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Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

Date & Time Title Speaker Area Affiliation Details
January 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM, in Classroom P12 Leapfrogging Competition: How Mergers Drive Drastic Innovations Prof. Saish Nevrekar Economics Ashoka University Read more

Past Seminars

Sl. No. Name of the Speaker Date Institution of the Speaker Area Title
1 Dr. Gautham Udupa July 6, 2022 Research Director at CAFRAL ESS Unsecured Consumer Credit and Bankruptcy Policy in Emerging Economies
2 Prof. Kunal Sen  July 11, 2022 United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) ESS Can political decentralization improve citizen welfare? Evidence clues from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in India
3 Prof. Suraj Prasad July 13, 2022 University of Sydney ESS Instructions and Incentives in Organizations
4 Prof. Aarti Singh July 14, 2022 University of Sydney ESS Marginal propensities to consume before and after the Great Recession
Sl. No. Name of the Speaker Date Institution of the Speaker Area Title
1 Vidya Mahambare March 17th, 2021 Great Lakes Institute of Management ESS Location, Location, Location: Implications for Welfare Inequality in India
2 Jeevant Rampal March 31st, 2021 Indian Istitute of Management , Ahmedabad ESS The Performance and Perception Effects of a Gender-Based Affirmative-Action Policy: An Experimental Investigation (joint with Pritha Dev and Kirtivardhan Singh)
3 Gaurav Khanna April 7th, 2021 University of California San Diego ESS Trade Liberalization and Chinese Students in US Higher Education
4 Nicholas Ryan April 14th, 2021 Yale University ESS Holding Up Green Energy
5 Pamela Medina April 28th, 2021 University of Toronto ESS Capital Reallocation Frictions and Trade Shocks
6 Sabyasachi Das September 8th, 2021 Ashoka University ESS The Importance of Being Earnest: What Drives the Gender Quota Effect in Politics?
7 Theodore Papageorgiou September 22, 2021 Boston College ESS Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets (joint with Giulia Brancaccio, Myrto Kalouptsidi and Nicola Rosaia)
8 Nishith Prakash October 6th, 2021 University of Connecticut ESS Wheels of Change: Transforming Girl’s Lives with Bicycles (joint with Nathan Fiala, Ana Garcia-Hernandez and Kritika Narula)
9 Rossella Calvi  October 20th, 2021 Rice University ESS Til dowry do us part: Bargaining and violence in Indian families
10 S Anukriti November 3rd, 2021 World Bank ESS Women's Autonomy, Social Networks, and Access to Family Planning: Experimental Evidence from India
11 Nicholas Ryan November 17th, 2021 Yale University ESS Holding Up Green Energy
12 Lin Ma December 1st, 2021 Singapore Management University ESS Migration and Spatial Misallocation in China
13 Nitya Pandalai-Nayar December 14th, 2021 University of Texas at Austin ESS Globalization, Structural Change and International Comovement
14 Megha Patnaik February 23rd, 2022 Luiss Guido Carli ESS Management practices and resilience to shocks: Evidence from COVID-19
Sl. No. Name of the Speaker Date Institution of the Speaker Area Title
1 Dweepobotee Brahma 17/6/2020 Brookings ESS Early warning Signs : Targetting Neonatal and Infant Mortality using Machine Learning
2 Nikhil Damodaran 1/7/2020 Jindal Global University ESS Fiscal Policy and Transmission : The case of India's States
3 Viral Acharya 4/8/2020 NYU Stern School of Business ESS Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India
4 Arvind Panagariya 19/8/2020 Columbia University ESS The New Import Substitution
5 V. Srinivas 2/9/2020 IAS, Additional Secretary - GoI ESS India and IMF
6 Samarth Gupta 10/12/2020 NCAER ESS Predictive Determinants of Enterprise Micro-Financing by Self Help Groups in India
Sl. No. Name of the Speaker Date Institution of the Speaker Area Title
1 Swapnendu Banerjee 14/05/2019 Jadavpur University ESS Other Regarding Principal and Moral Hazard with Multiple Agents
2 Sunanda Sen 6/7/2019 Economist ESS Employment in India: Aggregate Demand and Structural Transformations
3 Sourav Bhattacharya 14/06/2019 Royal Holloway University of London ESS Condorcet Jury Theorem in a Spatial Model of Elections
