VGSOM
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The faculty at Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur bring with them a diverse range of experience and expertise from the academics and industry, both in India and abroad. The courses they offer reflect an ingenious mix of theory and application to practical life. The teaching pedagogy ranges from lectures, to discussions, to case analyses, to field experience. Faculty constantly endeavour to bridge the gap between what students want from them, what the industry might need them to teach the students, and what they decide can help their students the most. In addition to regular teaching, VGSoM faculty also routinely contribute to the industry through various consulting assignments and specially designed training programs for different organizations, both on campus and in house. Faculty also routinely dedicate themselves to contributing to the knowledge base in their own areas of interest and expertise through their research.
Prof. Abhijeet Chandra
PhD (JMI, New Delhi), Post Doc (IIT Madras)
Finance & Accounting\
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Prof. Abhijeet Chandra
Brief Bio : Prof. Abhijeet Chandra has more than 7-yr post-PhD experience. He offers graduate and post-graduate level courses in Corporate Finance, Cost & Management Accounting, and Investment Management. Prof. Chandra has research interests in the areas of Behavioral & Personal Finance, Financial Markets and Asset Pricing.
Area of Interest : Behavioral and Personal Finance, Corporate Finance, Cost and Management Accounting, Behavioral and Personal Finance, Corporate Finance, Cost and Management Accounting
Email : abhijeet@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Ajay Kumar Mishra
PhD (IBS, IFHE Hyderabad)
Finance & Accounting\
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Prof. Ajay Kumar Mishra
Brief Bio : Dr. Ajay Kumar Mishra has more than four years of teaching and research experience in the Finance area. He received his Ph.D. in finance from IBS Hyderabad in 2014. He was a visiting research scholar in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics (FCBE) at the University of Memphis during 2011-2012. Prior to joining PhD program, he was a research fellow at Space Application Centre (ISRO), Ahmedabad India. He teaches Financial Management, Corporate Finance, Financial Markets, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management courses at PG level and Market microstructure course at the doctoral level.
Area of Interest : Information Asymmetry, Stock Liquidity, Algorithmic Trading, Mutual Fund Investment, Short Selling, Banking Regulation
Email : akmishra@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Anupam Ghosh
PhD (ICFAI University)
Production & Operations Management\
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Prof. Anupam Ghosh
Brief Bio : Prof. Anupam Ghosh has more than 14 years of teaching experience in areas of Supply Chain Management and Marketing. He has offered courses at the post-graduate and doctoral level in Supply Chain Analytics, Supply Chain Management, Warehousing and Materials Management, and International Marketing. He was a Visiting Scholar to Bentley University, Waltham, MA, USA during 2004-05. He has worked on research projects on Information visibility in supply chain, fare fixation for public transportation system etc.
Area of Interest : Supply Chain Analytics, Supply Chain Management Warehousing Management
Email : anupam@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Aradhna Malik
PhD (University of Denver, USA)
General Management\ Organizational Behavior & Human Resources
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Prof. Aradhna Malik
Brief Bio : "Dr. Aradhna Malik has been serving the Indian Institute of Technology as Faculty since 2008. She teaches organizational communication, business ethics, human resource management and organizational behavior to Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral level students. She has served in a diversity of roles both in India and abroad.Dr. Malik has also developed a number of courses for the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on some of the areas mentioned above. Dr. Malik has been serving as the Associate Copy Editor of Asian English as a Foreign Language Journal (AEFL Journal) since 2009, and has recently been nominated as the National Representative (India) of the International Study Association of Teachers & Teaching (ISATT)."" "
Area of Interest : Business Communication, Business Ethics, Business Innovation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Developing Leadership, Competencies, Emotional Intelligence, Employee Engagement, Human Resource Management, Intercultural Communication, Management of Social Welfare
Email : amalik@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Arun Kumar Misra
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Finance & Accounting\
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Prof. Arun Kumar Misra
Brief Bio : After completing PhD, Prof. Arun Kumar Misra has worked in Banking Sector for about 7 years and then joined VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur. Prof. Misras areas of research include banking, capital market, corporate finance and market microstructure. Prof. Misra derives his competencies from the work experience in banks where he supervised risk management, ALM and Basel guidelines implementations.
