XLRI - Jamshedpur :: Faculty - Faculty Profiles

A. C. Jesurajan ,S.J.
B.Sc., L.Ph., M.A. (Leicester, UK)
Communication,General Management

Father Jesurajan received his training in mass communication and spent seventeen years in the Philippines, in India and in the USA teaching, training and researching varied areas of mass communication. Since 1984, besides teaching Managerial Communication and Corporate Image Building to regular students, he conducts in-company and training programmes on these and other related areas. He has been conducting workshops to CEOs and other senior level managers, in India and abroad. His experiences in training managers and his knowledge of the industry make him unique in this field of managerial communication. He is editor of the Institute’s journal, Management and Labour Studies.

Abhijit Gangopadhyay (On Leave)
M.A., Ph.D. (Kolkata), P.G. Dip. (IIT, Kharagpur)
Organizational Behaviour,PM & IR

Worked in several research and training assignments for over three decades in the area of organizational behaviour, organzational development and human resources management.Prior to joining the XLRI, Dr Gangopadhyay was the Professor & Dean, School of Management & Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Professor Gangopadhyay was the Professor & Head, Department of PMIR,TISS, Mumbai; Professor & Dean, Indian Institute of Management, Indore; Director, Central Labour Institute, Ministry of Labour, DGFASLI, Mumbai; Professor in Behavioural Sciences, SVP National Police Academy, Hyderabad and Scientist, Defence Research & Development(DRDO), Ministry of Defence, New Delhi.Worked as the national expert with International Labour Organization(ILO) and Asian Productivity Organization(APO), Tokyo. Current research interests include organizational restructuring & design, diversity management and management of occupational health & safety.

Anita Sarkar
Fellow (IIM Ahmedabad), MBA, B.Sc. (Econ)
PM & IR

In her thesis she has looked into factors related to empowerment of women employees in a stereotypical job. Prior to her doctoral study she worked in industry for more than 9 years. She has presented papers in national and international conferences, and has published articles. Her research interests include empowerment, training and development, gender diversity, and international human resource management. She also qualified in the UGC NET-JRF.

Arundhati Sarkar Bose
M. Phil., M.A. (JNU)
Economics

Prof. Arundhati Sarkar Bose has completed her M.A. and M. Phil. from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU, New Delhi. She has completed writing her Ph. D. thesis and is soon expected to receive a doctorate from JNU New Delhi.
Before joining XLRI, she taught at Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi and Miranda House, New Delhi. She has also taught in an external program of the London School of Economics and worked as a research fellow at IIFT.
Her area of research is International Trade and Finance, Labour Economics and Economics of Education. She published her works in both print and electronic refereed journals.

Ashis K. Pani
M.Tech(IIT Madras), Ph.D (IIT Kharagpur)
Information Systems

Chairperson of the Information Systems Area and the “Center for e-Business". He has thirteen years of teaching, research and consulting experience in business computing. Published and presented several papers in leading journals and national/international conferences. Current areas of interest e-Business, e-Procurement, e-SCM, e-Security and policy, IT outsourcing and application of intelligent agents in business. Presently member of Indian Association of Research in Computing (IARCS), Computer Society of India and IEEE Computer Society.

Bijaya K. Mangaraj
M. Sc. , Ph. D. (IIT , Kharagpur ) , D. Sc. (Utkal )
Production & Operations Management

Worked with Xavier Institute of Management and Utkal University , Bhubaneswar since 1988 ,prior to joining XLRI in November , 2006 . Areas of research interest include Multi-Objective Decision -Making , Fuzzy Logic and their application to management and societal development problems at one end & Cultural Management at the other. He has also got gold medals and awards for some of his research works .Has already guided six scholars for their Ph.d .degree in Management .He has published in National and International journals and is also a reviewer of European Journal of Operational Research . Held several administrative positions at XIMB and Utkal University including Head of the Deptt of MBA , Utkal University .He has also consulting experience with Govt . and Private sectors .

C L George, S.J.
MA (Bombay), MA (Marquette, USA)
Economics

D Israel
MCom (Madras) MPhil (Madras) PhD (Pondicherry) FDPM (IIM Ahmedabad)
Marketing

He qualified the National Educational Testing (Master’s Level) conducted by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi in 1988 and was awarded both Junior and Senior Research Fellowships for pursuing his doctoral thesis on Conjugal Power Structure in Purchase Decisions which he had completed in 1994 from Pondicherry University. Prior to joining XLRI, he had taught at Karunya Deemed University, Coimbatore and IMT-Ghaziabad. Areas of interest include Business Research Methods, Marketing Research, Data Analysis for Marketing Decisions and Service Loyalty Measurements. He has conducted Development Programmes on the Application of Statistical Tools through SPSS and has published several articles in the refereed journals.

D P Sinha
PGDPM&IR (XLRI), LLB (Ranchi), Advance HR Management Course (UCLA, LA)
PM & IR

After about 36 years of corporate experience in public, private sectors and multinational (Hindustan Copper, Zuari Industries, Goa and BOC) D. P. Sinha opted for academia and joined XLRI in August 2006 in PM & IR Area. Prior to joining XLRI he was Corporate Vice President (HR) in Zuari Industries Ltd at Goa. He is a visiting professor at IIM, Kozhikode and SIBM, Pune. He has keen interest in Management Education and training. He has designed and conducted a number of management excellence programmes. His areas of interest are Strategic HR, Performance Measurement & Management, Balanced Scorecard, Reward and Compensation Management and Win-win Negotiations. He has attended a number of national and international programmes and conferences.

