Many health systems worldwide are facing significant challenges due to the emergence of issues determined by an increasingly “global health” context and competitive medical tourism dynamics. Coping with global health issues means many things, such as envisioning new ways of managing migrations of people, providing basic and affordable access to care in developing countries, strengthening institutional relationships among bordering countries …Read more »

“ Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained minds have made it their full-time business to get inside the collective public mind …………. to get inside in order to manipulate, exploit and control.” Marshal McLuhan The intrusiveness of organised marketing is so all-pervasive that it emerges as the most potent social force that shapes human …Read more »

The Indian economy with its mammoth growth is headed towards becoming the top three economies of the world. In the next few years, India would have answers to its most-pressing questions on poverty and corruption. By achieving this, India will be a solution-provider to the world. Nonetheless, the very existence of today’s India is rooted in its greatest leaders from …Read more »

Abhishek Srivastava [1], Arqum Mateen [2] The gray market (GM) refers to the practice of diverting a manufacturer’s branded genuine goods by an unauthorized dealer who operates outside the manufacturer’s authorized channel. Under such a scenario, manufacturers may suffer in terms of the erosion of brand reputation, reduced profitability and deterioration of channel relationships [5]. GM trades affect various industries including fashion, …Read more »

Published in Mathrubhumi, 15/10/2019 Abhijit Banerjee along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer received the  Sveriges Riksbank Prize funded by the Swedish Central Bank (popularly known … Read more at: https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/specials/use-of-randomised-control-trials-in-economics-1.4198265

Keyoor Purani [1] The New Motor Vehicle Act 2019, supposed to be implemented from September 01, still faces resistance from several states, who find the steep hike in penalties and fines for traffic offences unacceptable. While the argument that, for better road safety, stricter implementation of the rules is required is fully convincing, heavy fines seem to have practical concerns …Read more »

Conference Date:  28th-30th January, 2020 Venue:  IIM Kozhikode, India   The purpose of the International Conference on Operations Research and Decision Sciences 2019 (ICORDS) is to bring together researchers, faculty members, practitioners and students interested in both theoretical advances and practical applications in the field of operations research and decision sciences. The conference will be run on multiple parallel sessions, where …Read more »

A research seminar by Dr. Jayanth Jayaram, Professor, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, USA was held on 25 July 2019.