IIM Kashipur
Post Graduate Certificate Programme in General Management

Smarak Samarjeet has done MBA in Marketing and HR from Utkal University, Odisha. He has a Master of Arts degree in Mass Communication from Pondicherry University. He completed his PhD in Mass Communication from Pondicherry University in 2016. He has taught courses such as Communication Theory, Online Journalism, Principles in Journalism, Advertising, Public Relations, and Development Communications at the Postgraduate level. He specialises in Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Public Relations for Digital Media, Content Writing, Technical Writing, and Public Service Advertising (PSA). Currently, he teaches Business communication and Corporate Communication for MBA programme and Executive MBA programme at IIM Kashipur.

Dr. Dharani Munusamy earned his PhD in Finance from Pondicherry University. His PhD dissertation was on the “Behaviour of the Shariah Compliant Shares in India – An Empirical Study”. This research explores the risk and return of the Shariah and Non-Shariah stocks in the Indian stock market. He has received Bharat Ratna Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Gold Medal for his outstanding performance in the M.Phil. course. Before joining IIM Kashipur, he had worked with IBS-Hyderabad and Loyola College, Chennai. He has teaching experience in Accounting for Managers, Financial Accounting, Cost and Management Accounting, Corporate Finance, Portfolio Management, and Taxation. His research interest includes Shariah investment, investor sentiments, asset pricing, volatility modelling, financial development and growth. He has publications in peer-reviewed journals like The World Economy, International Review of Economics and Finance, Global Finance Journal, International Economics and Economic Policy, Research in International Business and Finance, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Review of Behavioural Finance, among others.

Dr. Rahul Kamble completed his Ph.D. in Management and Labour Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). He has also earned his M.Phil. from Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, MBA from Mumbai University and MA in Social Welfare Administration from TISS. His research interests are in leadership studies, diversity, and postcolonial studies.

Dr. Devjani Chatterjee holds a Ph.D. in the Organisational Behaviour area from Industrial and Management Engineering Department of IIT Kanpur. She completed her Master’s degree in commerce from the University of Calcutta and received a First class in the same. Dr. Chatterjee has many international journal publications, books and book chapters to credit and presented papers in reputed national and international conferences across the world.

Prof. Raman earned his Ph.D. in the sociology of work, organisations and Industrial Relations from the University of Warwick, Coventry UK in 2013. He has an MPhil degree in Sociology with a distinction and a First-Class MA respectively from the University of Hyderabad India, before his Ph.D. Subsequently, he has taught previously in XLRI and at IIM Kashipur from 2016.

Prof. Mridul Maheshwari is a Fellow in Management from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in Personnel and Industrial Relations area. She has more than 8 years of experience in academics which spans over around 4 Years with IIM Udaipur as Assistant Professor, close to a year with Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar as Assistant Professor and around 3 years with DAV Institute of Management, Faridabad as Lecturer.

Dr. Kumkum Bharti is an Associate Professor in the Marketing area. She holds a Doctorate Degree in Marketing from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand and post-graduation from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka (Silver Medallist). She has over three years of teaching experience in the Marketing area. She has taught previously at National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana and FORE School of Management, New Delhi

Dr. Utkarsh is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing area. He has over eight years of teaching and research experience in the field of Marketing Management. He received MBA and PhD from the University of Lucknow. Prior to joining IIM Kashipur, he worked as a faculty member at T. A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal. In the beginning of his academic career, he worked as a research associate at IIM Lucknow. His research interests include information search behaviour of consumers and consumer well-being. He has primarily explored the role of individual differences and consumer knowledge in information search and dissemination behaviour. His recent work focuses on enhancing the financial well-being of young adults.

Dr. Somnath Chakrabarti is a Professor in the Marketing area. He has teaching and research interests in consumer behaviour, integrated marketing communications, marketing of services, and international marketing. He has done Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) from REC (now NIT), Durgapur; MBA from College of Business, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA (AACSB accredited College of Business in a public research University in the US) and Ph.D. from Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi.

Dr. Madhurima Deb is an Associate Professor in the Marketing area. She started her career as an Assistant Manager in a Consulting company in 2007. As an Assistant Manager she worked on numerous projects with clients like ITC, TATA, UBS, Limitless, etc. She obtained her Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her thesis was on “Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Practices in Indian Retail Sector”. She has over 4 years of research experience and more than 10 years of teaching experience. She has published papers in various journals and conferences of international and national repute. She works in the areas of Consumer Behaviour, Retail, Cause-related Marketing, Relationship Marketing, Market Research Techniques, etc.

Dr. Alka Arya is an Assistant Professor in the Operations Management & Decision Sciences area at IIM Kashipur. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Prior to joining IIM Kashipur, she was a faculty member in the Mathematics Department, Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University. She was also affiliated as a researcher with IIM Calcutta.

Dr. Rachita Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the Operations Management & Decision Sciences area at IIM Kashipur. She holds Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in Operations and Supply Chain Management. Prior to this, she has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad for around two years. She has publications in highly ranked peer-reviewed journals including Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Computers & Industrial Engineering, OPSEARCH, Journal of Modelling in Management.

Dr. Abhishek Srivastava is an Assistant Professor in the Operations Management & Decision Sciences area at IIM Kashipur. He holds Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode in the area of Quantitative Methods and Operations Management. Before joining his doctoral programme, he worked as Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology Jalandhar. He has completed his Master’s in Fiber Science & Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He received All India 2nd Rank in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2012.

