Mr. Sunil Puliyakot, Asst. Professor, Strategic Management

A man who believes, ‘decision’ is the beginning of all things done to perfection! Mr. Sunil Puliyakot, Asst. Professor, Strategic Management at the Amrita School of Business is surely a man with solid teachings for a life at ease. Born to Late Sri T. Govindanunni Nair and Smt. K.P. Sreedevi Amma on 4th January 1967 in the Kavassery Village of Palakkad, Kerala, he has had a lower-middle strata upbringing along with three siblings. He is a postgraduate in Commerce from the University of Calicut, Kerala. The search for a post graduate degree in management and the promise of campus recruitment landed him in IRMA, Anand, in the year 1989. More»

Dr.Biresh Sahoo, Associate professor, Amrita School of Business

The following is an excerpt from the conversation we (final year students of Amrita School of Business) had with our beloved professor Biresh Sahoo. Sahoo Sir, as we call him, is not just a faculty for us, rather is a guiding light. He has been successful in instilling in his students the ability to question the theories and practices not only in economics, but also in various disciplines of management. He showed us what it is to “practice what you preach”. The numerous write-ups in various international journals and the book he published recently stand testimonial to this aspect of his personal philosophy towards work.

His achievements include the book published recently titled “Efficiency Models in Data Envelopment Analysis” (coauthored with Professor JK Sengupta), nine research papers coauthored with professors, Kaoru Tone, JK Sengupta, PKJ Mohapatra and ML Trivedi, in various scholarly international journals. Moreover he has published four papers in various national refereed journals and seven research papers are currently under review. More»

Anti Juhari Wuhuri, Finland

I found the heart of the world in India” says Anti Juhari Wuhuri who was here in the campus as a visiting faculty from Finland. His course Practical Principles of Leadership was a comprehensive platform which enabled students to look into themselves and others with a better understanding. He set the stage for the students to bring out the leader in them and to recognize and harness the potential of their fellow teammates. Filled with workshop on goals, MBTI types, Team dynamics; the students appreciated and expressed the fact that it was a course in which they learnt not just theories but more about themselves.

If this is what students are saying then what is that the man himself has got to say… More»  

Dr.Anil K Sengupta
Dr. Sengupta has 47 years of teaching,research and consulting experience. He has held the chair in HRM at Amrita. He has worked with the Planning Commission, Central Social Welfare Board, Office of the Registrar General, India and the then Ministry of Community Development and Cooperation, Government of India for about eight years.

He joined IIM Calcutta in 1967 and retired in 1997 as Professor of PM and IR. He also spent nine months in Manchester Business School, England for training and research in Organisational Behaviour under Prof. TomLupton. He has international research experience with ICPE in Lubljana, Yugoslavia and with the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands. He has also produced many publications including three books andseveral monographs. More»

Dr. Padma Rao Sahib

Through collaborations we aim to enrich the learning experience of both students and the teachers by bringing in more talents from various parts of the world. On November 14th a team of academicians from Groningen University, Netherlands visited ASB. Here is an excerpt from the conversation ASB students had with Prof. Padma Rao Sahib and Dr. Bart Van Ark from Groningen University. More»

Dr. Krishnan

Dr. Krishnan is our new faculty in the Department of Human Resources. He has his PhD in Human Resources and his MBA from Indian Institute of Management (Ahemdabad). His thesis was on the study of career management in different organizational contexts. His bachelor’s is in Dairy Technology from National Dairy Research Institute (Karnal- Haryana). He has worked with Alfa Laval, HCL Technologies and a GIVE Foundation- Giving Impetus to Voluntary Effort (a NGO based in Maharashtra). He belongs to Coimbatore, and is back home after quite a few years.

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