Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director IIMB

Prof. Rishi teaches Strategy at IIMB. He previously served as the Director of IIM Bangalore and IIM Indore. He has been listed in the Thinkers50 India list of most influential thinkers in management from India since 2013 and jointly received the special Thinkers50 India Innovation Award (2013). He was a visiting scholar at the Center for theAdvanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2008), and at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad(2011-12). He held the Jamuna Raghavan Chair in Entrepreneurship at IIMB from 2007-10. He has written two books:8 Steps to Innovation: Going from Jugaad to Excellence (co-authored with Vinay Dabholkar) which won the Best BookAward for 2013-14 from the Indian Society for Training & Development and From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation:The Challenge for India.