Markets: An Empirical Invesgaon Using High Frequency Data
2007 Nishant JainGTZ, Delhi
Managing Transmission System Inadequacy Using Duals in RestructuredElectricity Markets
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The Informaon Systems Area was set up to respond to the importance of,
and need for, research in computer applicaons in management of government,private and public enterprises, and other forms of organizaons. Starng in the
1970s in an environment that was largely unaware of the potenal benets
of computerizaon, IS Area has worked at idenfying potenal applicaons,
implemenng these applicaons in public and private sectors, and designing
and oering courses related to its area of work.
The thrust of the Area is to stay at the cung edge of management compung
and facilitate development of decision-making capabilies for socio-economic
development. Research in decision support systems, expert systems, computer aided
instrucon, management informaon systems, algorithm design, developmental
informacs, soware export, etc. has been an important tool in achieving this
objecve. Recent research has been in e-Governance, mobile ad-hoc networks, ICT
for development, decision support systems, public administraon, design of networkconguraons and informaon integraon. Some recent research projects are:
` Knowledge management in soware and other industries
` Design and analysis of algorithms for project management
` Modeling of supply chain management problems
` Designing and managing enterprise wide digital infrastructure
` Community radio for rural mobile ad-hoc networks
` Object oriented frameworks for parallelized nonlinear opmizaon
` Frameworks for evaluaon of e-Government Projects
` Business intelligence
` Open innovaon
As the interests of the faculty are very broad, research topics chosen by doctoralstudents also tend to have wide variety. Based on the topic of dissertaon, tools
used in the research may vary and may include user surveys, decision support
systems, and opmizaon techniques such as integer or non-linear programming.
Some topics could need extensive soware development.
A thesis in informaon systems could be conceptual and a researcher could
build on exisng literature or develop case studies. While the dissertaon need
not necessarily use sophiscated technical tools, the topic should be necessarily
concerned with informaon systems. It is essenal that a doctoral student should
have a good insight into and appreciaon for the role of informaon technology in
management and skills for model building and analysis to understand the impact of
decisions involved in this area.
In the past, doctoral students have worked in areas like: Mul-mode mulple
resource constraints in project scheduling and machine scheduling problems, Study
of Indian telecom startup rms in the context of new rm formaons, Developing
e-Government impact assessment framework, Collaboraon in Internet enabled
supply chains, Developing and opmizing the distribuon model for electronic
supply chain management systems in the Indian context, Alliances and partnerships
in electronic businesses, Studying the behaviour of buyers and sellers in an
e-commerce context, and Developing a framework for evaluang open innovaon
projects.
The ProgrammeA student specializing in the Informaon Systems area takes a wide range of courses
including those in the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programmeis as follows.
FACULTY
Barua, Samir K
George, Kandathil
Jain, Rekha (Chairperson)
Krishnamoorthy Srikumar
Ranganathan, Kavitha
Verma, Sanjay
(Adjunct Faculty)
Bhatnagar, Subhash
Jajoo, B H
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First Year Area FPM Course
` Data Structures and Programming
Second Year Courses
(This list is indicave and courses oered may dier)
` Algorithms and Data Structures
` Computer Architecture and Systems Soware
` Database Management and Online Transacon
Processing
` Data Mining Algorithms and Systems Soware
` Informaon Systems Frameworks
` Programming
` Distributed Compung Systems
` Systems Analysis and Design
Third Year
` Comprehensive Examinaon
` Dissertaon
Fourth Year
` Dissertaon
Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students
Year Name Placement/CurrentOrganizaon
Thesis
2013 Sudeep K. KrishnanEXL
Degree of Openness and Project Performance: A Mul-CountryEmpirical Assessment of Open Innovaon Informaon TechnologyIniaves
2012 Madhukar DayalDirector Research (EngineDevelopment), Ministry of Railways,Government of India (Bharat ManakNagar, LucknowSarkar),
New Exact methods for Scheduling Mul Mode Mulple ResourceConstrained Project Scheduling Problems
2011 Prageet AeronAssistant Professor,Jindal Global Business School,Sonipet, Delhi
Capability Building Leading to Commercializaon: A Study of ProductBased Indian Telecom Start-Ups
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The Ravi J. Mahai Centre for Educaonal Innovaon (RJMCEI) was formally set upin 1991, aer a group of faculty members had worked for three years on educaonal
training and research, and instuon building in educaon. From an inial focus
on instuon building and higher educaon, the mandate of the RJMCEI has
gradually expanded to include primary educaon, literacy and secondary educaon.
The common thread running through the Centres various acvies is a focus on
innovaons and innovave approaches to countering problems in educaon. The
RJMCEI is involved in applied and policy research in educaon that is relevant to public
educaon systems. Research undertaken at the RJMCEI has included innovave
responses to the issues of basic educaon and literacy, and to management issues in
higher educaon, including management and technical educaon. Members of the
RJMCEI also provide consulng services to naonal and internaonal organizaons.
Major on-going and recently completed projects include:
` Mainstreaming the Knowledge of Innovave Praconers: Research into thepracces of outstanding elementary teachers working in state-run systems.
` The antecedents and consequences of teacher-driven innovaons in publicschooling systems.
` Case studies of Innovave schools (ongoing): Nilobray Vidyalaya, RalegaonSiddhi (a school which takes in failed and ansocial students), Parikrama School,Bangalore (English medium school for slum children), and other schools.
