With a Ph.D. in Social and Organizational Psychology from IIT Kanpur, Prof. Leena Chatterjee has been teaching at IIM Calcutta for almost 36 years now. She is a Professor of the Organization Behaviour group and takes several courses for both the post graduate and doctoral programs at IIM Calcutta. She holds a B.A.(Hons) and M.A. in Psychology from Delhi University. Dr.Chatterjee has presented her research at several international conferences and has published various articles, journals, and cases. She joins BITSoM as a permanent faculty member in July 2021.

Dr Abhijeet K. Vadera is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University (SMU). He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and was previously affiliated with the Indian School of Business for five years where he taught courses on Negotiation Analysis and Responsible Leadership as well as several executive education programmes.

Prof Vadera’s research focuses on constructive (creativity and innovation) and destructive (such as ethics, white-collar crime) deviance in the workplace.

A K Shiva Kumar (Shiv), a New Delhi based development economist and policy advisor, teaches economics and public policy as a visiting faculty member at Ashoka University, the Indian School of Business, S P Jain Institute of Management, and Research, and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Shiv is a Board Member of the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children, Co-Chair of Know in Violence in Childhood, and a member of the Leadership Councils of both the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and Global Women’s Institute, The George Washington University, Washington DC. He is President of the Sanskriti Foundation and serves on the Board of the Centre for Science and Environment.

Shiv has served as Director of the International Centre for Human Development, and as a member, between 2005-2014, of Government of India’s National Advisory Council. He has been an active contributor to global and national Human Development Reports, and was a senior policy adviser to UNICEF India (1992-2017).

Shiv has done his Masters in Economics from Bangalore University and Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He also completed his Masters in Public Administration and Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government, both from Harvard University.

Cait Lamberton is an Alberto I. Duran President's Distinguished Professor of Marketing at Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. An award winning educator and researcher, she has been rated among Forbes' Global Top 10 B-School Professors. Poets & Quants has also rated her among “Top 40 Business School Professors under 40.” She has also done consulting work for the Federal government and private industry, with a particular interest in the application of behavioral insights to real-world problems.

Devdutt writes on the relevance of mythology in modern times. Trained in medicine, he worked for 15 years in the healthcare and pharma industries before he plunged full time into his passion. Author of 50 books and 1000 columns, several with bestsellers, he is known for his TED talks, his TV & Radio shows especially Devlok, and his innovative views on culture, leadership, and Indian approach to management.

Dan Gode is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. He teaches a wide range of courses on financial modeling, business strategy, tech strategy accounting, finance, and data analytics. He has received several teaching awards. He has consulted with and taught at numerous hedge funds, private equity groups, investment banks, corporations, and accounting and advisory firms. He holds an undergraduate in electronics engineering, an MBA, an MS in information systems, an MS in accounting, and a PhD in accounting. He has published papers in market design, accounting-based valuation, and incentive compensation.

Dharmeshwar has a background in Organizational Behavior and a specialization in ethics from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He has a four year Phd. Research study from the University of Gent on Cultural Differences between Europeans and Indians. He went on to get his accreditation as a Change Management Professional from (IPD – Bion’s Ecological Method) Belgium.

Having worked in Singapore, UK, Belgium and India across industry sectors, Dharmeshwar brings in a practitioner’s perspective that is rooted in theoretical robustness and meaningful application. His focus areas include Emotionally Intelligent Leadership Development, Change Management, Psychometric Instruments for HR professionals, Structured Thinking and Business Presentations, Communication through Storytelling and Executive Presence. He has facilitated Cross-Cultural Perspective Building Programs and a 24 hour basic and advanced lecture series, Working Across Cultures and an array of Psychometric Instruments – MBTI, FIRO-B, EQ-I and other Tool based Senior Executive Coaching interventions.

Additionally, he has lectured to Post-Graduate students from B-schools, and other educational institutions like Great Lakes (Chennai) and Indian School of Business (Hyderabad and Mohali) and has coached several senior executives on Emotional Imbalances using the EQ-I instrument

Gerard George is Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University. Professor George joined SMU from Imperial College London, where he was Deputy Dean of the Business School, Director of the Gandhi Centre, and Academic Director of the London Stock Exchange’s Elite Programme. Before Imperial, he held tenured positions at London Business School and at University of Wisconsin- Madison. He is Visiting Professor at Imperial Business School and Senior Global Fellow at The Lauder Institute at University of Pennsylvania.

