MYSORE, India, September 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Dr. Sudhindra Seshadri, formerly with the Singapore Management University, has joined the MYRA School of Business as Senior Associate Dean (Academics) and Distinguished Professor of Marketing from September 1, 2015.
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Dr. Sudhindra Seshadri (popularly known as Dr. Sudhi Seshadri) began his academic career at the RH Smith B-School at the University of Maryland, after obtaining his PhD from the Smeal School at The Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Dr. Sudhindra Seshadri comes with rich and varied experience in teaching and academic leadership roles. He has engaged in research, teaching and educational administration in business and management domains for close to three decades. He has previously served as faculty at leading US and Asian management schools, including the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and Indian School of Business. He conducts research on business marketing strategies, has served on doctoral research committees and has taught marketing courses at all levels.
Having a variety of academic administration responsibilities, previously he has led ISB's Executive Education as Associate Dean, IIMB's Executive Programs as Chairperson, IIMB's Marketing Area as Chairperson, and as Conferences Vice President for the Society for Global Business & Economic Development.
Dr. Seshadri's disciplinary research in business marketing strategy is based on theories of organizational exchange, agency theory, information and transaction-cost economics, relationship marketing, the resource based view of the firm, and industrial organization. He constructs formal quantitative models for decision-making based on these theories using methods of applied game theory and statistical methodologies such as structural equations modeling. He has published over two dozen papers in international conference proceedings and select international journals, including Industrial Marketing Management, Marketing Science, Management Science, and Managerial & Decision Economics; authored a book 'Sourcing Strategy: Principles, Policy and Designs', published by the leading academic house Springer-Verlag.
A firm believer in interdisciplinary research, Dr. Seshadri has academic collaborations with colleagues from economics, social sciences and management studies - including business strategy, information systems, and operation management - with a focus on greening business and sustainability.
Dr. Seshadri augments his academic career with industry consulting engagements, entrepreneurial collaborations and policy center involvements. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and a PhD in Business Administration from the Smeal School at The Pennsylvania State University, USA, where he was a doctoral fellow at the Institute for Studies of Business Markets.
At MYRA, his responsibilities include establishing best practices and new linkages with leading B Schools across the world and also blue chip industries. In addition to teaching, Dr. Seshadri will help establish Centres of Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Dr. Seshadri with his rich experience that includes his stint at SMU, IIMB, and ISB, will help build MYRA's academic culture by example.
Dr. Shalini Urs, Chairperson, MYRA, stated that the MYRA community of Trustees, Governing Board, Faculty, and the Students is excited that a seasoned academic and an administrator like Dr. Seshadri has joined the MYRA leadership team to take it to greater heights.
About MYRA School of Business:
The MYRA School of Business is a unique boutique Global B School located in the royal city of Mysore - an educational hub and a heritage city. MYRA's unique learning platform blends Indian and western perspectives and teaching methods to add intellectual diversity in the classroom by bringing faculty from some of the top B Schools in the world such as Cornell, Kellogg, Cambridge, IIMs and others. MYRA's study abroad program partners include W.P Cary School of Business, Arizona State University, USA; Catolica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Portugal and The University of Washington, Bothell, US.
The four academic programs offered are - the two-year-AICTE approved, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDM); the one-year Post Graduate Program for executives (PGPX); Customized Executive Education Programs and PhD (University of Mysore) program. MYRA's leadership team with a vision to provide world-class business education to young Indians so that they can deliver exceptional value to whoever hires them, is committed to "excellence" in everything-faculty, pedagogy, campus and placements.
For more details: http://www.myra.ac.in
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