4 Namrata Kala 24/06/2019 MIT Management Sloan School ESS/Public Policy Workhorses or White Elephants? The Effects of Earned Autonomy on State Owned Enterprises
5 Gaurav Chiplunkar 7/1/2019 Darden School of Business, University of Virginia ESS How Important are Matching Frictions in The Labour Market? Experimental and Non-Experimental Evidence from a Large Indian Firm
6 Deepti Goel 7/5/2019 Azim Premji University ESS Drivers of Student Performance: Evidence from Higher Secondary Public Schools in Delhi
7 Chandan Jha 7/12/2019 Madden School of Business, Le Moyne College ESS Corruption and Stock Price Volatility: Firm-Level Evidence
8 Samarth Gupta 19/07/2019 NCAER, New Delhi ESS Inter-Organizational Transaction Costs Theory and Credit Delivery
9 Saikat Sinha Roy 25/07/2019 Jadavpur University ESS Services Trade and Choice of Industries
          Studying Intergenerational Mobility of Indian workers
10 Rajnish Kumar 8/2/2019 Queen's Management School ESS Group Contributions in TU-games : A class of k-lateral Shapley values
11 Joseph Flavian Gomes 23/08/2019 Université catholique de Louvain ESS The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization
12 Shraman Banerjee 9/5/2019 OP Jindal ESS Treating Symmetric Buyers Asymmetrically
13 Ritesh Jain 19/09/2019 Academia Sinica ESS A systematic test of the Independence Axiom: Around Certainty
14 Anaka Aiyar 11/7/2019 Cornell University ESS Health Insurance and Infant Mortality: Evidence from India
15 Manish Kacker 13/11/2019 McMaster University ESS Performance Implications of Organizational Signaling and Screening in Interfirm Networks: Evidence from Franchising
16 Arno Hantzsche 27/11/2019 Arno Hantzsche ESS Regional Government Bond Markets - Lessons from Europe
17 Abhishek Chakravarthy 1/8/2020 The University of Manchester ESS Informed Citizens and Political Entry: Evidence from a Large Education Programme in India
18 Dyuti Banerjee 16/1/2020 Monash University ESS Optimal IPR infringement enforcement policy and innovation
19 Prashant Bharadwaj 28/1/2020 University of California, San Diego ESS The Effects of Health Shocks to the Elderly on Children’s Labor Supply
20 Manoj Mohanan 2/3/2020 Duke ESS Information and Facilitation Interventions for Accountability in Health and Nutrition: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in India
21 Anisha Sharma 2/12/2020 Ashoka University ESS Preferences and expectations: Understanding the gender gap in major choice
Sl No Authors Title of Chapter Title of Book Editors Publication Details
1 Singh, Charan, and S. Ananth Creating an Enabling Digital Ecosystem: Issues & Challenges Modi's Odyssey: Digital India, Developed India Sameer Kochhar Skoch Media Pvt. Ltd., Pg. 445
2 Ghosh, S and Chanda, Rupa Trade in Services between India and Pakistan India Migration Report: Gender and Migration Irudaya Rajan Routledge, 2015, Pg. 80-103
3 Chanda, Rupa Trade in Services between India and Pakistan Normalizing India-Pakistan Trade N. Taneja and S. Pohit Springer, 2015, Pg. 147-192
4 Chanda, Rupa Medical Tourism and Outward FDI in Health Services: India in South Asia Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility J. Hane-eld, N. Lunt and D. Horsfall Chapter 29, Elgar Publishers, 2015, Pg. 296-306
5 Chanda, Rupa Internationalization in India’s Higher Education Sector: Mobility of Students and Establishments The India Higher Education Report N. Varghese and G. Malik Chapter 19, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education, Routledge, New Delhi, 2015, Pg. 431-58
6 Chanda, Rupa Trade in Services and the Indian Economy India and the World Economy Patnaik, Chandrashekhar, Jayati Ghosh Chapter 4, Indian Council for Social Science Research, Oxford University Press, 2015, Pg. 112-68
7 Damodaran A The Co-bene-t Principle and the Durban Platform: Towards an inclusive Framework for Negotiating Climate Change Finance The G20 Development Agenda, An Indian Perspective Parthsarthi Shome Cambridge University Press, 2015, Chapter 6, Pg. 161-182
8 Damodaran A Structuring Climate Finance for Adaptation Measures in Vulnerable Ecosystems: Lessons from India Vulnerability of Land Systems in Asia Braimoh, Ademola K. and He Qing Huang Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, Chapter 19, Pg. 297-308
Sr No Company Name Title of the Project
1 BMTC Reforms in SCM, with focus on Procurement Process.
