"Just saying 'follow your passion' may be impractical - instead pick jobs where at least some parts of the job are inherently interesting for you - that can be a source of long-lasting success."

Madan Pillutla is Dean & Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian School of Business. His research uses social-psychological perspectives to understand organizational behaviours. Recent papers have examined gender differences in competitiveness and morality and the role that physical attractiveness plays in selection decisions.He has many publications in the best academic journals in the field and has also served as an associate editor in top journals.

Prior to becoming Dean at ISB, Prof Madan was Professor of Organisational Behaviour at LBS where he has won numerous teaching awards for  introducing  the popular Negotiations elective and has directed successful executive education programs such as the Essentials of Leadership and Negotiation & Influence programs. Prof Madan taught the founding batches of the PGP program at both the Hyderabad and Mohali campuses of the Indian School of Business (ISB) and received the best teacher award from the inaugural batch of students from the Mohali campus.

"Keep looking out for evidence of practices that you follow in the corporate"

Professor Sarang Deo, is Professor of Operations Management and Executive Director of the Max Institute of Healthcare Management at the Indian School of Business. His primary area of research is health care delivery systems and he is interested in investigating the impact of operations decisions on population level health outcomes. Some of the healthcare contexts that he has studied include the influenza vaccine supply chain and the phenomenon of ambulance diversion in the US, HIV early infant diagnosis networks in sub-Saharan Africa, and formal and informal pathways for TB diagnosis in India. He regularly collaborates with international public health funding and implementation agencies such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and PATH for his research.

Prior to joining the ISB, he was Assistant Professor at the Kellogg School of Management. He obtained a PhD from UCLA Anderson School of Management, MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and B. Tech. from IIT Bombay. Before entering academics, he worked with Accenture as a management consultant.

 “The more open you are to experiences from what happens in your company, it take you in many different directions over the long term..because today a person doesn’t do just one career”

Today with us we have expert guest Prof Lil M. who is an entrepreneur and academician with a passion for bringing great technology platforms and products to life. He brings to his classes a variety of experiences from his work at Amazon, Intel Corporation, Motorola Solutions, Sun Microsystems, and two successful high-tech start-up companies: Junglee and Snapstick. He currently consults independently for technology companies in the areas of products, marketing, and business strategy.

He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Marketing at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Adjunct Professor of Marketing at the London Business School, Visiting Faculty at the Indian School of Business, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and at ESADE, where he teaches Digital and Social Media Marketing, Mobile Commerce, FinTech, Product Management and New Product Development to MBA and Exec. MBA students.

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"Keep your interests alive and cultivate them and you never know how they'll blossom some day."

Today we have with us expert guest Prof Ed Rogers, who served as the Chief Knowledge Officer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland from 2003 until his retirement from government service in 2020. At NASA, he built a set of knowledge management practices that strategically support the Agency’s missions. 

Dr. Rogers received a B.S. in Agronomy from the Ohio State University, a Master’s in International Business from the University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. from Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour focusing on game theory applications to collaboration in high tech firms.Since 2009 he has been a visiting faculty member at the Indian School of Business teaching teh elective Managing Complexities.

Tune into this episode to understand why he made a pivot from academia to NASA and back into academia!

"Strategy is as much inward looking as it is outward looking"

In episode 11 , we have expert guest Prof Deepak Jena, Assistant Professor in the Strategy area. His research focus is in the area of innovation management and corporate strategy. Broadly, he studies the link between firms’ innovation efforts and competitive advantage and also investigates why and in what manner firms use a mix of corporate development activities to alter their product- and geographical-market scope. At ISB, he teach electives in strategic innovation management and growth strategy. Prior to my PhD , he worked several years in the industry (with Deloitte, TCS, LG Electronics and WNS Global services) primarily in the area of business and corporate strategy.

Tune into this episode to understand his strategic shift from corporate to academia!

“Self-leadership is the most important one - if I cannot manage myself, how will I manage others?”

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In today’s episode we have with us expert guest Prof DVR Seshadri. Since 2000 until joining the Indian School of Business in 2016, D.V.R. Seshadri, taught in various Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and recently Indian Institute of Management Udaipur . For 15 years prior to 2000, he worked in a variety of companies the last ten of them as CEO spanning a variety of industries from pharma, petrochemicals to manufacturing and software.

His areas of interest among others include: B2B Marketing, Innovation and Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship. He is actively involved with several NGO’s in addition to engagement with several top corporates such as companies in teaching and consulting capacity.

He has co-authored several books: including ‘Innovation Management and ’ ‘Global Risk / Global Opportunity’ among others . Additionally he has developed over hundred case studies and authored several application-oriented journal articles in his areas of interest.

Tune in to this episode to understand how pivoted from a corporate career to a life in academia! 

"If you can first identify and  then turn your passion into a profession, you can get happiness in a sustained way"

Vijaya Sunder M is currently an Assistant Professor (Practice) and Experiential Learning Program (ELP) Chair at the Indian School of Business (ISB). Additionally, he is an affiliate faculty at the Max Institute of Healthcare Management and an advisory board member at the Center for Executive Education at ISB. Previously, he was Head of Business Process Excellence at the World Bank Group, USA, Assistant-Vice-President at Barclays, and Quality Leader at American Express and Citi.

Prof Vijaya was among the world’s top 2% of the management scientists 2021 list published by Stanford University based on a composite research score. Prof Vijaya has authored two books  more than 50 research papers in reputed peer-reviewed international journals.

The American Society for Quality (ASQ) in 2022 awarded Vijaya the prestigious global Crosby Award for his extraordinary contributions to the field of Quality Management for business executives, researchers, academics, and practitioners.

Tune in to this episode to understand how he made a pivot into academia!

"Research is academic entrepreneurship"

In episode 7 of Season 2 we have expert guest Kashish Arora, Assistant Professor, Operations Management at the Indian School of Business. His research builds on tools from economics, computer science, and statistics to develop data-driven solutions for problems in Operations Management, and Marketplaces and Industrial Organization. Prior to his career in academia,  he worked as an Investment Analyst at Credit Suisse.

Tune into this episode where he shares his story of making a pivot  into research and shares the opportunities and challenges in reentering the world of academia!

"The ability to identify a good research question...figure out what is both interesting and lends itself to analysis" is a research problem in itself!

In episode 6 of Season 2 we have expert guest Sripad Devalkar, Associate Professor, Operations Management at the Indian School of Business. His research lies at the intersection of understanding issues related to supply chain management and how the interaction of operational, financial and risk management decisions affect outcomes especially in the agricultural and non-profit and public sector operations.

Tune into this episode where he shares his story of making a pivot from consulting into research and shares the opportunities and challenges in reentering the world of academia!