ACADEMIC EVENTS YEAR 2015 - 16

Lecture by Industry Experts

SAMSOE has pioneered a unique model of having 5% of the lectures of all core subjects conducted by industry experts in the subject. This year has begun with the following renowned professionals conducting lectures and giving students a chance to interact with them and see for themselves how the theory taught in class blends with the practical.

30th March 2016 Behavioral Economics Applied Econometrics Risk Attitude and Risk Measurement Prof. Gaurav Sarthak, Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay 20th February 2016 Indian Economy – I Economic Governance & Policy Land Acquisition Act and its application in Maharashtra Mr. S. M Kurtkoti, Deputy Collector Raigad

Date	Course	Topic	Guest
19th October 2015	Indian Economy	Growth of Service Sector in India and its sustainability.	Ms. Dipti Deshpande - Chief Economist, CRISIL
17th October 2015	Time Series Econometrics	Macroeconomic applications: VAR regression	Shobana Krishnan, Crisil- Sovereign Ratings
17th October 2015	International Economics	Performance of the Indian Rupee	Mr. Ritesh Kumar Singh Group Economist, Raymonds
9th October 2015	Game Theory	Games of incomplete information	Dr. Shubhro Sarkar - Assistant Professor, IGIDR
5th October 2015	Agricultural Economics	Technologies in Agricultural Sector in India	Mr. Avinash Thakur, Head - Marketing & Business Development, Netafim India

3rd October 2015	Money, Banking & Financial Institution	Risk Management in Banking	Mrs. Priya Subbaraman, Head, Legal and Compliance products, South Asia, Standard Chartered Bank
13th August 2015	Effective communication	How to succeed in Group Discussion and Personal Interview	Abhimanyu Asija, CEO, SOMMET

Pedagogy

Movies / Documentaries

We at SAMSOE believe that simply studying from textbooks is not enough. In today's world, a holistic and well-rounded education is required. To that end, students are often shown films of various kinds as a part of the curriculum which aids in the learning process. Some of the movies shown as part of course were:

Date	Movie	Course
March 2016	Moneyball A day in the life of a Kiva robot Guru Even the Rains Live screening of budget speech The insolvency and bankruptcy code 2015 Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Press Meet	Applied Econometrics Intermediate Microeconomics Ecode - II Economic Governance and Policy Indian Economy Advanced Macroeconomics
February 2016	Lifeline Express Blood Diamond Money Ball I.0.USA	Ecode – II International Economics – II Advanced Econometrics Public Finance & Policy
January 2016	Princes of the Yen Bridge of Spies Goldman Sachs: Power and Peril The Dark Knight Organs across borders Flawless	Advanced Macroeconomics Economics of Geopolitics & International Relations Intermediate Macroeconomics Intermediate Microeconomics International economics Gender Economics Business Strategy
December 2015	Why Strategies Fail? By Dr. Mark Chusssil Redistribution of wealth – Milton Friedman (1977) Guns, Germs & Steel (2005): Part 2 – Conquest of the Americas Corporate Strategy by Dr. Loannis Christodoulou Inequality for All (2013) - Last Days of Lehmann Brother’s Google’s Financial Strategies by Patrick-CFO. The Walmart Anthem	Economics of Geopolitics & International Relations International Economics Business Strategy Intermediate Microeconomics
November 2015	Untouchability	Indian Economy
October 2015	Salaam Bombay Promised Land Blue Gold	Ecode Development Experience of Major Economies of the World Economics of Environment & Sustainable Development
September 2015	Kiribati- The President's Dilemma Sinking Paradise, Carteret Islands, PNG Philippines Climate Change in Coastal Areas Maldives - An Island Nation Fights to Stay Afloat - Global 3000 Creating A Climate For Change - Full Length Movie Africa’s Ambitious Plan: Great Green Wall Oil & Water oil industry	Environment & Sustainable Development
September 2015	Poison on our plates Supply Chain Management: HDFC bank initiative	Agricultural Economics
September 28, 2015	Third Bi-Monetary Policy: Governor’s Press Meet 12 Angry Men Chaplin’s critique of industrialization The Power of the Market: The Pencil Blue Busters (An Apple Company video showing the rivalry between Apple & IBM) The Mattel official Barbie Song	Money Banking and Financial Institution Logic Development Exp. Maj. Eco. World.
September 18, 2015	The reluctant fundamentalist	Introductory Sociology
September 11, 2015	Dead poet's society	Introductory Sociology
September 2, 2015	Overdose	Principles of Macroeconomics
August 26, 2015	Gasland	Economics of Environment & Sustainable Development
August 24, 2015	Nero's Guest	Indian Economy
August 18, 2015	City of Joy	Indian Economy
August 12, 2015	Age of Stupid	Economics of Environment & Sustainable Development
August 03, 2015 August 12, 2015	Steve Jobs-Founder of Apple-Documentary Film-2015 Best Marketing Strategy-by Steve Jobs-Think Different-Video	Marketing Management
August 05, 2015 August 12, 2015	Making of a fighter Pilot Moving Clipping of Udaan	Behavioural Psychology
August 11, 2015	Gandhi	Principles of Management
August 05, 2015	Goldman Sachs: power an peril	Money Banking & Financial Institution
August 01, 2015	Bitter Seeds	Agricultural Economics
August 18, 2015	Inside Job	International Economics
August 29, 2015	Inside the Meltdown	Principles of Macroeconomics
August 29, 2015	Black Friday	Ecode
August 13, 2015	Seconds from Disaster	Development Exp. Maj. Eco. World
August 14, 2015	Out Sourced	Introductory Sociology
August 18, 2015	Massan	Introductory Sociology
July 23, 2015	Life and Debt	International Economics
July 20, 2015	All the President's Men	Ecode
July 20, 2015	The Imitation Game	Game Theory
July 20, 2015	Guns, Germs & Steel	Development Experience of Major Economies of the World
July 20, 2015	Cave-o-nomics- Morgan Spurlock	Principles of Macroeconomics
July 14, 2015	Into Graveyard	Environment and Sustainable Development
July 14, 2015	NDTV documentary on Alang Shipyard World’s Biggest Garbage Dump: Plastic in the Ocean Island Raiders	Economics of Environment and Sustainable Development