D S Broca
B.Com (Hons) (Calcutta), MBA (KU Leuven, Belgium) M A Cs. (Waterloo, Canada), Ph.D. (TIET Patiala)
Production & Operations Management

Professor Broca joined XLRI in June 2006. At the onset of his career, he served at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. On returning to India, he had a brief stint with Nestle India Ltd. Between 1991 to 2006, Professor Broca has held academic positions at the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology Patiala, BITS Pilani, IIT Roorkee and IIM Kozhikode. His research interests currently focus on Statistics Education – classroom capsules/notes that contain new ideas to enrich teaching of traditional statistical concepts.

Debabrata Sen
MA (Eco., International Trade) Calcutta Univ., EDD (Planning, Entrepreneurship) Harvard University, MBA (Finance), Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston
Economics

Three decades of experience in the development of entrepreneurship and creation of SMEs in the developed and developing countries.

Debasis Pradhan
PGDRM (XIMB), Fellow* (IRMA)
Marketing

Debasis Pradhan is an Assistant Professor at XLRI where he teaches Advertising and Sales promotion, Consumer Behaviour and Marketing Management. His doctoral thesis was on influence of marketing environment variables on promotion mix decisions of the firms in the rural industries. Prior to joining IRMA for his doctoral degree, he has worked for more than two years as a consultant in power sector. Papers authored by him have been published as well as accepted for publication in national and international journals of repute. Apart from XLRI, he also teaches at XIM, Bhubaneswar as a visiting faculty. He has presented papers authored by him at international conferences like INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Singapore and Academy of Management (AOM), Philadelphia. His research interests include Effectiveness of Advertising, Consumer Decision Heuristics, Rural Marketing, and Bottom of Pyramid (BOP) Markets.

Dipankar Bose
Fello (IIMC)
Production & Operations Management

He has joined XLRI in January, 2010. Prior to joining XLRI, he has taught at IMT, Nagpur. His doctoral work was on the effects of Price and Production Postponement decisions, and Product Flexibility on Capacity Planning under uncertainty. His areas of interest include Strategic Capacity Planning, Stochastic Programming, Manufacturing Flexibility, Revenue Management and World Class Manufacturing Strategies. He is a certified ISO 9000:2000 Lead Auditor. Prior to joining the Fellow Programme at IIMC, he has worked in a leading Petrochemical Complex for more than 4 years.

E. Abraham, S.J.
PGD PM&IR (XLRI); PhD (Gujarat)
Organizational Behaviour

Director

Fr Abraham is the Director of XLRI and Professor of Organizational Behaviour. Earlier he was the Director of XIMB. He also worked as Joint Director of the Academy of HRD, and the President of the Association of Indian Management Schools. He has professional affiliation to a number of organisations at the national and international level. He is on the board of many management institutes and associations including XIM (Bhubaneswar), AIB-UG (AICTE), XIME, MCIM (Bangalore), NIT (Rourkela) , AIMS, National HRD Network, XAMI and IAJBS. His areas of interests include Leadership, Institution Building, Organisational Climate, Culture and Change.

E. M. Rao
M.A. (S.W.), LL.B., Ph.D. (TISS)
PM & IR

Dr. E. M. Rao had been in industry as a Personnel and Industrial Relations Manager for more than 20 years and was associated with several reputed organizations including Warner - Hindustan, VST and IDL Industries Ltd., Hyderabad and later as an Advocate and Management Consultant. Dr. Rao was with the ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad as a Professor in Management for two years before joining XLRI in the year 1997. Dr. Rao conducted in-company training programmes in various organizations like Shriram Honda, Raymond Synthetics, IOC, HPCL, OIL, Tata Cummins, BEL, Ranbaxy, ITC, Goa Shipyard and Eicher. He has published more than 20 papers on personnel/human resource management, industrial relations and labour law. A life member of NIPM, IIRA, NHRD Network and NLLA. His areas of specialization include Industrial Relations, Labour Law, Disciplinary Action, Negotiation Skills, Performance Management, Potential Appraisal, Career Planning & Development and Managerial Skills/Effectiveness.
Dr Rao has edited the 6th edition (2004) of the famous "Law of Industrial Disputes", authored by Mr O P Malhotra. In addition, Dr Rao has authored the book titled "Industrial Jurisprudence" (2004).

Ekkirala S Srinivas
Ph.D. (Osmania)
Organizational Behaviour

Professor in Organizational Behaviour Area at XLRI Jamshedpur and currently Coordinator, Centre for HRD at XLRI. He has been in teaching, training and consulting since 1985. His areas of interest include organization development (OD), spirituality at work, cross-cultural issues in OB, personal effectiveness, and transformational / charismatic leadership. Received Best Research Paper Award from AIMS and Gold Medal for Best Doctoral Thesis. Dr. Srinivas presented his research at several international conferences.

