Seminars

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Research seminars are held at TAPMI frequently to facilitate TAPMI faculty members to present their ongoing research to their colleagues and students and solicit their inputs and comments.  Knowledge sharing is highly regarded at TAPMI, as an essential aspect of a progressive intellectual culture.  Seminars held recently at TAPMI are as follows:

Year 2011

Speaker: Prof. Kushankur Dey, TAPMI, Manipal
Date: December 17, 2011
Title: "Foodgrains, Foreign Exchange Reserves And Poverty: Unfolding India’s Developing Story. "
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Speaker: Prof. Ramanacharyulu A. V. TAPMI, Manipal
Date: July 13, 2011
Title: "Inclusive Growth – Challenges and Opportunities in the current times"
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Speaker: Prof. Ajith Kumar J, TAPMI, Manipal
Date: June 22, 2011
Title: "WILL RAZORS SELL IF CONSUMERS NO LONGER USE BLADES? EXPLORING A PARADOXICAL PROPERTY OF ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE."
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Speaker: Prof. K. Thomas Chandy, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Date: March 30, 2011 

Speaker: Prof. Sabuj Kumar Mandal, TAPMI, Manipal
Date: March 23, 2011 
Title: "Does Win-Win opportunity always result in pollution abatement? : Evidence from Indian cement industry."
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Speaker: Prof. Sulagna Mukherjee, TAPMI, Manipal
Date: March 02, 2011
Title: "Growth Opportunity and Capital Structure Dynamics: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Companies."
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Speaker: Prof. Sivakumar, TAPMI, Manipal
Date: February 16, 2011
Title: "Human Factors standards in Medical Device Design - Role of Organizational factors."
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Speaker: Prof. Sankalpa Bhattacharjee, TAPMI, Manipal
Date: February 02, 2011
Title: "Investigating India’s Competitive Edge in IT-ITeS Sector."
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Speaker: Prof.Rajiv V.Shah, TAPMI, Manipal
Date: January 19, 2011
Title: "Examining the role of Direct Taxes in Non Biodegradable Waste Management in India"
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Speaker: Prof. Srivatsa H.S., TAPMI, Manipal
Date: January 05, 2011 
Title: "Environmentally Sustainable Business Practices in Banks"
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Year 2010

Speaker: Prof. S. Narayan Rao, TAPMI, Manipal
Date: Dec 15, 2010
Title: "Announcement Effect of Open Market Share Buybacks in India : Part - I"
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Speaker: Prof. Mohan Kumar, TAPMI, Manipal
Date: Dec 01, 2010
Title: "An intro to smart grids – the 'next new thing' in India’s power sector"
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Speaker: Dr. Sunil Parameswaran
Date: Oct 13, 2010
Title: "Mutual Funds: Perspectives from the American Mutual Fund Industry"
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Speaker: Dr. Anuradha .R, Professor, TAPMI, Manipal.
Date: Sep 15, 2010
Title: "Dying Clan of Pyramid Makers: Dismantling Bureaucracy"
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Speaker: Prof. R C Natarajan, Professor, TAPMI, Manipal.
Date: Aug 18, 2010
Title: "Role of Task-Context in the Relationship between Competence Trust and Need-based Monitoring in a Sales Executive-Distributor Relationship"
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Speaker: Prof. Sankaran, University of Strathclyde Business School, UK.
Date: Aug 12, 2010
Title: “Entrepreneurship: Causality Vs. Effectuation”

