Prof. Saurabh Pandya

Associate Professor

Academic Area: People, Strategy and Operations

Saurabh Pandya has more than fifteen years of professional experience in the industry and academia. He has a doctorate in Corporate Strategy & Policy from IIM Bangalore (2008-2014) and an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai (2000-02).

After his MBA from NMIMS Mumbai, Saurabh worked in the industry for about five years with companies like Tata Motors, Go Airlines (India) and Unisource Worldwide, in diverse functions like finance, audit and analytics.Prior to joining MICA in 2022, Saurabh has worked for more than eight years as a faculty in the Strategy & Entrepreneurship areas with IIM Raipur, XLRI Jamshedpur and IIM Nagpur. He was Chairperson of the Executive MBA program at IIM Nagpur and also chaired the committee for revising the MBA curriculum and designing the Executive MBA curriculum in 2021.

At MICA, Saurabh co-teaches courses on Managing Organization Ecosystem, Governance, Change & Transformation, and Multi-Sectoral Analysis. In his previous institutes, he has taught courses on Strategic Management, Strategy Implementation, Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Leadership, Corporate Governance and Strategy Process Research, across various management programs. Since 2023, Prof Pandya also teaches courses on Strategy Implementation and Balanced Scorecard as a visiting faculty member in XLRI Jamshedpur and IRMA.

Saurabh has designed and executed various corporate training programs in Strategic Thinking and Implementation for Tata Steel and Adani Green Energy. He has been a part of various open and customized management development programs for companies like Canara Bank, Toyota Tsusho, Novo Nordisk, HPCL, and Western Coalfields.

Saurabh has to his credit a number of research publications and conference presentations. His work on leadership development and rapid growth organizations has been presented in international conferences and was also selected for the Best Paper Proceedings at the Academy of Management (AOM) conference in 2012 in Boston (US). He has also presented his research work at reputed international conferences in Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

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2. Areas of Teaching
  • Managing Organization Ecosystem
  • Governance, Change & Transformation
  • Multi-sectoral Analysis in the Indian Context
  • Research Methodology (Doctoral course)
  • Strategy Process Research (Doctoral course)
  • Strategy Implementation through Balanced Scorecard
  • Strategic Information Systems Research (Doctoral course)
  • Strategic Management
  • Strategic Leadership
  • Understanding Entrepreneurship
  • Corporate Governance
3. Research & Publications

3.1.Peer-reviewed Publications

  • Ganguly, S., Das, S. & Pandya, S. (2022). “Influence of strategy typology on innovation: Evidence from the manufacturing sector”. International Journal of Electronic Government Research, 18(2), pp.1-16. (doi: 10.4018/IJEGR.298156)
  • Shukla, A., Narayanasamy, S., Ayyalusami, K. & Pandya, S.K. (2021). “Influence of independent directors on the market risks of Indian banks”. Journal of Asia Business Studies, 15(1), pp.31-49. (doi: 10.1108/JABS-01-2020-0010)
  • Pandya, S.K. (2020). “Early life experiences and their impact on effective learning and development.” Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, 34 (6), pp.49-51. (doi:10.1108/DLO-09-2019-0210)
  • Pandya, S.K. (2017). “Early success experience as a predictor of fast-track career growth.” Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, 31(2), pp.10-12. (doi: 10.1108/DLO-07-2016-0057)
  • Pandya, S.K. (2017). “Improving the learning and developmental potential of SWOT analysis: introducing the LISA framework.” Strategic Direction, 33(3), pp.12-14. (doi: 10.1108/SD-09-2016-0132)
  • Pandya, S.K. & Prabhu, G.N. (2012). “Senior Manager Leadership Development in Rapid Employee Growth Organizations.” In Leslie A. Toombs (Ed.), Best Paper Proceedings of the Seventy-second Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, USA. (doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2012.119)

 

