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The FPM & Research at IIMB

We are proud to share some of our achievements and report on many of our activities in this
document. We hope it is informative to those interested in joining our Programme. It helps demonstrate
our lead over other Indian universities and institutes in the context of management (and related)
management. We encourage you to visit the websites of our faculty colleagues, and IIMBs Office of
Research & Publications for more information http://www.iimb.ernet.in/research/ .
Some Achievements
Financial Times has given IIM Bangalore the college an FT doctoral rank of 47 in the Global
MBA Ranking, 2014, a signal of our growing stature. We were the top Indian institution in this
regard.
Link: http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-ranking-2014
IIMB has been ranked No.1 in the 'Business and Management' category of a Stanford study on
Indian social science research, 2011. The study, conducted by Professor Sharique Hasan of
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, arrived at rankings of Indian universities and
institutes based on their productivity in social science research. The productivity measure reflects
the number of articles published during 2000 2010 and is adjusted for citations.
Links:http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/education/iimb-business-
management-tops-stanford-social-science-research-study/article5606061.ece
http://www.stanford.edu/~sharique/india_ranking_social_science.html
A paper jointly written by Professor J. Ramachandran and Manikandan KS (IIMB FPM alumnus,
now a faculty member at IIM Trichy) has been published by the Strategic Management Journal,
Feb, 2014. This is the second paper accepted by SMJ based on an IIMB CSP Area doctoral
students work.
Title: Beyond Institutional Voids: Business Groups, Incomplete Markets, and Organizational
Form
Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smj.2226/abstract
A paper jointly written by Professor J. Ramachandran, Manikandan KS and Anirvan Pant (IIMB
FPM alumnus, now a faculty member at IIM Calcutta) has been accepted for publication in the
December 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review.
Title: Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.)
Link: http://hbr.org/2013/12/why-conglomerates-thrive-outside-the-us/ar/1
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Ms. Anusha Rameshs (FPM student, Corporate Strategy and Policy area) paper From
Goldilocks to Gump: A research agenda for entrepreneurial mechanism design co-authored with
William R. Forster from Lehigh University won the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship
Divisions Best Conceptual Paper Award at the recently held Academy meeting at Orlando, 2013.
Link:
http://ent.aomonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=178&Itemid=132
Tarun Jain, FPM student (Production and Operations) and Neha Advani, FPM student
(Quantitative Methods and Information Systems) have been individually selected as winners of
the 2014 POMS Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Awards for the POMS Conference in
Atlanta.
Title: Supplier Selection and Capacity Investments under Competition
By: Tarun Jain and Professor Jishnu Hazra
Title: Newsvendor problem with shelf space dependent demand: Implications on design of
coordination mechanisms
By: Neha Advani
An FPM Graduate of 2009, Alok Pande from the Finance and Control Area (June 2005 March
2009) received the NSE Award for best Ph.D. Thesis in Finance. The award was conferred in the
96th Annual Conference of the Indian Economic Association in Kanchipuram on 27th Dec 2013.
The thesis title is Book Built Initial Public Offerings in India: Determinants of Pricing,
Subscription Patterns of Investors and Impact of Regulation.
Link: http://www.nseindia.com/research/content/res_thesisaward.htm
IIMB was one of the eight institutions that are recipients of the prestigious Obama-Singh 21st
Century Knowledge Initiative awards (OSI), June 2013. The project partner is University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the project is, "Partnering for Success: Advancing Sustainability
Research and Education in India"
Prof Gita Sen was awarded an honorary doctorate of Science in Social Science in recognition of her
contribution to international and national policy-making in health equity and population issues by the
University of Edinburgh.
Professor Ramadhar Singh is featured in the APS (Association for Psychological Science) Faces
and Minds of Psychological Science collection, Dec 2013. He is the first on that very high
profile list from India.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/psychological-scientists#singh.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/faces-minds/inferring-missing-information.html