Gloryson R B Chalil
B.Sc. (Agriculture - AAI Allahabad), PGDM (PM&HR) and MLL&LW (Both from Symbiosis), FPM (IIM Bangalore)
Organizational Behaviour

Associated with several firms in various capacities such as interne,
employee, trainer and consultant. His dissertation focuses on burnout
among IT professionals working in offshore projects. He has presented
papers in various seminars and conferences including Academy of
Management, US. His areas of current interest include stress management,
work life balance, organizational identification, psychological contract
and career management. He is offering courses on organizational
structure & design, advanced techniques in research methods, corporate
governance and strategic HRM at XLRI. He is also associated with
affirmative action initiatives by CII.

Gourav Vallabh (On Leave)
Certified Financial Risk Manager (GARP, USA), Chartered Accountant (ICAI, India), Company Secretary (ICSI, India), Ph.D. (UoR, India), M.Com., LL.B.
Finance

A Gold Medalist in B.Com. and M.Com. Exams. He has worked with the National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM), Pune prior to joining XLRI. Published research papers in referred academic journals and presented papers in conferences. He was honored with “Best Young Researcher Award – 2004” jointly by ICWAI and IAA & also won the best paper award in XXV All India Accounting Conference. He has undertaken Consultancy assignments for the Reserve Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and Government of Rajasthan. Conducted in-company training programs for Syndicate Bank, Canara Bank, SRF Limited, ETA Dubai, Citibank, Union Bank of India, Tata Steel, Kanbay India Pvt. Ltd, Edwards Lifesciences (India) Pvt. Ltd., JUSCO Ltd. and Scheduled Urban Cooperative Banks and many others in the area of Essentials of Finance, Accounting Standards, US GAAP and IFRS’s, Risk Management, Basle II and Commercial Banks, Cost Management and other Finance related topics. Current areas of interest include Cost Management, US GAAP, IFRS’s, Indian Accounting Standards (AS) and Corporate Disclosure Practices, Basle II and Commercial Banks, Risk Based Supervision (RBS), Risk Based Internal Audit (RBIA) and Lending Decisions. Currently also associated with the Government of Rajasthan in the capacity of Honorary Advisor to the Ministry of Revenue.

H. K. Pradhan
Ph D (Pune)
Economics,Finance

Prof Pradhan has over 22 years’ experience in teaching, research and consulting in the field of finance and economics. He has a Ph D from the University of Pune(India) and a Fullbright Post Doctoral Research Fellow with the Columbia University Business School(New York). He has been Professor of Finance and Economics at XLRI since 1995, where he also served as the member Board of Governors. He served as the Regional Debt Advisor for the Pacific Countries for the Commonwealth Secretariat London, and also concurrently the Resident Advisor with the Ministry of Finance, Government of Fiji Islands, during 2005-07. He has served as an expert for the United Nations-Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok. Has conducted extensive capacity building workshops on debt management for multilateral organizations such the United Nations, World Bank, ADB, Crown Agents, and the Commonwealth, with participations from over 50 developing countries. Some of his key research areas include global capital markets, government debt management, real exchange rate, asset pricing, market risk management and development finance.

I. S. F. Irudayaraj
M.S.W. (Madras), Ph.D. (Osmania)
Organizational Behaviour

Worked with Loyola College (Madras), Centre for Organization Development (Hyderabad) and Academy of Human Resources Development (Hyderabad). Rendered consultancy services to many public and private organizations. A life member of NHRD network. Areas of interest include Organization Development and Change, Developing Vision, Mission and Value Congruence, Building Organization Culture, Personality Development through Transactional Analysis, Leadership, Team Building and Counseling.

J. Singh
B A (Calcutta) PGDBM (XLRI) Ph.D (Wharton)
General Management,Human Resource Management,Organizational Behaviour

Joined XLRI in June, 2004. Has an eclectic profile developed over 30 years first as an academician-cum-administrator at XLRI and subsequently as a senior executive at Tata Steel. His earlier stint at the Institute, spanning 10 years, culminated as Dean for a 4-year term. He taught a variety of courses in the Organizational Behaviour, Economics and General Management areas in the postgraduate and executive development programmes. He also conducted a large number of in-company programmes for leading companies. At Tata Steel, he played a pivotal role in designing many of the HR systems and practices for which the company is renowned. He also spearheaded its learning centres for 20 years. He has now returned to XLRI as the “Tata Steel Chair Professor of Organizational Development.

James Santhanam ,S.J. (On Leave)
M.Com., M.Phil. (Madras), M.A. (Marquette, Milwaukee)
Finance

Worked as Financial Controller at XIM, and Faculty Member at Centre for Research and Development, XIM, Bhubaneswar. Specialization in Finance and Administration.

L Gurunathan
B.Sc. Mathematics (Madras), MBA (Coimbatore), Fellow (IIM Ahmedabad)
PM & IR

Prof. Gurunathan has joined the institute recently, after completing his Fellow from IIMA. In his thesis he focused on the determinants of Executive Knowledge Management Behaviour. Currently his areas of interests are Compensation, especially executive compensation, Strategy and HRM, and International Human resource management.

