Faculty Details

CAREER PROGRESSION AND SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS - INDIA  

Associate Professor (Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship) International Management Institute, New Delhi (IMI-Delhi)                                                                                                                                June 2011 - Current

• Research Project
• Principal Investigator - Innovations in large Indian firms – AICTE funded 3 year Project (sanctioned on 14th March 2013)
• Research Collaborations
  • Syndicate Bank Entrepreneurship & Training Center (SBERTC) at IIT-Kanpur
    • Research Project – Designing & Developing Business Simulation Game (SIG)
  • o SIDBI Innovation & Incubation Center (SIIC) at IIT-Kanpur
    • Advisor to ALL past and present companies incubated by SIIC
• Publications: Books, Conference papers presented & Documentary
  • 1. “Promoting Innovation in a Cluster: A Guidebook for Promoting Innovation in MSME Clusters”, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition (April 2, 2013); ISBN-10: 1482710684; ISBN-13: 978-1482710687
  • 2. Audio-Visual Documentary - “Promoting Innovation in Clusters: Pictures of Change”, Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, March 2013
  • 3. Conference papers presented:
    • 1 paper - “Visioning the Future of Higher Education” at the 2nd National Conference Excellence in Higher Education – IIT-Delhi 28-30 June, 2012
    • 3 papers at 3rd Annual Global Conference for Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation (AGCETI 2012) – IIT-Kanpur 7-9 December 2012 [co-authored with Prof. Abhishek Nirjar]
      • 1. Elements of an Ideas Factory
      • 2. ‘Learning’ to Innovate
      • 3. Spilling Innovations into the Eco-system
• Other Research related activities
  • 1. Conference Chair (with Prof. B.V. Phani – IIT-Kanpur) 3rd Annual Global Conference on Entrepreneurship & Technology Innovation – 7th to 9th December 2012 venue IIT-Kanpur organized by IIT-Kanpur, IMI, Resslner Polytechnic USA & NEN
  • 2. Chair - Panel Discussion – AGCETI 2012- IIT-Kanpur 8th December 2012 – “Executing on Opportunities a Global Perspective”
  • 3. Panel Discussion – AGCETI 2012 –IIT-Kanpur 7th December 2012 – Innovations @ BHEL
  • 4. International Advisory Committee AGCETI
  • 5. Editorial Committee for AGCETI 2012
  • 6. Faculty advisor and mentor IMI E-Cell
• Teaching:
  • 1. Strategic Management (Exec-PGDM) - core
  • 2. Strategic Innovation (Exec-PGDM) - elective
  • 3. Business Modeling (Exec-PGDM) - elective
  • 4. Entrepreneurship / New Venture Creation (PGDM) - elective
  • 5. Business Strategy & Competitive Advantage (PGDM) - core
  • 6. Corporate Strategy (PGDM) - core
  • 7. Advance course on Strategy (FPM) – core
  • 8. Basic course on Strategy (FPM) – core
  • 9. Strategic Alliances (FPM) – elective
• Projects supervision (Exec-PGDM / PT-PGDM):
  • 1. Over 20 (10 currently) final projects on Strategy and Business Modeling of Exec-PGDM from PSU, PSB and private sector including: BHEL, HAL, NTPC, IOB, ONGC, Maruti, CMC
• Outreach:
  • 1. TiE (U.P) – The Young Entrepreneurs Program (TYE) developing entrepreneurial capability at the K-12 level – teach basics of entrepreneurship to school children from Kanpur at IIT-Kanpur (2012 – ongoing)
  • 2. Advisor: Vustr; Brandwidth Communications Pvt. Ltd.; DS Techworks Solutions Pvt.Ltd. (2012 – ongoing)
• Training:
  • 1. Open MDP – Managing Creativity & Innovation for Growth Program director with Prof. Abhishek Nirjar
  • 2. Multiple sessions for MDPs on Innovation for Competitive Edge Both Independent and jointly with Prof. Abhishek Nirjar for Senior Executives [included organizations like BHEL, NTPC, IOCL, IFFCO, EIL, SJVM, Dena Bank, RBI and other Public Sector Banks]