2 Bosch Improving Procure 2 Pay cycle.
3 Bosch Supply Chain Risk Management
4 Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd Demand Forecasting for HSD/MS/ATF
5 Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd Study Petroleum Supply Chain Network of India
6 Flipkart Building Assetless city logistics 
7 Flipkart Strategy to achieve four Hours Delivery
8 Flipkart Supply Chain Benchmarking
9 Flipkart Scheduled Delivery 
10 FutureSC Business Consolidators/aggregators for the Express Logistics
11 FutureSC Distribution model for food category and vendor-wise solutioning
18 Lam Research Demand surge outliers detection
19 Lam Research Engineering Services Obsolescence Management
20 ReMS Effective dashboard and MIS reports
21 ReMS Farmer’s Share in Consumer Rupee
22 ReMS Quality and Price Relation
23 Sasken Prediction of Employee Attrition
24 SCM Centre Automotive Logistics
25 SCM Centre Automotive Logistics
26 Shahi Exports Improving on-time delivery performance
27 Toyota Kirloskar Low Cost Automations (LCA) Commercialization
28 Toyota Kirloskar Training Materials Database
29 TVS LSL Designing Storage and Distribution
30 Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd Demand Forecasting for HSD/MS/ATF
31 Future Supply Chain Solutions Redesigning the distribution model for Foods category and creating a dynamic tool for vendor-wise solution
32 ReMS Increasing outside trader’s participation
33 Sasken Measuring productivity in software industry
Sr No. Description of Topic Company
Year 2016
1 Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd Estimating Premium / Discount of Crude Oil
2 Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd Study on Petrochemicals Suman Saurabh &
3 Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd Network of Product Pipelines in India
4 Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd Demand Forecasting Petroproducts
5 IBM Market Sudy Transportation
6 India Post Marketing and Brand Positioning of India Post
7 India Post Product Rationalisation India Post Products
8 India Post Delivery of eCommerce Shipments
9 India Post Post Bank of India: Scope of Payments Bank
10 Rastriya eMarket Services Impact Study
11 Rastriya eMarket Services Grading and Certification
12 Rastriya eMarket Services ntegrated Logistics
13 Toyota Kirloskar Optimizing Safety Stocks of Input Components
14 Toyota Kirloskar Optimizing Inbound Transportation
15 TVSLSL 3PL MRO Supply Chain
16 Zopnow Strategies for Online Grocery Business
17 Zopnow Omni Channel Strategy for Online Grocery Retailers
18 SCM Centre Designing an Operations Management Game
19 SCM Centre Optimising All-India Distribution Network in GST Regime
20 Real Estate Centre Industry Structure Nisha Sehrawat &
21 Real Estate Centre Rental Housing Market Anuj Parekh & Khizar
22 Real Estate Centre Affordable Housing- Financing Challenges
Year 2017
1 Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd Demand for Petroleum Products & Impact of West Coast Refinery
2 Cypress Semiconductors Planning/Loading Proposal to get FG – 7
3 HAL Nashik Supply Chain Strategy for Lifetime Support of Military Aircraft
4 India Post Traditional, Modern and Future Strategies
5 Metro C&C End of Season Promotion Planning
6 Rastriya eMarket Services Bringing Perishable Agricultural Commodities on Unified Market Platform (UMP)
7 Rastriya eMarket Services Study of Farmer Producer Organization in Karnataka
8 Rastriya eMarket Services Suggest Methods of Financing to Producers and Traders
9 SAP Labs Block Chain Technologies in Supply Chain
10 SAP Labs Feasibility of Public Cloud Supply Chain Software
11 Sasken Communication Technologies Taxonomy of Technical Skills for Workforce Management
12 Titan Industries Ltd End-of-season Sales Offer Design
13 TVS Logistics Services Ltd Study of 3PL Logistics Industry Priyasha Kushwaha
14 SCM Centre Supply Chain Strategy for Lifetime Support of Military Aircraft
15 SCM Centre Network Optimization of Product Pipelines
16 Flipkart A Temporal Study of Supply Chain of Cold Chain in India
17 India Post Threats and Opportunities for Retail Post Services of DOP in the Context of Online Services
18 Titan Retail Stock & Inventory Management
19 Flipkart Customer Pickup
20 Flipkart Study on Franchisee Model for Last Mile Hubs

