Prof. R Raghunathan

About

R Raghunathan joined the Department of Management at BITS Pilani Pilani Campus in 1998. He has served twenty years as a faculty member at the Department of Management, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. Since December 2019 he is associated with the Department of Economics & Finance, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus.

Over twenty-five years he has been teaching full-time students, executives, and working professionals in the discipline of Management, Engineering, Science, and Healthcare Management.

He is passionate about teaching and hence deliberately choose to teach several management courses. He has been identified as one of “The top 50 Flipped Learning Leaders in Higher Education Worldwide” by Flipped Learning Global Initiative (FLGI), he has featured in their Annual List 2018 "100+ GLOBAL FLIPPED LEADERS TO LEARN FROM"(https://flr.flglobal.org/100-global-flipped-leaders-to-learn-from/).

He has been part of the institutional building at BITS Pilani. In his tenure, he had served in several committees and task forces at the department, campus, and institute-wide levels, serving across academic, research, university strategic planning, recruitment, training programs, teaching workshops, etc.

Educational Qualification

Degree

Ph.D. (BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus)
M. Phil. (Management) (BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus)
M.F.T. (Shri Nehru Maha Vidalaya - Affiliated to Bharathiar University)
B.B.A. (Vysya College - Affiliated to University of Madras)

Certifications

Instructional Coaching Through Change: Supporting Teachers in Action, Harvard Graduate School of Education, June 23 2022 to August 3 2022.
Teachers Mentoring Teachers: Practices for Powerful Professional Communities, Harvard Graduate School of Education, October 06 2022 to November 16 2022.
Articulating The Intangibles of Teaching: Aligning Your Purpose and Practice for Instructional Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education, June 23 2022 to August 3 2022.
“Level I of eTRANSFORMING EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES (eTEP)” Programme obtained from Rashtram School of Public Leadership, 27 December 2020.
Flipped Learning Level - I Certification obtained from Flipped Global Learning Global Initiative
ISB Master Teacher Programme
Program On Capstone®, Foundation® And Comp-Xm®

Academic Experience

Professor	BITS Pilani - March 2023
Associate Professor	BITS Pilani - Aug 2018 - Feb 2023
Assistant Professor	BITS Pilani - Dec 2006 - July 2018
Lecturer	BITS Pilani - Aug 2002 - Nov 2006
Assistant Lecturer	BITS Pilani - Dec 1998 - July 2002

Administrative Experience

Institute-wide

Member, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), BITS Pilani, 15 December 2021 onwards.
Associate Dean, Work Integrated Learning Programmes (WILP), BITS Pilani, 17 September 2021 onwards.
Nodal Officer, IoE, BITS Pilani, 19 June 2021 onwards.
Member, Department Level Short Listing Committee, Work Integrated Learning Programmes (WILP), BITS Pilani, May 2021 onwards.
Faculty-in-charge, Strategy Planning, BITS Pilani
Member, Department Level Short Listing Committee, Work Integrated Learning Programmes (WILP), BITS Pilani
Faculty in-charge PMO, Institute of Eminence
Project Lead, Project Lakshya
University-wide Co-ordinator, Project Lakshya implementation phase
Member, Committee on restructuring of non-teaching staff designation structure
Member, Committee on Development Oriented - Performance Management System for Non-teaching Staff
Imperative Leader, Faculty & Staff Development, Mission 2015, Vision 2020
Team Leader, “Goal Setting and Rollout” team - Performance Management System Redesign Project
Coordinator, Performance Management System Redesign Project
Member, Assessment Committee for Guest Faculty, Work Integrated Learning Programmes
Interviewer, Senior Guest Faculty Recruitment, Work Integrated Learning Programmes
Convener, Coordination of Golden Jubilee Celebrations
Member, Golden Jubilee ‘Coffee Table Book’ Team
Member, Golden Jubilee Brochure Team
Member, Felicitation Committee, Golden Jubilee Celebrations
Member Task Force-3 (Counseling), Mission 2012
Invited member, pain points exercise
Invited participant for Benchmarking, Strategy and Performance Improvement Workshop.

