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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
AHMEDABAD
Contents
01 Message
03 About IIMA
04 Doctoral Programme at IIMA
06 Programme Overview
AREAS
08 Business Policy
10 Economics
12 Finance and Accounting
14 Food & Agribusiness
24 Human Resource Management
16 Information Systems
18 Innovation and Management in
Education
20 Marketing
22 Organizational Behaviour
26 Production and Quantitative Methods
28 Public Systems
30 Resources at IIMA
33 Admissions and Financial Aid
35 Phase I Courses
36 Phase II Courses
48 Faculty
52 Feedback
Ashish Nanda
Message
Director
IIM Ahmedabad is Indias premier management school, world renowned for its excellence in
management research and education. FPM is IIMAs doctoral programme. It contributes to the
Institutes mission by supporting the pursuit of cutting edge research in management.
FPM prepares qualified and capable scholars who will shape management thought in academic
institutions and management organizations. We recruit highly motivated individuals with
outstanding academic backgrounds to the programme. The doctoral programme provides
participants exposure to a broad variety of research interests and faculty deeply engaged with
industry and policy. Students develop strong theoretical foundations through coursework in
particular areas and receive training in research methods. At the dissertation stage, they have
an opportunity to engage actively and deeply with academics, practitioners, and policymakers
as they conduct interdisciplinary research. The programme affords doctoral students the
flexibility to use appropriate research method for their research questions.
The mix of breadth of coverage, proximity to practice, and flexibility in methodology enables
doctoral students to undertake meaningful research on complex and relevant topics. Supporting
the academic research is cutting edge infrastructure, including the best management library in
India, and state-of-art access to online resources for research.
The doctoral programme enrolled its first student in 1971 and graduated its first student
in 1974. Since then, 331 doctoral students have been conferred with the title, Fellow of the
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and have gone on to contribute significantly to
management academies and other institutions.
We invite you to consider our doctoral programme and would be happy to discuss your
academic interests if you have the inclination and commitment to undertake rigorous training,
conduct research relevant to management thought and practice, and pursue an academic career
with focus on research.
Amit Garg
Message
Chairperson, FPM
The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad offers one of the most prominent and sought after doctoral
programme in management in India. Our doctoral programme graduated its first student in 1974 and since
then 331 doctoral students have been conferred with the title, Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad (FPM).
We provide a thriving intellectual ecosystem for our doctoral students to chase knowledge and to ponder
some of the most critical issues in management and corporate world in India and internationally, and in
the pursuit create solutions and new knowledge. FPM scholars investigate a wide range of topics and pursue
questions relating to management, markets, finance, economics, public policy, business policy, human resources,
and organizations. We provide excellent research facilities to our doctoral students including a state-of-the-art
library on management literature, journals and databases, housing on campus, a decent fellowship, and additional
financial support for research and conference attendance.
A doctoral degree in management could lead to rewarding careers filled with inquiry and intellectual growth,
mostly faculty positions at institutions of higher learning such as business schools, consulting domains and think
tanks, and also corporates to a certain extent. The FPM students have to demonstrate their independent research
and thought leadership through publications in academic journals and scholarly presentations of their work. Their
contributions extend not only to business practices, but also to public policy and governance.
Our FPM students come from a variety of backgrounds, including engineering, economics, psychology, public
policy, management, and social sciences, and from all stages of life. Some begin immediately following their
undergraduate studies while others pursue their doctoral ambitions after a decade or more of professional
experience. The students develop a strong theoretical foundation through a rigorous 2-year coursework and then
pursue their dissertation.
The faculty at IIMA brings tremendous research strength and a wide variety of industry and government
experience across diverse sectoral and functional domains. These provide many opportunities to doctoral students
who work closely with faculty members both in the classrooms as well as on individual research projects. The
institute encourages cross-sectoral and cross-functional research.
We are conscious that we are training some of our prospective colleagues in India and abroad and therefore seek
highly motivated individuals with outstanding academic backgrounds to research and advance the frontiers of
management knowledge. We invite you to consider our doctoral programme and would be happy to discuss your
academic interests, if you have the inclination and commitment to undertake rigorous training and subsequently
pursue an academic or a corporate career with a focus on research.
About IIMA
PGP FPM
Post-Graduate Fellow Programme
Programme in in Management
Management
PGP- (equivalent to a
PGPX
(equivalent to
Ph.D.)
FABM
an MBA)
One year Post-
Post-Graduate Graduate Programme
Programme in Food in Management for
& Agribusiness
Management FDP Executives
Faculty Development
Programme for
EEP
teachers of Executive Education
management Programme
schools
The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) has over forty years of leadership in
management education. It was established in 1961 as an autonomous Institution by the active
collaboration of the government of India, government of Gujarat, and industry. Today, it is not
only a leader in applied management education in Asia, but also one of the finest institutions of
management education in the world. Applicants to FPM possess from diverse backgrounds; only
the best amongst them are admitted.
IIMA was conceived as a school of management and not purely as a business school. Its mission
is to contribute to development of management thought through research, teaching, institution
building, and consulting. It also aims to professionalize some of the vital sectors of Indias economy
such as agriculture, education, health, transportation, energy, and public administration.
