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Professor Rama Seth and her doctoral student Varun Jindal bag the Best Paper Award at the Fifth Pan IIM World Management Conference 2017

IIM Calcutta’s Professor of Finance and Control Dr. Rama Seth and her doctoral student Varun Jindal have bagged the Emerald India Best Paper Award at the recently concluded Fifth Pan IIM World Management Conference (WMC) for their jointly authored paper. The award carries a trophy and a certificate in addition to a monetary component. The award-winning paper, which is titled "A New Order of Financing Investments: Evidence from Acquisitions by India's Listed Firms," is a part of the doctoral dissertation work carried out by Varun.
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Research in IIMs: Chasing a chimera? - Prof. Palash Deb

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Measuring batting consistency and comparing batting greats across eras in Test cricket: Innovative application of statistical tools

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Australian cricketing great Don Bradman’s batting average could be 109.42, instead of the famed 99.94, according to a new study by the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C).
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Specialized Intellectual Property Enforcement in China: Implications for Indian Companies - Prof V.K. Unni

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Bridging rural-urban educational divide using social technologies - Prof. Somprakash Bandyopadhyay

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Earnings management in stressed firms - Prof. Ashok Banerjee
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Prof. V.K. Unni on CNBCTV18's discussion on Corporate Governance

V.K. Unni, Professor of IIM Calcutta took part in a CNBC-TV18 discussion on Corporate Governance titled ‘The Governance Code’. M. Damodaran, Founder-Excellence Enablers Private Limited and former Chairman of SEBI, Ketan Dalal, Managing Partner at Catalyst Advisors and former Managing Partner of PwC India, and Shriram Subramanian, Managing Director-InGovern Research were the other members taking part in the discussion which was moderated by Mridu Bhandari. The topic of discussion was corporate governance in India – current environment and desired future.
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Budget 2017 is an opportunity to follow through on banking reforms - Prof. Partha Ray

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The Dynamics of Patent Exhaustion - Prof V.K. Unni
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Major non-market events distract investors from strong sentiment-carrying information - Ashok Banerjee & Kamran Quddus

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By Ashok Banerjee & Kamran Quddus

It was April 5, 2011, and Anna Hazare was on a hunger strike as part of the Jan Lokpal Bill agitation. The entire nation’s attention was on Hazare and the electronic media were fuelling such attention with round-the-clock coverage. Debates swirled in offices, universities and Parliament on the legitimacy of Hazare’s fast.
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