Academics

Research Record and Awards

Awards

Indian/Global Recognition Received by the Ph.D. Students during the Programme

Name of the Student Year of Joining Area of High Level of Specialization Awards Received
Shreya Sharma 2018 Innovation & Management in Education Mirae Assets Foundation (MAF) Ph.D. Merit
Scholarship 2019
Anurag Shukla 2017 Innovation & Management in Education Reimagining Migration Fellowship - Re-
imagining Migration Institute, US - 2020J-
PAL/CLEAR South Asia Fellowship for
Young Researchers in India, 2018-19
Chayanika 2017 Organizational Behaviour Awarded the Best Paper Award at the
Indian Academy of Management
Conference 2020 at IIM Trichy, for the
paper titled "I am what I do: Exploring the
experiences of freelancers in India"
co-authored with Prof. Neharika Vohra
Rusha Das 2017 Public Systems Group Recipient of the Swiss Government
Excellence Scholarship for Research
Fellowship at the Graduate Institute of
International and Developmental Studies
(IHEID) Geneva (2020-2021)
Avijit Bansal 2016 Finance & Accounting CRISIL Doctoral Symposium Best Paper
Award - India Finance Conference 2018
Amogh Kumbargeri 2016 Marketing Recipient of NASMEI Research Grant
Award 2019 Recipient of AIM-SHETH
Research Grant Award 2019
Anukriti Dixit 2016 Public Systems Group Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship
(2019-2020) Ford Foundation and Institute
of Social Sciences Trust Research Grant
Best Paper Award at the International
Consortium for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship research, Bangalore, 2017
Shikha Verma 2016 Production & Quantitative Methods Grace Hopper Celebration India Scholar
(2021) Women in Machine Learning Scholar
(WiML) at ICML 2020
Vishal Bansal 2016 Production & Quantitative Methods Best IISE Annual Conference Paper Award
(2019) in Facilities Design and Planning Track
Best SOM Annual Conference Paper Award
(2018) - Third prize
Ankit Saraf 2015 Innovation & Management in Education Fellow, J-PAL South Asia Fellowship for
Young Researchers in India (2019-20)
Fellow, Tata Trusts (April-June 2016)
Ayushi Tandon 2015 Information Systems The Yasukuni Kotaka Memorial financial
assistance fund (2019, 2020) AIS &
Bocconi - PhD Student travel Grant
(October, 2019) Pacific Telecommunications
Council Young Scholar Award recipient, 2018
Saikat Chakraborty 2015 Organizational Behaviour Best Paper Award in Organizational Theory,
Behaviour and HRM Area in the journal
'Business Review (India)', 2017. Center for
Business Research at the St. Joseph’s
Institute of Management Bangalore.
Paper title: “This Place Is Not the Same
Anymore; Temps are Coming in”
Saneesh Edacherian 2015 Strategy Fully Funded Visiting Research Scholar
to the Surrey Business School, University
of Surrey, UK. from June 2019 to August
2019 Recipient of the 2018 Travel Award
for Young and Emerging Scholars by ONE
division of the Academy of Management,
to attend the AOM annual meeting 2018,
Chicago, USA Invited to attend DIRI Winter
Research Camp 2018 as one among the 15
selected research fellows by the Digital
Identity Research Initiative at ISB India jointly
funded by the Omidyar Network and the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation Recipient of
Doctoral Student Waiver by the GDO division
of the Academy of Management, to participate
in the AOM virtual annual meeting 2020
Recipient of Volunteer Support Staff Waiver
by the Strategic Management Society to
attend SMS Annual Conference (virtual) 2020
Vanita Singh 2015 Public Systems Group Best Paper Award: International
Multidisciplinary Conference Vidyalankar
College of Management and Technology-
2019. Mumbai. Track: Social Impact
Policies Analyzing Public Health
Expenditure under NRHM in Low and
High Preforming States
Arpita Pandey 2014 Marketing Fellow, 4th AIM-AMA Sheth Foundation
Doctoral Consortium, 2018 Best Paper
Runner-up, EMCB, 2019 Winner Travel
Fellowship, SCP, 2018
Saikat Banerjee 2014 Strategy Recipient of AIB Doctoral Travel Stipend
Award, 2019 with an estimated value of
over $1,000 USD to attend the 2019
Academy of International Business Annual
Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark Best
Track Proposal Winner Award for Track –
D – Innovation and Knowledge, in Strategic
Management Society Special Conference,
Hyderabad, India, 2018 Best Paper in Global
Strategy Prize finalist, in Strategic
Management Society Special Conference,
Hyderabad, India, 2018 Best Track Proposal
nominee for Track E - Entrepreneurship, in
Strategic Management Society Special
Conference, Hyderabad, India, 2018 Best
Conference Paper finalist, in Strategic
Management Society Special Conference,
Hyderabad, India, 2018
Tanvi Mankodi 2014 Human Resource Management Best Paper Presentation' at 7th International
HR Conference, KJ SIMSR

IIMA Awards

Prof. Tirath Gupta Memorial Award for Best Thesis

Two awards are instituted by the Prof. Tirath Gupta Memorial Fund for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis. This award is titled as, "Professor Tirath Gupta Memorial Award for Best Thesis" and is awarded during the annual convocation each year. The Ph.D. students who are in their final stage of the thesis (i.e ready to graduate (or) convocate in that particular academic year) are eligible to apply for this award.

