IIM K hosted its Fourteenth research seminar on February 20, 2025, for the year 2024-25. It was conducted by Prof. Yaniv Hanoch, Professor, Coventry University, UK. The topic was The Psychology of Scams: Understanding Victimization and Prevention. Abstract of the talk given below Fraud (or scams) is the most common crime, representing almost half of all reported crimes in the …Read more »
PART I OF THE INTERVIEW (The interview was conducted by Milind Padalkar and Chacko Jacob, doctoral students of IIM Kozhikode.) Interviewers: Sir, thank you indeed for agreeing to speak to us at a short notice. To begin with, what can you tell us about the genesis of the book? The book arose out of my teaching career of 20 years. …Read more »
By Prof. T. N. Krishnan The similarity to an organizational context -Like chess players organizational managers are faced with complex situations, are limited in their information processing capabilities and also need to decide under time pressure. Managers do make decisions by doing a cost-benefit analysis, but the interesting part is that most of the times just as in chess situation …Read more »
By Prof. T. N. Krishnan With the blitzkrieg of Carlsen against the (ex) World Champ Anand, the Chess world seem to have shifted back to a youthful era. Not long ago was the pseudonym‘lightning kid’ applied to the ex-world champion extolling his prodigious rise at a young age and his immense speed of play (and analysis). Perhaps age is no …Read more »
By Prof. Abhilash S. Nair Since independence, successive governments have endeavored to develop an egalitarian India whose economic development percolates to citizens living across the country. A major step in ensuring this outcome has been the various studies that have identified backwardness of different states in India. Accordingly, the central resource allocation is channeled so as to bridge this development …Read more »
By Prof. Aparajith Ramnath Facebook’s plans to build a 394-flat residential complex for its staff in California, and the ensuing discussions in the media, raise an interesting historical question. Why do companies set up townships? There are strategic reasons: the seventeenth-century walled cities of Fort St. George (Madras) and Fort William (Calcutta) were established by the East India Company as …Read more »
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