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.

A development and social science researcher with over 15 years of experience in research, policy review and impact assessment and evidence-based advocacy.

Professor Amit Bubna teaches economics and finance. He is a member of the faculty at Johns Hopkins University. He has taught at several academic institutions, including The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, Robert H. Smith School of Business of University of Maryland, and the Indian School of Business. Professor Bubna has published research on various corporate finance and economic issues in leading peer-reviewed academic journals and has received academic and research awards.

Besides academia, Professor Bubna has experience in economic consulting, with expertise in complex business litigation, international arbitrations, and regulatory investigations. He has delivered analyses related to class certification, materiality, liability, loss causation, and damages in breach of contract, securities, antitrust, bankruptcy, and IP matters. He has advised clients, led teams, and supported testifying experts.

Professor Bubna received his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

A development and social science researcher with over 15 years of experience in research, policy review and impact assessment and evidence-based advocacy.

Amrita’s areas of focus include gender, women and young people’s health, and economic opportunities.In her current role as the Director of Research, Advocacy and Communication, Amrita leads a team on internal monitoring and impact evaluation, conducting external research studies and managing strategic communication. She is also the National Coordinator for the Non-Traditional Livelihoods Network (NTLN) where she oversees and manages regional and global advocacy initiatives. A published author and prolific panelist in the development sector, Amrita has also conducted several workshops across universities in India.

Amrita has a Masters in Sociology from the Delhi University and a Masters in Public Health, Health Policy Economics and Finance from TISS, Mumbai.

Dr. Tomar holds a Ph.D. in Strategic HR Management from IIM Calcutta, and has over 10 years of experience in Management Consulting. She offers strategic counsel to global education businesses, public sector entities, large corporates, EdTech start-ups and global Private Equity firms investing in Education / EdTech sectors. She has lived and worked across different organisations in Australia, Saudi Arabia and UK, and has recently relocated back to India to follow her passion in the Indian Education sector. She is a consultant by the week and a professor by the weekend; is affiliated to IIM Calcutta, IIM Trichy and BITSoM as guest faculty, and enjoys teaching courses on Consulting, SHRM and Business Research.

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.

Gerard George is a Professor of Management at McDonough School of Business. Before that, he was the 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.

Dr. Kapil R. Tuli is Lee Kong Chian Professor of Marketing and Director of the Retail Centre of Excellence at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB), Singapore Management University. He joined LKCSB in 2006 after completing his Ph.D. in Marketing from the Goizueta Business School, Emory University.

Dr. Tuli has published several papers in leading marketing journals such as, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, International Journal of Marketing Research, and Journal of Retailing. In 2017, Dr. Tuli received the 2017 Sheth Foundation/Journal of Marketing Award for his paper “Rethinking Customer Solutions: From Product Bundles to Relational Processes” that was published in the 2007 edition of the Journal of Marketing. In 2016, Dr. Tuli became the first Marketing Faculty from an Asian Business School to receive the prestigious Rajan Vardarajan Award for Early Career Contributions to Marketing Strategy Research, from the American Marketing Association. Dr. Tuli currently serves as an Area Editor for the Journal of Marketing Research and International Journal of Research in Marketing, and as a member of the Editorial Review Board at the Journal of Marketing.

Dr. Tuli is also an award-winning teacher whose interests focus on understanding customer centricity, branding and brand management, customer satisfaction, and the financial impact of Marketing actions.Over the years, Dr. Tuli has been in the Dean's Teaching Honour List for 2009-2010 and 2010-2011. In 2015, a case study written by him (Jungle Beer: An Entrepreneur's Journey) was awarded the Best Case Study Award in Entrepreneurship by the EFMD. More recently, Dr. Tuli was a nominee for the best Executive Education teacher at SMU for 2016-17.

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.

Dr. Nitin Paranjape, is widely recognized as the Productivity Guru. He is a highly sought-after speaker and famous for his witty, humorous, and motivating delivery style. He has coached over 330,000 professionals across 18 countries and 3100+ customers over the last 2 decades.

Microsoft has recognized his ability by awarding the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) title for the last 16 years.

He is also a Change Management Consultant (PROSCI – ADKAR methodology.) His blog https://efficiency365.com has over 1200+ articles about work efficiency enhancement.

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.

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.

Raj has over 29 years of Industry, Consulting and Teaching experience. In this time, he has conducted training programs and consulted for business houses in India, South, South-East Asia and the USA. He caters for a large number of clients cutting across industries and sectors.

Raj has taught a well-received Leadership Development Program and a specialized elective titled “Leadership Insights from World Literature”. Also, the “Inside India” Program at ISB. He also taught at School of Finance and Management, Oxford Brooks University, UK, Thunderbird, USA and SKOLKOVO Moscow Institute of Management, Russia. Raj teaches the Global Leadership Immersion Program at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul, South Korea to senior corporate executives with a focus on ‘Leadership Skills for Doing Successful Business with India’. He teaches the Leadership Module at Public Policy, long term Program, at ISB. He also teaches the INSEAD Program in India and Fontainebleau, France.

