In an increasingly global India, an agricultural community in Pune, Maharashtra was faced with losing farmland to urbanization and devised an unusual solution. Pooling their land together, these farmers leveraged their social and political networks to take advantage of the changing economic climate in Pune and built a mixed-use township on their 400 acres of farmland. They formed
Neha is currently a consultant in academics and research with Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Bangalore. She earned her Ph.D in 2012 from Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. She also has Masters in Environmental Management (M.E.M) from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven,
The presenter challenges the often held assumption that people's decisions primarily arise from their personal values and goals, but argues that many forms of organizational decision making are responses to perceived and/or actual social norms. Using a survey of over 400 employees from 40 branches of a large multinational bank, it was tested whether the normative value of
Dr. Krishna Savani has been an Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at the National University of Singapore Business School since July 2012. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in social psychology from Stanford University in 2010, he served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia Business School. His research is at the intersection of organizational
Dr. Ashok V. Desai is Consultant Editor of The Telegraph, the premier Calcutta daily, and a columnist in Business World, India's foremost financial magazine; his columns are an authoritative commentary on economic events in India. Before his journalistic career, Desai served as Chief Consultant in the Finance Ministry from 1991 to 1993, and helped design the
Innovation is a major directive at companies worldwide. But in these tough times, we can't rely on the old formula that has sustained innovation efforts for decades - expensive R&D projects and highly-structured innovation processes. For instance, Western firms spent an astounding $550 billion on R&D in 2010. What did they get in return? Not much. The three industries that
Jaideep Prabhu is Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise and Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. His research interests are in marketing, innovation, strategy and international business. His current research is mainly on how multinationals are using emerging markets like India as a
The implicit assumption in microfinance literature has been that offering the poor credit is the most efficient way to alleviate poverty. This paper examines the optimal design of group-lending microfinance institutions that offer both saving and borrowing opportunities. Offering saving opportunities requires restricting credit within the group that leads to negative assortative
Dr. Kumar Ankit is a lecturer at Murray Edwards & Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He has a PhD in Economics from London School of Economics in 2007, M.Sc. in Economics from Universite catholiqu_e de Louvain, Belgium and M.A. in Economics from Delhi School of Economics. His research interest includes Applied Microeconomics and Economic Development. His profile
We study the impact of formal and informal peers on the academic achievement of business school students. Using random assignment of students to study groups and residential apartments, we find that informal social interaction with residential peers has a significant positive impact on academic achievement while formal interaction in study groups has no discernable impact. This
Tarun Jain is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Indian School of Business. His research interests are in the fields of labor and development economics. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia in 2009, and B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Franklin and Marshall College in 1999. Details on his research interests are on
We investigate the importance of board expertise by analyzing the role of "directors from related industries" (DRIs) on a firm's board. DRIs are officers and/or directors of companies in the upstream (supplier) or downstream (customer) industries of the firm. About 40% of sample firm-years have at least one DRI. We propose and test information, market structure, and conflicts-of-
Omesh Kini is currently a Professor of Finance and Professor of Global Financial Markets in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He previously taught in the Smeal College of Business Administration at the Pennsylvania State University and the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He also served as a visiting professor at the Krannert
To understand the effects of regulation on mortgage risk, it is instructive to track the history of regulatory changes in a country rather than to rely entirely on cross-country evidence that can be contaminated by unobserved heterogeneity. However, in developed countries with fairly stable systems of financial regulation, it is difficult to track these effects. We employ loan-level
Tarun Ramadorai is Professor of Financial Economics at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. His areas of expertise include asset pricing, international finance, hedge funds and household finance. He is currently conducting research - sponsored by the Sloan Foundation in collaboration with Harvard
This lecture will touch upon several of the most active areas of research in poverty measurement. It begins with the measurement of ultra-poverty, which focuses on the poorest of the poor. We show how traditional approaches that simply apply standard methods at extremely low poverty lines might provide an inaccurate picture of the ultrapoor. Next is the discussion of a general
Professor Foster is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at The George Washington University, and Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy in the Elliott School of International Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University and holds a Doctorate Honoris Causa, from Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (Mexico).
The talk will describe two studies in the area of Sustainable Supply Chains. In the first study that is empirical, the paper examines the role that Green Supply Chains (specifically Green IS) plays and its influence on firm performance. The second part focuses on the area of Industrial Symbiosis where the authors take an analytical approach to characterize the firm's operational
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