Financial Engineering Programme
The Indian School of Business (ISB), and the University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management, (UCLA Anderson), have partnered to launch a six week programme in financial engineering in July this year at the ISB. For more information, please visit http://www.isb.edu/cee/EventMgmt.aspx?topicID=93


"The New Age of Innovation"

What is business innovation, where does it come from and how do you make use of it? You are invited to join Professor Mayuram Krishnan, University of Michigan as he examines both the need and opportunity for continuous business innovation resulting from the convergence of customer-focused strategies and global networks from his latest book coauthored by Professor C K Prahalad. Listen to examples of companies like Apple, Facebook, Google, Starbucks etc., who are on the leading edge of personalised, globally sourced innovation.

Dr M S Krishnan (MS) is a Mary and Mike Hallman e-Business Fellow, Area Chairman and Professor of Business Information Technology at the University of Michigan Business School. Dr Krishnan is also a Co-Director of the Center for  Global   Resource.

Leverage: India, at the Michigan Business School. Dr Krishnan’s research interests include Corporate IT strategy, Business value of IT investments, and management of distributed business processes, software engineering economics, metrics and measures for quality, productivity and customer satisfaction for products in software and information technology industries. In January 2000, American Society for Quality (ASQ) selected him as one of the 21 voices of quality for the twenty first century. His article ‘The role of team factors in software cost and quality’ was awarded the 1999 ANBAR Electronic Citation of Excellence. He serves on the editorial board of reputed academic journals including Management Science and Information Systems Research. Dr Krishnan has consulted with Ford Motor Company, NCR, HIP, IBM, Bellsouth, TVS group and Ramco Systems.

The New Age of Innovation reveals that the key to creating value and the future growth of every business depends on accessing a global network of resources to co-create unique experiences with customers, one at a time.

“A new book from the Bottom of the Pyramid guru lays out the new landscape of business, driven by consumer co-creation and service customization” – Business week


Summer Research Conference 2008 in Finance
The Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), will host the Summer Research Conference 2008 in Finance during August 7 - 10, 2008. The Conference will start with a reception for the participants on the evening of August 7. Paper presentations and discussions will take place on the following three days. The Conference will take place in the Academic Centre on the ISB campus in Hyderabad, India.

The theme of the Conference is "Recent Advances in Corporate Finance". Papers in all areas of corporate finance are welcome, including corporate financing and agency costs, corporate investment decisions and real options, corporate finance and product markets, control rights and corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, institutional and legal framework of financing decisions, behavioural implications, and corporate financing in emerging markets. Theoretical as well as empirical papers will be considered. Papers with a focus on new ideas and concepts, or cutting-edge tools and techniques of analysis, will be preferred.

Apart from ISB faculty, the conference programme committee will include a roster of top researchers in corporate finance based in Asia, Europe, and North America. There will be a USD 5,000 award generously funded by Citigroup for the best paper presented at the Conference. CAF organises two research conferences each year: one in the spring (April) and the other in the summer (August). The first conference is organised jointly with Wharton Financial Institutions Centre and Swedish Institute for Financial Research, and rotates between Hyderabad, Philadelphia, and Stockholm. Well-known finance scholars from around the world have participated in our research conferences.

This procedure resulted in high-quality programmes for our past conferences. For more information on the conference, please visit: http://www.isb.edu/financeconference2008/index.shtml

To view the programme schedule and the papers presented at our previous conferences, please visit the CAF website at http://www.isb.edu/caf/