M Srimannarayana
M.A. (IR&PM) (Andhra), Ph.D. (Utkal)
PM & IR

Gold medalist in M.A. (IR&PM).

After working in corporate sector for one year, he took academic assignment. He was a Professor in Maharishi Institute of Management, Hyderabad prior to joining XLRI. His Doctoral work is on training and development in public sector undertakings. He has published research papers in referred academic journals and presented papers in various national and international conferences. His areas of interest include human resource management for line managers, employee selection, training needs assessment, and training measurement and evaluation.

M G Jomon
M.Phil (Delhi), Fellow (XLRI-AHRD)
PM & IR

Dr. Jomon, currently Associate Professor at XLRI, Jameshaedpur earlier worked in XIMB Bhubaneswar, Corporates and cosulting firms in HR and OD areas. A gold medallist in masters from Loyola, M.Phil from Delhi University and Fellow from XLRI-AHRD has authored four books and over 20 articles.

His expertise are in the areas of competency interventions, performance management , 360 degree feedback/appraisal, HRD Audit, Induction, Mentoring, Training, Career planning & development, Potential appraisal, Succession planning & development. His client organizations include both Indian and multinational companies.

Madhukar Shukla
M.A. (Psycho) (Lucknow), Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur)
Organizational Behaviour

Worked with the National Productivity Council and Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad. Was a Visiting Professor at ESADE (Barcelona), Spain during 1993-94. Fields of special interest include Organizational Design, Organizational Change and Development, Learning Organizations and Management of Creativity. Authored two books: “Designing Organizations” and “Competing through Knowledge” and about 30 papers in professional journals. Consultancy with many public and private organizations.

Manish Singhal
BE (Mech), MITS; PGDM (Finance), XIMB; Fellow (Behavioral Sciences), IIMC
Organizational Behaviour

Acting Coordinator - Doctoral Programs

An eclectic profile with qualifications in mechanical engineering, financial and general management, organizational behavior and sociology and experience in the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, journalism and yoga. Work experience in chemical plant maintenance, event management, administration, teaching and providing training in holistic personality development and various management functions.
Six years of post-MBA experience in the spiritually-oriented service mission of Vivekananda Kendra (H.Qr.: Kanyakumari) as a dedicated selfless social worker has provided the breadth of experience to be able to relate to various human imperfections and encourage the move towards actualizing one’s potential.
Other than being the full-time faculty at XLRI, has earlier served as visiting faculty at several institutes which include:
• Assam Institute of Management, Guwahati
• Assam Administrative Staff College
• UBI Staff Training Institute

Manoj T Thomas
Fellow (IRMA), M Phil Economics (CESS Hyderabad), PGDRM (IRMA), BE Civil (NIT Raipur)
Strategic Management

Has been with XLRI since May 2007. Prior to this, has worked for about eight years with different organizations in research and consulting. Has published papers in areas related to technology management, strategic issues in development organizations, and public systems. Current areas of interest include corporate strategy, entrepreneurship, resource based theory and public systems. Courses taught at XLRI include Strategic Management, Resource Based Strategy, Contemporary Business Practices, and Contemporary Research in Strategic Management.

Munish Thakur
M.B.A , Fellow (IIM,C)
Strategic Management

Joined XLRI in October, 2006. Doctoral work in area of entrepreneurship exploring how entrepreneurs create success. Present research interests include dynamic capabilities of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship at societal level. Cases and papers published in both national as well international conferences and journals. Associated with different organizations at various levels including start-ups.

Narasimhan Rajkumar
B.E.; PGDM (XIMB); Ph.D. (Utkal University)
Marketing

Dr. Rajkumar has been teaching Marketing in KIIT, Bhubaneswar, Utkal University and S P Jain, Dubai for the last 7 years. Prior to this he worked in several organizations like SRF Ltd., GE Capital and Paradeep Phosphate Ltd. His last assignment was as Dean of School of Management under KIIT Deemed University, Bhubaneswar.

He completed his Ph.D. study from Utkal University in the area of Marketing with specific focus on Retail Price Perceptions. His areas of interests are Consumer Behavior, Numerical Cognition and Retail. He has 5 publications to date and is currently working on a book on Pricing Management.

P. K. Padhi
LL.M. (Cochin), Ph. D. (Berhampur)
General Management

Has 18 years of experience in teaching and research, published 10 books and15 articles of high repute, worked with XIM Bhubaneswar as a Visiting Professor for more than 10 years and served as a Principal, University Law College, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar for nearly 8 years. His areas of specialization include industrial relations, labour law, company law, trade law, collective bargaining, child labour, and intellectual property rights.

P C Padhan
M.A. (Sambalpur University) Ph.D. (University of Hyderabad)
Economics

He has more than four years of teaching and research experience in the area of macro-monetary economics, empirical finance, applied econometrics and time series analysis. He is actively involved in research relating to monetary policy transmission mechanism, liquidity adjustment facility, interlinkages between financial markets, etc. Prior to joining XLRI he was working at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, where he was involved in both research and teaching activities in the area of economics. He has published several research papers in reputed journals, presented papers in various conferences, actively participated in various seminars/workshops. To his credit, he has qualifed UGC-NET (JRF) in Mathematical Economics.