Area of Interest : Business Analytics, Commercial Banking, Power Trading , Project Finance, Financial Statements Analysis
Email : arunmisra@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Barnali Nag
PhD (IGIDR, Mumbai)
Economics and Strategy\ General Management
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Prof. Barnali Nag
Brief Bio : Prof. Barnali Nag did her post-doctoral research from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that, she was a Business Research Fellow at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Prof. Nag has also worked in RIS, New Delhi, Ministry of External Affairs, GoI, an advanced Institute for actionable research. Before joining VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur, she was a faculty in Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. Her research interests pertain to Public Policy, Competition Policy and Competitiveness, Economics of Climate Change, Policy and planning in the infrastructure sector and Energy security issues of India.
Area of Interest : Global Economics and Macroeconomic Environment, Managerial Economics, Introduction to Strategy, Energy Policy
Email : barnali@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Biplab Datta
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Marketing\ Economics and Strategy
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Prof. Biplab Datta
Brief Bio : Prof. Biplab Datta�s research interests include organisational leadership, marketing management, service quality management and customer relationship management. Prof. Datta earned ISO 9000 Lead Auditor Certificate from NBA, U. K. Prof. Datta has published papers in national and international journals.
Area of Interest : Customer Relationship Management Developing Leadership Competencies Marketing Management Business Strategy
Email : bd@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Chandra Sekhar Mishra
PhD (Utkal University)
Finance & Accounting\
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Prof. Chandra Sekhar Mishra
Brief Bio : Prof. CS Mishras areas of interest are Financial Reporting & Analysis, Business Valuation, and Mergers & Acquisitions.
Area of Interest : Cost and Management Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Project Finance, Financial Statements Analysis
Email : csmishra@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Parama Barai
FPM (XLRI)
Finance & Accounting\
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Prof. Parama Barai
Brief Bio : Prof. Parama Barai has six years teaching experience in finance related subjects, specifically in the areas of investment management, financial analytics, financial risk modeling, derivatives, capital budgeting, and corporate finance. Prof. Barai also conducts research in these areas.
Area of Interest : Business Analytics, Business Statistics, Investment Management, Project Finance
Email : parama@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Prabina Rajib
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Finance & Accounting\
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Prof. Prabina Rajib
Brief Bio : Prof. Prabina Rajib has more than one decade of academic experience. Prof. Rajib has authored two books i.e., 1) Commodity Derivatives & Risk Management, 2) Stock Exchanges, Investments & Derivatives: Straight Answer to 250 Nagging Questions. Prof. Rajibs teaching & research interests include Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance, Financial Markets, Risk Management using Financial & Commodity Derivatives. Prof. Rajib is also a Fulbright Scholar.
Area of Interest : Financial & Commodity Price Risk Management, Power Trading Project Finance, Understanding Financial Statements
Email : prabina@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Rudra Prakash Pradhan
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
\ Finance, Analytics, and Operations
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Prof. Rudra Prakash Pradhan
Brief Bio : Prof. Rudra P Pradhan has more than a decade of teaching and research experience. His research interests include infrastructure finance, foreign direct investments and econometric modelling. Prof. Pradhan has published several research papers in various national and international refereed journals.
Area of Interest : Infrastructure and Project Finance, Business Analytics, Financial Economics, Transport Economics
Email : rudrap@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Saini Das
FPM (IIM Lucknow)
Business Analytics & Information System\
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Prof. Saini Das
Brief Bio : Prof. Saini Das has served as a faculty member at IIM Indore for three years before joining IIT Kharagpur. She also worked as a software engineer at Infosys Technologies Ltd. prior to her PhD. Her major teaching interests and competencies are in the areas of business analytics, information security risk management in networks, management information systems (MIS), e-commerce technology & applications, data privacy and digital piracy. Prof. Das has taught in many management development programs across industries. She has authored papers in many national and international journals of repute.