Campus Level

Member, Campus Safety Committee, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus 20 March 2023 onwards.
Member, NAAC Accreditation (Cycle 4) - Self Study Report (SSR) Preparation Team (BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus Team), 21 January 2022 onwards.
Member, Grievance Redressal Committee for the faculty members, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, 22 October 2021 onwards.
Member, Non-teaching Staff (Review & Promotion) Committee
Co-ordinator, Non-teaching Staff Training Programs
Member, Selection Committee to appoint HR Manager and Office Superintendent
Organizing committee member, BITS Connect 2.0
Organizing committee member, Reflections 2012
Nucleus Member, Academic Registration & Counseling Division
Warden
Non-resident warden
Member Research Board
Organizing Faculty, Intensive Teaching Workshop
Prof-in-charge, Consultancy Club (Pilani & Hyderabad Campus)
Faculty Advisor, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL)
Faculty Advisor, Nirmaan
Member, Pilani Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Society (PIEDS)
Member, Core Committee, ‘New Academic Building’ inauguration
Executive committee member, staff association.

Departmental Level

BITS Pilani Pilani Campus

HoD, Department of Management
Convener, Strategic Plan 2018-23
Chairperson Departmental Research Committee
Convener Departmental Academic Committee
Member, Cross Campus Departmental Academic Committee
Coordinator, Professional Lecture Series
Coordinator, Faculty Seminar Series
Member, Recruitment Panel for Teaching and Project Assistants
Library Committee Member

BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus

Member, Shortlisting Committee for Faculty Recruitment (Department of Economics and Finance)
Member, Departmental Academic Committee (Department of Economics and Finance)

Courses Taught (On-campus)

Principles of Management
Management Framework and Functions
Management Principles & Practices
Healthcare Management
Managerial Skills
Negotiation Skills and Techniques
Conflict Management
Marketing
Marketing Research
Product and Brand Management
Advertising & Sales Promotion
Services Marketing
Business Policy & Strategic Management
Essentials of Strategic Management
International Business
Creating and Leading Entrepreneurial Organization
New Venture Creation
Managerial and Leadership Skills

Courses Taught (Off-campus/WILP)

Principles of Management
Healthcare Management
Consulting and People Skills
Personnel Management Operations
Marketing
Essentials of Project Management

Programme and Course Development

Developed 'Minor in Management" Programme (introduced in the Institute in the year 2022).
Designed and contributed to MBA programme (introduced in the Institute in the year 2006, prior to this the institute was offering Masters in Management Studies, a four integrated under graduate programme).
Designed and contributed to MPH programme (Masters in Public Health) (introduced in the Institute in the year 2008)
Designed and contributed in restructuring of M. Phil. (HHSM) programme (Hospital & Health Systems Management programme offered to working professionals through Work Integrated Learning Programmes)
Developed several new courses viz. Negotiation Skills and Techniques, Managerial Skills, Workshop on Film Production, Management Framework & Functions, Management Principles and Practices.

Pedagogical Innovations/Material Development

Extensive usage of experiential learning techniques i.e. games, exercises, role play, simulations, online games, in-tray/in basket exercises, case studies, project, psychometric tools, etc., in several courses taught and particularly in the following courses: Managerial Skills, Negotiation Skills & Techniques, and Healthcare Management course.
Identification of learning outcomes for each course based on Bloom’s taxonomy. This followed by structuring the content, assessments, etc.
Introduced innovative pedagogy such as half-day workshops as an assessment component for managerial skills and negotiation skills & techniques courses.
Developed “Master Report” for students enrolled in the following courses: Managerial Skills, Negotiation Skills & Techniques and Healthcare Management. These reports reflect the key skills and competencies of each student and are based on various case discussions, in-class activities, and questionnaires (psychometric tools). They highlight the student’s strengths, weaknesses, areas needing improvement so on and so forth. These reports are personalized and the length of each report is around 50 pages (for Managerial Skills), 30 pages (for Negotiation Skills & Techniques), and 85 pages (for Healthcare Management).
Initiated MIMES ‘Movies in Management Education Series’ in the year 2008. MIMES aims at teaching management concepts through Hollywood movies (used at full length). MIMES cover various topics of management, provide a learning opportunity for all the participants/audience to hone their managerial skills & various managerial concepts.
Developed and distributed to students a booklet “Management Mantras: 108”, a ready reckoner on management principles for effective managing.
Developed and used rubrics to evaluate written case reports and case discussions in the course ‘International Business’
Conducted an in-tray exercise (involving 27 roles to played and 27 participants were involved at a single go) in the course “Healthcare Management”.
Video recorded a master role play on negotiation skills the course “Healthcare Management”.