Speaker: Prof. Saji Mathew
Date: Aug 4, 2010
Title: “Student Evaluation of Teaching: Towards an Improved Instrument”
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Speaker: Prof. Arun Elias, Victoria Management School, New Zealand 
Date: June 23, 2010
Title: “Systems Thinking and Modeling Methodology: Lessons from New Zealand Cases”
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Speaker: Dr. Arijit Chatterjee, ESSEC Business School, Paris-Singapore 
Date: June 08, 2010
Title: “Entrepreneurship as Protest: Evidence from Colonial India”
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Speaker: Prof. Devi Prasad Bedari & Prof. B. Sasidhar 
Date: April 07, 2010
Title: “A study of efficiency differences between Chinese and Indian textile and clothing firms”
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Speaker: Prof. Mohan Kumar 
Date: March 24, 2010
Title: “ICT and Education: Deploying information and communication technologies to make secondary level education more effective”
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Speaker: Prof. Saji K Mathew 
Date: March 10, 2010
Title: “Behavioral Risks Mitigation, Client-Vendor Relationship, and Success of Offshore Software Development”
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Speaker: Prof. Raghunath Rudran 
Date: March 03, 2010
Title: “Effect of Service System Impact and Supply Chain Responsiveness on Customer Satisfaction in the context of Ayurveda Services”
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Speaker: Prof. A. V. Rajagopalan 
Date: January 27, 2010
Title: “The relevance of the Guna-Ego matrix in a crisis situation: lessons for Indian managers”
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Speaker: Prof. Shijin S.
Date: January 13, 2010
Title: “Dynamic Interdependence of Human Capital and Common Factors Affecting Stock Returns: An Asset Pricing Approach”
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Year 2009

Speaker: Prof. Satyajit Majumdar
Date: December 30, 2009
Title: “Growth Strategy in Entrepreneur Managed Small Organizations: A Study in Auto Component Manufacturing Organizations in India”
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Speaker: Prof. Saji K Mathew & Prof. Madhuchhanda Das 
Date: December 16, 2009
Title: “Service Provider Risks in Remote Infrastructure Management Services”
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Speaker: Prof. V.Vijaya 
Date: December 02, 2009
Title: “Relationship Building in the Health Setting: Insights from a Qualitative Exploration”
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Speaker: Prof. Saji Gopinath 
Date: November 18, 2009
Title: “Managing Non-dominant Player Supply Chains: Developing an Agent Modeling Framework through Social Simulation Experiments”
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Speaker: Prof. K. J. Jaims 
Date: November 04, 2009
Title: “Experiential Branding: A Comparative Case Study of Kingfisher Airlines and Veegaland Theme Park”
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Speaker: Prof. Joshua A. J., Manipal Institute of Management, Manipal

Date: October 28, 2009
Title: “Adoption of Technology-Enabled Banking Self-Services: Antecedents and Consequences”
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Speaker: Prof. Madhuchhanda Das Aundhe and Prof. N. Ramesh
Date: October 21, 2009
Title: “Technology Adoption in e-Governance”
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Speaker: Prof. R. C. Natarajan
Date: October 07,2009
Title: “Learning Effect under Turbulence:  A Laboratory Experiment using Beer Game”
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Speaker: Prof. Pratap Chandra Biswal
Date: September 23, 2009
Title: “Relative Price Discovery between Options and Futures Market in India”
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Speaker: Prof S. Bharadhwaj, Associate Professor Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai
Date: September 21, 2009
Title: “Returns to search in Online Ordered and Unordered Environments: The Effect of Personality and Situational Variables”
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Speaker: Prof Suresh Kalagnanam
Date: September 9, 2009
Title: Education Accountability: The Role of Business Performance Models
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Speaker: Prof. Vrishali Bhat
Date: August 26, 2009.
Title: Impact of Market Risks on Indian Firms Issuing Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds.
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Speaker: Dr A. Sivakumar
Date: August 12, 2009.
Title: Cognitive Engineering in Medical Device Design for the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) market- The case of the Point of Care (POC) Malaria Detection Kit.
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Speaker: Prof. Rajiv V. Shah
Date: July 29, 2009.
Title: Direct taxes in India and TDS planning for salaried individuals- An overview.
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Speaker: Prof. H.S.Srivatsa
Date: July 15, 2009.
Title: Psychographics segmentation of Retail banking customers of Karnataka (India) - An exploratory research study.
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Speaker: Prof. Gururaj Kidiyoor.
Date: July 1, 2009.
Title: Perceived Risk in Adoption of High Technology Product Innovations in Business Buying.
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Growth Opportunity and Capital Structure
Dynamics: Evidence from Indian
Manufacturing Companies.