IIMA has a large and distinguished faculty whose contributions to management research are
significant. IIMAs faculty work on industry and government sponsored research, and lend their
expertise to industry and other strategic sectors. IIMAs emphasis on academics and the efforts of
its faculty are responsible for the Institutes position as a top management school in Asia.
01 Business Policy
Economics 02
03 Finance & Accounting
The objective of the Fellow Programme in Management own research interests and professional goals. The
is to provide students with skills to identify and research programme is strongly committed to preparing thought
complex issues in the field of management. FPM seeks leaders for the academic and corporate world.
candidates with outstanding academic background
intellectual curiosity, and discipline needed to make Students spend generally a little over four years that
scholarly contribution. includes two years of rigorous course work. From the
First term onwards students take advanced doctoral
FPM is a research programme. To selected students, level courses in the area of specialization along with
IIMA provides an excellent environment for carrying out some recommended PGP courses which provides a
advanced research, thus creating highly committed re- general management overview and develop basic
searchers trained in the most recent methodologies and skills for analyzing managerial problems. The doctoral
engaged in producing original research work. dissertation, provides them with an opportunity to make
original contribution to an area of management or to one
The programme provides a diverse set of opportunities of its source disciplines.
for interdisciplinary education and research. The small
entering class ensures close interaction with the faculty; IIMAs faculty have studied and worked in the best of
students can determine their own directions under the institutions within India and around the world. Their
guidance of the thesis advisory committees. involvement with public and private organizations
internationally allows them to bring relevant managerial
The student becomes part of one of the eleven functional/ issues into the classroom and in their research. This
sectoral groups and acquires basic theoretical knowledge creates an exceptional environment for developing a
and practical aspects of the area. This allows close research programme that can build sound theory for
interaction with faculty members, who provide the analysing complex managerial problems.
intellectual stimulation and help develop the students
Academic Advisor
A member of the faculty from the students area in
consultation with the Area Chairperson acts as an
Academic Advisor to the FPM students during the first
year of the programme. The academic advisory process
operates as follows:
Thesis Seminar
Thesis Defence
Faculty
Agarwal Anurag K Mamidi Pavan Singla Chitra
A
Adjunct Faculty
Balasubramanian N.
A
Manikutty S
The focus of research, teaching and advisory Some of the recent research projects have been:
service of the Business Policy area lies in
`` Co-evolution of capabilities in cross-border collaborations
issues of corporate and competitive strategy
formulation, execution, internationalization `` Management of Innovations and Technology
and legal aspects of business. The area faculty `` Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge based Technologies
have investigated organizational response by Small Entrepreneurs: An Exploration of Strategic and Policy
to changes in the economic environment Options
of business, management and analysis of `` Corporate Governance for Shareholder Value
competitive forces, business growth and `` The Business Logic of Dotcom Businesses
diversification, mergers and acquisitions, `` Achieving Zero Customer Dissatisfaction for Corporate Immortality
turnaround strategies, innovations and `` Strategies of Family Owned Companies
technology management, design of cross-
`` Strategic and Organizational Contexts for Innovations in the
border value chains and constellations, Software Sector
governance, competitiveness and
`` Taking Charge and Reshaping Corporations
international economic relations. Further it
`` Governance of institutions
has researched issues in intellectual property
and contract management. The context for `` Computational Models of Mergers and Acquisitions
areas activities spans large public and private `` Computational Models of Strategy Formulation
enterprises, startups, small and medium `` Leadership Learning and Development
enterprises and family owned organizations. `` Developing Multicultural Teams
`` Understanding Dynamic Capabilities
`` Reinternationalisation of enterprises
Third Year
`` Comprehensive Examination
`` Dissertation
Kamal Sharma
2016 Impact of CEO Succession on Strategic Changes in Large Indian Firms
IIM Indore
Faculty
Basant, Rakesh DSouza, Errol Sahay, Arvind
A
(Chairperson, ECO)
Morris, Sebastian Virmani, Vineet
Dev, Pritha
Pingali, Viswanath
R
Deodhar, Satish
Tumbe, Chinmay
Dholakia, Ravindra H
A
Ram Mohan, T T
Economics is a basic discipline for a well- `` Reform of state owned enterprises in India
rounded management education. The `` Competition policy in India
curriculum for doctoral students, therefore, `` Monetary policy transmission
includes several courses in theoretical and
`` Measurement of inflation expectation
applied economics. Significant research
`` Measurement of efficiency and productivity
has been done by faculty members of the
area on the efficiency of public enterprises, `` Technology capacity building within firms
fiscal and monetary policy, sources of `` Social security and personnel economics
economic growth, comparative rates of `` The cooperative theory of matching problems
growth in developing countries, regional `` Sustainability of fiscal debt of states in India
disparity in growth in India, planning for `` National agricultural policy
rural development and employment,
`` Regional dimension of economic growth in India
entrepreneurship development, regulation
`` Salary fixation for public and government sector employees
(especially that relating to infrastructure),
innovation and alliances at the firm level, `` Programme evaluation and impact assessment
labour market issues, agricultural policy and `` Centre-State relations, fiscal development & role of Finance
trade issues, and policies relating to IPRs and Commission
FDI. Recent faculty research projects have `` Issues in fiscal responsibility and budget management
