There are nine
faculty members
in the
Strategic Management Area. Diversity is central to the area, and
its key strength. Faculty members bring in extensive industry experience in
operations, regulation, manufacturing, and consultancy from prior roles in the
government and private sectors.
The
Strategic Management area faculty have research interests in business
ethics, business history, business models, complexity theory, entrepreneurship,
globalization and its effects, innovation, international management, mergers and
acquisitions, public sector management, strategic decision making, top
management teams, etc., in a very diverse set of industries that includes FMCG,
manufacturing, media, telecom and transportation. Area members have published in
leading journals like
Asia Pacific Journal of Management,
Computational and Mathematical Organization theory,
Decision,
Global Strategy Journal,
Journal of Business Ethics,
Journal of
Business Research,
Journal of World Business,
MIT Sloan Management
Review,
Thunderbird International Business Review among others.
Faculty members of the
Strategic Management area have extended consulting services to international
agencies like World Bank and UNDP, central and state government ministries,
public sector organizations, and the private sector. Faculty members have
authored books and book chapters on
Strategic Management,
International Business and
Best Business Practices.
The area offers two doctoral
programs, one full-time, residential program and one part-time non-residential
doctoral program for participants working in the industry. Our
doctoral fellows
have been placed at some of the leading management institutes in the country
including IIMs Lucknow, Amritsar and Sirmaur and Thapar University. Some others
have returned to their parent organizations in the government—for example,
Income Tax and BSNL—to positions of enhanced responsibilities. As of 2018, the
area has an enrolment of nine doctoral students
in the
full-time residential program, and ten candidates in the
industry doctoral program.
The area offers compulsory
courses in Strategic Management covering business strategy in Term II and
corporate strategy in Term III for the flagship MBA program. Besides this, the
area also offers over twenty electives courses for second year MBA students,
covering International Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Models,
Strategy Consulting, Entrepreneurship, Competing with Capabilities, E-Business
Strategy, etc. Most recently, the area has been offering Strategy Simulation as
an elective to expose students to the integrative way in which businesses work
and function.