Year 2007

1 Fuel Value Chain Management Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
2 Global Movement of Work and Talent and its Impact on Strategic Planning IBM
3 Achieving Optimum Configuration of Global Manufacturing Plants and Markets John Deere
4 Sourcing Strategy for an Automobile Company John Deere
5 Outbound Logistics in Automobile Industry       Tata Motors
6 Analysis of Supply Chain Management Issues in Poultry Industry Suguna Chicken
7 Critical Success Factors for Firms Managing Contract Labour Services  
8 Development of a Procurement and Distribution Model for Farm Fresh Fruits and Vegetables  
9 Aligning Manufacturing /Supply Chain to Meet Marketing Requirements Titan Industries

Year 2008

Sponsor Company Title of the Student Project
BPCL Fuel Value Chain Management in Petroleum Industry BPCL – Student Project
IBM Vendor Management
SAP Performance Measurement of Supply Chains – Student Project
Titan Industries Assortment Planning of World of Titan Sales Outlets – Student Project
TVS Logistics Process Improvements for reduction in Working Capital and Improving Customer Satisfaction – Student Project
TVS Logistics Emerging Trends in Auto Industry on Outsourcing Logistics and the Imperatives for 3PL Service Providers – Student Project

Year 2009

Sponsor Co. Title of the Student Project

IBM

KPIs for measuring service logistics supply chain

IBM

Supplier Diversity: Certifying Minority Owned Suppliers
Manhattan Associates Analysis of the supply chain of laptop
Manhattan Associates Emerging Trends in Indian Warehousing Industry
TVS Logistics Process Improvements for reduction in Working Capital and Improving Customer Satisfaction

Year 2009

Sponsor Co. Title of the Student Project

IBM

KPIs for measuring service logistics supply chain
IBM Supplier Diversity: Certifying Minority Owned Suppliers
Manhattan Associates Analysis of the supply chain of laptop
Manhattan Associates Emerging Trends in Indian Warehousing Industry
TVS Logistics

Process Improvements for reduction in Working Capital and Improving Customer Satisfaction

Year 2010

Sponsor Co. Title of the Student Project

IBM India

1. Trade-offs in Green Supply Chain
IBM India 2. Procurement Outsourcing in India Market - Opportunity & Constraint
Quest Global 3. A Study of Pricing Models for Outsourcing of Services.
TVS Logistics Services 4. Value Creation in Warehousing Services
TVS Logistics Services 5. Optimizing Service Offerings by 3PL Service Providers in India
SAP Labs

6.Supply Chain Collaboration with emphasis on Indian Auto manufacturers.

BAE Systems 7. Building blocks for establishing a successful Aerospace Manufacturing Supply Chain in India.

 

IBM 8. Training & Development for Procurement Professionals – Up-skilling resources to meet coming demand

IBM

9. Building smarter supply chain through business analytics

Featherlite

10. Understanding of supply chain management of a “Made to order” product category
FIRELuxur Developers 11. Supply Chain Management in Construction Industry
  12. Maintenance Repair & Operations (MRO): Trends, Issues and Challenges in India
  13. Logistics and Distribution Strategy for large scale delivery of mid-day meal
  14. A new business model for On-demand delivery of food in Bangalore
SecureSpin 15. Impact of counterfeiting on efficient supply chain management and avoidance mechanisms

Year 2011

Sponsor Co. Title of the Student Project
IBM India Trade-offs in Green Supply Chain
IBM India Procurement Outsourcing in India Market - Opportunity & Constraint

Quest Global

A Study of Pricing Models for Outsourcing of Services.
TVS Logistics Services Value Creation in Warehousing Services
TVS Logistics Services Optimizing Service Offerings by 3PL Service Providers in India
SAP Labs Supply Chain Collaboration with emphasis on Indian Auto manufacturers∙
BAE Systems Building blocks for establishing a successful Aerospace Manufacturing Supply Chain in India.
IBM Training & Development for Procurement Professionals – Up-skilling resources to meet coming demand
IBM Building smarter supply chain through business analytics
Featherlite Understanding of supply chain management of a “Made to order” product category
FIRELuxur Developers Supply Chain Management in Construction Industry
  Maintenance Repair & Operations (MRO): Trends, Issues and Challenges in India
  Logistics and Distribution Strategy for large scale delivery of mid-day meal
  A new business model for On-demand delivery of food in Bangalore
SecureSpin Impact of counterfeiting on efficient supply chain management and avoidance mechanisms