been on: `` Capital market: efficiency and pricing models
`` Evaluation of mid-day meal scheme
`` Economics of food quality
`` Hedonic pricing
`` CSR and the government mandate
`` Make in India theme and lessons from corporate world
`` Economics of regulation
`` Pharmaceutical economics
`` Experimental economics
`` Applied game theory
`` Aggregate supply and growth inflation trade-off
`` Inter-sectoral terms of trade and supply response in agriculture
`` Primary healthcare and policies
`` Energy pricing and policies
`` Missing markets in international business
`` Labour markets regulation
`` Trade, imported intermediate inputs and skills in India
2016 Jani Vishalkumar Jayantkumar International Trade: Elixir or Venom for Health?
Goa Institute of Management
2014 B. Sundar Numeracy, Financial Literacy, Risk Attitudes, and Impatience of Forest
Joint Director and Faculty (Forest Dependent Communities: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh
economics), Andhra Pradesh Forest
Academy
2014 Indrajit Thakurata Rich Dad, Poor Dad: Life-Cycle Portfolio Savings & Human Capital
Faculty, Indian Institute of Accumulation
Management, Indore
Faculty
Agarwalla, Sobhesh K. Laha, Arnab K. Sinha, Sidharth
(Chairperson-F&A)
A
Adjunct Faculty
A
The teaching and research interests of the Some of the recent research projects undertaken by faculty in the
Finance and Accounting Area spans a broad Area are:
range of issues such as, earnings and cash
`` Liquidity and bid-ask spread behavior in the Indian market
flow manipulation, corporate disclosure,
management control, corporate finance, `` Block trading and market microstructure issues
corporate governance, asset pricing, market `` Systematic risk factors in the Indian stock market
microstructure, management of financial `` Influence of sentiment in market-wide pricing of assets
institutions, risk management, financial `` Underpricing of IPOs in the Indian capital markets
regulation and empirical methods in finance. `` Do managers manipulate gross profits? Role of product market
The faculty members are vigorously engaged competition
in both academic and applied research.
As the primary emphasis of the programme is to prepare students to
The Area faculty members serve on several
engage in high quality research, candidates must possess a strong
government committees and corporate
aptitude for abstract thinking and quantitative analysis. Requirements
boards.
for admission to FPM in Finance and Accounting are mentioned in the
Admission Requirements section later.
Third Year
`` Comprehensive Examination
`` Dissertation
Fourth Year
`` Dissertation (continued from third year)
2011 Priyanka Singh The Dynamics of Bid-Ask Spread in an Order Driven Market: The Case of
Analyst Indian Stock Market
HSBC, Bangalore
2010 Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla Intraday Activity Patterns and Market Microstructure Effects in Indian Capital
IIM, Ahmedabad Markets: An Empirical Investigation Using High Frequency Data
Faculty
(Chairperson, CMA)
Gandhi, Vasant P Raghuram, G
Varma, Poornima
Gupta, Anil K Sharma, Vijay Paul
E
(on leave)
R
A
The Centre for Management in Agriculture Major ongoing and recently completed research projects include:
(CMA) at IIMA is an inter-disciplinary
`` Enhancing Rice Productivity and Food Security: A Study of the
research centre, which was formed in 1963
Adoption of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Selected
and designated as a Centre in 1971. CMA
States of India.
is involved in applied, policy, and problem
`` Farmers Participation in Indias Futures Markets: Exploring Direct
solving research in food and agribusiness,
and Indirect Benefits.
rural and allied sectors. Much of this is
relevant to organizations dealing with agri- `` Agro-input Marketing Models in India: Performance and Potential.
inputs and services such as seeds, fertilizers, `` Irrigation and Entrepreneurship: Status and Lessons for
agrochemicals, farm machinery and Improvements and Expansion.
equipments, rural credit and insurance as well `` Coping with Climate Change through Agro-Biodiversity: A View
as organizations involved in procurement, from Below.
processing, and marketing of outputs such `` Soil Health, Plant Health and Human Health.
as foodgrains, fruits, vegetables, livestock `` Sustainability of Self-help and Joint-liability Group Institutions
products, fish, poultry, and forest produce, under Micro-finance.
besides for policy at union and state level. `` Assessment of Marketed and Marketable Surplus of Major
Foodgrains in India.
The CMA undertakes applied policy research
`` Biotechnology in Agriculture: The Promise, Performance and
in a wide range of fields, relevant to the
Concerns.
public, cooperatives, voluntary/non-profit
`` Problems and Prospects of Oilseeds Production in India.
and private sectors. The research studies
undertaken at CMA include issues of farm `` An Analysis of Resource Conservation Technology: A Case of Micro-
and allied inputs, farm and allied production, Irrigation System (Drip Irrigation).
agri finance, agro and rural marketing, `` Producer Companies in India: Organization and Performance.
international agro trade, rural organizational `` Management of Agri-business Contracts and Organizations.
planning, implementation, and monitoring, `` The doctoral programme with specialization in Food & Agribusiness
producers institutions, and rural aims at developing graduates for academic careers in leading
development planning, and administration. management educational institutions, which need faculty
The CMA faculty also undertake a large members who can address managerial issues related to food and
number of policy-related research studies agri-business, rural, and allied sectors as well as research and
for the Ministry of Agriculture, Government training agencies. Requirements for admission to the doctoral
programme in Food & Agribusiness are mentioned in the section
of India as one of its three Agro-Economic
on Admission requirements. Applicants to this area must have
Research Units (AERUs) in India. CMA
an aptitude for research and inclination to work in agribusiness or
provides consulting services to national and related sectors.
international, private, public, cooperative,
and voluntary organizations.
