Rishikesha Krishnan appointed IIM Bangalore director

NEW DELHI: The former director of Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIM-I), Rishikesha Krishnan, has been appointed as director of IIM Bangalore. Krishnan has previously served as the professor of corporate strategy and policy at IIMB.

Krishnan will take charge on July 31, upon the superannuation of G Raghuram, director, IIMB.

Krishnan is also the founding director of IIM Sambalpur. Krishnan studied at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, IIT-Kanpur, and at Stanford University, USA. He has also co-authored books on innovation.

Krishnan in his previous role at IIMB led crucial activities at the institute which included “placement, PGP, research and publications, corporate strategy etc.,” said a statement issued by IIMB. He worked in the corporate sector before getting into academia.

As per IIMB’s statement, Krishnan’s main areas of interest are strategy and innovation. He was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania in 2008, and at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, over 2011-12. He held the Jamuna Raghavan Chair in Entrepreneurship at IIMB from 2007-10.

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