` Project Based method of teaching and learning: Its relaonship to cognive-movaonal aspects of students learning and to teachers job sasfacon, self-esteem and creavity.
` Leadership training in the engineering and industrial training sectors.
` Same Language Subtling: This project built on the principle of reinforcingthe learning of newly-literate people through sub-tling of songs in the samelanguage. Same Language Subtling (SLS) on TV for Naonal Literacy won theBest Social Innovaon for the year 2000 in the Educaon category from TheInstute for Social Invenons, London (U.K.), and was winner at DevelopmentMarketplace, World Banks Global Innovaon Compeon, January 9-10, 2002.
` Instuon Building at IIMA: a three-volume series (starng in 1993 and ending in2011) which is a collecon of reecons of various stakeholders.
` Innovaons in Rural Higher Educaon.
In addion, the RJMCEI has prepared a number of case studies on Indian, Asian
and African management educaon instutes, and on higher technical educaon
in Germany. Members of the RJMCEI have parcipated in assessments of primary
educaon programmes like the District Primary Educaon Programme/ SarvaShiksha Abhiyan, and systems like the Navodaya Vidyalayas and Nehru Yuvak
Kendras.
The doctoral programme with specializaon in Innovaon and Management inEducaonaims at developing robust research scholars and teachers who can take upleadership roles in educaonal organizaons and systems. The focus on innovaon
and management will develop in the graduates a unique academic capability that
combines a management perspecve with the broader theme of innovaon. This
ts in with the emerging demand for people with fresh perspecves on educaonal
change from a wide range of emerging academic instuons, organizaons that
provide services and ancillary support to the regular educaonal structures, well-
established naonal and internaonal educaonal planning organizaons and
academic instuons, and various research bodies and social think tanks.
The requirements for admission to the doctoral programme in Innovaon
and Management in Educaon are menoned in the secon on Admission
Requirements. Applicants must have an aptude for research and inclinaon to
work in educaon or related sectors.
FACULTY
Gupta, Anil K
Ranganathan, Kavitha
Sarin, Ankur
Sharma, Rajeev
Vijaya Sherry Chand
(Chairperson-RJMCEI)
Vohra, Neharika
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The ProgrammeA student specializing in the Innovaon and Management in Educaon area takes a wide range of courses including
those in the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programme is as follows.
First Year Area FPM Course
` Educaon: Theory, Policy, Pracce
Second Year Courses
(This list is indicave and courses oered may dier)
` Analyzing and Evaluang Educaonal Policy
` Change and Innovaon in Educaon: Structure,
Processes, Strategy and Leadership
` Educaon: Theories, Policies and Performance
` Advanced Qualitave Research Methods in Educaon
` Public Financing of Educaon
` Understanding Higher and Professional Educaon
` Organizaonal Development and Change in
Educaonal Instuons
` Technology in Educaon
` Innovaon and Change in Educaon
` Using Quantave Methods for Causal Inference in
Educaon Research
Third Year
` Comprehensive Examinaon
` Dissertaon
Fourth Year
` Dissertaon
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FACULTY
Abhishek
Banerjee, Arindam
G Raghuram
Gandhi, Vasant P
Jaiswal, Anand Kumar
Koshy, Abraham
Laha, Arnab
Mukherjee, Saral
Sahay, Arvind
Sharma, Dheeraj
(Chairperson-
Markeng)
Sinha, Piyush Kumar
Subramaniam,
Ramanathan
Tripathi, Sanjeev
Verma, Sanjay
Markeng Area faculty has wide range of interests in research and dominant
interest in case wring. The research interests include consumer informaonsearch and consumer choice; consumer response to adversing, sales promoon,
dynamic pricing, and country of origin; strategic response of organizaons to
dynamic market condions, sales peoples customer orientaon, brand extension
strategies, relaonship markeng, B2B markeng, ethic logiscs, new product
introducon and management, internaonal markeng strategies of rms, dierent
pricing strategies; strategic rm behaviour under compeve condions (using
mathemacal modeling techniques), compeve strategies, comparave impact
of markeng spend on shareholder value, alliances and rm cooperaon, market
driving strategies, customer based business strategies, strategies for retailing, etc.
Some recent research projects are:
` Market driven vs. market
driving: A conceptual framework` How to use dynamic pricing for
prots
` Consumer informaon searchprocess prior to making a purchase
` Adversing compeon in marketsthat exhibit brand loyalty
` E-word of Markeng
` Stochasc versus EDLP pricecompeon
` Aect and Cognion in ConsumerBrand Relaonships
` Impact of new brand entry onconsideraon sets
` Impact of markeng spend onshareholder value
` Markeng Organisaon
` cognive load and consumer choice
` Ethics in Markeng
` Customer Informaon SearchProcess and Movaon.
` Eect of Language Adaptaon onEcacy of Adversements.