Third Year
`` Comprehensive Examination
`` Dissertation
Fourth Year
`` Dissertation
Kanish Debnath
2016 The Role of Community Health Insurance in Perfecting Financial Inclusion
FLAME University
Debdatta Pal
2013 Managing Rural Institutional Credit: Lessons from Interlinked Transactions
IIM, Indore
Faculty
(Area Chair)
R
A
The Human Resources Management area comprises faculty members having interests in HRM,
employee/industrial relations, labor economics, human behavior and industrial sociology.
Current research interests of the faculty include -- philosophical foundations of HRM, strategic
human resource management, international and cross cultural HR, performance management
and high performing work organizations, work climates, compensation and rewards,
employee empowerment, employee engagement, negotiations in business, and alternate
dispute resolution, human resource information systems, public personnel management,
people management in services, employment relations, business turnaround, organizational
transformation, ethics in business, and corporate social responsibility.
The admission requirements for the area are given in the section on Admission Requirements.
Third Year
`` Comprehensive Examination
`` Dissertation
Fourth Year
`` Dissertation
Faculty
(Chairperson)
Barua, Samir K Krishnamoorthy
Srikumar Verma, Sanjay
George Kandathil
E
Adjunct Faculty
R
The Information Systems Area was set up `` Knowledge management in software and other industries
to respond to the importance of, and need `` Design and analysis of algorithms for project management
for, research in computer applications `` Modeling of supply chain management problems
in management of government, private
`` Designing and managing enterprise wide digital infrastructure
and public enterprises, and other forms
`` Community radio for rural mobile ad-hoc networks
of organizations. Starting in the 1970s
in an environment that was largely `` Object oriented frameworks for parallelized nonlinear optimization
unaware of the potential benefits of `` Frameworks for evaluation of e-Government Projects
computerization, IS Area has worked `` Business intelligence
at identifying potential applications, `` Open innovation
implementing these applications in `` Internet Governance
public and private sectors, and designing
As the interests of the faculty are very broad, research topics chosen by
and offering courses related to its area of
doctoral students also tend to have wide variety. Based on the topic of
work.
dissertation, tools used in the research may vary and may include user
The thrust of the Area is to stay at the surveys, decision support systems, and optimization techniques such as
cutting edge of management computing integer or non-linear programming. Some topics could need extensive
and facilitate development of decision- software development.
making capabilities for socio-economic
A thesis in information systems could be conceptual and a researcher
development. Research in decision
could build on existing literature or develop case studies. While the
support systems, expert systems,
dissertation need not necessarily use sophisticated technical tools, the
computer aided instruction, management
topic should be necessarily concerned with information systems. It is
information systems, algorithm design,
essential that a doctoral student should have a good insight into and
developmental informatics, software
appreciation for the role of information technology in management
export, etc. has been an important tool in
and skills for model building and analysis to understand the impact of
achieving this objective. Recent research
decisions involved in this area.
has been in e-Governance, mobile ad-hoc
networks, ICT for development, decision In the past, doctoral students have worked in areas like: Multi-mode
support systems, public administration, multiple resource constraints in project scheduling and machine
design of network configurations and scheduling problems, Study of Indian telecom startup firms in the
information integration. Some recent context of new firm formations, Developing e-Government impact
research projects are: assessment framework, Collaboration in Internet enabled supply
chains, Developing and optimizing the distribution 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
evaluating open innovation projects.
Third Year
`` Comprehensive Examination
`` Dissertation
Fourth Year
`` Dissertation
2012 Madhukar Dayal New Exact methods for Scheduling Multi Mode Multiple Resource
Director Research (Engine Constrained Project Scheduling Problems
Development), Ministry of Railways,
Government of India (Bharat Manak
Nagar, LucknowSarkar)
Faculty
Sharma, Rajeev
(Chairperson-RJMCEI)
R
A
The Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational in educational organizations and systems. The focus on innovation
Innovation (RJMCEI) was formally set up in and management will develop in the graduates a unique academic
1991, after a group of faculty members had capability that combines a management perspective with the
worked for about three years on educational broader theme of innovation. This fits in with the emerging demand
training and research, and institution for people with fresh perspectives on educational change from a wide
building in education. From an initial focus range of emerging academic institutions, organizations that provide
on institution building, the mandate of the services and ancillary support to the regular educational structures,
RJMCEI has gradually expanded to include well-established national and international educational planning
primary education, literacy and secondary organizations and academic institutions, and various research bodies
education. The common thread running and social think tanks.
through the Centres various activities is
a focus on innovations and innovative The requirements for admission to the doctoral programme in
approaches to countering problems in Innovation and Management in Education are mentioned in the
education. The RJMCEI is involved in section on Admission Requirements. Applicants must have an
applied and policy research in education aptitude for research and inclination to work in education or related
that is relevant to public education systems. sectors.