Paul Fernandes ,S.J.
M.A. (Economics) and M.A. (Ethics) KU Leuven, Belgium, PGDM (XLRI), Ph.D. (Germany)
Ethics

After graduating from XLRI in 1986, he worked at XIM, Bhubaneswar from 1989 till 1993, in the capacity of administrator and financial controller. He had the opportunity to study at various places Mangalore, Ahmedabad, Patna, Ranchi, Pune and understand the richness of our Indian culture and thought.

Pingali Venugopal
P.G. Diploma in Management & Fellow (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad)
Marketing

Post Graduate and Fellow in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, is currently the Dean (Academics) and Professor (Marketing) at XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has been a Marketing faculty at XLRI, Jamshedpur, since 1994. He has also been a visiting faculty to the Indian Institutes of Management in Ahmedabad, Calcutta and Lucknow and the American University of Armenia. Prior to his stint at XLRI, Prof. Venugopal held managerial positions for 10 years in the marketing divisions of two agribusiness companies.

Professor Venugopal has authored the books on “Marketing Channel Management: A Customer Centric Approach” and “Input Management, The State of the Indian Farmer: A Millennium study”. He has presented papers at national and international conferences as well as published articles in leading national and international journals. He has also been involved as a consultant with several projects for both the profit and non-profit sectors.

Pitabas Mohanty
M.A. in Applied Economics (Utkal Univ.), C.F.A. (ICFAI), Cost Accountant (ICWAI) FPM (IIM, Bangalore)
Finance

He has more than five years of teaching experience in Investments and Corporate Finance. He is actively engaged in research in corporate finance and investments and has many publications in books and refereed journals. He has also consulted with a few companies in valuation of companies. He won the Best Young Teacher Award from AIMS in 2002. He got the first prize for two consecutive years in the Capital Markets Conference organized by the UTI Institute of Capital Markets. He also got the prestigious Citibank Research Excellence Award in IIM Bangalore. He has won the Best Research Paper Award from AIMS in 1999.

Prabal K Sen
MA in Economics, Calcutta University
Economics

Prabal K Sen served the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) as Bank of Baroda Chair Professor from November 2001 to March 2007 before joining XLRI as Professor in March 2007. He had earlier taught at the Post Graduate Department of Economics in Burdwan University and served a public sector bank for over two decades, where he had occupied senior positions in areas related to economic research, general management and rural credit policy planning and operations. He has carried out several studies on rural credit and development, published a number of papers on related subjects and offered consultancy services, among others, to the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India and the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit.

At IRMA Prof. Sen taught macroeconomics and rural finance-related courses and also discharged administrative responsibilities as (i) the Member-Secretary and Coordinator, Corpus Management Committee, (ii) Trustee, IRM Employees’ Provident Fund, (iii) Placement Coordinator and (iv) Member, PRM (Post-graduate Programme in Rural Management) Committee for varying periods

He has guided and evaluated a number of PhD theses relating to different Universities, conducted sessions at workshops and training programmes organized at regional, national and international levels, and coordinated several Management Development Programmes (MDPs) for senior functionaries of finance and development-related organizations including one held in collaboration with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (C-GAP), Washington.

Besides being the Coordinator, Entrepreneur Development Cell at XLRI, Prof. Sen currently occupies the positions of (i) Member, Board of Studies, Dept of Banking & Insurance, Faculty of Commerce, MS University of Baroda, (ii) Member, Board of PG Studies in Rural Development & Planning, Nagaland University (a Central University), and (iii) Member, Advisory Committee, School of Management & Computer Application at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur.

Pranabesh Ray
PGDPM&IR (XLRI), Fellow (IIMA)
PM & IR

After about a decade of corporate experience, both in the private and public sector, Dr Ray has been teaching in XLRI for more than 15 years. His teaching, consulting and research are in the area of Human Resource Management with special emphasis on Managing Redundancy, Managing Negotiations, Performance Management, Union Management Corporation, and Employment Relations in the service sector. Published numerous papers in reputed journals.

Prantik Ray
MBA(Finance), MA (Economics), DBF(ICFAI)
Finance

Prof. Ray has been in Academics since 1997 after a brief stint in Business Journalism. He has taught at ICFAI, Hyderabad, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, FORE School of Management, New Delhi and Army Institute of Management, Kolkata before joining XLRI in June, 2007. He teaches basic courses like Financial Accounting and Financial Management. He offers electives such as Mergers and Acquisitions, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management and Structured Finance. His areas of interest are Corporate Finance, Investment Science and Financial Engineering. He has a rich experience in conducting MDPs, consulting and academic administration.

R. K. Premarajan
M.A. (Psycho) (Calicut), Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Organizational Behaviour

Dr Premarajan has about 15 years of work experience as an academic and as a Practitioner. Currently he is also the L&T Scholar of HR. Prior to joining XLRI, he worked on the faculty of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, as Executive Assistant to the Chairman of National Dairy Development Board, and with the HRD Division of Larsen & Toubro Limited. His areas of consulting, training and research are Competency Based HRM, Organizational Career Development, and Assessment & Development Centre. He also teaches a course on Organizational Structure, Design and Change.