EDP/MDP/Workshop/Seminar

Core Member, Young Entrepreneurs Boot Camp ’22 (YEB), December 24-29, 2022 (BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus)
Resource Faculty, "Managerial Development Programme", Orthone, Coimbatore, 28th July 2022.
Resource Faculty, “ONE DAY NATIONAL WEBINAR ON ONLINE TEACHING 1.0”, by Freshman Engineering Department, Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering, 12th August, 2020
Convener, Workshop on Strategic Planning Exercise for Departments, Organized at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, 29 September, 2018 & 1 October 2018.
Session Chair (Strategy and Entrepreneurship Track), International Conference on Evidence Based Management held at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus during 17-18, March, 2017
Team leader, HR Conclave White Paper “Talent Management Strategies in Financial Services”, Annual HR Conclave 2017, organized by Department of Management, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus, held at India Habitat Center, New Delhi. 20 January, 2017.
Resource faculty, Elements of Effective Librarianship, Two days Librarian Development Program, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus 08 April, 2016 – 09 April, 2016
Session Chair (Strategy and Entrepreneurship Track), International Conference on Evidence Based Management held at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus during 20-21 March, 2015.
Co-ordinator, Faculty Development Program on 'Negotiation Skills and Techniques' at Desh Bhagat University, Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab, 19-20 December, 2013.
Resource faculty, Saksham – Entrepreneurship Cell of IIM Udaipur to conduct movie screening session on “Learning Entrepreneurial Skills through Movies”, on 20th March, 2013 at IIM, Udaipur.
Coordinator, Workshop on Case Discussion, Analysis & Reporting, November 4-6, 2011 (conducted on request from Unit chief, Placement Unit, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani - Pilani Campus)
Resource faculty, “Stores Design and Lay Out (Visual Merchandising), Stores Operation Management, Retail Branding and Communication” for Certificate Course on Retail Management and Agribusiness for MBA Part-II Students at Poornima Group of Colleges (currently Poornima University), Jaipur on 2 December, 2011.
Resource faculty, Academic Development Programme in Basic Process Engineering for Bharat Aluminum Company Limited, Korba 26 February 2010 – 25 March 2010
Resource faculty, “Stores Design and Lay Out (Visual Merchandising), Stores Operation Management, Retail Branding and Communication” for Certificate Course on Retail Management and Agribusiness for MBA Part-II Students at Poornima Group of Colleges, Jaipur on 5 February, 2010.
Resource faculty, Management Development Programme on Managerial Excellence and Effective Branch Management for the Officers of Bank of Rajasthan May, 2009
Resource faculty, Academic Development Programme on Basic Process Engineering for Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur 11 April, 2009 – 10 May, 2009
Resource faculty, Academic Development Programme on Basic Process Engineering for Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur 14 March, 2009 - 10 April, 2009
Co-ordinator ‘Workshop on Case Analysis’ for MBA Students (2008 to 2016)
Resource faculty, Workshop on Technology Entrepreneurship for Faculty, organized by Entrepreneurship Development and IPR Unit, and Technology Business Incubator, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, 23rd - 24th November, 2007
Organizing committee member, 2nd National Convention on Energizing Entrepreneurship through innovation, organized by Entrepreneurship Development and IPR Unit, and Technology Business Incubator, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, 2-3 November, 2007.
Organizing committee member, Convention on Energizing Entrepreneurship in Academia through innovation, organized by Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Technology Business Incubator, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, October, 2006
Resource faculty, Academic Refresher Programme-III for Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, 06 November 2006 - 05 December 2006.
Convener & Coordinator, Executive Development Programme on Negotiation Skills and Techniques, September 11-12, 2008, BITS, Pilani – Goa Campus.
Resource faculty, Professional Skills Development Programme for the Junior Executives of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, 21, February 2005 - 21 April 2005.
Resource faculty, Management Development Programme on Managerial Excellence and Effective Branch Management for the Officers of Bank of Rajasthan, February 7-12, 2005
Resource faculty, Entrepreneurship Development Programme organized by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, February 2003.

Invited Speaker/Participant/Participant (Seminars, Conferences etc.)

