DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINITY AND OPTIMIZATION

(DMUO) TERM 2 2015 Section C

Project: Industrial Waste Management
Electronicswasteisoneofthefastestgrowingwastestreamsaround.
Ewastei.e.electronicwastesignifiesdiscardedorobsolete,electricalorelectronicdevices.Allthe
secondarycomputers,modems,copiers,faxmachine,electriclamps,audioequipments,batteries,
VCRs,cellphones,compactdisks,refrigerators,stereos,TVsetsandotherentertainmentdevicesat
theendoftheirusefullife,fallunderthecategoryofWasteElectricalandElectronicEquipment
(WEEE)orsimplyewaste.
ThisisanexampleofIndustrialwastemanagement.Youmayconsideranyothertypeofindustrial
wastemanagementincludingchemicalswastemanagement,solidwastemanagement,Toxicand
Hazardouswastemanagement,Industrialandcommercialwastemanagement.
Allgroupstopicsfortheprojectneedstobedifferentwithrespecttodifferenttypesofindustrial
wastemanagement.ClassCRisrequiredtocompilethesetopicsalongwithaonepagesynopsisand
submitbySundaySeptember13,2015.
Consideryourselfasanentrepreneurstrugglingtoworkasavendorbetweentherecyclingunitsand
theindustrialwastemanagementfirmsinDelhiNCRregion.Youhavetoanalysealltheprocesses
includingthestrength,weakness,opportunitiesandthreatsinvolvedinundertakingthisbusiness
prospects.Youmayconsiderthefollowingobjectiveswithrespecttothedecisionmakingforanew
businessventure:

To study the scenario of industrial waste management in India

To explore current industrial waste management practices around India and its
sustainability.
To explore the disposal of industrial waste in India
Steps involved in improving industrial waste management in India
To understand the level of awareness of industrial waste and the state of industrial
waste management in India
To explore new business ventures by making recycling operations more efficient
which will help to reduce the impact on the environment.
To understand industrial waste management policies in India
To explore industrial waste management in context of sustainable development
To identify the possible actions that could be taken to develop industrial waste
management at India

Final Report Format

The final report has to be prepared and submitted in the format of a Case Study encompassing
the areas mentioned here under the heading of Contents.
Appropriate title to the topic of study

List of students within a group with their student id no., e-mail ids and section mentioned
ExecutiveSummary
Keywords
Acknowledgements
ListofAbbreviations
ListofTables
ListofFigures

1. Introduction/Backgroundofthestudy

2. Literature Review article studies from previous journals research papers in the area of
your study (minimum 20 research papers needs to be included)
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Objectiveofthestudy
Methodology(provideflowdiagram)
ExistingSystem
Companybackground
MarketSize
Productionpossibilities
Distribution
Economicperformance
Datacollection
Dataanalysis
ProposedSystem

14. Policy implications if any

15. Managerial implications
16. Recommendations

References including website links and assessed date

Appendix this will include Excel data sheets and any other information you wish to add.

Ground Rules must follow these rules before submission

The entire report needs to be in your own language and no plagiarism should be found. If
more than 20% plagiarism is found then you will straight away be given zero marks
in your project report.
The entire report must be in the range of 20-30 pages.
The Final Report format as mentioned in the heading Contents is not sacrosanct. It is
subject to change depending on the sector specific requirements that need to be
incorporated and highlighted. Please use Summer Project Guidelines as Style Manual for
writing the report (A4 size, Times New Roman, 11 font, single spacing).
Grading of the report will be done on the strength of the analysis and explanation therein.
No graphs, which is basically a reproduction of the data provided, are to be included as
part of the report.
Please incorporate diagrams wherever possible and label them clearly.
Please follow the guidelines of the summer project in terms of report submission.

Case Study

Preference should be given to the case study format for your project related to the
strategic decision making process of any company of your choice. This shall consist of a
6-8 page (A4 size, Times New Roman, 11 font, single spacing) case on one or more issues
related to business dilemma due to uncertainty of anyone Indian player in the Sector under
study. The case should clearly highlight the imperatives driving the uncertainty and dilemma
due to that, model and suggestions to deal with uncertainty and benefits envisaged and
methodology followed.

Presentation all students should be in formals

The presentation should cover the problem in hand, data and information available
and solution proposed. .
Each presentation will be of 15 minutes with 10 minutes given to the group to
highlight the key findings and 5 minutes for open discussion with the students.

Journals for references

1. Management Science
2. Journal of Business Venturing
3. Decision Science
4. International Journal of Operations and Production Management
5. International Journal of Logistic Management
6. International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management
7. Management Decision
8. Interface
9. Annals of Operations Research
10. Academy of Management Review
11. Operations Research
12. Strategic Management Journal
13. The American Economic Review
14. Journal of Management
15. Journal of Strategy and Management
16. Global Strategy Journal
17. Journal of Manufacturing and Technology Management
18. Journal of Economics and Management Technology

Cases Published by (Very Important to refer)

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Ivey Business School Cases

Kellogg Business School Cases
Harvard Business School cases
London School of Economics Cases
Asian Case Research Journal

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NACRA
ECCH
McGill University cases
ISB Case study

Published sources for data collection

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IMF working papers

World bank working papers
World Bank data source
IMF
IFS
Annual survey of Industries
Planning commission data base
RBI published data sources
CMIE database
Economic survey
CRISIL reports
Company reports
Indiastat.com
UNCTAD
Business reports of the company
Others

Project Report Submission Process VERY IMPORTANT

1. The submissions have to be made by the CRs for the entire class.
2. The groups have to make a folder and name it in the format group no_name of the topic
and submit to their CRs.
3. In that folder, there will be 2 sub-folders of headings: Main project and Supporting
materials.
4. In the Main project folder, attach the word file of your report. Make sure you do not
submit your report in pdf format.
5. The reference made in the report shall be in the Harvard business style and should include
details about the books, journals, papers that are referred by you.
6. The literature review shall be in the paragraph form within the report.
7. While writing the literature review, if you have referred to some journal or paper to
formulate your write up, do remember to mention the name of the author in the body of the
write up and then make a proper reference with the author name, journal title, abstract, date,
volume, page no etc in the Reference section.
8. All the tables should be in the appendix included at the end of the report and attached in
the main project sub-folder.
9. No data tables should be in the body of the report.

10. Only the analysis table should be included in the body of the report along with your
interpretation of the result and your analysis of the data.
11. In the appendix, include a table in the format mentioned below, to specify about the
research papers that you have referred to formulate your literature write up.
S. No.
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Year

Author

Title

Abstract

Methodology Findings
In bullets

References

In
bullets

The references that you will be mentioning in the above table should also be mentioned in the
reference document of your report (minimum 20 references needs to be mentioned here).
12. In the Supporting Material folder , attach two base/theme papers that you have referred
for your project report, the pdf files of the papers, excel sheets, newspaper articles, Excel
files, the data collected and calculated.
13. In separate word file, list the terminologies used in your report and attach this in the
supporting material folder.
14. The softcopy of the references has to be attached in the supporting material folder.
15. Please note that there is no need to submit the hardcopy of the supporting materials folder
and it has to be submitted only in the softcopy form.
In case of any doubts and clarifications, you may contact me.