Rajeev Sharma
MBA (Devi Ahilya University , Indore), Fellow (IIM Bangalore)
Information Systems

Did an empirical study on "Control and Coordination of Global Software Projects" as a part of doctoral dissertation at IIMB. He was awarded UNESCO-IFIP grant for his doctoral work. Current interest includes valuation of IT investments, insourcing and outsourcing of software development projects, new product development, and strategic use of information technology resources in networked world. He is also a member of Association of Information Systems (AIS) and Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) at Bangalore. Has published several papers and attended international conferences. His academic achievements include Director's Merit Certificate for being the best Doctoral Student at IIMB. Prior to joining XLRI he has worked in the corporate world as an investment research analyst.

Rajiv Misra
B.E. (Mech. , Roorkee), M.S. (Industrial – State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, USA)
Production & Operations Management

He started his career with Ashok Leyland and then moved to Tata-Robins-Fraser (TRF), an Engineer-to-order project organization. In his tenure of twenty years at TRF, he worked in various functions: Manufacturing, Planning, Procurement, HR and IT. He was a Senior Divisional Manager at TRF when he left to join XLRI in June 2005. While at TRF, he was associated with XLRI as a Visiting Faculty. His interests are in the areas of Production Planning, Project Management, Theory of constraints and managing Manufacturing-Supply Chain interfaces.

Ram Kumar Kakani
B. Tech. (Andhra Univ.), FPM ( IIM Calcutta)
Finance,Strategic Management

Worked in the corporate sector for four years; was a visiting scholar at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; did doctoral work on the relationship between diversification strategy and financial performance of Indian business groups. His recent scholastic achievements include the best paper award at 2002 IBER Conference held in USA. The Aditya Birla Research Centre of the London Business School and the National Stock Exchange of India supported his research work; has published several research papers in international journals, and has acted as a referee in professional journals; has been a visiting faculty at other premier management and training institutes, has provided consultancy for various organizations including Kirloskar Brothers and NABARD. Areas of interest include Business Analysis, Corporate Finance, Diversification Strategy and Study of Business Groups.

Sabyasachi Sengupta
Chartered Accountant (ICAI), Cost Accountant (ICWAI) and Company Secretary (ICSI).
Finance

Has worked in various organizations across a few industries for eight (8) years before joining XLRI (Jamshedpur) in the year 1998. Areas of expertize, specialization and interest includes (amongst others), Management Accounting (Financial & Cost Accounts), Corporate Financial Management, Working Capital Management, Financial Planning and Control, Project Appraisal, Mergers, Acquisitions & Corporate Restructuring, Direct & Indirect Taxation, Corporate Laws & their implications etc. While in industry he had specialized in developing Accounting & Costing Systems, structuring MIS reporting, dealings with Banks and Financial Institutions and in various fields of Management Consultancy services.

Sanjay Patro
B.Sc. (Engg), PGDRM (IRMA), Ph.D. (Berhampur)
Marketing

Dr Patro has more than 17 years of experience in teaching, research and training. He has handled consulting assignments for many organizations in the field of Marketing and Strategy. His areas of interest are Strategic Marketing, Product and Brand Management, Services Marketing and Rural Marketing.

Sanjeev Varshney
MBA, Fellow (Management Development Institute, Gurgaon)
Marketing

His thesis at MDI was on Outshopping Behaviour (in the domain of retailing and consumer behaviour) and has used Mixed methodology for his thesis. Paper based on his thesis was given Best Paper of the Year award at COSMAR 2006 (IISc Bangalore). He has over 9 years or work experience and has worked in both industry and academia. His last assignment was with Sales Excel Pvt. Ltd. (Gurgaon) as Principal Consultant and has worked for companies like Britannia, Tata Sky, Nokia, Cargill Foods etc. His areas of interest are in Retailing, Consumer Behaviour and Marketing Research.He is Rationalist as a Researcher and believes in complimentarity of qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Santanu Gupta
Ph.D. IGIDR (Mumbai), M.A, JNU
Economics

Santanu Gupta works in the area of Public Economics and Political Economy. He has held research and teaching positions with the London School of Economics, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Development Foundation and Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgaon.

Santanu Sarkar
MA (Indore), PhD (Indore)
PM & IR

After working with industry for one and half year, he began his career in teaching and academics. Before joining XLRI, he was working in the School of Management and Labour Studies, TISS, Mumbai. He has published papers in national & international journals & conferences and coauthored a book. He was a Visiting Fellow (Jt. Research) at the Dept. of Mgmt Sciences & Decision Making, TKU, Taipei, and was reviewer for AoM & EIBA Conferences – 2004-07; presented papers at Academy of Management & EIBA. Research interests include cross-cultural issues in HR and Employee Relations, trade union behaviour and independent labour movement, labour laws, and learning & devpt.

Santosh Kumar Sangem
M.Com (Mumbai), DBF(ICFAI), CFA (ICFAI), Chartered Accountant (ICAI), FPM (Economics, IIM Calcutta)
Finance

Joined XLRI in December 2009. His doctoral work studies the evolutionary
patterns of risk taking and regulation in the context of the Indian
Banking System during the period 1950-2007. His research interests are
primarily the economics of banking, banking regulation, risk management
and performance evaluation in banking, banking and macroeconomic activity,
economic theories of the firm, corporate financial structures and
corporate governance.