Area of Interest : Business Analytics Customer Relationship Management
Email : saini@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Sangeeta Sahney
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Marketing\ Organizational Behavior & Human Resources
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Prof. Sangeeta Sahney
Brief Bio : Prof. Sangeeta Sahney joined IIT Kharagpur in 2005, and is currently the Dean, VGSOM. Prior to joining VGSOM, she served as a faculty member at U.P Technical University and IIT Roorkee. Prof. Sahney has been seconded by MHRD to teach at the School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology Bangkok (AIT) twice, in 2009 and 2016. She also worked at IIT Jodhpur for two years (on lien), and headed the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, which evolved to School of Liberal Arts during her tenure. Following this, she headed the School of Management and Entrepreneurship at IIT Jodhpur. The Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Property which worked under the umbrella of the School of Management and Entrepreneurship at IIT Jodhpur was also created during her tenure, and she also headed the same. With a specialization in Marketing, Prof. Sahney also teaches Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management. Her research interests include studies in consumer behavior, organizational behavior and quality management in education. She has published several papers in peer reviewed national and international journals, and has also authored a book on Consumer Behaviour published by Oxford University Press. Prof. Sahney has performed various administrative duties and responsibilities at the School and Institute level,
Area of Interest : Consumer Behavior, Customer Relationship Management, Developing Leadership Competencies, Emotional Intelligence Employee Engagement, Marketing Management, Performance Management System, Principles of HRM, Services Marketing, Services Management
Email : sahney@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Sanjib Chowdhury
B. Tech, M. Tech, PhD (all IIT Kharagpur)
Production & Operations Management\ Economics and Strategy
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Prof. Sanjib Chowdhury
Brief Bio : Sanjib Chowdhury is a Visiting Professor (full-time) at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, specializing in Strategic Management and Operations Management. He brings an impressive 42 years of professional experience, including 34 years in the oil and gas industry and 8 years in academia. His industry experience includes two major oil companies in India and Kuwait in the areas of Strategic and Corporate Planning, Business Performance Improvement, Operations and Process Optimization, Project Management, and HR. He is the recipient of the "Kuwait Gulf Oil Company's Ideal Employee Award", "ONGC Chairman's Award", and the "ONGC Director's Award", among others. He has held several responsible positions exhibiting his leadership and technical expertise. Based on his work experience, he has solely authored a book titled "Optimization and Business Improvement Studies in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry", published by John Wiley & Sons Inc., NJ, USA, which reflects his deep understanding and knowledge of the industry and is a valuable resource for professionals and academia. Dr. Chowdhury received B.Tech. (Hons.), M.Tech., and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management, all from IIT Kharagpur. He has also published several technical papers in esteemed journals, further contributing to his field.
Area of Interest : Strategic and Corporate Planning Business Performance Improvement Optimization
Email : sanjib @vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Shaili Singh
PhD (IIM Rohtak)
Strategic Management\ Corporate Social Responsibility & Business Ethics
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Prof. Shaili Singh
Brief Bio : Dr. Shaili Singh is an Assistant Professor in the area of Economics and Strategy at VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur. She did a PhD from the Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, Rohtak. Her areas of interest in teaching and research are Strategic Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Sustainability, International Business, Strategic Analytics, and General Management. She has served as a reviewer for several journals and conferences. She has published in several international journals of repute. Before joining VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur she worked for more than 3 years at the Department of Management BITS Pilani, Pilani.
Area of Interest : Strategic Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Sustainability, International Business, Strategic Analytics, and General Management
Email : shaili@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Srabanti Mukherjee
PhD (IIEST, Shibpur)
Marketing\
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Prof. Srabanti Mukherjee
Brief Bio : Dr. Srabanti Mukherjee has special interest in Consumer Behaviour, Marketing Research, Brand Management, Management of Services, Managing customers expectations and marketing to the bottom of the pyramid. Prior to VGSOM, Prof. Mukherjee has worked in premiere management Institutes including IIM Indore and IIEST Shibpur. Prof. Mukherjee has conducted and taught in several management development programmes across industries. Prof. Mukherjee has authored a book on Consumer Behaviour from Cengage Learning and published cases in Ivey Publishing. Prof. Mukherjee has authored papers in many peer reviewed journals and presented papers in topmost conferences in Marketing domain.
Area of Interest : Brand Management, Customer Relationship Management, Introduction to Marketing, Management of Services, Managing customers expectations, Marketing Research
Email : srabanti@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Sujoy Bhattacharya
PhD (IIITM, Gwalior)
Business Analytics & Information System\ Finance & Accounting
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Prof. Sujoy Bhattacharya
Brief Bio : Prof. Sujoy Bhattacharyas area of interest is business analytics. Prof. Bhattacharya is proficient in R and Python software. Prof. Bhattacharya can handle complex business analytics problems with varied applications.