Case study

Date	Topic	Course
March 2016	Oil price plunge: Syrian Civil War - Convention on Supplementary Compensation and India - Iran-US Nuclear Deal - Civil Liability Nuclear Damage Act 2010 and Nuclear Commerce; - Fourteenth Finance Commission - Budget 2015-16 (Discussion) Effect of falling oil prices on oil producing and oil consuming nations - Derivative trading strategy in post budget scenario - Week of Feb8-Feb 13 in Indian Stock Markets - AOL Time Warner. The Case Of Cultural Differences	Economics of Geopolitics & International Relations Public Finance & Policy Advanced Macroeconomics Financial Economics Business Strategy
February 2016	Rhastriya Swastha Beema Yojna India-ASEAN FTA: Case study on Coffee, Pepper, and Tea Nepal Earthquake: Case of Disaster Diplomacy Spartly and Paracel Islands: Conflict for natural and oil gas resources ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT LEBANON CONFLICT Hold the Catch-up – Convergence across nations US Fed’s monetary policy 1. Borrowing cost 2. Diluted EPS Chile – Fiscal Policy	Public Finance & Policy Economics of Geopolitics and Int. Relations Advanced Macroeconomics Analysis of Financial Statement Economic Governance & Policy
January 2015	Term loan and project appraisal (forecasting of cash flow in case of loan, preparation of working capital statement, calculation of cost of project and its financing, calculation of Debt service coverage and interest coverage ratio) Major Mitali Madhumita Strategic Moves by the Mahindra Group Managing Hindustan Unilever Strategically Supply Chain in developing nations The Phoebus cartel, The International Coffee Agreement Nigeria & the Dependency Theory Thatcherism and Reagonomics Oil Crisis Case 0f 1970s Bandra-Worli Sea Link: Rationing of Public Good North Korea Nuke Test and Stock Market South Korea: Case of Economic Success	Analysis of Financial Statements Gender Economics Business Strategy International Economics Intermediate Microeconomics Economic Governance & Policy Advanced Macroeconomics Public Finance & Policy Economics of Geopolitics & International Relations
December 2015	One Belt one Road Strategy Case of India and China A Case study of Rural Households published by NCAER (July 2011) Understanding sampling design using the case survey report sponsored by SEBI on How Households Save and Invest: Evidence from NCAER Household Survey Case Study of Japanese economy during 1990s North vs South Korea Inequality and the "American Model” Patanjali vs HUL Walmart The market for Black pearls Airline pricing & Air Somalia OPEC De Beers diamonds Budget airline carriers Teaching Forecasting case study (Quarterly data )was obtained from Reliance Telecom The Case of the Niche Bike. The Case of Strategy Making. Women safety in Delhi Marriages before 18 in India	Economics of Geopolitics & International Relations Financial Economics Applied Econometrics Macroeconomics Economic Governance & Policy Intermediate Microeconomics IT Skill Business Strategy Gender Economics
October 2015	Juhu Beach Case study through Contingent Valuation Method and calculated carbon footprints. Economics behind producing Fruits Cost sheet, Marginal costing, Budgetary control BPL Colour TV	Economics of Environment and Sustainable Development Agricultural Economics Managerial Accounts Marketing Management
September 2015	Personality Difference Recruitment Policies HR Strategies Conserving wetlands through microfinance programs, India Equitable sharing of benefits in Sukhomajri, India Conservation of Snow Leopards in the Himalayan Region Biodiversity banking and offset scheme of New South Wales (NSW), Australia Community-based lake restoration increases income from fisheries, Nepal	Principles of Management Economics of Environment and Sustainable Development
