Sathyanarayanan Ramachandran, Sundram Fasteners Associate Professor, Marketing, IFMR GSB and Professor Chandrasekaran Nagarajan, Professor, Operations and Strategy, IFMR GSB have authored and presented a case study at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM Nagpur) Case & Research Conference 2026, held from 7-8 February 2026. The case study, ‘Deepak Cell City: Serving with heart,’ tracked several business and ethical dilemmas the founders faced and examined them through various management frameworks, including the effectuation theory of entrepreneurship, service-dominant (S-D) logic, business ethics, and strategic alternatives.

A case study titled ‘Sri Bhuvaneswari Mills: A Matriarch’s Dilemma,’ co-authored by Professor Chandrasekaran N, Professor, Operations and Strategy, IFMR GSB; Sathyanarayanan R, Sundram Fasteners Associate Professor, Marketing, IFMR GSB, and Dr Indira Ananth, Independent scholar (Virtual), has won the Best Teaching Case Study Award at the IIM Raipur International Case Conference 2026, held on 30–31 January 2026.

Naveen M, Teaching Fellow, Marketing & Communication and Vidhya Satish Kumar, Teaching Fellow, OB & HR, under the guidance and support of Dr Pallavi Pandey, Associate Professor, OB & HR, all from IFMR GSB have authored an article published in The Economic Times – HRWorld.

The title of the article is Silent Gatekeepers: How Boss-Level Bias Shapes Who Gets Hired.

Brief about the Article:
The article critically examines how hiring authority in many organisations subtly shifts from structured HR processes to functional heads, where unconscious comfort-based preferences—related to familiarity, region, language, and accent—often override merit and interview performance. Drawing on global research and Indian workplace evidence, the article argues that hiring bias is not merely individual but structural in nature. It concludes with a practical, HR-led framework to redesign hiring systems so that merit, diversity of thought, and cultural contribution replace familiarity as default decision criteria.

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Dr Praveen Bhagawan M, Associate Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance and Area Chair – Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance presented two research papers on Bankruptcy Reforms, co-authored with Soumyabrata Basu, Centre Research Fellow Misra Centre for Financial Markets and Economy at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad and Dr Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Economics and Chairperson – PhD Programme at India Finance Conference (IFC) at IIM Visakhapatnam between 18-20 December 2025. He also discussed two papers and chaired two technical sessions at IFC 2025.

Professor Jayaram Ramakrishnan, Professor of Practice, IFMR GSB has authored a book titled, Enterprise Performance & Risk Management for MSMEs – A Primer on behalf of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICMAI). The updated edition of the book was released on 11 January 26 at the 63rd National conference of The Institute of Cost accountants of India (ICMAI) at Coimbatore. The book was reviewed by leading academics and industry professionals including Professor G Balasubramanian, Senior Professor and Advisor, IFMR GSB.

The book deals with development of a Management Accounting framework for MSMEs. This was motivated by the existing low uptake and inconsistent use of Management Accounting Practices by MSMEs as observed and suggested by prior research in an Indian context. MSMEs were often found failing to leverage adequately. the potential of management accounting for helping them achieve their financial objectives (primarily profitability and liquidity) while also adequately insuring against risks.

Professor Chandrasekaran N, Professor, Operations and Strategy, Area Chair – Strategic Management & Chairperson – Executive MBA programme, IFMR GSB and Dr Suresh G, Assistant Professor, Economics, IFMR GSB along with Dr Ramasubramaniam, have authored a book chapter titled Role of Technology in Sustainable Logistics and Inventory Management with Reference to the Food Corporation of India. The chapter has been published in the forthcoming book A Circular Economy for Manufacturing Waste Management: Pathway Towards Sustainability, published by Routledge.

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