Area of Interest : Business Analytics
Email : sujoybtc@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Surojit Mookherjee
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
Business Analytics & Information System\ General Management
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Prof. Surojit Mookherjee
Brief Bio : Prof. Mookherjee has 18 years of Business and IT consulting experience with global clients, working for Price Waterhouse Coopers and IBM India Ltd. He has been involved in implementing SAP projects for large Indian clients and managing global IT programs for clients like Avaya, Nestle, Phillip Morris, Medtronic, Lenovo etc. He has also worked for Sales and Solutioning of large global outsourcing deals. Prof. Mookherjee has 14 years of industrial and research experience in extractive metallurgy and Powder metallurgy and has been the Head of Operations for the production, maintenance and quality control of metal cutting and mining tools. He had led development of commercial scale manufacturing of cobalt powder as an import substitute project, while he was with Sandvik-Asia. He is currently teaching Business Communication, MIS, Information System Strategy, Project Management, Foundations of Digital Business as a full-time Visiting Faculty, and program managing AACSB accreditation project for VGSoM.
Area of Interest : Futurism , Future of Work, IT Programme Management , BPR., Developing and increasing acceptability of IT enabled education tools for students
Email : surojit@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Sushil Punia
PhD (IIT Delhi)
Operations Management\ and Business Analytics
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Prof. Sushil Punia
Brief Bio : Prof. Sushil Punia researches and teaches Operations Management and Business Analytics at VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Management from IIT Delhi and an M.Tech degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from IIT Kanpur. He is also a visiting researcher at Forecasting Laboratory (ForLab), UK. His areas of expertise include operations and supply chain management, forecasting and predictive analytics, and data-driven optimization. Prof. Sushil uses his expertise to design advanced decision models and policy frameworks for efficient, effective, and equitable resource allocation and services delivery in healthcare and urban logistics sectors. His research has been published in highly reputed research journals like EJOR, IJPR, DSS, CAIE, and others. His recent work on pandemics, supply chain disruptions, and governmental policy decisions is among most cited and downloaded papers in the EJOR journal. He has received several awards and fellowships such as a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Cambridge (UK), the Springer Nature's Best Paper Award, the MoUD research fellowship, and Emerald Literati Award 2018.
Area of Interest : Operations and Supply Chain Management; Business Forecasting; Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics; Healthcare; Logistics and Urban Mobility; Smart Manufacturing.
Email : spunia@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Susmita Mukhopadhyay
PhD (Calcutta University, fellow ISI Kolkata)
Organizational Behavior & Human Resources\
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Prof. Susmita Mukhopadhyay
Brief Bio : Prof. Susmita Mukhopadhyay has interest in organizational behaviour, leadership, competition and cooperation, relationship management, retirement management, team building, competency management, HR analytics, professional excellence, HRM, business ethics, CSR, self-development and effective habits. Prof. Mukhopadhyay has conducted short term courses, MDPs and in company programmes for several Institutes and companies across industries.
Area of Interest : Customer Relationship Management, Developing Leadership Competencies, Emotional Intelligence, Employee Engagement, HR Analytics, Performance Management System, Principles of HRM, Professional excellence
Email : susmita@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Tutan Ahmed
FPM (IIM Calcutta)
Economics and Strategy\ Business Analytics & Information System
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Prof. Tutan Ahmed
Brief Bio : Prof. Tutan Ahmed, with engineering background from Jadavpur University, pursued his doctoral in Public Policy from IIM Calcutta. His interest in policy making led him to work with the World Bank, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE), India. With MSDE, he led a consultation of 36 different Union Ministries/ Departments. At UNDP, he initiated data analytics projects for job forecasting. At the World Bank, he worked on different state and national level projects. With World Bank,he has been working on the online labor-market project for Pakistan. His research interest is in the application of technology in Public Policy. His teaching interest lies in Econometrics; Technology & Future of Public Policy
Area of Interest : Data & Public Policy, Technology in Public Policy, Econometrics, Economics, Business and Government, Education, Labor Economics
Email : tutan@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Vinay Yadav
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Operations Research\
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Prof. Vinay Yadav
Brief Bio : Vinay has worked as an Assistant Professor at IIM Jammu, Visakhapatnam and Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at Technical University of Denmark prior to joining IIT Kharagpur. He earned his masters and a doctoral degree from IIT Bombay, Mumbai; and Bachelors degree from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His expertise includes optimization under uncertainty, interval analysis based operations research techniques, and environmental management.
Area of Interest : Plastics pollution and environmental sustainability; Mathematical models for solid waste management; and Environmental management.
Email : vinay@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in