` Strong vs weak brands
` Sequalizaon of ComparaveAdversing and its Strategic Eects
` Business to Business Relaonship
` Framing Eects of User Generated
Reviews in Online Environment` Country/Place of Origin Biases in
Consumer Percepons
` Neuroscience and consumerbehavior
` A customer oriented approach tocompeve advantage
` Managing brand personality andbrand relaonships (inuence offamily, gender, and peers on level ofbrand relaonships and impact onpurchase behavior)
` Behavioral dierences in customerreacons to pricing in emerging vs.developed markets
` Shopper Markeng
` Price Framing
` Public Policy and Markeng
` The Role of Hapc Touch on ProductEvaluaon in Dierent ShoppingSituaons
` Relaonship between Sasfacon,Loyalty and Protability
` Private Labels
`
Social Markeng` Gratude, Obligaon and
Relaonship investment
` Organisaonal Ethics
Signicant contribuons in case research span business and non-business
enterprises and encompass almost all areas of markeng management in the
Indian context. Between April 2007 and March 2012, the markeng area faculty
have wrien more than 50 new cases based on eld data. The business contexts
covered include informaon technology, manufacturing, automobiles, retailing,
nancial services, other services, online recruitment, and media. The decision areas
covered by the case studies cover all areas of markeng: segmentaon and targeng,
posioning, product, brand, price, adversing, sales promoon, distribuon, retail,
sales management, organisaon design, and strategy and strategic markeng.
Admission CriteriaThe requirements for admission into the doctoral programme in markeng are
the same as the ones menoned in the Admission Requirement secon. While it
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is not mandatory, prior academic and/or experienal
exposure to markeng and related areas would be of
some help for aspiring applicants. Successful applicants
should show potenal for developing abilies to (a)
understand and crystallize important and interesng
markeng problems, (b) conceptualize a research plan, (c)
implement the research plan, and (d) make original andsubstanal contribuon to the knowledge pool in the
domain of their inquiry.
The ProgrammeStudent will undertake doctoral level courses from various
domains in rst year. Students in the markeng area gain a
basic understanding of management through undergoing
a few courses in the rst year with PGP students. In
the second year, students build a strong background
through taking three dierent types of courses. Required
markeng area courses in the second year provide
parcipants an opportunity to build strong background in
quantave models in markeng, markeng strategy,applicaons of behavioural sciences in markeng,
markeng theory, and markeng management. They are
expected to take courses in research methodology such as
econometrics, experimental analysis, stascal analysis,
and mathemacal and applied game theory models in
markeng. Parcipants can gain a broad perspecve
in the eld of markeng management through taking a
package of graduate level markeng elecve courses inbrand management, sales and distribuon management,
markeng strategy, adversing and sales promoon,
retailing, logiscs, internet markeng and e-commerce,
strategic markeng, and customer based business
strategies. In order to complete their requisite credits,
a student, in consultaon with the faculty, can design
the second year course package from the three types of
courses.
The broad course designs in markeng in the rst year
are listed below. (This list is indicave and courses oered
may dier.) A typical course work in the second year also
is given below.
First Year Area FPM Course
` Markeng Strategy
Second Year Courses
(This list is indicave and courses oered may dier)
` Understanding Markeng Funcon and Markeng
Strategy (UMFMS)
`
Behavioural Science Applicaons in Markeng` Game Theory and Strategic Behaviour
` Seminar on Experimental Methods in Markeng
` Qualitave Method (Tentave).
` Seminar on Quantave Models in Markeng
` Mental Accounng, Pricing & Neuro Markeng
` Structural Equaon Modelling
` Markeng Theories and Contemporary Issues
` Reading Seminar in Markeng Management
` Internaonal Markeng Research and Teaching
Third Year
` Comprehensive Examinaon
`
Dissertaon
Fourth Year
` Dissertaon
Some Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students
Year Name Placement/CurrentOrganizaon
Thesis
2014 Bipul KumarFaculty, Indian Instute ofManagement, Indore
Broadening the Concept of Sustainability and Measuring its Impact onFirms Performance
2014 Manoj MoaniFaculty, Indian Instute ofManagement, Indore
Instrumental Leadership as a Determinant of Salesperson Performance:Applying the Extended Full Range Leadership Theory (FRLT)
2013 Basant Kumar PurohitSLRI
Impact of Perceived Overqualicaon on Salesperson Performance
2013 Mayank Jyotsna SoniAssistant Professor (Markeng),Delhi School of Business
Impact of Quanty Scarcity and Time Scarcity Appeals on ConsumersResponse: Role of Need for Uniqueness and Deal Proneness
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The Organizaonal Behaviour (OB) area is internaonally recognized for its teaching
and research. Faculty members in the area have diverse research interests whichinclude individual and interpersonal eecveness, job involvement, gender
issues at the workplace, work atude, organizaonal excellence, human resources
development, managerial culture and values, organizaonal dynamics and design,
organizaonal learning, management of change and strategic organizaons. Recent
research in the area has been on:
` Ethnicity and diversity at the workplace
` Work-family issues
` Technology, power, and work
` Organizaonal sense making
` Team work
`
Transformaon of organizaon and industry` Leadership
` Organizaonal commitment and psychological well-being
` Organizaon cizenship behaviour
` Cross-cultural issues
If students have an interest to apply their knowledge in their basic discipline such
as psychology or sociology to the organizaonal context, research in OB will allow
them to do so. It is not necessary for candidates to have an MBA degree, or a degree
in psychology or sociology, to do an FPM in the area. Rather, students from diverse
disciplines are encouraged to apply for the doctoral programme in OB.
The programme
A student specializing in the OB area takes a wide range of courses including thosein the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programme is as follows.
