{"id":978,"date":"2025-12-11T12:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conference.iima.ac.in\/imrc2025\/?page_id=978"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:01:44","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conference.iima.ac.in\/imrc2025\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Awards<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Track 01: Unpacking the Indian Startup Story<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Unlocking Firm Performance through Entrepreneurial Networks: The Mediating Role of Business Model Innovation in Agri-Tech Startups<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Arun B S, Ranjith VK<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Case Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
BluSmart: From Green Mobility to Governance Failure<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Jinal Shah, Sejal Mishra, Swati Bapna <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title:<\/strong>
Suvidha Supermarket: Consolidate or Conquer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Rakesh Kumar Meet, Ajit Yadav, Vijaya, Yog Mishra, Rahul Bodhi <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Track 02: Management in Health Services<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
The Power of Autonomy: Self-Selected Goals Outperform Assigned Goals in Reducing Mobile Phone Usage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Ashish Sachdeva<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Exploring the Thematic Evolution of Quality of Life in Non-Communicable Diseases: A Topic Modeling Analysis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Richa Jha<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Track 03: Gold & Precious Metals: Business and Economic Policies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Safe Haven Properties of Gold and Gold ETFs Against Risk-Class Assets in the Indian Financial Market: A Wavelet Quantile Correlation Approach<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Moni M, Sreeraj V, Anoop S Kumar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
The role of Gold in Evolving World Order and Options for India<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Chandan Satyarth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Track 04: Finance, Accounting, and Economics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Research Paper Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Financial heterogeneity, NBFCs, and investment responses to monetary shocks in India<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Ankit Kumar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Doctoral Research Paper Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
The Clockwork of Democracy: Welfare, Strategy and Electoral Temporality<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Rahul Sinha<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title:<\/strong>
Timeliness in Loan Loss Provisions Under CECL: Evidence Using Deposit Rates<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Manoj Devarala<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Track 05: Behavioural Science in Management<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
When Every Rating is a Five: Extracting Signals of Expert Service Quality from Real Estate Agent Reviews<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Sachin Sridhar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Using Dynamic Financial Incentives to Foster Walking Habit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Ashish Sachdeva<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Track 06: Transportation and Logistics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Adaptive Coordination Of Human Pickers And Robots In Human-Centric Parts-To-Picker Warehouses<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Suryakant Kumar, Tanmoy Kundu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Optimizing Throughput Performance of Dry Bulk Terminal Operations Using Integrated Queuing Network Models<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Mitrabarun Ghosh<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Track 07: Digital Transformation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Designing Consumer Service Systems in the Age of Yelp: Integrating Digital Reviews into Queueing Decisions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Sagnik Sarkar, Debjit Roy, Abhishek Roy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Bimodal Information Technology and Structural Transformation: the Case of a Consulting Firm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Siddharth Majhi, Proma Chowdhury, Arindam Mukherjee <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Track 08: Corporate Sustainability and Corporate Governance (IRCC 2025)<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Turning Adversity into Action: Enhancing Sustainability Oversight in Response to ESG Reputation Risk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Sushil Sainani, Chris Florackis, Omrane Guedhami, Jeffrey Pittman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Impact of Fintech on Clean Energy (SDG 7) and Global Partnerships (SDG 17)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Priya Choudhary, M. Thenmozhi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title:<\/strong>
Green Game in Town: Intra-Industry Spillover Effects of Corporate Green Bond Announcements in the US<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Varun Jindal, Sourav Prasad, Arun Upadhyay<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Track 09: Leadership Research & Practice in the Context of Changes in the World of Work<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Wired to Work, Wired to Waver: Understanding Employee Outcomes in the Algorithmic HRM Process<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Vaishnavi Gautam, Utkarsh, Mridul Maheshwari<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
How Leaders can Strategically Cultivate Workspace Spirituality in MSMES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Reema Nayyar, Rupashree Baral<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Track 10: Data Science & Artificial Intelligence<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Data Driven Optimization of Patrol Vehicle Routes Using Predicted Crime Hotspots: A matrix based approach for Urban Safety<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Abdurahiman K<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
A step towards automating manually created, thematic trays via LLMs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Akshay Sharma<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Track 11: Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Impact of Heat on Sleep: Evidence from India<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Manas Nandan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Multiregional Input-Output Modelling of CBAM impacts: Implications for India’s LEDS Implementation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Usha Kiran T M<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Track 12: India Marketing Conference<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Distaste Engineering: Mapping the Cultural Logic of
Rejection<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Meghna Rajeev<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Paper Award (Runner-Up)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Development of an Entrepreneur\u2019s Personal Branding Index(EPBI) Using Social Media Metrics and the Honeycomb Framework<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name:<\/strong>
Uneza Irshad and Rahela Farooqi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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