MDI Murshidabad (Management Development Institute) India, Murshidabad

Prof. (Dr.) Atmanand is working as the Director of MDI Murshidabad. He is also working as the Independent Director on the Board of Central Bank of India. Earlier he worked as the Independent Director on the Board of Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL), Government of India. In MDI Prof. Atmanand has worked as Founder Dean of the prestigious MDI School of Energy Management. He was also the Dean of Executive Post Graduate Programs and School of Public Policy and Governance. He was also the Founder Dean of MDI Murshidabad. He has been teaching and doing research and consultancy in the area of energy and economics for the last 32 years. He has been associated with MDI Gurgaon for the last 21 years. He had the opportunity to act as In-charge Acting Director in MDI Gurgaon.

Dr. Debasis Chanda has twenty plus years of cross-functional experience in the Information Technology industry and 5 plus years of experience in the Engineering Industry. He is also certified as an Enterprise Architect by The Open Group (TOGAF).

Prior to joining MDIM, Dr. Chanda played the role of Principal Architect – Consulting specializing in Business-Technology Consulting in Cognizant Technology Solutions at Associate Director Level. His functional expertise also includes Strategy Consulting and Brand Building. He is a former Associate Professor at IIM Shillong.

Dr. Chanda’s Industry expertise includes Government, Banking, Insurance, Communications, Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing & Logistics, Retail, Publishing, Pharma & Life Sciences. He has Global Business exposure – Continental Europe, USA, APAC, Middle East and India.

Dr. Swar has been awarded the National Scholarship from Ministry of HRD, Government of India. He has more than 16 years of rich teaching, research and industry experience in reputed organizations. Dr. Swar started his career as a Territory Sales In-charge with Xerox Modi Corp. Before joining MDI-M, he was serving as an Associate Professor at Symbiosis International (Deemed University). His areas of expertise in teaching are Marketing of Services, Sales and Distribution Management, Customer Relationship Management, Product and Brand Management and Marketing Analytics etc.

His research interests include shoppers’ buying behavior, online retailing, service quality and branding. He has published more than 30 research papers in various Scopus and ABDC listed Journals. He has guided Ph.D Scholars and presented research papers in more than 50 scholarly and professional conferences organized within and outside India. He has got the best paper awards for his contribution to the research in various conferences.  He is the reviewer and in the editorial board of the various peer reviewed Journals.

He has academically associated with the association like AIMS (Association of Indian Management Scholars). Dr. Swar conducted various MDP/EDPs in the area of marketing for the organizations like Birla Tyres, Union Bank of India, Emami Papers Ltd, John Distilleries and others. He has also successfully completed a Research Project funded by Symbiosis International (Deemed University).

Dr. Giri has handled various position like Director, School of Business, Member Academic Council, Chairman Board of Studies (SOB), Chairman MDP & Consulting (COM) at SMVD University. He is associated with various Universities in various capacities. He is having 14 years of rich experience in management teaching, training & consulting and research. His research interest is Sustainable Supply Chain, QR Logistics, Humanitarian Logistics, Supply Chain visibility, Lean manufacturing, Quality Management. He offers Courses and sessions on the topic like operations Management, Supply chain Management, Global Logistics, Supplier Relationship management, Supply chain modeling ,Benchmarking both for academic and training mode. He has taken training session in campus and in company MDP’s conducted for executives/officers of various organizations like SAIL(CMO),Berger Paints, Cedilla Pharmaceuticals, Hindustan Co-Co Cola, Lupin , Intex, Waterhealth, United phosphorous, Sarveshwar Overseas, Indian Forest Service (IFS) Officers to list a few. He has taken up various Projects and consulting to Intex Technologies, BPRD, AICTE, JKSERC. He has guided various Ph.D Scholars and had in his name publications in national and international Journals.

Dr. Subhajit Bhattacharya has more than 10 years’ experience in academics and teaches different courses in marketing area. His areas of experience and expertise include teaching Brand Management, Consumer Behaviour, Services Marketing and Marketing Research. Prior to joining MDIM, Dr. Subhajit has served as Assistant Professor in Marketing area for more than nine years at the Xavier Institute of Social Services¸ Ranchi.

Dr. Subhajit has published articles in quite a few national and international journals and has also presented papers in several national and international conferences. He is also the reviewer of a number of leading international journals. Currently he is working in the areas of Brand Chemistry¸ Consumer Insight and Pedagogical Issues in Marketing Education.