FACULTY
DCruz, Premilla
Gupta, Parvinder
(Chairperson-OB Area)
Gupta, Vishal
Kandathil, George
Khokle, Pradyumana
Noronha, Ernesto
Sharda, Kir
Sharma, Dheeraj
Sharma, Rajeev
Vohra, Neharika
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First Year Area FPM Course
` Basics of Micro OB
Second Year Courses
(This list is indicave and courses oered may dier)
` Advanced Micro OB
` Organizaon Structure and Processes` Organizaonal Diagnosis and Change 1
` Organizaonal Diagnosis and Change 2
` Organizaon Theory and its Social Context
` Classics in OB
` Perspecves of OB
` Quantave Methods and Analysis OR Qualitave
Methods and Analysis
` Craing and Publishing of Research
` Technology and Organizing
` Naonal Culture: Myths, Meaning and Measurement
` Leadership in Organizaons: A Review of Theory and
Research
Third Year` Comprehensive examinaon
` Dissertaon
Fourth Year
` Dissertaon
Some Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students
Year Name Placement/Current
Organizaon
Thesis
2013 Rahul Chandra Sheel Studying the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Percepons
on Employee Work Atudes
2012 Twisha Anand From Needing Help to Seeking Help: A Cross-Cultural Exploraon of
Interpersonal Help Seeking Behaviour in the Soware Industry
2012 Arvind Shatdal
Faculty, IIM Indore
Impact of Prework in Dyads on Informaon Sharing in Groups
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The Personnel and Industrial Relaons area comprises faculty members having
interests in HRM, employee/industrial relaons, labour economics, and industrial
sociology.
Current research interests of the faculty include -- philosophical foundaons of
HRM, strategic human resource management, internaonal and cross cultural HR,
performance management and high performing work organizaons, execuve
compensaon, employee empowerment, negoaons in business, and alternate
dispute resoluon, human resource informaon systems, public personnel
management, employment relaons, ethics in business, and corporate social
responsibility.
The admission requirements for the area are given in the secon on Admission
Requirements.
The ProgrammeA student specializing in the P&IR area takes a wide range of courses including those
in the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programme is as follows.
FACULTY
Agarwal, Promila
Chandwani, Rajesh
Jerome, Joseph
Maheshwari, Sunil
Singh, Manjari (Area Chiar)
Varkkey, Biju
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Some Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students
YearName Placement/Current
OrganizaonThesis
2013 Manisha Mishra
Asst Prof. (Human Capital
Management), Jindal Global Business
School (Sonipat)
An Exploratory Study of Post Implementaon Experienal Perceponsof Reservaons with Focus on Sgmazaon Processes in the HigherProfessional Educaon Context
2011 Mridul Maheshwari Workplace Gender Dilemmas: Insights from Womens Narraves
2011 Pauraja SelvarajIIM, Indore
A Study of Execuve Percepons of the Determinants of CompensaonDesign and Sasfacon
2011 Srinath Jagannathan A Study of Worker Insecurity in Four Industrial Relaons Contexts: APost Structural Approach
First Year Area FPM Course` Foundaons Course in HRM
Second Year Courses
(This list is indicave and courses oered may dier)
` Foundaons of Research in HRM I
` Foundaons of Research in ERM I
` Foundaons of Research in HRM II
` Foundaons of Research in ERM II
` Internaonal Human Resource Management
` Qualitave Research Methods in HRM
` Quantave Techniques in HRM
Third Year` Comprehensive Examinaon
` Dissertaon
Fourth Year
Dissertaon
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The Producon and Quantave Methods (P&QM) area oers courses on operaonsmanagement, operaons research, and stascs. Doctoral students in the area are
required to be procient in all the three areas while developing advanced level skills
at least one of the three. The area oers doctoral level courses in mathemacal
programming, stascs, stochasc processes, operaons management, technology
management, modelling, and contemporary manufacturing methods and techniques.
Faculty research interests in operaons management are on strategic or operaonal
issues related to manufacturing and service planning, supply chain coordinaon,
shop oor scheduling and improving producvity of plant operaons, design of
operaons, technological change and innovaon, R&D capabilies, economics of
exible operaons, process planning, etc. In operaons research faculty interests
include linear and integer programming, large scale opmizaon, combinatorial
opmizaon, revenue management and network opmizaon. Interest in this areais both in modeling as well as in development of algorithms and heuriscs for such
problems. Typical applicaon areas for research include nance, logiscs, and the
process industry. Faculty research interests in stascs are modeling nancial data,
modeling discrete data, nite populaon inference, survival analysis, reliability
analysis and stascal genecs.
The Programme
First and Second Years
During the two-year coursework phase, students take a wide range of courses,
including those in the area of specializaon and other management areas.
In the rst year, a student is required to take courses worth 14.5 to 18 credits. Thisincludes 7.5 credits of FPM courses common to all FPM students, and a 1 credit
area course specied by the P&QM area. The remaining courses to be credited are
decided upon jointly by the student and her/his academic advisor.
In the second year, a student is required to take courses worth 14.5 to 18 credits.
Among these, 2.5 credits are FPM compulsory courses common to all FPM students
and a few compulsory courses specied by the P&QM area. The remaining courses
to be credited are decided upon jointly by the student and her/his academic advisor.
An indicave list of elecves that students can choose from is given in the next
secon.