Invited Speaker, 73rd NHB IMA TNSB Conference (North Zone), Hosted by IMA Tambaram, Chennai, 21 August 2022.
Participant, Data Analytics for Strategy and Growth of Higher Education (DASH-2021) Organized by the Institutional Knowledge Analysis (IKA) Cell, BITS Pilani, India held on 10th December, 2021,
Participant, ‘TLC ASIA PACIFIC 2021’ Blackboard Teaching & Learning Conference Asia Pacific held on 18th August - 19th August 2021, Blackboard
Participant, Course Hero’s Education Summit, What Matters now? The Heart and Science of Teaching Today, July 28-30, 2021
Participant, California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference Online, organized by SDSU Lavin Entrepreneurship Center in partnership with the International Council for Small Business, April 16-17, 2020.
Invited participant for Workshop on "Outcome Based Teaching Learning Process", by Academic Under Graduate Studies Division, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, December 26-27, 2018.
Invited participant for Digital Learning Workshop: Exploring, Collaborating and Evolving the Off-campus offerings using Digital Learning by Dr. Randhir Mishra, Digital Learning Evangelist organized by WILP Division, BITS Pilani, 29 March, 2018.
Invited participant for “Workshop on competency framework and assessment center for assessing guest faculty capabilities”, conducted by Mercer Consulting at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad from January 31, 2014 to February 1, 2014.
Invited participant for “Benchmarking, Strategy and Performance Improvement Workshop”, organized by BITS Pilani and facilitated by Prof. Kevin Downing, City University of Hong Kong at The Umrao, New Delhi from August 23, 2013 to August 25, 2013.
Invited member on “Mission 2015 Workshop”, conducted at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus from March 10, 2013 to March 12, 2013.
Invited speaker on “Human Resource Management”, at Assistant Governors & District Officers Training Seminar (AGTS & DTTS) on 2nd March, 2013 at Rotary Hall, Sadulganj Bikaner, Organized by Rotary International District 3053.
Invited as an expert at IIM Indore (16 August, 2011) to share experience of the Five Year Integrated Program – MMS at BITS Pilani
An invited speaker to present a case study in the “Workshop on International Cases Development, MCDW 2008”, at J. L. Bajaj Institute of Management & Research, Greater Noida on 13&14 October, 2008
Invited participant in the “Leadership Training Programme” conducted by Mr. Ashok Balwani at BITS, Pilani on 3 November, 2008 to 7 November, 2008
Invited as to chair a session on “Characteristics of Entrepreneurs” in EDGE Conference 2006 - “Bridging the Gap: Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice”, held at Singapore Management University, Singapore during 3-5, July, 2006
Invited participant in the International workshop on Conflict Management organized at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, March, 2003

Research Areas of Interest

Research Fields

Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management, Strategy, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

Research Interests

Women Entrepreneurship, Competency Mapping, Negotiation Skills, Managerial Skills, Training & Development, Talent Management, Competitive Strategy, Pedagogy, Experiential Learning, Assessments, Healthcare Management

Ph.D. Thesis Supervision (Completed)

Understanding Learning Styles and Assessing the Effectiveness of Business Simulations in Postgraduate Management Education-A Case Study from India (Bindu Kripalani, December 2021)

Prompting Women Entrepreneurship in Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: An Empirical Analysis (Sakshi Chhabra, March 2022)

Ph.D. Thesis Supervision (Ongoing)

Impact of organization culture & Human Resource (HR) practices on the retention of doctors in multi-specialty tertiary care teaching hospitals in private and government sector (Samuel N.J. David)

Research/Review/Editorial Work

Reviewer, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, issotl’23 context matters, 8-11 November Utrecht University, Netherlands
Reviewer, Journal of Industrial Integration and Management: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, March 2023 onwards.
Reviewer, UGC fellowship/Research Grant Schemes, January 2023 onwards.
Member, Editorial Review Board of “Amity Journal of Management Research"- An International, Biannual, Refereed Journal of Management Research.
Reviewer, Academy of Management, 2017, 2019, 2020.
Reviewer, Global Business Management Review, IMI Delhi.