Ram Ganeshan is the D. Hillsdon Ryan Professor of Logistics & Supply Chain Management at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

Ram’s research and consulting interests are in the areas of big data, supply chain management, and logistics strategy. He has edited three books and has published over 50 articles in academic and trade journals. The Production & Operations Management Society awarded him the prestigious Wickham Skinner Award for his groundbreaking research on how supply chains can be efficiently managed.

At the College of William & Mary, Ram teaches courses in Supply Chain Management and Digital Strategies to students at all levels – undergraduates to working professionals. In 2006, he was awarded the Alumni Fellowship Award, reserved only for the finest teachers at the university.

Reena Mithal has spent nearly three decades working in global financial markets, spanning multiple geographies, credit cycles, and asset classes. She has held senior roles at Putnam Investments, Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers where she specialized in assessing value in sovereign, bank, and corporate credit assets across global emerging markets. Reena has successfully leveraged her technical expertise as a member of the founding team and Board of Directors at CreditSights Inc, a global credit research company, now a part of the Fitch Group, where she managed Risk Products, providing strategic guidance to institutional clients.

For the last decade, she has focused on investing in and mentoring early stage Indian companies, focused on skill development and assessment. Reena is on the faculty and Advisory Council of the Vedica Scholars Program for Women in Delhi and has been a speaker at impact investment forums including Sankalp, USAID’s Workshop on Gender Lens Investing in Asia, and the Saving Lives at Birth Symposium in Washington DC. She was formerly Chairperson of the Board of the Collegiate Charter Schools in New York, on the Board of Welham Girls’ School, Dehradun and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Brookings India.

Dr. Sandeep R. Chandukala is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University (SMU). He specializes in teaching Analytics across various programs including executive education programs.

Sandeep’s Research interests are in retail analytics and new technologies in marketing. His research involves building econometric and statistical models for better insights. Sandeep’s research has appeared in various journals including Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, HBR, and Journal of Retailing. Before joining Singapore Management University, Sandeep was a faculty at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, USA from 2008 to 2015.

Shailendra Pratap Jain (Shelly) is Bret Wheat Endowed Professor of Marketing and International Business at the Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle. He has held faculty positions earlier at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University and Simon School of Business, University of Rochester. Shelly has been a visiting faculty at Johnson School at Cornell University, Judge School at Cambridge University, Ivey School, University of Western Ontario, IIM Ahmedabad, Indian School of Business, and Skolkovo School (Moscow).

Shelly’s research interests include Brand Strategy, Psychological Segmentation, Consumer Addictions, Advertising, Consumer Psychology of COVID, Consumer Psychology of Artificial Intelligence, Health Care Messaging, Indulgent Consumption, Materialism, Motivational and Individual Differences (Self-regulation, Culture, Self-Construal, Lay/Implicit Theories) in responses to marketing stimuli, Political Ideology, Psychology of Donation, Scarcity, and Consumer Emotions. One of his latest projects is a book he is co-writing on brand crises. Shelly has published close to 50 papers and his research has been published in leading journals like Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. He is an Associate/Area Editor with Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and was an AE with International Journal of Research in Marketing. Shelly has co-edited a volume of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research on Addiction and Maladaptive Consumption and is co-editing a special issue of Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science on scarcity. He has co-chaired the Annual conferences of Society for Consumer Psychology (North America), and Advances in Consumer Research (Asia Pacific). Shelly has been invited to present his research at over 40 universities globally and has won multiple teaching awards, been cited as a 4-star teacher by Business Week and has conducted executive education programs for several companies in Asia, Europe, and the US.

He has a chemical engineering undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani, an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and an M. Phil. and a Ph.D. in Marketing from New York University. Prior to moving to the US to do his PhD, Shelly worked for United Breweries, FCB Ulka, and Mudra Communications in India.

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 the Dean of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Prior to joining Saïd Business School, he was 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.

Prof. Sudip Gupta is an associate professor of finance at the Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University. Previously he was the director and faculty at Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University’s internationally reputed MSQF program. Prof Gupta’s current research, teaching and consulting areas includes Auctions, Big-data machine learning, corporate finance, ESG and fintech. He has a Ph.D. in economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to Johns Hopkins, Prof Gupta served as a full-time faculty at ISB, Kelly School of Business-IU, NYU-Stern and UMD-Smith School of Business. He is an award-winning teacher and has written and published papers in top academic journals on topics like treasury auctions, credit default swaps, fintech, IPOs, bank lending etc. Prof Gupta has also served as an expert in various financial class action lawsuits and other antitrust matters like M&A. He helps build data science and analytics teams for various financial organizations in the Wall Street and has served as chief data scientist for fintech firms.

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.