3.2.Conference Presentations

  • 2023.“Harnessing Collective Mindfulness for Alignment and Agility: A Study of Service Teams” (with Aniruddha Chatterjee, Munish Thakur & Kyle Bruce). India Strategy Conference, IIM Bangalore, December 14-17, 2023.
  • 2023.“Impact of Developments in Artificial Intelligence on the Linkages between Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theories” (with Deepika Gupta and Sanjeev Ganguly). Strategic Management Forum Annual Convention 2023, IIM Tiruchirappalli, India, December 18-20, 2023.
  • 2023.“Evaluating Management Graduates’ Propensity for Startup Employment” (with Adarsh Singh). Strategic Management Forum Annual Convention 2023, IIM Tiruchirappalli, India, December 18-20, 2023.
  • 2020.“Learning from international acquisition experience: Narratives from an Indian EMNC” (with Ramya T. Venkateswaran and Ganesh N. Prabhu). Indian Academy of Management (INDAM) conference, IIM Tiruchirappalli, India, January 2-4, 2020; Won the Best Paper of the Conference Award (sponsored by Emerald Publishing Ltd.) and Best Paper of the Track (Organization and Management Theory) Award (Paper presented by Ramya T. V.)
  • 2018.“Performance Management in Emergent Market MNEs”. Academy of International Business (AIB) Oceania Chapter Annual Meeting (Research Symposium), Melbourne, Australia, November 16-17, 2018.
  • 2018.“Development of Senior Managers: Insights from Rapid Growth Phase of Indian Software Services Firms” (with Ganesh N. Prabhu). Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, August 10-14, 2018.
  • 2018.“Exploring the determinants of trust in co-opetitive knowledge transfers” (with Aniruddha Chatterjee). ANZIBA (Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy) Annual Conference, Brisbane, Australia, Jan 31 – Feb 2, 2018. (Paper presented by my co-author)
  • 2013.Paper proposal titled “Organizational Learning and Innovation in Creative Industries” at the Asian Perspectives on Creative Industries Conference at Singapore Management University (SMU), June 7-8, 2013.
  • 2012.“Senior Manager Leadership Development in Rapid Employee Growth Organizations” (with Ganesh N. Prabhu). Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, August 3-7, 2012. [Was selected as part of the Best Paper Proceedings]
  • 2011.“The Upper Echelons Theory – A Critique of the Philosophical Foundations”. Indian Academy of Management (IAM) Conference, Bangalore, India, December 18-20, 2011.
  • 2011.“Organizational Learning & Performance - The Role of Experimentation & Experiential Learning Processes”. Eastern Academy of Management International (EAM-I) Conference, Bangalore, India, June 26-30, 2011.
  • 2011.“Top Management Team (TMT) Characteristics, Processes and Impact on Firm Performance”. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) Doctoral Colloquium, Ahmedabad, India, January 3-4, 2011.
4. Areas of Training & Consultancy
  • Conducted sessions on Entrepreneurship – Concepts & Tools for fellows of the Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship (MGNF) programme at IIM Nagpur in 2022 (Academic Modules 2 & 3)
  • Master Class Sessions on Business Model Canvas for 32 participants of the Women Start-up Programme 2020-21 (WSP 3.0) at IIM Nagpur in April 2021
  • Sessions on Experiential Learning through Case Study Method in the Orientation Program for incoming batch of PGP (2-year MBA) at IIM Sambalpur in August 2018 & July 2019
  • Sessions on Case Study Method in the Orientation Week for various programs at XLRI in June 2018
  • Sessions on Strategic Management for 1st & 2nd year students at Christ Institute of Management, Lavasa (Pune) in January 2017
  • Joint Program Director for one-year online Post Graduate Certificate Program in Strategic Management 2021-22 at IIM Nagpur (around 105 participants)
  • Designed and delivered customized training programs on Business Strategies / Strategic Thinking for senior executives of Adani Green Energy and Tata Steel (5 batches) from 2018 to 2020 as Program Director
  • Conducted sessions as a part of in-company (customized) corporate training programs on Strategic Management for senior executives of HPCL and Western Coalfields Ltd (at IIM Nagpur), and Canara Bank (3 batches), Tata Steel (7 batches), Toyota Tsusho and Novo Nordisk (at XLRI Jamshedpur)
  • Conducted sessions in five Open MDP (training) programs on Strategic Thinking & Implementation
  • Conducted sessions in three Open Online MDP (training) programs on Strategic Management
  • Sessions on Vision, Mission & Strategic Reconciliation in 2015 at IIM Raipur – in the TEQIP program of Government of India

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