September 2015	Competitive Devaluation: China	International Economics
September 2015	Working capital Management	Managerial Accounts
September 2015	Harley David Son Star Engineering	Marketing Management
August 2015	Harvard Business Review case study on "Leaders & Managers’ Harvard Business Review case study on "What Really Works” Case Study on HR policies	Principles of Management
August 2015	Non-governmental standard development and certification for Palm Oil: Ecosystem services and local administrators in the case of the"Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil” (RSPO) 2010	Economics of Environment and Sustainable Development
August 2015	Biodiversity decline can increase the spread of infectious diseases like Hantavirus	Economics of Environment and Sustainable Development
August 2015	Strategic Policy: Semi-Conductors in Japan	International Economics
August 2015	Working capital Management	Managerial Accounts
August 2015	The Nordic countries as classic examples of welfare economies, Censorship in China & Russia	Development Experience of Major Economies of the World
August 2015	Virgin Mobile case study MNC in Agriculture: Monsanto	Pricing & Resource Mgt Agricultural Economics
August 2015	Land Acquisition in India.	Agricultural Economics
August 2015	Yuan Devaluation and its impact on India and global economies Porsche Takeover by Volkswagen	Capital Markets
August 2015	Fair & Lovely-Creating Demand Buying Behavior of Women & Men Burnol	Marketing Management
July 2015	Global Trade Slowdown	International Eco.
July 2015	Trends In Trade: India and China (A comparative Analysis)
July 2015	Problems in Kalahandi and its Growth	Agricultural Eco.
July 2015	Problems in Agricultural Growth
July 2015	Decision making	Managerial Accounts
July 2015	Greece Economy	Money Banking & Fin. Inst.
July 2015	Germany's position in Greek Treasury and possibility of Grexit	Capital Markets
July 2015	Nike – Cost of Capital	Corporate Finance
July 2015	Eastern Bank	Marketing Management
July 2015	Super Asia Pipes
July 2015	Marketing of Milk-Amul

Video Clips

Video Clips screened for the T.Y. B.Sc. Economic

Date	Name of Video Clip & Course
March 2016	Indian Economy - II Chief Economic advisor on Economic Survey Economic Governance and Policy NDTV discussion on the Economic Survey Business Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy & the World by W. Chan Kim Blue Ocean Strategy. San Diego University Video Behavioral Economics Waltz with Bashir Discussion videos of Thaler and Ariely
February 2016	Business Strategy Delivering a Sustainable Turn Around Strategy, HBS-Michael Porter’s Competitive Strategies-Part-2 Economic Governance and Policy Chile’s Innovative Fiscal Policy Indian Economy Labour Reforms Time for a Relook – To the point Labour Reforms – Can consensus be reached
January 2016	You need a Strategy for your Organization-Michael Porter-HBS HBS-Michael Porter’s Competitive Strategies-Part-1 Transforming India with Arvind Panagariya GST bill The constitution 122 Amendment Five American (Mafia) Families Justice by Michael Sandel Moral Dilemmas	Business Strategy Indian Economy Economic Governance & Policy
December 2015	Arun Jaitley on Tax Reforms in India: Vision for the future Interview of Nirbhaya's parents with Arnab	Indian Economy Gender Economics
October 2015	Piketty TED talk Can we do It Together Prof: Michael Porter on Competitive Strategies-A Harvard Business School	Development Economics Advanced Microeconomics Marketing Management
August 2015	The Public Goods game	Game Theory