Seminars
In total 37 seminars were organized in the academic year 2013
topics. Details of the talks can be found at
http://www.iimb.ernet.in/research/seminar
We were fortunate to host speakers from
Indiana University, University of Minnesota,
Pennsylvania), and many other universities
research is one reason we are able to
The seminars covered a wide range of topics
macroeconomy, environmental issues and supply chains,
behavioral research in marketing, new economic geography and emerging economies,
design, sustainability and the environment
IMRDC a conference for doctoral students
IIMB Management Review (IMR) and the Office of the Fellow Programme in Management organized its
fifth annual Doctoral Students' Conference (IMRDC) at the Indian Institut
(IIMB) in December 2013. A special feature of t
valuable discussion that every accepted paper
received 150+ competitive submissions from doctoral students all across the country
abroad) out of which 13 papers were shortlisted for presentation and discussion at the conference.
conference included keynote or special talks
Production &
Operations
Management
11%
Corporate
Governance
8%
Marketing
5%
Seminars by Area/Field
organized in the academic year 2013-14 (through February-end)
talks can be found at
http://www.iimb.ernet.in/research/seminar-services/past_seminars_2012
to host speakers from University of California, Los Angeles, Harvard Business School,
University of Minnesota, New York University, Wharton School
universities of national and international repute. Our commitment to
research is one reason we are able to attract leading international scholars to present their work at IIMB.
The seminars covered a wide range of topics drawn from several areas such as financial
environmental issues and supply chains, entrepreneurships links to hidden ability
, new economic geography and emerging economies,
environment, MNCs and dynamic capabilities.
a conference for doctoral students
IIMB Management Review (IMR) and the Office of the Fellow Programme in Management organized its
fifth annual Doctoral Students' Conference (IMRDC) at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
A special feature of this conference, unique to Indian business schools,
accepted paper receives by a faculty member. The
bmissions from doctoral students all across the country
13 papers were shortlisted for presentation and discussion at the conference.
included keynote or special talks by noted international scholars, Professor Stephen
Corporate
Strategy &
Policy
30%
Economics &
Social Science
8%
Finance &
Control
30%
Marketing
5%
Others
8%
Seminars by Area/Field
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to present their work at IIMB.
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INSEAD and Professor Jagadeesh Sivadasan of the University of Michigan. This years conference was
also noteworthy in that some faculty discussants present were from leading universities abroad.
FPM Courses
IIM Bangalore has the unique (to India) feature of offering 70+ doctoral level courses in the various fields
of management and public policy. This provides our students rigorous grounding in core fields, training in
advanced research methodologies, and in-depth exposure to current research. Importantly, our students
take these doctoral courses from the first year itself.
Workshops& Conferences
Another distinct advantage of IIM Bangalore is the plethora of workshops and conferences typically
organized throughout the year. Some of the workshops directly targeted at doctoral students are:

A February 2014 workshop on Macro Policy Environment, IPRs and Competition Policy that took stock
of the current economic environment in India and explored unconventional supply side solutions also
featured a session for our students. Four student presentations received thorough feedback from faculty
discussants.
We also conduct a regular FPM Research Workshop in which students present their own work.
In 2013-14, the Workshop had five meetings with, in all, 15 student presentations. This serves as a forum
in which students receive useful critiques of their work and an opportunity to enhance their presentation
skills. The Workshop also serves to introduce newer students to the work being done by their peers, and
helps them get started on their own research.
Workshops Title Instructor / Speaker Affiliation Date
Author Workshop Prof. Will Mitchell
Editor of Strategic
Management Journal
Nov, 2013
Leveraging Journal
Articles from Case Studies
Prof. Saras D Sarasvathy Darden School of Business
Feb, 2014
Prof. Ramakrishna Velamuri
China Europe International
Business School
R Workshop Prof. Shankar Venkatgiri IIM Bangalore Feb, 2014
Storytelling in business Mr. Anurag and Mr. Sudhakar Industry Jan, 2014