Year 2012

Sponsor Co. Title of the Student Project
IBM India Evolving a pan-India Electronic Invoicing Model for the B2B Market Space
Titan Retail & Distribution – Merchandise Management
TVS Logistics Services Designing an optimal vehicle routing for inbound supply chain for Auto Industry
Nokia Challenges in setting up global scale supplier capacities in India for (mobile phone) Displays and Batteries
Nokia Setting up global scale supplier capacities for PCBs and Semiconductors
Nokia Supply chain management study for paper-based packaging materials
SCM Centre Cauvery River Dispute: A Management Perspective
Audco India Ltd SCM analysis of a custom order manufacturing firm
BAE Systems India Supplier Development Issues in Homeland Security Industry
BAE Systems India Supplier Development in Defence Industry (Land Vehicles)
Enterpriseforce Logistics Imbalance in India: An Industry Perspective
Larsen & Toubro Limited New Product Positioning Strategy
Reliance Industries Ltd. Warehouse Modeling post Goods and Services Tax (GST) implementation
SKF Limited Outsourcing trends in Indian Bearing Industry
Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research Supply Chain Management in Specialty Hospitals
Timken India Inventory Modeling Strategies

Year 2013

Sl No Organisation Project Topic
1 Accenture Auto OEM Design
2 BPCL Oil Procurement
3 BPCL Refinery LP Formulation
4 DELL Managing Build-to-Stock Supply Chain
5 DELL Mapping SCM Capabilities
6 DIESL Hub & Spoke Distribution
7 DIESL Material Flows in Warehouse
8 EADS India Competitiveness Assessment
9 EADS India Scanning for Aerospace Sourcing
10 Infosys Social Commerce
11 Infosys Unbundling of Services
12 JDA Analytics Dashboard
13 Net Distribution e-Fulfillment
14 TVS Logistics Surface Transport Options
15 KSRTC Scheduling Practices in KSRTC
16 SCMC Study of PDS
17 SCM Centre Case of Missing Coins
18 SCM Centre Perishable Goods Supply Chain
19 SCM Centre SCM Excellence Model
20 SCM Centre Securing Pharma Supply Chain
21 Accenture Auto OEM Design
22 Infosys Social Commerce
23 Infosys Unbundling of Services
24 SCM Center Developing a Markdown Pricing Game for Fashion Industry

Year 2014

Sponsor Co. Title of the Student Project
TVS Logistics Services Developing logistics support for a new product launch.
BPCL Retail Pricing Strategy
TMLDL Developing an Information Portal for enhancing Supply Chain Coordination
EADS India Competitiveness of Indian Engineering Services sector
EADS India Competitiveness of Indian IT sector
Nokia Evaluating feasibility of local sourcing of a component
Nokia Optimum level of Inventories of locally procured components subject varying demand
SCM Centre Analysis of SCM Solutions (IT) Industry
Metro Cash & Carry Case study of Merchandising and Supply Chain for Fresh Food Items
SCM Centre Developing a model for SCM Excellence
UB Ltd. Streamlining Brewery Supply Chain
HP Supply chain network optimization
DIESL Performance Measurement of Logistics Operations
DIESL Optimization of Logistic Services
JDA Mobility in Supply Chain
JDA Impact of Social Media in the Supply Chain/Retail
Transystem Logistics JIT Inbound Logistics
BOSCH Readiness of Indian SME to meet Recall and Product Liability requirements
Greenway Grameen Infra Logistics Strategy for reaching Rural Markets

Year 2015

SlNo Sponsor Topic
1 Sasken Opportunities in Sensor Networks
2 IBM Social Media for Supply Chain Risk Management.
3 IBM Competitive Analysis of Proposals
4 IBM Supplier Diversity in Indian IT organisations
5 IBM Cloud Computing & its Impact on IT Procurement
6 BPCL Terming vs Spot purchase of LS crude oils.
7 India Post Optimality Issues in Postal Logistics and Transportation Network
8 India Post Delivery Network optimization and transmission of Speed Mail
9 India Post India Post: e-Commerce Business
10 India Post Infrastructure requirements in Post Offices
11 India Post Marketing of India Post Products
12 SCM Centre Cloud & Apps Marketing to SMEs
13 Real Estate SCM Centre Impact of PreFab on Real Estate Supply Chain
14 SCM Centre Study of agro-produce supply chain in India
15 SCM Centre Multi-modal Transportation of Automobiles
16 SCM Centre Social Media Policy for an Organisation
17 SCM Centre Study of aviation industry and the strategy to develop aviation hubs in India
18 Sasken Modeling demand-supply matching
19 Britannia Forecast accuracy improvement
20 Army Disaster Management: Civil Military Response
21 Cypress Semiconductor Inventory Control
22 BigBasket Emergent Technologies for Green Supply Chain
23 SKF Global Supply Chain Risk Management
24 EADS India Market Study and M&A opportunities for Aerostructure Commodity
25 EADS India Global Aerospace Scrap Market,

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