Video Clips screened for the S.Y. B.Sc. Economic

Date	English Literature
March 2016	Listen Mr. Oxford Don A Very Old man with Enormous Wings United Fruit Co. Mending Wall Phenomenal Woman Toba Tek Singh The Unknown Citizen Animal Farm
January 2016	Mind Over Money South Korea s Economic Success Story	Financial Economics Economics of Geopolitics and International Relations
November 2015	Quiet Rage - Stanford Prison Expt The Ordinary Heroes of Taj Hotel	Behavioral Psychology
October 5, 2015	RSTV, APMC and its problems Piketty TED talk	Agricultural Economics Research Writing

Video Clips screened for the F.Y. B.Sc. Economic

March 2016	How trade is beneficial to the world.	International Economics
February 2016	How the Stock Market Works Sixth Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Review: Press Meet	Intermediate Macroeconomics
January 2016	Rock-Paper-Scissors” from the Big Bang Golden Balls: The Greatest Split ever	Intermediate Microeconomics
December 2015	The Walmart Supply chain Chaplin’s critique of industrialization The Power of the Market: The Pencil Blue Busters (An Apple company video showing the rivalry between Apple & IBM) The Mattel official Barbie Song German Economic Miracle German Mittelstand Labour Day in the Limited States If Lee Knan Yew were to Govern India o Governor’s Press Meet during the Monetary Policy Announcement	Intermediate Microeconomics Development Experience of Major Economies of the World Intermediate Macroeconomics
August 2015	Britain does owe reparations part of an Oxford union debate involving Dr. Shashi Tharoor "The Secret Life of Lalit Modi”	Development Experience of Major Economies of the World course. Ecode
July 2015	‘Marketing Management by Dr.Philip Kotler They don’t really care about us The Amazing Story behind THAT photo The Youtoons get ready for Obama care Opening Ceremony - London 2012 Olympics Industrial Revolution Performance Fisher’s Principles & its deviations	Marketing Management Development Experience of Major Economies of the World course.

Games & Experiments

Following are games were conducted for Principles of Microeconomics by Prof. Sneha Thayyil

Games to understand opportunity cost
Games on ‘Why Markets Don’t Clear under Central Directly’
Experiment on ‘Scale of Performers’
Games on ‘The Smiley Production’ to explain the Law of Variable Proportion
Double Auction Game to explain equilibrium & How markets clear
How perfectly Competitive Markets Clear

A game on Saving Income Experimental Approach was conducted as a part of the course Principles of Macroeconomics by Prof. Rohit Muraleedharan
A game Pictionary was conducted for S.Y. B. Sc. Economics to revise concepts of geopolitical structure as a part of the course Economics of Geopolitics and International Relations by Dr. Esha Khanna.
A game ‘Master of Economy Version 1 & 2’ was conducted for First Year B.Sc. Economics as part of their Principles of Macroeconomics to understand the working of monetary and fiscal policy.
A Game to explain ‘Law of Variable Proportion’ for the course Principles of Microeconomics was conducted for the F.Y. B.Sc. Economics.
A Game ‘Pictionary’ (To revise macroeconomics concept) for the course Principles of Macroeconomics was conducted by for the F.Y. B.Sc. Economics.

