IIM Kashipur
Executive Programme in Strategy and Leadership

Vivek Kumar is a fellow of XLRI Jamshedpur specialising in strategic management. He also holds a degree in electrical and electronics engineering from BITS-Pilani. Prior to entering academics, he has been associated with research and development departments of Mercedes-Benz and IFB Industries. His research interests lie in the areas of social networks, business groups, corporate political activity, and corporate social responsibility. He has presented papers in these areas in conferences organised by Strategic Management Society, Academy of Management, and Academy of International Business.

Shobha has completed her Ph.D. in Strategy Area from IIM Bangalore. She also holds a Master’s degree in International Business and Bachelor’s in Agricultural Sciences. Prior to her Ph.D., 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. Her research focuses on Behavioural Theory of Firm, Corporate Governance, CSR, Innovation and Internationalisation. She has presented her papers in the Strategic Management Society and Academy of International Business Conferences in these areas.

Dr. Devjani Chatterjee holds a PHD in the Organisational Behaviour area from Industrial and Management Engineering Department of IIT Kanpur. She completed her Master 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 also presented papers in reputed national and international conferences across the world. She worked as a faculty in the OB area in IMI Kolkata before joining IIM Kashipur. Dr. Chatterjee also worked on innovation mapping as a researcher at Commonwealth Business Council in London, UK. Her current research interests are in the area of organisational change management, Behaviour of e-consumers and women empowerment. She also has interests in the area of organisational culture and designing, and has many papers and researches in these areas.

Prof. Raman earned his PhD 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 PhD. Subsequently, he has taught previously in XLRI and at IIM Kashipur from 2016. His current areas of academic interest are Trade Unions and Employee-Employer relations drawing upon the ethnographic tradition of field research in Industrial Relations, Labour Process theory and Evaluating Change Management and their outcomes especially when templates of work and HRM practices are implemented in other cultural contexts. With regard to teaching, he has taught a wide constituency of students from the doctoral level to practicing managers. The courses taught by him range from Industrial Relations and Labour laws at the doctoral and PG level, Power and Organisational Behaviour Ambiguity and dynamics at the doctoral level, Qualitative research including its theoretical grounding at the doctoral level, to Principles of HRM at the post-graduate level.

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. Rameshwar Ture earned his Ph. D from Department of Management, IIT Madras in 2015. He has completed Masters in Human Resource Development and Management from IIT Kharagpur and Aeronautical Engineering degree from AeSI, New Delhi. His current research interests are in green HRM, gig economy, and career management. He is fascinated with current opportunities and challenges posed to HR academicians &/or practitioners by gig economy and digitilisation. He serves as a reviewer to several reputed journals. Prior to joining IIM Kashipur, he has taught at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Over the years he has taught Human Resource Management, Recruitment and Selection, Learning and Development, and Industrial Relations to MBA students, and Research Methodology in Management for doctoral candidates.

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. His dissertation, exploring innovation in small businesses, was conferred the IFCI best thesis award at IIM Ahmedabad. His current research interests include entrepreneurial personality and cognition, performance of small businesses, and the dark side of entrepreneurship. He is specifically interested and engaged in developing tourism and agricultural start-ups. He was a visiting Fellow at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 2018. Safal teaches core courses on Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management in the MBA program, as well as PhD seminar course on Entrepreneurship. He is the chairperson of the “Foundation for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development” – the entrepreneurship incubation centre at IIM Kashipur. The centre run with the assistance of Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, and the Department of Science and Technology, seeks to incubate promising start-ups of Uttarakhand. He has been a visiting faculty at many institutes like IIM Shillong, IIM Amritsar and IMT Ghaziabad.

Prof. Shobha has completed her PhD in Strategy Area from IIM Bangalore. She also holds a Masters in International Business and Bachelors in Agricultural Sciences. Prior to her PhD, she held various positions in Strategy and Corporate Planning functions and worked in organizations like Jubilant Organosys; IMRB International and Bharti Airtel Services Ltd. Her dissertation explored the financial slack and strategic decisions relationship in emerging economy context. Her research focusses on Behavioural Theory of Firm, Corporate Governance, CSR, Innovation and Internationalization. She has presented her papers in Strategic Management Society and Academy of International Business Conferences in these areas.

Vivek Kumar is a fellow of XLRI Jamshedpur specialising in strategic management. He also holds a degree in electrical and electronics engineering from BITS-Pilani. Prior to entering academics, he has been associated with research and development departments of Mercedes-Benz and IFB Industries. His research interests lie in the areas of social networks, business groups, corporate political activity, and corporate social responsibility. He has presented papers in these areas in conferences organised by Strategic Management Society, Academy of Management, and Academy of International Business.