By: Dr. Varun Gupta, Assistant Professor, Supply Chain and Operations Management, Sam and Irene Black School of Business, Penn State Erie, USA. Abstract of the talk: In a market where distributors compete to sell experiential products (e.g.; movies and music), should they use pay-per-unit pricing or use subscription pricing? How do consumers’ valuation for the product, and the contract between the …Read more »

By : Dr Ashish Malik, Senior Lecturer, the University of Newcastle, Australia. Abstract of the talk:      The purpose of that talk was to examine innovation in the resource-constrained context of India’s healthcare industry. It has been argued that the process of innovation in addressing healthcare management challenges in such a context occurs through organisational ambidexterity and that human resource management …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 »