Research undertaken at the RJMCEI has
included innovative responses to the issues
of basic and secondary education and
literacy, and to management issues in higher
education, including management and
technical education. Members of the RJMCEI
also provide consulting services to national
and international organizations.
Faculty
Soumya
Adjunct Faculty
A
Jain, A. K.
Marketing Area faculty has wide range of in- `` Legal and Ethical Issues in Advertising: A review of Indian
terests in research and dominant interest in Advertisements
case writing. The research interests include `` Interaction effects between consumers cognitive load and promotion
consumer information search and consumer framing for strong and weak brands
choice; consumer response to advertising, `` Liberating yet stressful: the pardoxical implications of the use of
sales promotion, dynamic pricing, and country Mobile Communication Devices by professionals
of origin; strategic response of organizations to `` Managing Emotions: Emotional Labor or Emotional Enrichment
dynamic market conditions, sales peoples cus- `` Use of social media for promotion related messages by Indian Brands
tomer orientation, brand extension strategies, `` Impact of bundle forms on change in consumers Reference Price (IRP)
relationship marketing, B2B marketing, ethic of bundle components
logistics, new product introduction and man- `` The effect of counting direction of time on hedonic / utilitarian
agement, international marketing strategies of preferences
firms, different pricing strategies; strategic firm `` Impact of interaction of primes on consumer behavior
behaviour under competitive conditions (using `` Comparison of blind and sighted individuals on parameters of
mathematical modeling techniques), competi- memory, preference prediction on detection
tive strategies, comparative impact of market- `` Identifying the Enablers of Reverse Innovation in Emerging Markets
ing spend on shareholder value, alliances and `` In depth study of Analyics process development in Indian Organizations
firm cooperation, market driving strategies, - a few cases
customer based business strategies, strategies `` Brand Adoption by Retailers that Serve Customers at the Base of
for retailing, etc. Some recent research projects Pyramid
are: `` Turning Around the Business as Well Creating Sustainability
`` Green Advertising
`` Case Development on Paradigm Shift of `` Legal and Ethical Issues in Indian Advertisements
Apollo Tyres Ltd. `` Advertising and Promotions in Mobile Platform
`` Examining Service Profit Chain for Online `` Ordering effect in alphanumeric brand names
Retail Store Using Individual Level Data `` Impact of price framing on quality perceptions
`` Hedonic Shopping Behaviour: A Cross- `` Samsung Electronics in India: Challenges of Multi-Channel Retailing
Country Study `` Airtel Zero: Data Pricing, Two Sided Markets Led Business Models and
`` New Product Development Initiatives in Net Neutrality
India `` Hippo on Twitter: Tracking Product Stock-outs in Retail Stores:
`` Cases in Retail `` The Quest for Gold: Communications Challenge
`` Examining Service Profit Chain for Online `` GE in India: Changing Healthcare
Retail Store Using Individual Level Data `` Fruitzone India Limited (A): Designing the Research Questions
`` New Product Development Initiatives in `` Fruitzone India Limited (B): Designing the Research Questionnaire
India `` Fruitzone India Limited (C): Data Collection & Analysis
`` Store Cues and Shopper Values: A Means- `` Fruitzone India Limited (D): Additional Conclusive Researc
End Chain Approach `` Q-Connect: Reaching Rural Customers with Assam Mobile Theatre
`` Path to Purchase `` Selling Sketches - The case of Artistically Yours (A)
`` Place of Origin Effects in Service Quality `` Selling Sketches - The case of Artistically Yours (B)
Perceptions among Indian Consumers `` ABC Films: Marketing Research on Product Placement (A)
`` Path to Purchase `` ABC Films: Marketing Research on Product Placement (B)
`` Shopper Marketing `` ABC Films: Marketing Research on Product Placement (C)
Faculty
(Chairperson-OB Area)
Khokle, Pradyumana Sharma, Rajeev
Gupta, Parvinder
Noronha, Ernesto Vohra, Neharika
E
Gupta, Vishal
Sharda, Kirti
Adjunct Faculty
R
Bhatnagar, Deepti
A
The Organizational Behaviour (OB) area is `` Ethnicity and diversity at the workplace
internationally recognized for its teaching `` Work-family issues
and research. Faculty members in the `` Technology, power, and work
area have diverse research interests which
`` Organizational sense making
include individual and interpersonal
`` Team work
effectiveness, job involvement, gender
issues at the workplace, work attitude, `` Transformation of organization and industry
organizational excellence, human resources `` Leadership
development, managerial culture and `` Organizational commitment and psychological well-being
values, organizational dynamics and design, `` Organization citizenship behaviour
organizational learning, management of `` Cross-cultural issues
change and strategic organizations. Recent
If students have an interest to apply their knowledge in their basic
research in the area has been on:
discipline such as psychology or sociology to the organizational
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.