FACULTY
Bandyopadhyay, Tathagata
Barua, Samir K
Bhadra, Dhiman
Dua, Goutam
Ghosh, Diptesh
(Chairperson P&QM)
Guha, Apram
Jayaswal, Sachin
Laha, Arnab K
Mukherjee, Saral
Ravichandran, N
Roy, Debjit
Soman, Chetan A
Sriram, Karthik
Venkateshan, Prahalad
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Third Year and laterAt the beginning of the third year, a student is required to appear for and pass a comprehensive examinaon on the
courses that s/he has credited in the rst two years. On successful compleon of the comprehensive examinaon, a
student decides on a topic for her/his research and her/his thesis advisor. The student then presents and defends her/
his thesis proposal and works on her/his doctoral thesis.
Some Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students
Year Name Placement/CurrentOrganizaon
Thesis
2013 Harish Venkatesh Rao Stochasc Opmizaon Based Decision Support System for Asset-liability Management in Life Insurance Firms
2013 Ravi KothariHSBC
Metaheuriscs for the Single Row Facility Layout Problem
First Year Area FPM Course
` Introducon to Mathemacal Programming
Second Year Courses
(This list is indicave and courses oered may dier)
` Advanced Probability in Management
` Mathemacal Programming and Discrete Opmizaon
` Seminar in Operaons Management I and II
` Systems Analysis and Simulaon
` Applied Mulvariate Analysis
` Applied Mulvariate Analysis for Qualitave
Dependent Variable
` Modelling for Management Decision Making
` Real Analysis` Stochasc Processes
` Network Opmizaon
` Stochasc Opmizaon
` Large-Scale Opmizaon
Third Year
` Comprehensive examinaon
` Dissertaon
Fourth Year
` Dissertaon
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The Public Systems Group (PSG) undertakes cung edge research, training, and
organizaonal work on strategic public management, public and social policy. Theobjecve of the group is to promote research that will generate concepts and theory
for eecve management of public systems, as well as gain a scholarly understanding
and arculaon of social and polical processes that underpin policymaking. The
group integrates wide disciplinary backgrounds and topics in management, social
sciences and the humanies.
Current research interests of the faculty include energy and environment, hospital
and health systems, urban management, public nance, educaon policy, transport,
infrastructure, rehabilitaon, community development, markeng of public services,
impact assessments and telecommunicaons. Current and recent faculty research
projects are:
` Grid responsive buildings (EEB)
` A study under the Energy and Mass Exchange in Vegetave Systems [SAC]
` Techno-economic Assessment of CO2 Capture and Storage Potenal in India: APolicy Perspecve (CCS)
` Applicaon of Remote Sensing for Integrated Land use, Water and EnergyManagement in Rural Areas: Exploring Energy Plantaon Opportunies (MoEF)
` Impact Assessment of Wireless Technology and Broadband Connecvity in RuralIndia
` Leveraging Knowledge Networks for Enabling Innovaons in Higher Educaonand Research Instutes in India and UK
` Impact Assessment of USOF Wire Line Broadband Scheme
` Imperaves for Future Growth of Naonal Internet Exchange of India (NIXI)
` PPPs in Airport Sector` PPS in Port Sector
` Mobility Challenges in Urban Areas
` Issues in High Speed Rail Development
` Trucking Sector: Policy and Service Challenges
` Public Private Partnerships in Warehousing
` An agent-based approach to network compeon and sustainable growth inIndian Air Transport, IRCC-project
` An agent-based framework for network compeon and sustainable growth inAir Transport Systems, Marie-Curie & FCT sponsored
The Fellow ProgrammeA student specializing in the PSG area takes a wide range of courses including thosein the area of specializaon. A typical course set in the programme is as follows.
FACULTY
Bhat, Ramesh
Barnhardt, Sharon
Dholakia, Ravindra H
Dua, Goutam
Garg, Amit
Huber, Hans
Jain, Rekha
Mathur, Navdeep
Narayanaswami,Sundaravalli
Pandey, Ajay
Pangotra, Prem
(Area Chair-PSG)
Raghuram, G
Sahay, Arvind
Sarin, Ankur
Shukla, P R
Turaga, Rama Mohana
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First Year Area FPM Course
` Public Policy I
Second Year Courses
(This list is indicave and courses oered may dier)
` Public Finance` Public Management
` Public Policy II
` Public Policy Instruments for Environmental
Management
` Health Policy and Planning
` Interpreve Research Methods
` Using Quantave Methods for Causal Inference in
Social Policy Research
` Energy and Environment Policy
` Health Care Financing
` Health Insurance
` Venturing in Health Care
` Electronic Power Economics and Policy
` FPM Summer School
` Economic Development and Growth
` Seminar on Transportaon
` Emergency Management in Urban Logiscs
` FPM Summer School` Research and Publicaons
Third Year
` Comprehensive Examinaon
` Dissertaon
Fourth Year
` Dissertaon
Some Recent Thesis Titles and Placement of Students
Year Name Placement/CurrentOrganizaon
Thesis
2014 Hem Himanshu DholakiaIIMI
Climate Change, Air Polluon and Public Health in India: ImpactAssessment and Adaptaon Strategies
2014 Prakri Naswa Uncertainty and Risk Management of Climate Change Impacts onInfrastructure Assets
2014 Shivika Mial Sustainable Low Carbon Transport: An Integrated Policy Framework andAssessment for India
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Resources at IIMAThe main campus houses the academic complex including
the doctoral programme oce, most of the faculty
and student housing facilies, and the library. The new
campus has addional dormitories for students and a
classroom complex.