Sharad Sarin
B.E. (Jodhpur), PGDBA (IIMA), Ph.D. (Pune)
Marketing

Prof Sarin has been with XLRI since 1976. Before joining XLRI, he worked in industry for four years. He is currently on the Boards of XLRI Jamshedpur, Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad and Tata Refractories Limited. Over the last 30 years, he has been a corporate consultant to several large and well-known Indian companies. He has conducted more than 100 programmes and workshops on Strategic Marketing, Industrial Marketing, Relationship Marketing, Strategic Management and Customer Satisfaction, both in India and abroad. He has been Visiting Faculty to IIM-Ahmedabad, University of Colorado at Boulder and Rhode Island in the USA. His areas of interests are: General Marketing, Industrial Marketing, Competition and Globalization, Relationship Marketing and Marketing’s Role in Development.

Smitu Malhotra
M.B.E., Ph.D (IIT Kharagpur)
Marketing

Her thesis studied the impact of globalization on competitive practices of Indian firms. Prior to her PhD has worked in the industry in the marketing area. Her other areas of interest include social entrepreneurship and marketing communications.

Soumendra N. Bagchi
BE(Civil Engg), Delhi College of Engineering; Fellow (IIM Ahmedabad)
PM & IR

After graduating as civil engineer, he worked in Hospital Services Consultancy Corporation, a public sector enterprise under Ministry of Health, for nearly five years in different projects located in different parts of the country.

In IIM-A, he was awarded the IIMA FPM Alumni Chaudhary Padmanabhan Pant Scholastic Award for performance in first year of the fellow programme and the Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) Thesis Proposal Award for the year 2003- 2004.

Since joining XLRI he has been teaching and researching the subject of performance management. Apart from conducting training programmes for managers, he has been involved in audit, development and implementation of performance management systems in public sector organizations. His areas of interest also include decision making and qualitative research methods.

Soumyakanti Chakraborty
B.Tech (Calcutta University), Fellow (IIM Calcutta)
Information Systems

He has joined XLRI in August, 2009. His doctoral work was in the area of iterative combinatorial auctions which was a study on the challenges facing the adoption of combinatorial auctions in real life business scenarios. His areas of interest include information feedback in combinatorial auctions, economics of information technology, and e-governance. He has published papers in international conferences. He has four years of work experience in the IT sector prior to joining the Fellow Programme at IIMC.

Suma Damodaran
B.A (Economics) Madras University ; M.A (Economics) Madras University; Fellow,, IIM, Bangalore.
Economics

Dr. Suma Damodaran has been in academics for fifteen years with Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, Goa Institute of Management and Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode and is currently a member of Faculty in the Economics Area at XLRI Jamshedpur. Her teaching , research and consulting interests lie in the following areas of economics- Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Managerial Economics, Industrial Economics, Management education and issues in Economic Development.

Sumanta Basu
B.Tech (Vidyasagar University), Fellow (IIM Ahmedabad)
Operations Management

Joined XLRI in January, 2010. Prior to joining XLRI, he worked for 16 months in a product management group of Wipro. His doctoral work was in the area of metaheuristics like tabu search to address combinatorial optimization problems. His areas of interest include linear and integer programming, simulation, applications of heuristics in optimization problems like transportation, scheduling, facility location etc. He has good exposure in supply chain management, inventory control, and in ERP. Before joining in Fellow Programme at IIMA in 2003, he worked for three years in a leading petrochemical complex.

Sumit Sarkar
Ph.D. (JNU)
Economics

Dr. Sumit Sarkar has completed his Ph.D. from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU, New Delhi.
Before joining XLRI, he taught at IIT Kanpur and IIM Kozhikode . He has also taught in an external program of the London School of Economics.
His area of research is Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Industrial Organization Theory and Auction Theory. He published his works as well refereed for international refereed journals.

Supriya Kumar De
M.Sc., Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)
Information Systems

Worked with Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad prior to joining XLRI. Published a number of research papers in leading international journals. Current areas of interest are Data Warehousing and Data Mining, Fuzzy Logic Applications, e-Business and Computer Security.

Suresh Paul Antony
M.B.A. (Madurai Kamaraj University)
Marketing

Suresh has submitted his thesis on age-related differences and buying intention, for the title ‘Fellow of Indian Institute of Management’ [Lucknow]. A chapter from the thesis has been published in an edited volume by Springer. He has presented his research at some national and international forums. Earlier, he held academic appointments at Thiagarajar School of Management [Madurai], and Indian Institute of Management [Kozhikode] in total, for over 7 years. Besides, he has exposure of 14 years across the automotive, financial services, direct selling, and music industries, and across business and consumer markets. His areas of interest include vulnerability, business markets, product policy, and marketing demographics.

Swarup Mandal (On Leave)
B.E. (J.U), PGD (IIM Calcutta), (Fellow, IIM Calcutta)
Information Systems

His doctoral research is in the area of radio resource management in mobile cellular networks at IIM Calcutta. His areas of interest include wireless and mobile communication & computing, pervasive computing, mobile service pricing, m-commerce, WDM optical networks, application of AI techniques to business problems, strategic use of IT, IT enabled disaster management, adhoc networks. He has published several research papers in international conferences and journals.

