The Future of India
Trends in the US could portend the challenges India will face
Rishikesha T Krishnan
Director, and Professor of Strategy
IIM Bangalore
Rishikesha Krishnan is an author, columnist and professor of management who focuses on strategy, innovation, and education. He is listed in the Thinkers50 India list of most influential management thinkers from India.
Prof. Krishnan’s book 8 Steps to Innovation: Going from Jugaad to Excellence (co-authored with Vinay Dabholkar) won the Best Book Award for 2013-14 from the Indian Society for Training & Development. His earlier book From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India proposed a blueprint for how India can enhance its innovation output.
From 1996-2013, Prof. Krishnan worked at IIM Bangalore, where he held the Jamuna Raghavan Chair in Entrepreneurship from 2007 to 2010. After serving a five year stint from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2018 as the Director of IIM Indore, he returned to IIM Bangalore and is currently Director of IIM Bangalore and Professor of Strategy there. He was educated at IIT Kanpur, Stanford University and IIM Ahmedabad.
My contributions
35 articles written
What does it take to become a Management Guru?
Management scholars in India could do well to study closely the success of global gurus like Jagdish Sheth
How to create an Indian MBA
The MBA programme, as we know it in India today, is an import from the West with modest efforts at adaptation. The time to change it has come.
Lessons from Vertex Pharma: Will we be able to develop breakthrough drugs?
Indian firms find it hard to inculcate radical innovation into their DNA. Perhaps they could draw inspiration from the experiences of US based pharmaceutical firm Vertex.
VidyaGyan: Allowing Indian Talent to Flower and Bloom
An effort to make sure that the best and brightest don’t get left behind merely because they were born poor or underprivileged