 Associate Professor (Innovation & Entrepreneurship) GD Goenka World Institute, Lancaster University
                                                                                                                                      July 2010 – May 2011

• Re-designed PGDBM specialization Family Business, Entrepreneurship & Innovation (includes 6 new modules)
• Key achievements:
  • 87 students certified by SIIC at IIT – Kanpur and RPI (USA) for Entrepreneurial Decision making using the simulation Strategic Innovation Game

Associate Director (Education)                                                                                 January 2009 – May 2010
NEN, Wadhwani Foundation

• Responsible for entrepreneurship capacity building for 500+ member institutes (Led designing, sourcing and recruiting for Faculty Development, Teaching Materials & E-leaders Programs)
• Designed developed and led implementation of activity based impact assessment across 500+ member institutes
• Key achievements:
  • 1000+ faculty and 1300+ e-leaders trained from over 400+ higher education institutes across the country (1 year)
  • Summit for Designing NEN Phase 2 – October 2009: Knowledge Matrix for Developing Entrepreneurship Programs on campuses across the country

 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE , LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS , U.K.                                    OCT. 2000 – AUG. 2008           

• Researcher at Information Systems & Innovation Group, Department of Management 
• Pioneering Courses Developed for Department of Management
  • Post-graduate (MSc) (Module Designer and Lecturer)
    • Business Innovation: A Techno-Legal Perspective [IS486b]
  • Executive Program (Joint Course Designer and Lecturer)
    • Collaborative Innovation: Managing Networks of Human Capital
    • Adaptive “Business Organisms”: Managing Information Flow

 TEACHING EXPERIENCE AT L S E                                                                                (OCT. 2000 – MAR. 2008)        

Information Systems & Innovation Group – Post-graduate [core & elective]

1. Information Systems Management [IS472]
2. Management & Economics of e-business [IS477/485]
3. Business Innovation: A techno-legal perspective[IS486b]
4. Designing Information Services [IS414/480]
5. Innovating Systems Development [IS471]
6. Information Technology: Issues & Skills[IS490]

Undergraduate elective
7. Information Technology & Society[IS143]

Summer School Program
8. E-Business in the Digital Age[MG150]

Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), Singapore (University of London- External Program)
9. Software Engineering

 SUPERVISION OF MASTERS DISSERTATIONS AT LSE FROM                         MAY 2004 TO AUGUST 2008               

 Supervised 25 Masters Thesis / Projects in the areas of Innovation and Entrepreneurship: for students in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics.

 ADVISORY - GOVERNMENT AND NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION 

SIDBI Innovation & Incubation Center (SIIC) at IIT-Kanpur                                      July 2011 - ongoing
MSME Foundation (India) Promoting Innovation in Clusters                                          July 2010 – March 2013
Creative Commons (England & Wales)                                                                     October 2006 – January 2009
Emerging Business Models
Industry Governance Institute (U.K)                                                                     January 2006 – August 2008
Making the organisation ‘Transparent’ to itself: Mapping Structures with Activities,
for effective controls and hence governance.
Ministry of Culture (U.K.)                                                                                             July 2007 - October 2007
Financing Intellectual Property for the creative industries.
European Union (Twinning Project)                                                             September 2006 - December 2007
IPR Enforcement (in Lithuania).

SOME SPEAKING / MODERATION ENGAGEMENTS

IIT-Delhi Higher Education: Envisioning the future                                                                 July 2012
India at 100, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi                                                                 April 2011
Panellist: Growth drivers for SMEs: Cluster based approach to IT & ITeS MSMEs
Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur, India (AGCETI-2010)                                     January 2010
Session Chair Moderator: Entrepreneurship Education Panel’ “Vote of Thanks”
i-Commons Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil                                                                      June 2006
“Emerging Business Models: Commercial Commons?”
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India                                                       December 2005
“IPR Management & Strategy”
Indian Law School, Pune, India                                                                                        December 2005
“Innovation in Legal Services”
Asia Pacific Network, London, U.K.                                                                                   December 2005
“P2P Systems and New Commercial Architectures”