Dr. Yogita Abichandani was awarded as the distinguished alumni (Circle of 50) of her program at the University of Georgia for the year 2019, she has strived for research and teaching excellence since the beginning of her career. She was the former Area Chair and Associate Professor – HR & OB at Symbiosis International (Deemed University) and a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina System- WCU, USA. Her research interests are Women Leadership, Critical HRD, and Feminist HRD. She graduated with a doctorate from the University of Georgia, USA in 2012. She has over 17 year of experience across multiple sectors and is currently serving as the Advisory Board Member for North Carolina State Employees Credit Union, Asheville, North Carolina. She has published in several national and international conferences and journals. She is the Co-Chair for the India Special Interest Group at the Academy of HRD, USA, a member of Society of HRM, USA and India. She consults with NGO’s in various capacities both in USA and India and provides developmental blueprints to organizations for strategic planning. She also volunteers with various education based NGO’s in India for teacher pedagogy development.

Dr. Pinku Paul has over 14 years of teaching and research experience. Her research interest is in the area of behavioural finance, financial services, banking and insurance industry. She teaches subjects like Financial Management, Managerial Accounting and Control, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management, Project Appraisal, Financial Services, Banking Management and Insurance Management. She has authored several papers, which have been published, in national and international journals. She has also worked as Management Trainer in the World Bank Second India Development Market-Place (IDM) 2007 project on “Capacity Building of Rural Women on Production and Marketing of Cashew Apple Juice”. She has been awarded as Best Professor in Financial Management in 2015 during 23rd Business School Affaire & Dewang Mehta National Education Awards. She is a life Member of Indian Accounting Association.

Dr. Chetan served as Associate Professor of Finance at Kirloskar Institue of Advanced Management Studies (KIAMS), Harihar for six years. He also taught courses of Finance at KIAMS, Pune as part of faculty exchange programme. He worked as lecturer of Finance at Bapuji B-Schools, Davangere for about five years prior joining KIAMS. He also worked as Dealer for Equities and F&O at Kotak Securities Ltd. before joining academia.

He is passionate in teaching finance courses such as: Corporate Finance, Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Corporate Valuation, Financial Modeling, Equity Research, and Financial Services.

His broad research interests include Corporate Finance, Equity Valuation and Futures & Options.

He accomplished various certification courses of National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange, Mumbai.

Dr. Niharika Gaan has been associated with corporate and academia in variety of role including faculty, practitioner, trainer, researcher, and consultant with a span of 20 years majorly in the area of human resource management and organizational behaviour. Her areas of expertise in teaching are Industrial relation and Labour Laws, Talent Management and Competency Mapping, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour, International Human Resource Management. She has published in peer-reviewed journals of national and international repute like Vikalpa, IIMA; International Journal of Business and Management; New Zealand, Journal of Human Resource Management; Decision, IIMC; Vision-The Journal of Business Perspectives, MDI, Indian journal of Industrial Relations. She has even presented research papers at national as well as at international conferences organized by IIMA, IIMB, Academy of Human Resource Development and The European Academy of Management majorly in the areas of Employee Engagement, Mentoring, Workforce Bullying, Work Passion, Transformational Leadership, Emotional Labour and Teaching Effectiveness. She was a member of the editorial board of Contemporary Management Research published by the Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research and has remained a constant reviewer to American Academy of Management, Journal of Leadership Development, European Academy of Management, and Journal of Education and Studies. She handled independently a sponsored research project on Intimate Partner Violence funded by ICSSR, Ministry of HRD as a Principal Investigator. She is a certified trainer too on psychometric test (Carlton Advanced Management Institute, Canada). Her area of expertise in the areas of training program covers wide range of topics like conflict management, art of delegation, motivation, change management, business communication, negotiation, boundary spanning leadership, team building and leadership. She has designed, developed and conducted training sessions for the senior executives of the companies such as GSI, LIC, SAIL-ISP, Techno Electric and Engineering Company Ltd., West Bengal Civil Service Probationers, NCL, ECL, NSPCL, IOCL, Power Grid Corporation of India, and NALCO on areas of change management, conflict management, team building and leadership. She has designed customized training program for Hindustan Petroleum Ltd. and NALCO as part of a consulting program independently. She has even been associated with prestigious companies such as IBM and ACC Concrete in terms of doing collaborative consulting assignments. Under her supervision and at the capacity of Chairperson, MDP the team members of MDI Murshidabad spearheaded the process of signing of MOU between Power grid Corporation and MDI Murshidabad in the areas of MDP, EDP, Consulting, Live Projects, Internships and successfully accomplished. She will handle a teaching assignment in fall season on Social Security and Corporate Governance at Xavier University, Bhubaneswar.