Dr. Devendra Kumar Pathak is an Assistant Professor in the Operations Management & Decision Sciences area at IIM Kashipur. He holds a Ph. D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in Operations and Supply Chain Management. He also earned his M. Tech from IIT Delhi. During his Ph. D. studies, he spent two months at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, the UK, as a visiting research scholar

Dr. K N Badhani is Ph. D. in Finance and an Associate Member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (AICWA). He is the rank holder in ICWA Final Examination of the year 1995. He has also qualified NET and was awarded Junior Research Fellowship by the UGC. Dr. Badhani has about 21 years’ experience in teaching. Before joining IIM Kashipur, he has worked in the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), Kumaun University, Nainital and HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar.

Dr. Ashish Kumar Garg has obtained his Ph. D in Finance from Haryana Business School, India. His Ph. D dissertation examined the Impact Foreign Institutional Investment on Indian Stock Market. Before joining IIM Kashipur, he had worked with IIM Raipur and LBSIM, Delhi. He taught various courses such as Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Corporate Finance, Investment Management, Business Valuation, Fixed Income Securities, and Behavioural Finance.

Dr. Dilip Kumar holds PhD in Finance and has done his PhD research work at Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) Chennai. Before joining IIM Kashipur, he was a faculty member in the financial engineering department of IFMR Chennai. He has taught various courses such as Simulation Techniques in Finance, Financial Derivatives, Financial Risk Measurement and Management, Financial Engineering using MATLAB etc at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

Dr. Kunal is working as Assistant Professor (Finance) at IIM Kashipur. He has defended his Ph.D. thesis in the area of finance at IIT Kanpur in February 2013. For his doctoral research work, he has been awarded ” Best Research Paper Award” at IIMA Doctoral Colloquium 2013 organised by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad, India.

Dr Atulan Guha is a Development Economist having teaching and research experience of over 17 years at various national level Academic Institutes of India. Currently, he is an associate professor at IIM Kashipur. Before joining IIM Kashipur, Dr Guha had been faculty at the Institute of Rural Management Anand and Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi. At the Post-Graduate level, he has taught Macroeconomic Policy Analysis, International Trade Theory and Policy, Development Economics and India in World Economic. Dr Guha has the doctoral student who became faculty at other IIM. Dr Atulan Guha holds a PhD in Economics (Open Economy Macroeconomy) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Prof. Vaibhav Bhamoriya is a fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. His research pursuit is to integrate sustainability, livelihoods and entrepreneurship for the development of the nation and poor masses across the globe. He has pioneered at looking at adaptiveness in grassroots institutions and also in studying entrepreneurship in irrigation in India.

Dr. Rajiv Kumar holds Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Indian Institute of Management Ranchi. He is M. Tech in media and sound engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and a B.E. in computer science and engineering from IETE Delhi. He has teaching interest in Management Information Systems, Advanced Business Analytics, Business Research Methods, Data Analytics Using R & Python, Big Data Analytics, Business Research Methods, and Qualitative Research Methods. He is a member of the editorial review board of the Journal of Global Information Technology Management. He also serves as a reviewer for several journals of international repute.

Dr Venkataraghavan holds a PhD in Information Systems from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He researches the themes of Business Value of IT, Emerging Information Technologies and Machine Learning. His teaching interests are Data Science and Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks, and Enterprise Research Planning Systems. Before joining academia, he worked as a principal data scientist at a telecom analytics start-up on Big Data Analytics. He trains industry participants on the application of machine learning techniques using open-source technologies.

Mayank Sharma is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Kashipur in Information Technology and Systems. He completed his Fellow Programme in Management from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow in the IT and Systems area. He also holds a degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India. In the past, he has worked at Tech. Mahindra Pvt. Ltd. His doctoral thesis focused on online communities in social networking sites from an information system theories perspective. His teaching interest are Management Information Systems, Social Media Analytics and Business Analytics. He regularly conducts online Management Development Programme for industry participants on Business Analytics and Big Data.

Dr. Harish Kumar earned his Ph. D from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and M.Tech. from the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad. Before joining IIM Kashipur, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at IIM Bodh Gaya.

Safal Batra is a faculty member in the Strategic Management area at IIM Kashipur since March 2015. He completed his masters from IIM Calcutta and doctorate from IIM Ahmedabad. Safal teaches core courses on Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management in the MBA programme, as well as PhD seminar course on Entrepreneurship. He has designed and delivered many MDPs on Strategic Leadership and Management for corporates like Bharat Electronics, National Academy of Defence Production, NTPC, HAFED etc.

Shobha has completed her PhD in Strategy Area from IIM Bangalore. She also holds a master’s in international business and bachelor’s in Agricultural Sciences. Prior to her PhD, she held various positions in Strategy and Corporate Planning functions and worked in organisations like Jubilant Organosys; IMRB International and Bharti Airtel Services Ltd. Her dissertation explored the financial slack and strategic decisions relationship in an emerging economy context.

Dr K M Baharul Islam, presently the Dean of IIM Kashipur, has been teaching and researching in the area of Communications, Corporate Law, Education, Development and Planning for more than twenty-five years. Starting his career as a faculty at NIT Silchar (1994-2002), he served a number of universities abroad and became a Reader at NCERT, New Delhi in 2002.

Smarak Samarjeet has done MBA in Marketing and HR from Utkal University, Odisha. He has a Master of Arts degree in Mass Communication from Pondicherry University. He completed his PhD in Mass Communication from Pondicherry University in 2016. He has taught courses such as Communication Theory, Online Journalism, Principles in Journalism, Advertising, Public Relations, and Development Communications at the Postgraduate level. He specialises in Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Public Relations for Digital Media, Content Writing, Technical Writing, and Public Service Advertising (PSA). Currently, he teaches Business communication and Corporate Communication for MBA programme and Executive MBA programme at IIM Kashipur.