2024 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Thesis Title Award Amount
Amrita Roy (ECO Area) Essays on Caste Demography, Occupational Diversity, Education, and Entrepreneurship in India Rs.50,000/-
R. Raghuram (MKTG Area) Do Price Promotions Lead to Lost Customers? The Impact of Perceived Control, Psychological Ownership, and Psychological Distance on Promotional Credit Rs.50,000/-

2023 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Thesis Title Award Amount
Shanthan Kandula (IS Area) Essays on Machine Learning for Enhanced Decision Support in E-Commerce Rs.50,000/-
Laxminarayana Yashaswy Akella (MKTG Area) Essays on the Elements of Consumer Journeys in Retailing Rs.50,000/-

 

2022 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Thesis Title Award Amount
Mayank Aggarwal (STR Area) Markets, Home Country Ecosystem Partners & Value Creation: A Study of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry Rs.50,000/-
Advaita Rajendra (PSG) Governing by (in)visibilising: A Case of Waste Materials, Infrastructure and Work Rs.50,000/-

2021 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Thesis Title Award Amount
Saneesh Edacherian (STR Area) Three Essays on Diversity in Multiple Levels of Strategic Leadership Rs.50,000/-
Avijit Bansal (F&A Area) Essays on Behavioural Finance Rs.25,000/-
Arpita Pandey (MKTG Area) All for a Good Cause: A Study of Placement of Cause Marketing Advertisements in Consumer Online Decision Journey Rs.25,000/-

2020 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Thesis Title Award Amount
Priya Narayanan (MKTG Area) Impact of Order of Presentation and Prominent Presentation of Brand and Attribute on Consumers' Willingness to Pay Rs.50,000/-
Arpit Shah (PSG) Urban Land Use and the Heat Island Effect Rs.50,000/-

2019 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Thesis Title Award Amount
Sudipta Mandal (MKTG Area) Toward a Better Understanding of Negation and Brand Recall Memory Rs.25,000/-
Sonali Jain (F&A Area) Studies in Indian Equity Derivatives Markets Rs.25,000/-
Sai Chittaranjan Kalubandi (STR Area) Essays on the Internal Markets of Business Groups Rs.25,000/-

Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) Award for Thesis Proposal

Two awards are provided by the endowment of the Industrial Finance Corporation of India. This award is titled "Industrial Finance Corporation of India [IFCI] Best Thesis Proposal Award". The thesis proposal submitted by the students as soon as their thesis proposal seminar is over would be considered for this award.

2024 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Thesis Proposal Title Award Amount
Muddasir Ahmad Akhoon (FAB Area) Three Essays on Agricultural Productivity and Technical Efficiency Rs.50,000/-
Bhumi Trivedi (HRM Area) Investigating the Role of HR in Understanding Responses to Workplace Incivility Rs.50,000/-

2023 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Thesis Proposal Title Award Amount
Sumit Saurav (F&A Area) Three Essays on the Indian Derivatives Market Rs.50,000/-
Sumit Kumar Jaiswal (STR Area) Rise and Fall: Essays on new venture Survival and Failure Rs.50,000/-

2022 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Thesis Proposal Title Award Amount
Disha Bose (AGRI Area) Examining Effects of Women’s Participation in Non-Farm Work on Altruism, Diet Quality and Choice of Collective Organizations Rs.50,000/-
Ayush Gupta (P&QM Area) Supply Chain Management in the presence of Cost Learning Rs.50,000/-

2021 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Thesis Proposal Title Award Amount
Shanthan Kandula (IS Area) Essays on Machine Learning for Enhanced Decision Support in E-commerce Rs.50,000/-
Harnain Kaur Arora (OB Area) Exploring the Trajectory of Guilt in Whistleblowing at Work: Actual Whistleblowers’ Lived Experiences Rs.25,000/-
Atima Singh (IME Area) Examining the Effects of Gamified Instructional Practice on Students’ Academic Outcomes, Learning Motivation and Engagement in India Rs.25,000/-

2020 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Thesis Proposal Title Award Amount
Vishal Bansal (P&QM Area) Stochastic Models for Retail Order Fulfillment Rs.50,000/-
Garima Khemani (OB Area) Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-being in the Context of Workplace Bullying: Understanding the Experiences of Platform Workers Rs.50,000/-

2019 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Thesis Proposal Title Award Amount
Sakina H. Poonawala (F&A Area) Essays on Audit Committee and Board Composition Rs.33,333/-
Saikat Chakraborty (OB Area) Redefining Dignity in the Context of Precarity: A Study of Security Guards in India Rs.33,333/-
Balagopal Gopalakrishnan (F&A Area) Essays in Financial Intermediation Rs.33,333/-

Chaudhary-Padmanabhan-Pant Award for Scholastic Performance in the First Year

An award for the best scholastic performance in the first year has been instituted from 1993-94 from the fund created in memory of the three Ph.D. Alumni, Late Shri B. Chaudhary, Late Shri R. Padmanabhan and Late Shri Madan Pant. The award, titled `Chaudhary-Padmanabahn-Pant Award for Scholastic Performance' carries a cash prize and is given to the Ph.D. student who scores the highest GPA in the first year.

2024 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Award Amount
Shubhankar Mishra (F&A Area) Rs.50,000/-

2023 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Award Amount
Divyanshu Jain (ECO Area) Rs.50,000/-

2022 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Award Amount
Shriya Gehlot (P&QM Area) Rs.30,000/-

2021 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Award Amount
Akshay Jyothiram Iyer (MKTG Area) Rs.30,000/-

2020 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Award Amount
Shanthan Kandula (IS Area) Rs.30,000/-

2019 Winners:

Name of the Student & Area of High Level of Specialization Award Amount
R Raghuram (MKTG Area) Rs.10,000/-

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