Software Training

Excel Session on the derivation of the labour demand curve for the course Intermediate Microeconomics was conducted by Prof. Sneha Thayyil.
A practical session on ‘R’ software for the course Applied Econometrics was conducted by Prof. Shreya Biswas.
A practical session on ‘R’ for ‘Regression diagnostics’ for the course Applied Econometrics was conducted by Prof. Shreya Biswas.
A practical session on excel for Derivation of the direct and indirect demand curves, and the kinked-demand curve for the course Intermediate Microeconomics was conducted by Prof. Sneha Thayyil.
Practical Sessions on SPSS and Excel for the course Operations Research was conducted for the T.Y. B.Sc. Economics by Prof. Sneha Kotian.
Hands on practical sessions on ‘R’ software was conducted for the course Advanced Econometrics for the S.Y. B.Sc. Economics by Prof. Rohit Muraleedharan
Hands on practical session on ‘R’ software for detecting influential observations in data conducted for Applied Econometrics to the T.Y. students by Prof. Shreya Biswas.
SPSS sessions were conducted for S.Y. B.Sc. Economics to explain various statistics used for hypothesis testing and checking normality assumption using UK Earnings dataset as part of their Introduction to Econometric course by Prof. Shreya Biswas.
Hands on experience on statistical package SPSS was given to S.Y. B.Sc. Economics students on Aug 18, 20 & 31 2015 for the course ‘Introduction to Econometrics’.
Hands on experience on statistical package "R- Software” was given to T.Y. B.Sc. Economics students on August 13, 16 & 28, 2015 for the course ‘Time Series Econometrics’.
Following Practical Sessions were conducted for the T.Y. B.Sc. Economics students for the course Time series Econometrics
Time Series Analysis – Empirical example for explaining the application of cointegration – Testing US purchasing power parity using cointegration in pre and post Bretton Woods (Enders, 1988)
Time Series Analysis – R sessions: (a) Simulation of trend stationary and random walk models in R (b) Modelling non-stationary time series in R using Air passengers dataset (c) An application of cointegration and error correction models in R using US interest rates

Class Activities

A Discussion of Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy, Reserve Bank of India for the course Advanced Macroeconomics was conducted by Prof. Rohit Muraleedharan.
ETOP exercise by students on HUL and ITC for the course Business Strategy by Prof. B. S. Pai
SAP exercise by students on Hero Motor cop and Tata Steel for the course Business Strategy by Prof. B. S. Pai
Debate on "Should all Public Sector Bank’s be privatized for better Financial sector Health” for the course Indian Economy – II by Prof. Amita Vaidya
Debate on "Should Inflation Targeting be the prime focus of RBI in India- an emerging Economy?” for the course Indian Economy – II by Prof. Amita Vaidya
A practical session on excel for ‘solving optimal portfolio using data’ for the course Financial Economics was conducted by Prof. Shreya Biswas.
Prof. Sneha Thayyil along with 8 students of T.Y. B.Sc. Economics attended the lecture on Capitalism and Democracy – a discussion by Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel, moderated by Patrick French.
A class debate on ‘Should Income Tax be abolished in India’ was conducted for the T.Y. students for the course Indian Economy – II by Prof. Amita Vaidya.
A discussion on fifth bi-monthly monetary policy was conducted for the course Intermediate Macroeconomics for the F.Y. B.Sc. Economics by Prof. Rohit Muraleedharan

Field Visit

Prof. Amita Vaidya, Prof. Sneha Thayyil along with the T.Y. students attended the interactive session on the ‘Economic Survey’ at Mumbai University on 8th March, 2016 the chief guest was Dr. Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India.
Prof. Kiran Limaye and Prof. Sneha Thayyil attended the seminar at Mumbai University on the topic ‘Issues Related to Budget 2016-17’ on March 18, 2016.
As part of the course Agricultural Economics, the S.Y. B. Sc. Economics students visited to an Organic Farm and Horticultural Department of School of Agricultural Sciences Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) Nashik on October 28, 2015. This was followed by the session on ‘Economics of Organic Farming and its Sustainability’ by Mr. Surya Gunjal, Director, YCMOU
Field Visit to RBI Monetary Museum on October 30, 2015 for the Course Money Banking and Financial Institution.

Convocation 2015

The Convocation ceremony for Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics, Sunandan Divatia School of Science and Anil Surendra Modi School of Commerce was held at Bhaidas Hall on 4th August 2015 at 3.30 pm. The Chief Guest for the Convocation was Mr. Vijay Chandok, President, ICICI Bank.

Convocation Picture - 2015 (Click Here)

The following were the students in the Dean's List:

Ms. Revati Goradia,
Anisha Chaudhary,
Tanya Margaret.

The following were the awards given to the graduating students of The Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics.

Students Award

The first rank holder with a CGPA of 3.94 who got Gold Medal – Ms. Revati Goradia,
The second rank holder with a CGPA of 3.78 who got Silver Medal – Anisha Chaudhary,
Best student for consistent Academic Performance 2012-15 – Ms. Revati Goradia,
Best All Rounder – Ms. Revati Goradia

Special prize for organizing

Padmasai Varanasi,
Tanya Margaret,
Ayan Pande,
Sakshi Kohli

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