Third Year
`` Comprehensive examination
`` Dissertation
Fourth Year
`` Dissertation
Faculty
Tathagata
Jayaswal, Sachin Soman, Chetan A
Barua, Samir K
Laha, Arnab K Sriram, Karthik
E
Bhadra, Dhiman
Mukherjee, Saral Venkateshan, Prahalad
(Chairperson)
Ravichandran, N
Dutta, Goutam
R
Roy, Debjit
Ghosh, Diptesh
A
The Production and Quantitative Methods planning, supply chain coordination, shop floor scheduling and
(P&QM) area offers courses on Operations improving productivity of plant operations, design of operations,
management, Operations research, and technological change and innovation, R&D capabilities, economics
Statistics. Doctoral students in the area are of flexible operations and process planning. In operations research,
required to be proficient in all the three areas faculty interests include linear and integer programming, large scale
while developing advanced level skills in at optimization, combinatorial optimization, revenue management
least one of the three. The area offers doctoral and network optimization. Interest in this area is both in modeling
level courses in mathematical programming, as well as in development of algorithms and heuristics for such
statistics, stochastic processes, operations problems. Typical application areas for research include finance,
management, technology management, logistics, and the process industry. Faculty research interests in
modelling and contemporary manufacturing statistics are modeling discrete and financial data, survey sampling,
methods and techniques. finite population inference, biostatistics, longitudinal and survival
analysis, Bayesian inference, reliability analysis, time series analysis,
Faculty research interests in Operations statistical genetics, directional statistics, functional data analysis and
management are on strategic or operational stochastic processes.
issues related to manufacturing and service
Faculty
Sahay, Arvind
Dutta, Goutam Narayanaswami,
Sundaravalli Sarin, Ankur
Garg, Amit
R
Ramani, K V Shukla, P R
The Public Systems Group (PSG) undertakes `` Impact Assessment of Wireless Technology and Broadband
cutting edge research, training, and Connectivity in Rural India
organizational work on strategic public `` Leveraging Knowledge Networks for Enabling Innovations in
management, public and social policy. The Higher Education and Research Institutes in India and UK
objective of the group is to promote research `` Impact Assessment of USOF Wire Line Broadband Scheme
that will generate concepts and theory for `` Imperatives for Future Growth of National Internet Exchange of
effective management of public systems, as India
well as gain a scholarly understanding and `` PPPs in Airport Sector
articulation of social and political processes
`` PPPs in Port Sector
that underpin policymaking. The group
integrates wide disciplinary backgrounds `` Mobility Challenges in Urban Areas
and topics in management, social sciences `` Issues in High Speed Rail Development
and the humanities. `` Trucking Sector: Policy and Service Challenges
`` Public Private Partnerships in Warehousing
Current research interests of the faculty
`` Pricing in Metro PPPs
include energy and environment, hospital
and health systems, urban management, `` An Agent-Based Approach to Network Competition and Sustainable
Growth in Air Transport
public finance, education policy,
transport, infrastructure, rehabilitation, `` Transportation Operations Modelling and Automation of
community development, marketing of Transportation Operations
public services, impact assessments and `` A Large Scale RCT on Anemia Prevention in Rural Bihar.
telecommunications. Current and recent `` Financing of HIV/AIDS Programme in India
faculty research projects are: `` Risk Perceptions and Communication in the Context of Swine Flu
`` Grid Responsive Buildings `` Innovation in Health Care
`` A Study under the Energy and Mass `` Action Research on Implementation of the Right to Education
Exchange in Vegetative Systems `` A Field Experiment to Improve Community Toilet Operations and
`` Techno-economic Assessment of CO2 Management in Slums in Odisha
Capture and Storage Potential in India: A `` Innovations in Social Protection Policies for Children
Policy Perspective `` Urban Governance Reforms and Public Service Delivery
`` Application of Remote Sensing for `` Development-Induced Displacement and Rehabilitation
Integrated Land Use, Water and Energy `` Developmental Participatory Theatre
Management in Rural Areas: Exploring
`` Corporate Social Irresponsibility
Energy Plantation Opportunities
`` Globalization, Social Movements and Public Participation
`` Analysis of Indias Electronic Waste
Management Regulations `` E-Governance for Public Administration and Welfare
`` Environmental Impact Assessment in India `` Accountability Mechanisms in Social Policy
Resources
Company & Country
No. of items added Items Databases:
Sr.
Particulars during the year as on
No. Database Name
2015-16 31.03.2016
`` ACE Knowledge and Research
1 Books 2,755 1,91,875
Portal
2 Bound Volumes of Periodicals 991 45,389
`` ACE Equity
3 Working Papers 91 2,541 `` ACE Mutual Fund
4 Thesis 14 315 `` Bankscope
5 Project Reports 88 2,058 `` Bloomberg
6 Educational Video Cassettes --- 128 `` CAPITALINE,
7 CDs / DVDs 130 2,446 `` CMIE CapEx
`` Commodities
8 Current Subscription to Journals 264 2,363
`` Compustat North America
9 News Papers --- 30
Uni.