Vikram Sarabhai LibraryThe Vikram Sarabhai Library, considered as one of the
best management libraries in the country, is commied to
providing access to its resources for students, researchers
and faculty. It has over the years built a robust collecon
of over 2 lakh books in addion to Journals & Newspapers,
Databases, Working Papers, Thesis, Project Reports, CDs
and Videos.
The strength of the library is its digital collecon that
can be accessed campus-wide through its website hp://
www.iimahd.ernet.in/library/. The website links its in-
house catalogue in addion to the 68 databases that
provide scholarly, company and industry informaon.
E-Resources: The library subscribes to a number of
company and industry databases, bibliographic databases
and E-journals to provide latest scholarly informaon to
the users.
Company & Country DatabasesACE Knowledge and Research Portal, ACE Equity, ACE
Mutual Fund, CAPITALINE, CMIE CapEx, Commodies,
Economic Outlook, Industry Outlook, India Trade,
Prowess & States of India, CRISIL Research, Datastream
(Incorporang world scope), Dion Insight, District GDP
of India, DSI Data Service & Informaon, EPWRF India
Time Series, EPWRF Economic and Market Review and
Research, Euromonitor Passport, Frost & Sullivan Growth
Partnership Services, GARTNER, Indiastat.Com, Indian
Boards, Infraline Coal Sector, Oil & Gas Sector & Power
Sector, ISI Emerging Markets Asia, Marketline Advantage,
NASSCOM Member Directory, Thomson Reuters Eikon,
Venture Intelligence Private Equity Deal Database, M&A
Deal Database & Real Estate Deal Database.
Scholarly Resources` E-Journals Databases
ABI/Inform (ProQuest), ACM Digital Library,
EBSCO Academic Search Premier, Business SourceComplete, EconLit, Entrepreneurial Studies Source,PsycARTICLES, Elsevier (Science Direct), EmeraldManagement Extra, IEEE ASPP + POP, IGI Global FullText, Indian Journals.com, INFORMS, JSTOR, SpringerLink, Oxford University Press, Project MUSE, Sage +HSS Collecon, Taylor and Francis Online, Wiley + HSSOnline library.
` Back-Files of E-Journals
Elsevier Back Files (Business, Management &
Accounng, Decision Sciences, Economics,
Econometrics and Finance, Agriculture & Biological
Science, Social Science, Pharmacology, Toxicology
& Pharmaceucs), Emerald Back Files (Business and
Management), INFORMS Archives.
` E-Books: Ebrary, OECD iLibrary (Educaon).
` News Papers & Magazines Databases
FT.com, FT Archive (1888-2010), India Business
Insight, Press Display (Newspaper Direct).
` Legal Databases: AIR (All India Reporter)High Court,AIR Criminal Law, AIR Supreme Court, AIR PrivyCouncil, Kluwer Arbitraon Law, Westlaw.
` Others:Encyclopedia of Britannica, IMS An TB-Data,ISI Web of Knowledge, IMF eLibrary and Data, MICAIndian Markeng, Power Lingo Fx25, ProQuest Thesis
& Dissertaons, Sage Research Methods Online,WARC Database, World Bank Databases.
` Specialized Search Tools: EBSCO Discovery Serviceand EBSCO A-Z.
The Vikram Sarabhai Library parcipates in a strong Inter-
library co-operaon programme that provides access
to collecons of other leading libraries in the country
through various library networks. The library is commied
to fullling its mission by facilitang access to current,
global and relevant informaon by idenfying, acquiring,
organizing and retrieving informaon in various formats
(print & non-print) to serve the informaon needs of the
IIMA fraternity for teaching, research, consulng, trainingand learning requirements.
Publicaons: The library has been publishing two
quarterly informaon bullens since 1996.
` Current Contents in Management: Markeng
` Current Index of Management: Markeng
It has started NICMAN (Naonal Informaon Centre for
Management) Membership in order to help/facilitate
business/management related researchers in their
research. Recently it has also started documenng
research in markeng in the context of emerging
economies.
Compung FaciliesA state-of-the-art computer network with more than
2000 nodes connects all the members of the Instute
community with each other. This network has a mulmode
ber opc backbone with one or more ber segments
reaching every building on the campus.
There are more than 200 high-end managed network
switches which handle the internal data trac. The
Instute has recently installed a high end Cisco L3 switch
at the data center to enhance security and improve
network throughput. Every workplace on the campus
including program parcipants rooms in dormitories,
faculty oces, classrooms, management development
center, computer lab, FPM lab, and administrave oces
has network connecvity. Using long range Ethernet
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technology, faculty /sta residences have been alsoprovided network connecvity to the Instutes LAN.
The Instute has put a wireless layer (Wi-Fi) on top of
this highly dense network with high level of security using
username password based authencaon. More than 300
Access Points have been installed throughout the Campus
for a superior Wi-Fi experience. A Next Generaon
Firewall has recently been installed to enhance the
network security A storage server with VPN based access
and username password based authencaon is also in
place for accessing data from outside the campus. This
facility is currently available for the Faculty of IIMA.
The campus network is supported by a large server
farm with more than 70 high speed servers, running on
a wide variety of plaorms. About 40 servers have been
virtualized using KVM. Many servers on this network
make use of Linux and open source soware for providing
the necessary services. For every workgroup (faculty,
parcipants, sta, etc.), there is a set of dedicated servers
which provide a core layer of services like Internet access,
and le/print services. The E-mail facility is managed
through Google which provides us web based email client,
built in chat facility, Google docs, Google apps, Google
sites and few other facilies as well. The main web server
(hp://www.iimahd.ernet.in) carries informaon on IIMA.Another web server (hp://stdwww.iimahd.ernet.in)
provides facilies for individual parcipants to host their
home pages. Every dormitory has a high-speed shared
network printer with web based print billing soware.