T. A. S. Vijayaraghavan
M. Stat. (ISI), PGD in SQC & OR (ISI), Fellow (IIM Bangalore)
Information Systems,Operations Management

Worked with the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar and with the Central Institute of Road Transport, Pune prior to joining XLRI in 1995. Areas of interest include, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Statistics and Six Sigma, Transportation Planning and Management and Services Management. Have published papers in National and International Journals and a Member of few international and national professional bodies. Presently on the National Board of Studies of the Indian Institute of Materials Management and the Coordinator of the Centre for Logistics & Transportation Management (CLTM) in XLRI.

T. Gangopadhyay Home Page
M. Stat., Ph.D. (ISI Calcutta)
Information Systems,Operations Management

Specialization in Combinatorics and Graph Theory. Fields of special interest include Fractals Database Management, Artificial Intelligence and Quantitative Methods. Published fifteen papers in International Journals such as Discrete Mathematics, Utilitas Mathematica, Ars Combinatoria and also in Springer Verlag Lecture Notes Series.

Tata L. Raghu Ram
M.Sc (Limnology) Bhopal University, Ph.D. (Wildlife Biology / Biodiversity Impact Assessment) Saurashtra University
Strategic Management

Dr. Raghu Ram has been in academics for 16 years with Wildlife Institute of India- Dehra Dun, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research-Mumbai and till recently with IIM Calcutta. He was a Fulbright Environment Leadership Fellow at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA. His work explores the environmental governance, policy, development, and environment interface. Raghu Ram has a master’s degree in limnology and PhD in biodiversity impact assessment. He teaches environment and natural resource management. He is co-editor of Reconciling Environment and Economics (IGIDR, Mumbai 2003) and editor of Uttar Pradesh Environment Monitor-2003 (World Bank, New Delhi 2004). He was the Member Secretary and Project Coordinator of Environmental Economics Research Committee that sponsored 61 field research projects aimed to build environmental economics research capacity in India (2000-2003). He was National Project Coordinator of Protected Area Network Cell at the Wildlife Institute of India (1994-1995). His publications cover habitat evaluation models, biodiversity impact assessment, water and air quality governance and environmental policy. He is now a consultant to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India to evaluate community forestry institutions.

Tina K. Stephen
LL.M (Cochin University of Science and Technology)
Industrial Relations

After doing her Masters in Law and clearing UGC/NET, Ms. Tina worked as faculty with a Law School in Pune and Bangalore. While at Bangalore she was also associated with a law firm in a consultative status on Intellectual Property Law related matters. She has presented papers at national conferences as well as published articles in national journals. Ms.Stephen has also organized several seminars and workshops for law students on Intellectual Property Law, Cyber Law, Corporate Mergers and Acquisition etc.

Trishit Bandyopadhyay
B.Tech (IIT Kharagpur), Fellow (IIM Bangalore)
Production & Operations Management

Prior to joining the academia has worked for about fifteen years in Industry, both in the public and private sectors, in areas such as R&D, Project Implementation and Production Management. His current interests include Service Operations Management, Technology Management and interfaces between Operations Management and other functional areas. Undertaken Management Development and Organization based training programmes in Quality, Strategy and Innovation. Has done consultancy assignments in the Power, Health and Tourism sectors and made presentations in state-level and international conferences.

Uday Damodaran
BSc (Phy), Kerala; M.Stat (SQC&OR), Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi; Fellow, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Finance

He has worked with Tata Consultancy Services, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar, Goa Institute of Management and the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode before joining XLRI in 2005.
He teaches courses in Corporate Finance, Investments, Project Appraisal, Financial Market Architecture and Derivatives and Risk Management. He has also been involved in educational administration as Placement Coordinator at XIMB and GIM and as Chairman-PGP at IIMK

Vishwa Ballabh
M.Sc. Hons.(Agr. & A.H.), M.Sc.(Agr.), Ph.D. (Agr.Eco.), IARI, New Delhi
Economics

Vishwa Ballabh is a Professor in Economics area. Prior to joining XLRI, he was Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor at the Institute of Rural management Anand. Prof Ballabh graduated in Agriculture from Pant Nagar and holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and was a Visiting Scholar at the Indiana University, USA and a Visiting Scientist at the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He has over twenty years of teaching and research experience. His major area of research interest has been institutions and natural resource management. He is a member of several national and international professional societies in agricultural, natural resource economics and development fields. He was Vice President of Indian Society of Agricultural Economics1996-97. He has published widely and co-edited two books titled, Farm Forestry in South Asia, Co-operative Management of Natural Resources. He is presently editing books on Droughts and Integrated Water Resource Management in South Asia – Issues, Alternatives and Futures (with Jasween Jairath), Governance of Water: Institutional Alternatives And Political Economy and Institutional alternatives and Governance of agriculture. He has also co-authored a monograph titled Organising for Rural Development. Widely travelled, Prof Ballabh has participated in several national and international conferences and has provided consultancy to several national and international development organizations such as the Ford Foundation, Royal Netherlands Embassy, UNICEF and International Water Management Institute.