10 Books Withdrawn --- 2000 `` Economic Outlook
E-Resources The library subscribes to a number of company and industry `` Industry Outlook
databases, bibliographic databases and E-journals to provide latest scholarly `` India Trade
`` Prowess
information to the users.
`` Prowess dx & States of India
`` CRISIL Research
`` Datastream (Incorporating
world scope)
`` Dion Insight
`` District GDP of India
`` DSI Data Service & Information
`` 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
`` MICA Indian Marketing
Intelligence
`` NASSCOM Member Directory
`` Thomson Reuters Eikon
`` Venture Intelligence Private
Equity Deal Database
`` M&A Deal Database & Real
Estate Deal Database
`` WARC Databases
The Institute has put a wireless layer (Wi-Fi) on top of this Every classroom is equipped with a projector, a PC, and
LAN with high level of security using username password a DVD player. Some of the classrooms are equipped
based authentication. More than 300 Access Points have with IP/ISDN based video conferencing capability. A fully
been installed throughout the Campus for a superior Wi- equipped computer classroom is also available in the
Fi experience. A Next Generation Firewall has recently computer center where on-line computer based training
been installed to enhance the network security. can be imparted. The IIMA website includes payment
gateway and offers access to a large repository of IIMA
The campus network is supported by a large server case studies and research reports.
farm with more than 70 high speed servers, running
on a wide variety of platforms. About 40 servers have The Institute is now in the process of revamping its
been virtualized using KVM and another 40 servers using entire IT infrastructure. This project will cover the Data
VMware. Many servers on this network make use of Linux Center, the LAN and Wireless LAN, fiber optic backbone,
and open source software for providing the necessary desktop computers, voice communications, audio visual
services. For every workgroup (faculty, participants, staff, infrastructure, websites, and intranet. The network
etc.), there is a set of dedicated servers which provide a backbone throughput is expected to be 10/40 Gbps
core layer of services like Internet access, and file/print upgradeable to 100 Gbps. Wi-Fi infrastructure would be
services. The E-mail facility is managed through Google upgraded to the IEEE 802.11ac standard. The BSNL and
which provides us web based email client, built in chat TCL Internet leased lines are being upgraded as well and
facility, Google docs, Google apps, Google sites and few a new tender is being floated to increase the bandwidth
other facilities as well. The main web server (http://www. to 200 Mbps for each leased line burstable to 500 Mbps.
iimahd.ernet.in) carries information on IIMA. Another web
All the above projects are expected to commence in
server (http://stdwww.iimahd.ernet.in) provides facilities
the latter part of 2016. The upgrade of the WLAN and
for individual participants to host their home pages.
networking infrastructure will begin in the New Campus
Every dormitory has a high-speed shared network printer
and is expected to take one year for completion.
with web based print billing software. There is a wide
(d) A 4-year/8-semester Bachelors degree with at least MBA / PGDM programmes from other Universities/
60 percent marks or equivalent grade point average. Business Schools: Standard Test Scores required
Those applying to the Fellow Programme in Management
The candidate must hold a Bachelors/Masters degree on the basis of the above tests in lieu of CAT should have
of any of the universities incorporated by an Act of the scored more than 50% mark in their bachelors degree to
Central or State Legislature in India or other educational be considered for selection to the Fellow Programme in
institutions established by an act of parliament or Management.
declared to be deemed as a university under section 3
of UGC Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification Candidates residing outside India could choose to take
recognized by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India, any of the above tests (depending on the area to which
or possess an equivalent qualification from an institution they are applying) or write GMAT. CAT is administered only
approved by AICTE. Those in their final year of Masters in India. The doctoral programme accepts test scores that
or Bachelors degree (B.E / B. Tech) in any discipline have been taken in the last two years.
can also apply. Such candidates have to complete the CAT is the common admission test required for admission
requirements for the course before 30 June 2017 and to the Post-Graduate Programmes of the Indian Institutes
produce the original certificates/mark sheets by 31 of Management. CAT will be administered tentatively on
December 2017. December 04, 2016, at various centres in India.
Term wise distribution of PGP Courses that can be taken for FPM first year credit
Term 1 Term 2
Research Methods - II (0.5 credit) Business History (1 credit)
Socio-Political Contexts for Research in Management (1 credit)
Project Course/Special Topics Course (1.5 credit) (Term 4/5)
Marketing
Abhishek
Fellow, (IIMA)
Consumer behaviour in retail context, market-
ing communications, rural marketing, and so-
cial entrepreneurship
Banerjee, Arindam
Ph.D. (SUNY at Buffalo)
Quantitative Modelling of Marketing Problems,
Development of Decision Support Systems
Based on Market, and Customer Inputs Espe-
cially in the Realm of IT Enabled Marketing
Services
Koshy, Abraham
Fellow (IIMA)
Product Strategy, Brand Management, and
Strategic Management.
