http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/narayana-rao-kvss/2utb2lsm2k7a/1#
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I am a faculty member in National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE).
http://www.nitie.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=538&Itemid=103
I did post graduation in industrial engineering and did the doctoral research work in capital markets.
My Subject Interests
My present teaching interests are Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Investment Banking and Management of Security Market Intermediaries.
Warren Buffett gave a call for Buy America. He has shown evidence by writing big cheques for investment in Goldman Sachs and GE.
I also give a similar call to people with savings. Invest during the downturn. I also wrote cheques, for small amounts of course. I am committed equity portfolio building during the current period. Many professionals say markets will come down once again due to earnings decreases in various companies. People with savings have to pick up individual stocks or mutual fund units tactically. Strategy has to be to acquire as much as one can with in the asset allocation strategy. The advice is to overweight equities in financial asset portfolios.
Investment Strategy - October 2008 Onwards
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/273
New Ideas
Knol Author Recruitment - Double the Number of Knol Authors
A public online publishing platform like knol requires large number of authors who write on diverse areas and topics. Existing authors have to participate in encouraging their intellectual neighbors to write for knol. If each author can recruit one author before 30th June 2009, the author base can double.
My Knols (Major Areas)
I. Management Knowledge Revision Knols
Principles of Management – Koontz and O’Donnell
Theories of Leadership
Organization Behavior – History of Development of The Discipline
(More)
II. Branches of Knowledge
III. Management Concepts Directory (Aa to Az)
I write on Industrial Engineering. My post graduation is in Industrial engineering.
I strongly believe that industrial engineering is a very useful discipline contributing to the improvement in productivity of each and every person and thus to his material well-being, comfort, safety and health. Industrial engineering is to be treated as one of the functional areas of management like marketing or finance. Like finance, whose activities spread into each and every department of an organization, industrial engineering also has application in the proceses and systems used in every function and engineers the work of persons employed in every department. Industrial engineering has enterprisewide responsibility.
My doctoral work is on return on equity shares. My present teaching interests are in the Security analysis, Issue of securities (Investment banking) and Management of securities market intermediaries.
Due to various reasons (Professional necessity) and interest, I studied and taught number of subjects in Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Management and I plan to write about some of the issues in these subjects over a period of time.
I write on many subjects from Accounting to Zoology, Both accounting and zoology are important subjects for industrial engineers. While, I am writing on many subjects, my special expertise of course is in long term investment methods and strategies. In rest of the subjects, I write revision articles based on some standard text books. These articles are useful to me for revising and updating my knowledge base and I believe, there are also useful to many for their revising and updating the knowledge in these subjects. Every knowledge workers needs to revise and update his knowledge. I hope my knols facilitate this activity to some extent.
My first knol was on Focus of Industrial Engineering. My contention is that focus of Industrial Engineering is efficiency - human efficiency and system efficiency. Functional design of systems is the job of other specialists and industrial engineers make the systems efficient both at the design stage as well as later as the system is in operation. The role of industrial engineers in systems design can be that way two fold - system efficiency design and coordinating the system design process.
Current status of my Knol Projects
(24th March 2009)
I posted more than 1000 knols so far.
Some of them may have only the knol's topic and likely contents. The aim of such a post is to communicate to the probable management community group members the opportunity to contribute to the knol. I am trying indicate such knols through the term JIN - Just Initiated Knol (Work in progress). Most of them are open collaboration knols inviting participation from readers to add further material to them and enlarge them.
My aim is to provide revision or review articles for graduates of industrial engineering and management so that they can refresh their knowledge periodically. My effort of writing articles in all the subjects of the curriculum is to demonstrate that by appropriate committed effort, we can retain our learning of multiple subjects over a long period of time.
Only when we retain a large number of principles in our brain, we take decisions properly when the occasion comes. According to me we are all incurring a huge amount of cost of ignorance.
My advocacy is the that knowledge workers have to make special efforts to retain, revise, refresh and update their knowledge.
The recent subjects on which I initiated Knols
Security Analysis
India - BSE Sensex Companies - Information and Equity Research
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/611
(This knol and related knols will provide information and equity research developed by my students in the subject as class assignments of their course. This dissemination plan is as per my paper "Independent Equity Research from Business Schools: A Possibility" published in AIMS International Journal on Management www.aims-international.org/AIJM/2-2-5.pdf).
Invitation to Visitors to get Involved
I look forward to contribution from the readers of my knols to improve them as required. Let us all utilize the wiki technology to create materials useful to us and our fellow professionals all over the world. I am intentionally creating number of open collaboration knols to prompt visitors to get involved.
My Knol Directory
I am preparing a directory of my knols with subject classification to facilitate access.
The main subject directory is:
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/article-series-directory-management/2utb2lsm2k7a/120
My Blog Directory
Handbook of Management of Security Market Intermediaries
Handbook of Industrial Engineering
Handbook of Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
Handbook Mergers and Acquisitions
Handbook of Research Methodology
Contact Mail Id
My mail id for contact is kvssnrao50@gmail.com
My orkut id
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?rl=ls&uid=2441343048680260783
An Orkut Community started by me
Management Theory and Practice
http://www.orkut.co.in/Community.aspx?cmm=54603526
The community is expected to facilitate research - to- practice and practice -to- research communication.
To further this objective of research to practice dialogue, I am starting the pattern of giving relevant research papers yearwise in management concept knols. I request researchers and research scholars to add to the research papers and enrich the bibliography.
