Ganesh N. Prabhu's Homepage

Ganesh N. Prabhu
Professor (Corporate Strategy & Policy)
Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore, India

Room 208 NFB, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore 560076, India
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Ganesh N. Prabhu is Professor of Corporate Strategy & Policy at the Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore (IIMB), India. He is a nominated member on the India Design Council of the Government of India and a governing council member of The Strategy Academy Knowledge Centre Society and the Strategic Management Forum of India. He is also on the board of studies of the International Institute of Information Management Mysore and the Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore. He was earlier on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management, USA for three and half years. At IIMB he was earlier Chairperson, Post Graduate Program for two years and Chairperson, Placement for three and half years.

Ganesh's areas of research and teaching are product innovation, business strategy and entrepreneurship. He received the Best Young Teacher Award in 2000 from the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS). He also jointly won the AIMS Best Research Paper Award in 2002 and was second in the AIMS Case Writing Competition in 2003. He is a fellow (doctorate) (1996) of the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad (IIMA), India with specialization in strategy. His doctoral dissertation won the PD Agarwal -TCI Award for Doctoral Research in Management. He has published in the Academy of Management Review, Research Policy, International Journal of Technology Management, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, Technovation and Science Technology & Society. He has also published cases in three international journals Greener Management International, Asian Case Research Journal, and Journal of Corporate Citizenship, and a highly cited paper on social entrepreneurship in the journal Career Development International. His joint paper was nominated for the Carolyn Dexter Award at the Academy of Management Meeting 2001. His papers and cases have been published in books published by Guerini e Associati Publishers (Italy) and International NGO Research and Training Center (UK).

As a faculty at IIMB since 1996, Ganesh teaches doctoral courses in strategy process research and qualitative research as well as MBA courses and executive program modules in business strategy, global strategy and product innovation. He has been on the dissertation advisory committees for several doctoral students at IIMB and on dissertation examination committees at IIMC, IIMB and IIML. He has conducted four commissioned or sponsored case writing projects - two cases on corporate-NGO partnerships for the International NGO Research and Training Center (UK), a case on the Indian dairy industry for Tetra Pak India, a jointly developed a set of cases on software product development for the University of Pennsylvania Center for the Advanced Study of India and a case research for the N S Raghavan Center for Entrepreneurial Learning at IIMB.

Ganesh has consulted for the National Dairy Development Board (2005) and jointly consulted on major restructuring plans for HMT Machine Tools Limited (2004) and for HMT Limited (Tractors Division) (2004). He has conducted top management workshops on business strategy and product innovation on invitation for Honeywell India (2008), Tata Group (2007), ITC International Business Division (2005), Tetra Pak India (2002) and Tessaract Design (2000). He has also conducted sessions on business strategy, global strategy and product innovation for senior executive groups from the Strategy Academy (2010, 2009, 2008), HAL Management Academy (2009), Crompton Greaves (2008), Quest (2007), Oracle (2007), Union Bank of India (2009, 2007, 2006), Honeywell (2006), Indian Oil (2005) and has led visioning workshops for top management teams of several small firms as part of the Business Growth Program. He has taught as guest faculty at XLRI, Jamshedpur, at IIM Kozhikode and at IIM Indore.

Within IIMB, Ganesh has jointly designed and coordinated several open executive education programs - Strategic Analysis for Competitive Advantage, Product Development Strategy for Entrepreneurs, NID-IIMB Joint Program on Design and Strategy, Creating Successful New Products, and Creating Successful Software Products. The Management Program for Women Entrepreneurs is a summer program jointly coordinated by him every year since 2004 to enable aspiring women entrepreneurs to develop their business plans. Earlier, as a member of a three year British Council sponsored higher education link program with Oxford Brookes University UK, he jointly developed a Management Program for Trainers of Women Entrepreneurs that was held in 2002 and 2003 in Bangalore. He has jointly coordinated several cycles of the Executive General Management Program, Business Growth Program, Strategic Management Teachers Program and has designed and lead corporate partnership executive education programs for Amul, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Reliance Industries, Trent Retail, Seimens and Wipro-GE Medical Systems.

Ganesh has a masters in rural management (1989) from the Institute of Rural Management Anand and a bachelors in physics (1987) from Bombay University (Elphinstone College). Prior to his doctoral studies he held executive positions for two years (1989-91) in the National Dairy Development Board working in a major turnaround project in Punjab State, India (for one year), in Amul Dairy (for six months) and several short projects (for six months). He was born in Mumbai (Bombay) and had his schooling in Loyola School, Jamshedpur and Bishop Cotton Boy's School, Bangalore. He likes listening to hindustani classical music and watching motorsports. He married Chitra in 1997 and they have a son Ninad born in 2000.