An award-winning researcher and teacher, Professor George has published over 100 articles with 35,000 citations. His areas of research are in innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability and tackling grand challenges in society

Luis Martins is a Professor of Management at the Red McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Herb Kelleher Chair in Entrepreneurship and the James B. Goodson Professorship in Business. He earned his Ph.D. in Management and Organisational Behavior from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. Prior to joining The University of Texas at Austin, he was on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Connecticut.

Mark Finn is a Clinical Professor of Accounting and International Business at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. From 2001 to 2008 he also served as director of Kellogg's Global Initiatives in Management programme. Prior to coming to Kellogg, Prof. Finn was on the faculty of the University of Chicago. He teaches core financial accounting and advanced classes in financial reporting, taxation, international accounting, and sustainability reporting. Prof. Finn has been affiliated with the Sasin Graduate Institute of Management, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand) since 2003. He has also been a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad and Mohali) and Keio University (Hiyoshi, Japan).

Prior to joining Georgia State University, Dr. Milind Shrikhande worked at Georgia Tech, Unilever, and the World Bank. He was nominated for excellence in teaching at the Institute level at Georgia Tech’s DuPree College of Business. He was awarded the First HarveyBrightman Award for teaching innovation at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business in2006, and GSU’s Instructional Effectiveness Award in 2007. In 2010 and 2012 he received the Outstanding Professor Award from the Global Partners MBA Programme. In 2017, Dr. Shrikhande won the Robinson College Teaching Excellence Award. He has also taught at the Indian School of Business as a visiting professor, and more recently taught at Cairo University and Alexandria University.

Morgen Witzel is a Fellow of the Exeter Centre for Leadership at the University of Exeter Business School in the UK. He has also taught at business schools in France, the Netherlands and Slovenia. He is the author of more than thirty books on business and management, including The Ethical Leader published by Bloomsbury. He was formerly a columnist and editorial board member of The Smart Manager, published in Mumbai from 2002-2020

Nirmalya Kumar is Lee Kong Chian Professor of Marketing at Singapore Management University and Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute. Prior to this, heading strategy as Member-Group Executive Council at Tata Sons, he reported to Cyrus Mistry, the Chairman for the $100 billion Tata group. Professor Kumar previously taught at Columbia University, Harvard Business School, IMD (Switzerland), London Business School, and Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management).

Nish Bhutani is Founder & CEO of Indiginus - a growth consulting business with a digital focus, and serves on the board of Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail.

Nish has 28 years of digital and technology experience in Silicon Valley, UK, and India. He was Senior Vice President at NASDAQ-listed online media company CNET Networks, which was sold to CBS in 2008; a founding board director and senior executive at Lovefilm, Europe’s largest home-video subscription business, subsequently acquired by Amazon in 2011; COO at omni-channel high-end auction house Saffronart; Head of Content at fashion e-commerce player Myntra; and Global Head of Product at Vuclip, the streaming media company.

Nish is on the faculty at the Vedica Scholars Programme for Women in New Delhi, and the Indian School of Development Management in Noida. He has an MBA from Harvard University and MS and BS degrees in Engineering from Stanford University.

Preeti is a communication skills and leadership development specialist. She designs and delivers programs and workshops to help senior managers raise their game by building new skills and changing behaviors. She is currently serving Harappa Education as an independent consultant, where she writes content and conducts masterclasses. Previously, she has been visiting faculty at various university programs including the Vedica Scholarship Programme for Women and Anant Fellowship.

Preeti has 25 years of work experience. The foundation of most of what she does today was built during her 11 years with McKinsey & Company, a leading management consulting firm, where she trained both consultants and clients on communication skills, supported the firm’s partners on building their client strategy, co-created and managed a network of leadership development and personal transformation facilitators, and led the professional development function to evaluate, coach, and mentor senior consultants. Prior to McKinsey, her career spanned a range of industries including education (Indian School of Business and American Studies Research Center), quasi-government (United States Information Service and Ministry of Information Technology), and media (ComputerWorld).

