The Joint Brown Bag Seminar Series is a collective effort of Doctoral students from IIM– Ahmedabad, IIM-Bangalore and IIM-Calcutta to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing. The seminars will be held online, once a month on the last Friday of the month from 3 pm to 4 pm.
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29th September 2023, Safiul Alom, PhD Scholar, Operations Area, IIM Calcutta
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Title |
Shipment policies and coordination of fashion products facing dual-selling sessions |
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Co-authors, Collaborators |
Sumanta Basu, Preetam Basu, and Raunak Joshi |
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Abstract |
This study addresses the complex dilemma of adopting a single or dual shipment policy for fashion products facing two independent-selling sessions that meet individual tradeoffs based on delivery uncertainty and production, inventory holding, and shipping costs. Next, this paper extends the model to investigate coordination dynamics under a decentralized setting where traditional contracts fail to coordinate and finally suggests a novel contract for coordination. |
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Speaker Bio |
Safiul Alom is pursuing Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India, in the area of Operation management group. His thesis is on healthcare multichannel operations. His other research interests are fashion supply chain, multichannel, and omnichannel retailing. He has two unpublished research papers under review in ABDC A* journals. Before his Ph.D., he had 12 years of work experience in L&T Limited, Vizag, India, where he actively implemented project management theories such as TOC, CCPM, etc. |
Upcoming seminars
- 27th October 2023, Anubha Shokand, PhD Scholar, Strategy Area, IIM Bangalore
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Title |
Understanding the OBC Reservations for Higher Education |
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Co-authors, Collaborators |
Single authored paper |
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Abstract |
I estimate the extent to which reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in higher education institution (HEI) admissions improved attainment among OBCs. Additionally, I look at how tendencies to dropout of higher education have changed since the policy, and the role of private HEIs in altering aggregate inter-caste-group enrolment opportunities. |
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Speaker Bio |
Abhishek Shaw is a 5th doctoral student in the Economics Area at IIM Ahmedabad. He is interested in development economics and policy. |
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Title |
Dignity-Armoring in Transactional Subsistence Marketplaces |
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Co-authors, Collaborators |
Prof. Srinivas Venugopal, IIM-C and Prof. Ramendra Singh, IIM-C |
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Abstract |
We investigate how the crucial aspect of dignity is protected in subsistence marketplaces marked by weak/absent formal and informal dignity-protecting institutions. Based on our analysis, we theorize dignity-armoring which are institutionalized practices deployed by subsistence entrepreneurs to protect themselves from chronic and multi-dimensional dignity threats. |
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Speaker Bio |
Sarthak Mohapatra is a 5th-year doctoral student at IIM Calcutta in the Marketing area. His primary research interests lie in the domain of subsistence marketplaces. He also works on green marketing, ethical consumption, and game studies alongside. |
- 26th January 2024, Subhankar Saha, PhD Scholar, Production and Operations Area, IIM Bangalore
Past seminars
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Title |
Are Gifts a Delight or an Overhead Cost? Impact of Donor Motivations on Preference for Gifts |
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Co-authors, Collaborators |
Sai Siddharth VK, Arvind Sahay, Sou. |
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Abstract |
We investigate the impact of gifts on donor retention. Importantly, across 3 field and 5 lab experiments, we examine if and why donors' refuse gifts, and its consequences on donor retention. We find that around 35% of donors refuse gifts and gifts can lead to negative consequences for donor retention. |
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Speaker Bio |
Sai Siddharth V K is a PhD student in marketing at IIM Ahmedabad. His primary area of research is "Pro-Social behaviour" and nonprofit marketing. He is a recipient of multiple awards including 'Mirae Assets Foundation Merit Scholarship' and 'Sethuraman NASMEI Research Grant Award' |
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Title |
Adjusting to Covariate Shocks: Tiding the COVID-19 Waves in India |
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Co-authors, Collaborators |
Arnab Mukherji: Professor, Public Policy, IIM Bangalore |
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Abstract |
Using the COVID-19 induced lockdown we investigate how household consumptions behaviour in India adjusted to a covariate economic shock. Longitudinal data allows us to capture evidence of differential consumption smoothing across heterogenous income and occupation groups. |
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Speaker Bio |
Deepti Sharma is a 5th year Ph.D. student in Public Policy area at IIM Bangalore, advised by Prof. Arnab Mukherji. She is currently working as a research fellow on a fully funded project by Canadian Institute of Health Research in collaboration with McGill University, Canada on impact evaluation of public funded health insurance in India. Her research interests are in development economics particularly health and gender. Her thesis looks at the consumption smoothing during covariate shock, differences in age-appropriate immunization uptake between insured and non-insured households, measurement error due to respondent’s bias using Time Use Survey in India. |