Why 2019 will be remembered as the year of Research Excellence for #ISB

Indian School of Business : Year in a Review 2019

Significant Research Achievements by the world class faculty of ISB

Published on Jan 02, 2020

Under the leadership of Professor #RajendraSrivastava, Dean of the ISB, the school has witnessed many milestones in the last few years. Here are some of the achievements the school has seen in the year 2019 in the research area.

• ISB No 1 in India in research rankings with just 51 residential faculty. In per capita productivity of faculty, ISB comes No 2 among institutions outside North America. (Business Line, April 08, 2019)
• University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Top 100 B-school Research Rankings 2015-18, ISB was ranked 26th worldwide in terms of per-capita productivity of its faculty in research publications in leading global journals
• ISB is the only business school from India to be ranked among the Research, as per the UTD Research Ranking
• ISB faculty Prof. Subramanian appointed as the Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) to the Govt. of. India
• Professors Shashwat Alok, Raghu Bommaraju, Deepal Basak, Abhishek Kathuria, Nitin Kumar, Nikhil Madan, Prasanna Tantri, Madhu Viswanathan and Sudhir Voleti published articles in several journals.
• Dean Rajendra Srivastava was selected as a 2020 AMA Fellow. The distinction of ‘AMA Fellow’ is given to those who have made significant contributions to the research, theory and practice of marketing, and/or to the service and activities of the AMA over a prolonged period. Professors Raghu Bommaraju and Kiran Pedada were awarded for their exemplary dissertations:
• Professor Raghu Bommaraju won the 2019 Doctoral Dissertation Award sponsored by the Stephen Stagner Sales Excellence Institute at the University of Houston for his dissertation titled ‘The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on the Sales Force’
• Professor Kiran Pedada won the 2019 AMS Mary Kay Dissertation Award
• Professors Prasanna Tantri and Ramabhadran Thirumalai won the following grants for their research proposals: 
• Professor Prasanna Tantri’s research proposal titled ‘Do Social Ties Trump Collateral in Determining Loan Performance? Evidence Using Same Day Loan Repayments’ co-authored with Professor Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore and Nitin Vishen, FPM Student has been selected for the 2019 NSE-NYU Stern Initiative on the Study of Indian Financial Markets grant
• Professor Ramabhadran Thirumalai’s proposal titled ‘Textual Disclosures and Retail Trading’ co-authored with Ankit Jain and Abdul Khizer is one of six papers selected for the 2019 NSE-NYU Stern Initiative on the Study of Indian Financial Markets grant

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