Preeti is a keen student of human behavior. Her other interests include writing Urdu poetry, traveling, and painting. She has a Masters' degree in English literature from Delhi University and a two-year Diploma in Computer Programming.

Preeti Singh is a former journalist, editor and communications specialist, based in Delhi NCR. She has previously worked as a Senior Advisor at 9.9 Insights (independent strategic advisor of the Washington DC-based Albright Stonebridge Group), as a journalist in both print and digital media, as a business editor and researcher. She has two decades of experience at a premier national defence and security think tank (the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses), as part of the Op-Ed team at India’s leading news media house (The Hindustan Times) and as an editor in integrated media companies (9.9 Media; BW Businessworld).

Preeti holds a Master’s in Indian History, an M. Phil in Disarmament Studies and is a Chevening Gurukul Scholar from the London School of Economics and Political Science – the British government’s flagship leadership programme for young Indian achievers. She also edits non-fiction books and teaches business writing and communication at various management programmes. She can be reached @TruthAbtNobody, both on Instagram and Twitter.

Raj Raghunathan is Zale Centennial Professor of Business at the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin. He is interested in how people’s judgments and decisions impact their happiness and fulfilment. Raj’s work has appeared in top journals such as The Journal of Marketing, The Journal of Consumer Research, The Journal of Marketing Research, and The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His work has also been cited in several mass media outlets, including The Atlantic, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review.

Shamika Ravi is a Non resident Senior Fellow of the Governance Studies programme at the Brookings Institution Washington D.C. She was the former Director of Research at Brookings India and led the Development Economics vertical, where the focus is on financial inclusion, health, gender inequality and urbanisation. Ravi is a visiting professor of Economics at the Indian School of Business where she teaches courses in Game Theory and Microfinance. She was also a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. Her research work has been featured and cited by BBC, The Guardian, The Financial Times and most national and regional newspapers and magazines in India.

Soumitra Dutta is currently a Professor of Management at and the former founding dean of the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University, New York. He is the founder of the Global Innovation Index, published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation and was the co-editor of the Global Information Technology Report, published by the World Economic Forum – two influential reports in technology and innovation policy. He is also the founder and President of Portulans Institute, a non-partisan nonprofit research and education institution based in Washington DC.

Dutta is on the global boards of Sodexo and Dassault Systemes. He is also a member of the Shareholder Council of Chicago-based healthcare consulting company ZS Associates. In addition, he is a member of the advisory boards of several schools.

Sujit is a Visiting Professor in the Strategy Area at IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore. He specializes in forward looking Transformational Thinking for the VUCA world. At BITSoM, he teaches Critical Analytical Thinking, Whole Brain Thinking, and Leading NexGen Businesses.

He has held leadership roles in the Media & Entertainment industry and as an independent consultant, has advised business leaders in diverse sectors including Convergence, Logistics, Automotive, Real Estate and Private Equity. As the honorary founding Chairman of CII's National Broadband Committee, Sujit guided the publication of a report " India's Broadband Economy: Vision 2010 ". This report became the blueprint for the adoption of a Broadband policy by Govt of India in 2004 and the subsequent development of the Broadband ecosystem in India.

Sujit is an Economics graduate from St Stephen's College, Delhi University and an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad.

Vera Tilson is an Associate Professor of Operations at the Simon School, University of Rochester. At Simon, Professor Tilson taught core Operations Management courses in the MBA program, and Healthcare Operations Management in the Medical Management Programme. She also taught an elective Quantitative Business Models course in the MBA and MS Finance programmes, and was recognised for that teaching with UofR and Simon School awards. Professor Tilson’s current research interests are in hospital operations. Her work has been published in Management Science, MSOM, POMS, EJOR, DSS, Operations Research, INFORMS Transactions on Education and other journals. She serves as an associate editor for Health Care Management Science.

Ziv Katalan is the Managing Director for Wharton Global Initiatives and an Adjunct Professor of OIDD. He received his BS in Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University (1987), and his PhD in Management Science/Operations Research from Columbia University (1995). Since 1994 Dr. Katalan has taught courses in decision models and uncertainty, business analytics, operations management, supply chain management, mathematical modeling and its applications in finance, and quantitative finance at Wharton and Penn’s MBA programs. Dr. Katalan has been a visiting faculty at Columbia Business School, the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and Indian School of Business in India.