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| Q&A
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RAVI ANSHUMAN |
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Professor
Ravi Anshuman has joined the ISB as
Associate Dean of the post-graduate
programme in management. He holds a
PhD in Finance from the University of
Utah and a Bachelors degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Kanpur. Professor Anshuman
has held academic appointments at Boston
College and the Indian Institute of
Management, Bangalore. He has also held
visiting positions at the Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology,
and the University of Texas - Austin.
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His teaching interests include corporate
finance, valuation, investments, and
capital market theory, and research
interests cover the areas of market
microstructure, capital markets, and
corporate financial management issues
in emerging markets.
In addition to being involved with
academics, he has also consulted with
various blue-chip companies. His publications
have appeared in the Review of Financial
Studies, Journal of Financial Economics,
Journal of Financial Markets, etc.
He is a member of the Certification
Formulation and Testing Committee
(CFTC) of the National Stock Exchange
(NSE). Professor Anshuman outlines
his plans and vision for the post-graduate
programme in management.
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Q. What are your plans for the ISB's
Post Graduate Programme?
RA.
In order to be a world-class business
school, we need to have a strong focus
on research. I want to bring this research-orientation
to the classroom. I am also working
closely with the International Academic
Council to make innovations with new
courses and changes to content, so that
our curriculum is constantly updated
and relevant. We are working at making
the specialisations more comprehensive.
Q. Have you
planned any new activities as focus
areas at the ISB?
RA.
We have student clubs like marketing,
finance, and technology, which organise
various activities and events. The students
are very enthusiastic and exceptionally
talented. I would like to make the most
of these activities, invite students
from IITs and other B-Schools in India
to participate in the school's events,
and showcase the ISB to the outside
world.
Q. How is the
ISB's programme different from courses
other business schools offer?
RA.
Firstly, it is a one-year programme,
which covers all the courses that a
two-year MBA programme offers. Our partnerships
with three of the world's leading business
schools and our international faculty
gives the programme a global outlook.
Another feature of the ISB, which is
truly distinctive, is the involvement
of the industry, and the opportunities
the students have to interact with business
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| Professor
SUDHI SESHADRI |
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Professor
Sudhi Seshadri has joined the
ISB as Associate Dean, Executive
Programmes.He holds a PhD in Business
Administration from the Pennsylvania
State University and a B.Tech
in Electrical Engineering from
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur. He has special interests
in the domains of marketing for
technical organisations, international
marketing and more generally industrial
or business-to-business marketing.
He is also involved with research
in relationship marketing, online
marketing, and database marketing.For
over a decade, he has worked in
India and abroad in the areas
of marketing management and marketing
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He has taught and conducted research
in three graduate business schools for
over ten years in the US and at IIM,
Bangalore. He has published more than
a dozen papers in leading international
management journals and proceedings
like Management Science, Marketing Science,
Managerial & Decision Economics,
and Industrial Marketing Management.
His publications have focused on applications
in Business Marketing. He is on the
editorial board of the Review of Marketing
Science, and is currently working on
a book project.
Professor
Seshadri has consulted for the public
sector and has technical marketing
and sales experience with major multi-divisional
engineering firms, both India and
abroad. He has recent consulting experience
with telecommunications companies
developing marketing information products
in a de-regulating and increasingly
competitive environment.
He
outlines his plans for the executive
education programmes at the ISB.
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Q. What are your plans for Executive
Programmes at the ISB?
SS.
Executive Programmes at the ISB are
poised to diversify and grow. Our
team is building a set of complementary
programmes through customised, open,
and general management offerings.
We are focused on the top and senior
management levels, and at accelerated
management development for high potential
individuals. We have also identified
sectoral programmes, such as in health
and public systems.
Q. How will the Executive
Programmes impact the corporate professional?
SS.
I'd say we chiefly aim to develop
strategic thinking and a global perspective.
The ISB will provide the programme
content and the learning experience
necessary to allow our participants
to make the quantum leap to business
leadership.
Q. What is unique about
the ISB's Executive Programmes?
SS.
In simple terms, the programmes bring
together international faculty at
the cutting-edge of knowledge as Programme
Directors, business leaders at the
helm of exciting developments in their
industry as Guest Speakers, and very
high potential practitioners as Participants,
in an unmatched learning environment
- all at an accessible place, an internationally
competitive price, and dealing with
real educational needs. In a nutshell,
we are providing world-class executive
education in India.
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