Mukhopadhyay Soumya
Ph. D. (NTU, Singapore)
Quantitative Modeling and Bayesia Statistics in
Marketing
Sahay, Arvind
Ph.D. (Texas University, Austin)
Marketing Strategy, Pricing, High Tech Market-
ing, International Trade and Investment, Stra-
tegic Management, and Marketing Metrics and
Brand
Sharma, Dheeraj
Ph.D. (LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY)
Business-to-Business Marketing, International
Marketing, Sales and Distribution Manage-
ment, Strategy, Marketing Channels and Busi-
ness Ethics
Tripathi, Sanjeev
FPM (IIM Ahmedabad)
Consumer Behaviour, Pricing, Experimental
Methodology
Organizational Behaviour
DCruz, Premilla
PhD (Tata Institute of Social Sciences)
Emotions in Organizations, ICTs and Organiza-
tions, Self and Identity, Organizational Control
Gupta, Parvinder
Ph.D. (IIT, Kanpur)
Management of Change, Societal and Corpo-
rate Cultures, Team Development, Manage-
ment Education, Human Resource Develop-
ment, and Executive Success
Biswajita Parida
Ankur Kapoor FPM- 5th yr, Marketing
FPM- 3rd Yr, Marketing
The FPM programme at IIM
If you think you are a thinking
Ahmedabad is conducive to turn
types with a curious mind, an
ones passion into obsession. The
FPM (PhD) can be among the
rich blend of faculties, the world-
best things that can happen to
class library, and motivated peer
you. This is that duration in life
group makes the FPM journey
when you can explore the world
extremely gratifying. There are
of knowledge and research
student forums available to
without any inhibitions, and can
discuss research work and receive constructive feedback
groom yourself as a thinker, researcher and thoughtful
for further improvement. The opportunity to assist
member of society. After leaving a plush job for this
professors allows FPMs to understand the classroom
program, I havent regretted my decision once; because
setting, student management, teaching, and evaluation
an FPM program provides you the right environment and
process better. Exposure to a variety of research
resources to pursue your research interests under the
seminars, speaker sessions, and conferences through
guidance of competent researchers (faculties); something
the years, irrespective of ones area of interest, aids a
that makes you happy. IIM-A provides one of the best
holistic understanding of different fields of research.
support in terms of facilities, academic resources, research
Frequent interactions with distinguished professors from
environment and network of national and international
prominent universities and well-known industry experts
academicians. The program requires good amount of
help students remain updated on knowledge front and
diligence, commitment and shear hard work, but if you
develop an international perspective. Furthermore, the
are the right type- this effort becomes joy in itself..
programme leaves the choice to the FPMs to decide their
Ananya Syal career path.
FPM-1st Yr, Organizational Behaviour
Chitranshu Mathur,
As a first-year FPM student, I have FPM- 3rd Yr, Public Systems Group
been exposed to an enriching
The doctoral programme at IIMA
environment at IIM Ahmedabad,
is probably the best in India.
that has stimulated my mind
and opened horizons that would Being a PGP alumnus from here,
otherwise have remained undis- IIMA was a natural choice for
covered. The course structure is me to consider when I started
such that it helps in building a looking at doctoral programmes
strong theoretical and concep- a few years ago. I already knew
tual understanding and equips one with the knowledge that the faculty, the library and
of tools and methods that can be of use to a researcher. other facilities and opportunities
The par-excellent faculty, great infrastructural facilities, available at the institute were world-class, but in addition
and a world-class library, further help you in this journey to that, the new structure of the programme introduced
of sharpening your skills. In this journey towards fulfilling from our batch onwards made the decision even easier. It
your research dreams, one has to have utmost determi- not only provides a strong theoretical foundation across
nation, perseverance, and dedication. I personally was several disciplines essential for research in management
overwhelmed by the culture, where one is received with and the social sciences, but also gives us a lot of flexibility
open arms (Faculty mentors and seniors). I would highly in choosing our courses and research interests. Finally, the
recommend this programme to those who are willing to collegial and friendly atmosphere among peers here even
dive into this ocean and gather the pearls of knowledge. in the presence of extreme competition is a huge bonus.
Balagopal Gopalakrishnan
FPM-2nd Yr, Finance & Accounting
My experience in IIMA has been excellent. I joined the program in 2015 and the Institute has
ensured that the best resources are provided to facilitate in academics as well as research. In
the first two years, we are put through a rigorous academic course plan, which comprise of
Finance & Accounting specific subjects as well as methodology courses, to lay the foundation
for the research topic that we will be pursuing. During this period, we are encouraged to do
projects in guidance with professors to explore areas of interest. Professors are supportive,
and provide critical feedback on the project proposals or ideas, which I feel is very necessary. I
moved in to IIMA with my family and the infrastructure that is in place is ideal for family.
J S Vijayapiriya
In-charge, FPM Office
FPM programme seeks highly motivated individuals with outstanding academic backgrounds,
to research and advance the frontiers of management knowledge. The rigorous process
involved in shortlisting, interviewing and selecting the best of candidates is becoming more
intricate. The programme provides diverse set of opportunities for interdisciplinary education
and research. The programme is strongly committed to preparing thought leaders both for
the academic and corporate world. Over the years, our students have been contributing
immensely in the field of academics and in the corporate sector.
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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
AHMEDABAD
Vastrapur, Ahmedabad 380 015, India
Phone: 91-079-6632 4638/39
Website: www.iima.ac.in