Educator
I’m a Professor at S P Jain School of Global Management and have taught in Bachelors’ through Doctoral programs, delivered executive education, and conducted workshops at corporate client locations, as well as Harvard, INSEAD, AIM, NUS, and SMU. Topics include leadership, management, innovation, design thinking, disruption, and more.
On this page, I share videos & resources on selected topics so interview time is spent listening to and helping you, and so workshop time is spent applying ideas to real problems, together.
Enjoy!
Educator
I’m a Professor at S P Jain School of Global Management and have taught in Bachelors’ through Doctoral programs, delivered executive education, and conducted workshops at corporate client locations, as well as Harvard, INSEAD, AIM, NUS, and SMU. Topics include leadership, management, innovation, design thinking, disruption, and more.
On this page, I share videos & resources on selected topics so interview time is spent listening to and helping you, and so workshop time is spent applying ideas to real problems, together.
Enjoy!
First of all, for my MBA - Consulting Management cohorts, here are our wonderful mentors from the world’s top consultancies:
Janesh Janardhanan
Partner, Frost & Sullivan
Kaustav (KC) Chakravarthy
CHRO, Hoya Vision Care
(former Accenture, EY, Infosys, & internal consulting)
Debu Mishra
Executive Search & Advisory
(former Partner-Deloitte, Korn Ferry Hay, Aon Hewitt, Accenture, PWC)
Ash Swarup
Regional Accounts Head, Deutsche Borse
(SPJ alum, former IBM Consulting, Infosys, CapGemini)
… and now a pre-interview video for those MBA’s and some hopefully-useful materials …
pre-interview video for gmba-consulting management
'Just sharing with you some more info about the GMBA-CM program at S P Jain School of Global Management, as well as my background as head of GMBA-CM. Welcome!
first-term industry research project
Here’s what I’m looking for in your project, how to go about it, and all sorts of useful instructions (so I don’t have to tell each of you again & again :) )
Strategy Jumpstart: These are a few of my favourite … strategy frameworks
What should be in a business strategy and how should a strat report should organized? Here are a few of my favourite frameworks. There are many, many more, but this should give you a start in your own strategy journey.
Disruption - 5 Things You Need To Know
5 Things you need to know about disruption in order to effectively disrupt and avoid disruption.
Types of Innovation and Why They're Important
Are there different types of innovation? Do they need to be manged? Should they be combined? Yes to all if you want to succeed!
Quick Tips: Corporate Strategic Innovation & Managing Your Portfolio
'Just a few insights from Chief Innovation Officers, IDEO, Harvard Business Review, and more, on corporate innovation management.
Whole-Brained Leadership, Teams, & Innovation
Three ways of understanding yourself and diversifying your teams to make them more effective -- MBTI (Meyers-Briggs), DISC, and HBDI (based on Nobel-Prize-winning neuroscience). I share examples of teams I've analyzed with these lenses and the issues they faced, avoided, and conquered.
“McKinsey’s” Pyramid Principle Framework explained, plus the MECE test (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive). Pyramid Principle is actually by Barbara Minto, but McKinsey, Accenture, and all the other consulting firms use it.
Make sure you do this before you interview!
New Venture Consulting Discussion Videos:
Session 1 - Vineet Nayar: Ants & Butterflies
Session 2 - Top 3 Things VC’s Look For
Session 3 - Elon Musk: Top 5 Tips
Session 3 - Jack Ma: Advice for Career & Life
Session 4 - Eric Ries: Lean Startup
Session 5 - Bill Gates: Success Secrets
Session 6 - Steve Jobs: Success Secrets
Session 7 - Richard Branson: Advice
Session 8 - Scale: Choosing a Growth Strategy