Dr. S Raghunath has been Professor of Strategy Area at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Dr. Raghunath was the Global Director of the International Masters Programme for Practising Managers (IMPM) in 2010-2011 and has coached many top managers of Indian as well as multinational companies. For 24 years he has been offering professional services to a number of entities such as Agriculture Finance Corporation, Union Bank, Canara Bank, State Bank of India, Vysya Bank, General Electric, General Motors, IBM, Essar, HP, Metro Cash & Carry, Wipro, SAIL, Tata Steel, Volvo and Ashok Leyland.
Dr. Raghunath is the South Asia Chapter Chair of the Academy of International Business. He is on the board of directors of MECL, KIOCL, Scientrix Asia, Spire Technologies, Weir India and the National Venture Capital Fund. He is a Registered Consultant with the office of project services, UNDP, New York.
He teaches post-graduate and doctoral courses in Alliance Management, Strategic Networks and Corporate Strategy and leads IIMB executive programmes on Strategic Issues in Alliances & Acquisitions, Negotiations, Strategic Leadership of IT Companies and the Business Management Programme for Media and Entertainment Industry.
He was a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University where he engaged in research on strategy making in IT companies. He was also a visiting Professor at INSEAD, France; HEC Paris; EuroMed, Marseilles; University of Buckingham, UK; RMIT School of Business; Melbourne, Australia.
He also teaches an elective course on Digital Business Strategies and Models in the Post Graduate Programme on Software Enterprise Management (PGSM)
His research has focused on structuring and Managing International Alliances, MNC headquarters- Subsidiary relationships and digital strategy and models. He has published serval papers, case studies, book chapters and has been quoted in publications such as Economics Times, Business Line and the Computer Today and he wrote a column on business strategy for Outlook Business.
U Dinesh Kumar is a Professor of Decision Sciences and Chairperson of Data Centre and Analytics Lab (DCAL) at IIM Bangalore and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Bombay. Dr Dinesh Kumar introduced Business Analytics elective course in 2008 to the PGP students at IIM Bangalore and started one of the first certificate programmes in Business Analytics in India in 2010.
Dr Dinesh Kumar has over 20 years of teaching and research experience. Prior to joining IIM Bangalore, Dr Dinesh Kumar has worked at several reputed Institutes across the world including Stevens Institute of Technology, USA; University of Exeter, UK; University of Toronto, Canada; Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland; Queensland University of Technology, Australia; Australian National University, Australia and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
Dr Dinesh Kumar has published more than 70 research articles in leading academic journals. Forty two of his case studies on Business Analytics based on Indian and multinational organizations such as Aavin Milk Dairy, Apollo Hospitals, Bigbasket, Bollywood, Flipkart.com, Hewlett and Packard, ISKCON, Jayalaxmi Agro Tech, Larsen & Toubro, Manipal Hospitals, Mission Hospital, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Indian Premier League, Reliance Retail, Shubham Housing Finance Limited, VMWare have been published at the Harvard Business Publishing’s case portal. His case studies are used by more than 220 Institutions across 61 countries across the world. He has authored 3 books, his recent book is titled, “Business Analytics – The Science of Data Driven Decision Making”, published by Wiley in 2017 which was an Amazon Best Seller.
Dr Dinesh Kumar has carried out predictive and prescriptive analytics consulting projects for organizations such as The Boston Consulting Group (India) Private Limited, Cavinkare, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Indian Army, Qatar Airways, Mission Hospital, Manipal Hospitals, Scalene Works, Wipro Limited, UNIBIC and the World Health Organization etc.
Dr Dinesh Kumar has conducted training program on Analytics for several companies’ companies such as Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Ashok Leyland, Bank of America, Blue Ocean Market Intelligence, Cisco, Fidelity, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Honey Well, Infosys, ITC Info Tech, Ocwen financial Services and so on. Dr Dinesh Kumar conducts corporate training programme in Analytics and trained more than 1000 professionals in the field of analytics.
He is the founding president of the Analytics Society of India (ASI). Dr Dinesh Kumar was awarded the Best Young Teacher Award by the Association of Indian Management Institutions in 2003. He is listed as one of the top 10 analytics academics in India by the analytics India magazine. He is the governing council member of the Karnataka Government’s Centre of excellence for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence set up in Collaboration with NASSCOM.