The 6th IIMA Conference on Marketing in Emerging Economies to be held from January 7 -9, 2015. The conference is hosted by Indian Institute Management, Ahmedabad and supported by Professor Labdhi R. Bhandari Memorial Fund, IIMA. Professors Arindam Banerjee, Anand Kumar Jaiswal, Arvind Sahay, Dheeraj Sharma and Piyush Kumar Sinha are the members of the conference co-ordination committee and Mr. G. A. Chandrasekharan and Mr. T.K. Jose are the conference managers.
Area members provided consulting services to seven organizations and designed and offered customized programmes to executives of the seven organisations. The consulting assignments included topics such as understanding and establishing customer value, business development, leadership skills, brand management, building strategic plans, developing strategic implementation plan, and implementation plan for retail strategy, among others. The seven customised programs were offered to middle and senior level managers of organizations.
The industries benefiting from the efforts included, telecommunication, pharmaceutical, Logistics, FMCG infrastructure, among others.
Many of the Marketing Area faculties conduct national and international programmes.
The Area members conducted research on a variety of topics. They shared their findings through several published papers in national and international journals/books and presentations and invited presentations in conferences and workshops. The focus of the research included topics such as consumer behavior, branding, advertising, sales promotion, retailing, information products and services, bottom of the pyramid, and service centric strategy. The methodologies included both qualitative and advanced quantitative techniques.
The area members provide consulting help to large and medium size companies and international agencies. The nature of projects includes reviewing and developing marketing strategy and systems, strategic marketing plans and new product introduction strategy.
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