One of my favourite things in teaching has been the Ph.D. courses. For one, the class is small, usually not more than 3-4 in an elective offered to the area students- marketing, in my case. Second, you are constantly learning from the discussions, re-looking at the best work published around the world- I mostly did Seminar courses on Digital Marketing, Tourism Marketing or Retailing.
Research ideas come out of such interactions, not just for fulfilling course objectives but beyond them. Conference papers, journal papers can follow, sometimes with the students as co-authors. It lays the foundation for their Ph.D. topics, sometimes. Here are a few students of Ph.D. from IIM Indore these last few years..
Aarushi, Shweta, Sanket, Ankita, and Sumit two years ago.