There is a wide variety of soware packages available
to the parcipants and faculty for their academic and
research work. These packages include several language
processors, stascal, math programming, simulaon,
project management, CASE tools, etc.
Every parcipant and faculty member has a networked,
business-performance personal computer or laptop. The
Instutes network is linked to the Internet via a set of
three leased lines enabling round-the-clock Internet
connecvity on the campus. All the Internet Service
Providers (ISPs) from whom the Instute has procured
Internet bandwidth have installed ber opcs link from
the campus to their hub. This ensures very high quality
of bandwidth to the Internet. The Instute has a 70
Mbps bandwidth from TCL, a 16 Mbps bandwidth from
BSNL, and up to a 1 Gbps link from Naonal Knowledge
Network (NKN).
Every classroom is equipped with a projector, a PC, and
a DVD player. Some of the classrooms are equipped with
IP/ISDN based video conferencing capability. A fully
equipped computer classroom is also available in thecomputer center where on-line computer based training
can be imparted. The IIMA website includes payment
gateway and oers access to a large repository of IIMA
case studies and research reports.
Research CentresNine major research centres provide opportunies for
doctoral students to carry out a broad variety of interdis-
ciplinary research and access focused resources amongst
faculty and vising experts from other academic instu-
ons, industry, and government. The centres, in addion
to carrying out focused research, are also involved in a
range of academic and service acvies. These are:
` Centre for e-Governance
` Centre for Innovaon, Incubaon, and Entrepreneur-ship
` Centre for Management of Health Services
` Centre for Retail Management
` Centre for Infrastructure Policy and Regulaon
` Group on Telecom
` Naonal Informaon Centre on Management
` Innovaon and Management in Educaon
Conferences and Field Research SupportThe Instute provides compeve opportunies to
present research papers at naonal and internaonal
conferences and spend a term or more for eld work at
collaborang universies within the country and outside.
Research grants are also provided on a compeve basis
for summer projects. Doctoral students receive an annualconngency grant to fund research related expenses.
IIMA Idea Telecom Centre of ExcellenceFellowshipIIMA IDEA Telecom Centre of Excellence (IITCOE) has
instuted fellowships for those FPM Students whose
thesis is in telecom sector. For relevant details please
log on to hp://www.iimahd.ernet.in/programmes/
programmes.htm under the head Doctoral Programme.
Housing
IIMAs doctoral programme is fully residenal. Studentsand the faculty stay in a 100 acre green campus designed
by Louis Kahn. The community is cosmopolitan with both
students and faculty hailing from dierent parts of India.
An internaonal avour is added by students from various
countries who come here every year as part of exchange
programme. Two types of housing are available on
campus: dormitories and family housing. Dormitories on
campus provide single room for single students. Limited
housing is available on campus for students with family.
The campus has an inrmary with dedicated doctors in
aendance. A doctor lives on campus and is available on
call all the me. The campus also has a post oce, State
Bank of India branch with an ATM, photocopying facility,a late night cafeteria and several recreaonal facilies.
Oce SpaceLimited oce space is available for doctoral students.
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IIMAs doctoral programme aims to admit individuals with
exceponal academic background, strong movaon and
discipline, and potenal to become excellent researchers
at internaonal level. Our students come from a variety
of disciplines ranging from social sciences and humanies
to physical sciences and engineering. Applicants
are evaluated on their past academic achievements,movaon and preparaon for the programme, scores on
standard tests, and a personal interview with the faculty.
Admission Requirements
Candidates must possess one of the following
qualicaons to apply for IIMAs doctoral programme:
(a) A Masters Degree in any discipline, with at least 55
percent marks, with a Bachelors degree/ equivalent
qualicaon with at least 50 percent marks obtained
aer a minimum of three years of educaon aer
compleng higher secondary schooling (10+2) orequivalent.
(OR)
(b) Five year/four year Integrated Masters Degree
programme in any discipline, with atleast 55 percent
marks, obtained aer compleng higher secondary
schooling (10+2) or equivalent.
(OR)
(c) A professional qualicaon like CA, ICWA, CS, with
at least 55 percent marks.
(OR)
(d) A 4-year/8-semester Bachelors degree with at least
60 percent marks or equivalent grade point average.
The candidate must hold a Bachelors/Masters degree
of any of the universies incorporated by an Act of the
Central or State Legislature in India or other educaonal
instuons established by an act of parliament or declared
to be deemed as a university under secon 3 of UGC Act,
1956, or possess an equivalent qualicaon recognized
by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India, or possessan equivalent qualicaon from an instuon approved
by AICTE. Those in their nal year of Masters or Bachelors
degree (B.E / B. Tech) in any discipline can also apply.
Such candidates have to complete the requirements for
the course before 30 June 2015and produce the original
cercates/mark sheets by 31 December 2015.
The standard test score requirements forvarious areas of specializaon are:
Agriculture:Common Admission Test (CAT) of the Indian
Instutes of Management / UGC JRF (Economics/
Development Studies/Development Economics/BusinessEconomics/Rural Economics/ Public Administraon/
Sociology)/ICAR-SRF/GRE
Deadlines
January 30 2015:Last date for online applicaon & Payments of fees.