Dr. Paroma Mitra is having 15 years of experience in management teaching, training and research. Her teaching interests are in the area of Managerial Economics, Macro Economics, Indian Economics and Basic Econometrics. Her research interest includes Applied Managerial Economics, Macro Economics, and Strategic Management. She has taken training sessions in campus MDP’s conducted for executives/officers of various organizations like LICI, MSTC, FSNL, and WBCS Executive Probationers. She has published several papers in reputed International and National Journals of repute and also participated in various International and National conferences, Seminar and Workshop.

Dr. Amrita Sengupta is an academician, who has proved to be a great teacher, a passionate researcher and an able administrator. She has more than eleven years of experience in teaching, research and administration in varied organizations like IIM Calcutta, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, iLEAD and Institute of Wetland Management and Ecological Design. She has worked extensively in both Development Economics and Resource and Environmental Economics. She has also worked on Industry Competitiveness under CII in a World Bank Project.

She has been a Board of Studies Member, Examinations and Timetable Chair, Internal auditor of ISO, Guided Research Students and organized several Management Development Programs, Seminars, Conferences while at SMIT. She has not only been an effective teacher, she has been equally successful as an administrator. She has publications in several peer reviewed journals, books, learning materials, Conference Proceedings, Reports both national and International. She has been the editor of several publications for both IIMC and SMIT.

Dr. Mohanti is currently has rich experience of more than 10 years in Academics & Industry. Dr. Mohanti started his career as a Management Trainee with Reliance Securities Ltd. Before joining MDI-M, he was serving as an Assistant Professor at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM). His teaching portfolio consists of courses such as Portfolio Management, Financial Modeling, Financial Derivatives & Risk Management, Financial Markets & Institutions etc. His current research interests include Market risk analysis, Efficiency of derivatives market and Bank risk management. His recent research publications have appeared in journals of national repute such as IIM-Bangalore Management Review (ABDC – B Category) and Metamorphosis-IIM Lucknow.

Dr. Banerjee has keen interest in research and has presented research papers in many prestigious national and international conferences including prestigious conferences like First Corporate Governance Conference organized by IIM, Trichy, Yale Great Lakes Conference organized by Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai in collaboration with Yale University, the USA, etc. He had chaired a Technical Session in an international conference at IIM, Kozhikode. Some of the research papers are published in Scopus and ABDC Indexed journals. He has published many research papers in referred journals, in India, the UK, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines. Dr.Banerjee has developed many case studies for class room discussion as well as executive education. He was previously associated with IBS Hyderabad as a faculty member.

Dr. Bikramjit Pal has been associated with academia in variety of role including faculty, project trainer, researcher with a span of 21 years. His areas of expertise in teaching are DBMS, Data Warehouse, Data Mining, Software Engineering. He has published in peer-reviewed journals of international repute. He has even presented research papers at international conferences. He has been awarded “Distinguished Assistant Award” by CSI, Mumbai Chapter in 2017. Also, he has worked in various administrative positions in different colleges.

Dr Neeraj Singhal has attended FDP at (IIMA, 2005), FDP (IIM Indore, 2002).  He is having more than 2 decade teaching, research, institution building and industry experience. He worked with Apeejay School of Management, New Delhi as Associate Professor for more than 13 years, prior to that he worked with Gurukula Kangri University Haridwar and Galgotia Institute of Management & Technology, Greater Noida.

Dr Singhal contributed research papers in international and national journal of reputed published from Sage, Springer, Elsevier indexed in ABDC/Scopus etc. He published in the area of sustainable development, climate change, green business, carbon market etc. He is also a reviewer for Cambridge press, Sage publication journals. He has contributed for many international and national conferences organized by IIM, IIT, Universities and other institute of repute across country. He has attended specialized strategic management teachers program initiated by Strategic Management Forum of India (SMFI) at IIMK, IIML, MDI, and IIFT. Dr Singhal also attended one week long specialized program organized under GIAN at NITK, Mysore University, and AMU. He is also associated with many universities and institutions for academic work such as Doctoral supervision, evaluation, paper setting, curriculum review, accreditation workshop etc.

He taught courses related to international business, business strategy, and international business strategy. He has developed module on green business, global climate change and business. He is member of Academy of International Business, USA, and alumnus of IIMA, IIMI.