By  Prof. Keyoor Purani Courtesy: financial express, September 4, 2017,  http://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/online-retailers-beware-for-consumers-there-is-great-disappointment-on-this-particular-parameter/839789/ With pro-digital government policies, demonetisation-triggered e-wallet usage and reduced data costs, online commerce is making rapid strides. The Meeker 2017 report on internet trends in East Asia concurs this by highlighting Amazon India’s 300% year-on-year growth both in number of SKUs and sellers. But it underlines the beginning of aggressive competition among e-commerce players. …Read more »

By Prof. Maheshkumar P. Joshi,Associate Professor of Global Strategy and Entrepreneurship, School of Business&Director of Research and Practice – Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship,George Mason University Fairfax VA 22030 USA. Abstract of the talk:While the market and entrepreneurial aspects of strategic orientation had been extensively explored in the marketing literature, research on technology orientation had been sparsed. Further, service organizations  became …Read more »

By Dr. Asokan Mulayath Variyath,Associate Professor of Statistics, Memorial University, St. John’s, and Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada Abstract of the talk:In that  talk,  he gave a brief introduction of the importance of measurement system in the quality system management. He discussed the different components of measurement errors and how to estimate it in the case of variable measurement system. Further, …Read more »

By Shri Indranil Bhattacharyya,Director in the Fiscal Analysis Division of the Department of Economic and Policy Research (DEPR) and team.  Abstract of the talk: The speaker and his team made  a presentation on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s report entitled “State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2016-17”, an annual publication that provided information, analysis and an assessment of the …Read more »

By  Prof. Keyoor Purani Courtesy: FutureKerala, July 29,2017, p6 https://futurekerala.in I was reading the Kerala Chief Minister’s interview, focused on the first year performance of his government, in the recent issue of India Today. One of the initial questions put to the CM (which was also highlighted in large print) by the interviewer struck me – ‘Kerala is investment unfriendly state, what has …Read more »

By Prof. Rohit Jindal Dr. Rohit Jindal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at MacEwan University School of Business. He holds a PhD from Michigan State University (USA) and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh (UK). He has previously worked at University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business and in the Department of Resource Economics at …Read more »

Prof. Justin Paul, professor with the graduate school of business University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, USA and a visiting professor at Deakin University, Australia delivered a seminar on “A new model for internationalization of a firm” & a session on publishing different types of Research articles (empirical, conceptual, review etc.). Abstract: The speaker made a presentation on how to develop a …Read more »

By Prof.Aparajith Ramnath Abstract short talk and informal interaction by Prof Aparajith Ramnath  on his new book “The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry, and the State, 1900–47″ published by Oxford University Press.