IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University Sets up a New Advisory Board

The IFMR Graduate School of Business has recently formed a new advisory board which includes renowned academics and business personalities. [Sponsored]

Take a look at brief profiles of the new advisory board members of IFMR Graduate School of Business at Krea University.

IFMR GSB Advisory Board

Dr. Ajit Ranade, Group Executive President and Chief Economist with the Aditya Birla Group

Dr. Ajit Ranade is Group Executive President and Chief Economist with the Aditya Birla Group. He is a Member of the Economic Policy Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry and a Member of the National Executive Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. He is Chair of the Research Advisory Panel of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance and member of the Governing Council of CAFRAL of the RBI. He is an Engineer and MBA and received a PhD in Economics from Brown University, USA.

Dr. Chandru Rajam

Founder and CEO, RichFeedback

Dr. Chandru Rajam is Founder & CEO of RichFeedback, a provider of delegated-grading and learning-assessment services to universities and colleges globally. He previously served as Vice Provost for Graduate, Professional & Continuing Education at The College of New Jersey, and taught at George Washington University, National University of Singapore (NUS) and the University of Colorado.

Chandru was also previously Founder-CEO of EduMetry. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Dr. Rajam was Regional Director (Singapore) at EIU, a division of The Economist Group, where he led the Economist Corporate Network, overseeing research briefings on Business in Asia to the Asia-regional CEOs of global companies.

He completed his Engineering degree from IIT, PGDM from IIM and PhD, Business Strategy from Pennsylvania State University. 

Dr. Indira J Parikh

President, Antardisha (Directions from Within)

Prof. Indira J. Parikh is the President of Antardisha (Directions from Within). Antardisha is a private entity creating a space for individuals, collectivities, organizations and institutions to have a dialogue to discover themselves, to review their past, to reflect on the present ‘Here and Now’ and renew themselves for the future. Prof. Parikh is the Founder President of FLAME University, Pune. Prof. Parikh has done MEd from University of Rochester, New York USA and the Doctorate from Gujarat University. She was a faculty at IIM-Ahmedabad for over 30 years and Dean from 2002 to 2005. She has taught at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France) and Texas A&M University. Professor Parikh is on several boards of companies as an independent director.

Currently, Prof. Parikh is engaged in developing Leadership Model conceptualized on Work Space, Social Space and Life Space anchored in self-reflectivity and identity.

Prof. Ravi Kumar

Emeritus Professor, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, USA

Prof. Ravi Kumar is a B Tech (Mechanical Engineering) degree holder from the IIT Madras, India and his PhD from the Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Department at Northwestern University. He is currently Emeritus Professor at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business on whose faculty he served for more than 27 years. He has also served as the Dean of Nanyang Business School in Singapore and Dean of KAIST College of Business in S. Korea.

Professor Kumar is an expert on global operations and supply chain management, the author or co-author of more than 70 articles in international peer-reviewed academic journals, like Management Science, Marketing Science, Production & Operations Management, Journal of Economic Theory etc.

Prof. Rishikesha Krishnan

Professor of Strategy, IIM-Bangalore; Former Director, IIM-Indore

Prof Rishikesha Krishnan is an author, columnist and professor of management who focuses on strategy, innovation, and education. He is listed in the Thinkers50 India list of most influential management thinkers from India.

Prof. Krishnan’s book 8 Steps to Innovation: Going from Jugaad to Excellence (co-authored with Vinay Dabholkar) won the Best Book Award for 2013-14 from the Indian Society for Training & Development. His earlier book From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India proposed a blueprint for how India can enhance its innovation output.

Prof. Krishnan has been on the on the faculty of IIM Bangalore since 1996, where he held the Jamuna Raghavan Chair in Entrepreneurship from 2007 to 2010. He was educated at IIT Kanpur, IIM Ahmedabad and Stanford University.

Prof. V.G. Narayanan

Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Professor Narayanan earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration, MA in Economics, and MS in Statistics at Stanford University; and his Diploma in Management from IIM Ahmedabad. Professor Narayanan began his career in public accounting at J. Gowrikanthan & Co., Chartered Accountants, Madras.

Professor Narayanan currently chairs the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1994 and has taught in several MBA, doctoral, and executive-education programs. He developed and taught the online accounting course in HBX CORe. He won the Greenhill award of outstanding contributions to HBS community in 2014, the Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education in 2002, and the American Accounting Association Management Accounting section Best Paper Award in 2018. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He serves on the board of directors of Leader Bank, MA, and the advisory board of SB International, TX.

Prof. Rangarajan (Raghu) K. Sundaram

Dean, Stern School of Business, New York University

Rangarajan (“Raghu”) Sundaram has been the Dean of the Stern School of Business since January 1, 2018. He previously served as Stern’s Vice Dean of MBA Programs for two years from January 2016 to December 2017. He has been a member of the Stern faculty since 1996 and was formerly at the University of Rochester from 1988-96. Raghu received his BA in Economics from Loyola College, University of Madras, India in 1982, an MBA from the IIM-Ahmedabad in 1984, and his MA and PhD in Economics from Cornell in 1987 and 1988, respectively.

Raghu is the author of two books: A First Course in Optimization Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Derivatives: Principles and Practice (McGraw-Hill, 2010).