List of Publications

Kulkarni B, Banerjee R, Raghunathan R. Why Students Should Be Taught Differently: Learner Characteristics, Learning Styles and Simulation Performance. Simulation & Gaming. December 2021. doi:10.1177/10468781211065809
Understanding learning styles to enhance learning outcomes –Does it matter in development of management education in virtual environment? Bindu Kulkarni, R. Raghunathan, International Conference on Role of HR in the New Normal, organized by IMT Nagpur, held on 9th April 2021.
The antecedents of entrepreneurial intention among women entrepreneurs in India Sakshi Chhabra, Rajasekaran Raghunathan, N.V. Muralidhar Rao, Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ISSN: 2398-7812, Publication date: 9 March 2020
Understanding Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Role of Government in Fostering Women Entrepreneurship in India, Sakshi Chhabra, R. Raghunathan, 38th MIPM National Conference, NATCON 2019, on India’s Changing Paradigm: Skills and Entrepreneurship for Global Competitiveness, held in Bengaluru on September 25-27, 2019.
Investigating the Role of Motivation in Strengthening Entrepreneurial Intention among Women Entrepreneurs in India, Sakshi Chhabra, R. Raghunathan, NVM Rao, 3rd Indo-German Conference on Sustainability in Engineering: Enhancing Future Skills and Entrepreneurship Jointly organized by BITS Pilani and TU Braunschweig, held at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus on September 16-17, 2019.
Veena Aggarwal, Remica Aggarwal, R Raghunathan. Identifying the Potential Barriers to Women Entrepreneurship and Studying their Interrelationships using ISM Methodology. International Journal of Computer Applications 178(52):12-18, September 2019
HR retention practices in hospitals - Validating the measurement scale, Samuel N J David, R Raghunathan, Sonia Valas, International Conference on Recent Developments in Mechanical Engineering, ICRDME 2019 March 21-22, 2019, S.A. Engineering College, Chennai, India
FAIRCENT™ - POWERING P2P LENDING REVOLUTION, Srinivasan R, Raghunathan R, Sandeep Lakshmipathy, Pramoth Joseph, Padmavathi Koride, Harvard Business School Publishing, February 2019
ENERGISING TEXTBOOKS: How Multi-Sided Platforms Are Augmenting School Textbooks with Digital Learning, Sandeep Lakshmipathy, R Srinivasan, Raghunathan R, Pramoth Joseph, The Future of Learning Conference 2019, Learning 4.0: Connecting the Dots; Reaching the Unreached, IIM Bangalore, January 4-5, 2019
Role of Multi-Sided Platforms in Addressing Open Innovation Paradoxes, Sandeep Lakshmipathy, Srinivasan Raghavan, Raghunathan Rajasekaran, SMS India Special Conference, ISB Hyderabad, December 15-18, 2018
Assessing Organization Culture: A Review on the OCAI Instrument, Samuel N J David, R Raghunathan, Sonia Valas, International Conference on Management and Information Systems (ICMIS-18) organized by International Forum of Management Scholars (INFOMS) and Chitkara University at Bangkok on September 21-22, 2018.
Nurturing Women Entrepreneurship in India through Governmental Programmes: An Oriental Overview, Sakshi Chhabra and R. Raghunathan, Twelfth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship, Organized by Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmadabad, on February 22-24, 2017
“Emotions in Health Care Organizations” A Human Resource Managerial Perspective, Deeba Hasan, R. Raghunathan, 2nd IIMA International Conference on Advances in Healthcare Management Services, organized by Centre for Management of Health Services, Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad on December 10-11, 2016.
Fostering Sustainable Entrepreneurship Through Innovative Pedagogy: A Futuristic Overview, Sakshi Chhabra and R. Raghunathan, 4th International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2016, organized by The Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 28 - 29th April 2016.
Workplace Violence Against Healthcare Workers: A Retrospective Cross Sectional Review, Pooja Rawat Mathur, R Raghunathan, Neena Jain, 1st IIMA International Conference on Advances in Healthcare Management Services, organized by Centre for Management of Health Services, Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad on June 6-7, 2015.
Arvind Sudarsan, R. Raghunathan, Jayashree Mahesh “Seth Consultants – A Case Study”, Indira Management Review (ISSN-0974-3928), January 2013
R. Raghunathan, “Motivational Factors Influencing Industrial Entrepreneurs in Rajasthan”, forthcoming in "Entrepreneurial Management", Ed. by Prof. S. Bhargava, Sage Publications, 2007.
Motivational Factors Influencing Industrial Entrepreneurs in Rajasthan, Mumbai, Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (IIT, Mumbai); International Seminar on Creating Entrepreneurship Environment and Developing Entrepreneurial Management, Mumbai, 2006.

Membership

Member, Academy of Management
Member, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL)

On-campus

Professor-in-charge, BITS Hyderabad Consulting Group

Honors & Awards

Featured in the Flipped Learning Global Initiative (FLGI) annual list 2018 "100+ GLOBAL FLIPPED LEADERS TO LEARN FROM" as one of the top 50 Flipped Learning Leaders in Higher Education Worldwide (https://flr.flglobal.org/100-global-flipped-leaders-to-learn-from/)
University first rank holder, Bharathiar University - May 1997
Gold Medallist - Class of 1997 (Shri Nehru Maha Vidyalaya, Coimbatore)
Exemplary student award and cash prize - 1996, 1997

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