March/April 2015:Interviews for shortlisted candidates.
Last week of April 2015:Oer of admission mailed to selected candidates.
Business Policy, Markeng :CAT/GMAT/GRE
Economics:CAT/GRE/GMAT
Finance and Accounng:CAT/GMAT/ GRE
Informaon Systems:CAT/GMAT/GRE/ GATE
Innovaon and Management in Educaon: CAT/GMAT/
GRE /GATE/UGC-JRF in relevant discipline
Organizaonal Behaviour:CAT/GMAT/ GRE/UGC-JRF in
relevant discipline
Personnel and Industrial Relaons: CAT/GMAT/GRE/
GATE/UGC-JRF in relevant discipline.
Producons and Quantave Methods: CAT/GMAT/
GRE/ GATE/UGC-JRF in Mathemacal Sciences.
Public Systems:CAT/GRE/GMAT/GATE/UGC-JRF in
relevant discipline
Standard test scores not required for:
(Part-me/Evening/Distance Learning Programmes are
NOT considered)
PGP Alumni from all IIMs
PGPX and PGP-PMP Alumni of all IIMs where such
courses are oered
MBA / PGDM programmes from other Universies/
Business Schools: Standard Test Scores required
Those applying to the Fellow Programme in Management
on the basis of the above tests in lieu of CAT should havescored more than 50% mark in their bachelors degree to
be considered for selecon to the Fellow Programme in
Management.
Candidates residing outside India could choose to take
any of the above tests (depending on the area to which
they are applying) or write GMAT. CAT is administered
only in India. The doctoral programme accepts test scores
that have been taken in the last two years.
CAT is the common admission test required for admission
to the Post-Graduate Programmes of the Indian Instutes
of Management. CAT will be administered tentavely on
November 16 and 22, 2014, at various centres in India.
Admissions and Financial Aid
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Validity of Score (Other than CAT)
Two years from the date of the test and should be valid onthe deadline of submission of the applicaon form.
Scholarship/Financial Aid
All students admied to the programme are provided
fellowships. The fellowship covers all academic expenses
(consisng of tuion, computer, library, placement, and
alumni fees) and living expenses (comprising medical
insurance, boarding and lodging). In addion, a student
in the rst and second year will be entled to a monthly
spend of ` 27,500 per month, aer clearing the
Comprehensive Exam he/she will be eligible for `29,700
per month and aer submission of the TAC approved
thesis proposal he/she will be eligible for ` 33,000 permonth which will be inclusive of food allowance.
An addional allowance of `50,000 is provided to enable
students to purchase their own personal computer. The
Instute provides sucient funds to meet conngency
expenses to cover research work. The Instute may nd
support for exceponal internaonal students.
Merit Awards
Every year students are given various merit awards:
1. Thesis Award Titled Industrial Finance Corporaon
of India (IFCI) best Thesis Award.
2. Thesis Award Titled Professor Tirath Gupta Award
for the best Thesis
3. Compeve Naonal and Internaonal Conference
Travel Grants.
Admission Process
Applicaon Form and Brochure will be available online.
Candidates can ll-up the applicaon form online and an
applicaon fee of `500/- can be paid through IIMA gateway. The last date for subming the online applicaon
will be January 30, 2015. Faculty will then evaluate
the applicaons that have been submied, and invite
a selected group of candidates for personal interviews
with the faculty and members of the FPM Execuve
Commiee, who recommend candidates for admission.
Interviews will be held in March/April and admission
decisions made by last week of April.
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First Year Courses (FPM/PGP)
FPM compulsory courses in the rst year
Term wise distribuon of FPM compulsory courses in rst year
Term 1 Term 2 Term 3
Mathemacs
(1 credit)
Stascal (contd)
(1 credit)
Socio-Polical Contexts for Research in Management
(1 credit)
Stascs
(1 credit)
Micro-economics
(1.5 credit)
Research Methods
(1 credit)
Psychology
(1 credit)
Area FPM Courses for rst year
Term wise distribuon of Area FPM course
Term 1 Term 2 Term 3
Strategic Management I (BP)Basics of Micro OB (OB)
Foundaon Course in HRM
(P&IR)
Agro Food Value Chain Management andDevelopment (AGRI)
Introducon to Mathemacal Programming
(P&QM)
Data Structures and Programming (IS)
Markeng Strategy (MKTG)
Advanced Micro-economics (ECO)Asset Pricing (F&A)
Educaon: Theory, Policy, Pracce
(IME)
Public Policy 1 (PSG)
PGP core courses from which FPM students can choose
Term wise distribuon of PGP Courses that can be taken for FPM rst year credit
Term 1 Term 2 Term 3
Financial Reporng & Analysis (1.5) Business Taxaon (0.5) Corp Fin (1.25)
FM (0.5) MCCS (1) DM 2 (0.5)
Markeng 1 (0.5) LAB (1) EEP (0.75)
Macroeconomics (1) ISB (1)
Markeng - I (0.5; connued from Term 1) Markeng II (1)
OM 1(1) OM - 2 (1.25)
OD (0.75) PCCBS (1)
DM 1 (0.5) SM (1.25)
FM (0.5; connued from Term 1)
In addion, students can also choose PGP, PGP-ABM, PGPX core or elecve courses in consultaon with their academic
advisor.
Phase I Courses