Read Online Articles and Books

Behind the scenes of placements at the IIMs - Part 1 (May 12, 2009) PaGaLGuY http://www.pagalguy.com/?p=1891

Behind the scenes of placements at the IIMs - Part 2 (May 18, 2009) PaGaLGuY http://www.pagalguy.com/?p=1902

Behind the scenes of placements at the IIMs - Part 3 (May 29, 2009) PaGaLGuY http://www.pagalguy.com/?p=1916

Cases on University Industry Technology Collaborations (published book – full book readable online at Pothi.com)

Managing University Industry Technology Collaboration (published book – preview readable online at Pothi.com)

Opinion on IIM Review Committee's Recommendations” (Nov 17, 2008) PaGaLGuY http://pagalguy.com/rankings/welcome/article/opinion/7

Download Cases and Presentations

Presentation at IreBoot on Careers in Teaching and Teaching in a Business School, January 17, 2010.

Presentation at the Melton Foundation Symposium Panel on Business Innovation, August 6, 2009.

Presentation at the Strategy Area Seminar on My Journey in Academics, IIM Bangalore 2009.

Teaching Case: PaGaLGuY: Creating the Largest Online Community of MBA Aspirants in India (pdf). Can be read but do not post or use!

Teaching Case: Pradesh Milk Federation (pdf) Feel free to download and use!

Published Case: Zurich Financial Services’ Partnership with Indian NGO’s (downloadable pdf)

Downloads Program Brochures

Management Program for Women Entrepreneurs 2010 Brochure (download pdf). Read Online Book on Alumni Startups at Pothi.com

Management Program for Women Entrepreneurs in India: Business Plans and Group Processes as Catalysts for Enterprise Creation by Women

Proceedings of the International Conference of Business and Industrial Research, March 17-18, 2010, Bangkok (download pdf after March 2010)

Strategic Analysis for Competitive Advantage 2008 Brochure (html)

Management Program for Women Entrepreneurs 2009 Timetable (pdf)

Management Program for Women Entrepreneurs Alumni Survey 2008 (pdf)

NID-IIMB Joint Program on Design and Strategy 2008 Brochure (pdf)

Conference and Allied Activities: Ganesh is the Co-chair of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Indian Academy of Management Conference 2009 and Mini-Track Chair on Research Methods in Strategy-as-Practice in the European Conference on Research Methods, Madrid, 2010. He has been on the Technical Program Committee and Session Chair of the Fourth International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology of the IEEE Society Singapore held at Bangkok (2008) and Singapore (2010). He was Chair of the Product Development Management Association India Conference 2007 and was its Co-chair in 2006. He was on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Small Business Conference, Barcelona (2005) and the European Conference on Research Methods in Business and Management UK, (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010). He has presented refereed papers at the Academy of Management Meetings at Honolulu (2005), at Washington DC (2001) and at Chicago (1999). He has also presented papers at the International Conference on Business and Industrial Research at Bangkok (2010) Asia Pacific Retailing Conference at Hong Kong (2009), Triple Helix Conference at Singapore (2007), the Asia Pacific Management Conferences at Melbourne (2007) and Bangkok (2006), at the International School of Management and Technology (SIAF), Volterra, Pisa (2006), at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna, Pisa (2006), the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Small Business Conference in Barcelona (2005), Casa Asia - Promo Madrid Meeting in Madrid (2005), the European Conference on Research Methods in Business and Management in Reading UK (2003), the R&D Management Conferences in Pisa (1995), Hyderabad (1995) and Delhi (1999), the International Association for Technology Assessment and Forecasting Institutions Conference in Delhi (1998) and several other national and international conferences and workshops, some with scholarship awards. He was a faculty mentor at the Strategic Management Society India Conference Junior Faculty Workshop at Hyderabad (2008) and a case presenter at the Second Asian Invitational Conference on Family Business at Hyderabad (2009). He has served as an occasional reviewer for the International Business Review and conferences of the Asia Academy of Management and the International Management Development Association. He was a plenary speaker on business opportunities in user experience design at the USID Foundation Conference 2008. He was an invited panelist at an Intel seminar on innovation for emerging markets, an invited panelist at a Honeywell seminar on customer focus and an invited panelist at the Melton Foundation seminar on business innovation. He was included in two major India-UK Science Bridge proposals with Imperial College, UK and Cambridge University, UK as well as in an Italy-India-China joint proposal with Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy on promoting university-industry relations. He was also included as external consultant by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu on a major consulting contract. He is a member of the Academy of Management, Asia Academy of Management and the International Society for Third Sector Research.

This page was last updated on February 1, 2010.