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  • IMRDC 2025
    17 & 18 January
Scenic walkway with greenery and pillars at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore corridor.

Keynote and Invited Speakers

Doing impactful research without (misusing) p-values

Professor Sanjay Kallapur

Accounting, Indian School of Business


Managing the research and teaching challenges in an academic career

Professor Balram Avittathur

Operations Management Group, IIM Calcutta

Marketing Strategy and Non-Market Forces

Professor Rajashri (Raji) Srinivasan

Jack R. Crosby Regents Chair in Business Administration, Red McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA


Indian Knowledge System (IKS): Time to Explore New Opportunities for Management Education & Research

Professor B Mahadevan

Production & Operations Management, IIM Bangalore

Does Youth Training Lead to Better Job Quality? Evidence from Job Corps

Professor Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University


Building a Career in the Academia

Professor J Ramachandran

Professor of Strategy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

What's the purpose of research?

Professor Marc-David L Seidel

RBC Financial Group Professor of Entrepreneurship; Director, W. Maurice Young Centre for Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research; Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.


Recent empirical approaches in research on firm and worker productivity

Professor Jagadeesh Sivadasan

Jack D. Sparks-Whirlpool Corporation Research Professor of Business Administration, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan


Engaging with qualitative research

Professor Mukta Kulkarni

Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Management, IIMB; Mphasis Chair for Digital Accessibility and Inclusion

The Role of Inequality in Poverty Measurement Keynote Address

Professor James E Foster

Oliver T. Carr Jr Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics at The George Washington University

Digital DNA at ICICI Bank – a Two Decade Journey of Pioneering Innovations in Banking

Madhivanan Balakrishnan

Chief Technology & Digital Officer (CTDO), ICICI Bank


An Agenda for Governance and Auditing Research in India

Professor Kannan Raghunandan

Professor and Ryder Eminent Scholar, Florida International University

Toward a Structural Model on Multi-category Purchases: Evaluating ecigarette Consumption.

Professor Vithala R Rao

Deane W. Malott Professor of Management, Professor of Marketing, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University


Markets for Advice: Evidence, Challenges, and Opportunities

Professor Shawn A Cole

John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Finance Unit, Harvard Business School

Academic Business Research in a Big Data World

Professor K. Sudhir

James L. Frank Professor of Marketing, Private Enterprise and Management and Director of the Yale China India Insights (CIIP) Program, Yale School of Management


Recent Developments in Auction Design

Professor Debasis Mishra

Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi


Academic Research: From Inspiration to Publication

Professor Sathyajit Gubbi

Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen

Some Trends in Research in Marketing

Professor Pradeep Chintagunta

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Indian Economy: Short Term Concerns and Medium-Term Challenges

Professor Dr. C Rangarajan

Formerly Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minster; Chairman, Madras School of Economics


Invited Talk

Professor K S Manikandan

Strategy Area, IIM Tiruchirappalli


Invited Talk

Dr. Vidya Natampally

Senior Director of Strategy, Microsoft Research India

Research on Media Industries: Metaphors for a Changing Organisational World

Professor Stephen Mezias

INSEAD, France


From Describing Data to Thinking Structurally

Avadhoot Jathar

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore


Building a Research Career – Some Lessons

Professor Jagadeesh Sivadasan

Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Strategic Reasoning and Market Design

Professor Murali Agastya

University of Sydney


India as a Context for Research

Professor J Ramachandran

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore


My Effects are Statistically Nonsignificant: What Should I Do?

Professor Ramadhar Singh

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Research on Corporate Governance in India: The Path Taken and the Path Forward

Professor Jayati Sarkar

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai


Randomized Experiments: Testing Causal Hypotheses

Professor Ramadhar Singh

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore


Surviving in the Publishing Industry

Professor Pulak Ghosh

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore