Dr. Anil Misra has been working as faculty in the area of Accounting and Finance with Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, India for over a decade. He is an MBA and PhD in Finance area from University of Lucknow. A gold medalist from the University of Lucknow, Dr. Misra has worked with the leading business schools of India. He carries over 20 years of experience in training and research and has been actively conducting executive training and development Programmes for leading Indian corporations. Dr Misra has to his credit two text books research papers published in refereed national and international journals. His international teaching assignments include Institute of Finance & Management, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania and University of Central England (UCE), Birmingham, U.K. Dr. Misra has successfully designed and effectively delivered training programme and modules in the area of finance. Some of the recent corporate clients include KPMG, IOCL, BEL, Indian Aviation Academy, NBI Nepal.

Dr. Ashutosh Dash¸ a member of finance faculty at MDI¸ has been graduated in both Commerce and Business Administration with finance specialization and holds a doctorate degree in Mergers & Acquisitions from Utkal University¸ Bhubaneswar. He has qualified NET conducted by UGC and has pursued his Faculty Development Programme from Indian Institute of Management (IIM)¸ Ahmedabad. Dr Dash¸ a successful teacher and coach for more than two decades¸ has delivered courses such as Financial Reporting¸ Mergers & Acquisitions¸ Business Valuation, Corporate Restructuring and Strategic Cost Management at various leading business schools including IIM Kozhikode, IIM Shillong, IIM Rohtak, IIM Jammu, IIM Sambalpur, IIM Amritsar and National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM). He has been associated with the Ministry of Corporate affairs and Ministry of Railways in various consulting activities and has also conducted probationers training programmes for Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS), Indian Economic Services (IES) and other allied services. Dr Dash has also planned and organized a number of Management Development Pragrammes for leading business houses both from the public and private sector.

Shiv is a PhD. in the area of innovation from Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur and currently teaches in the Strategy area at MDI Gurgaon. He has over 18 years of work experience in the areas of Brand Management, Sales and Marketing, Market research and academics. His cases range from an airline, steel, water, board governance and internationalization, development and sports and entertainment sectors and are available at the Case Centre and Richard Ivey School of Business and in various books. He has written a book on International Business published by Sage. His research has been published in journals like Technology Innovation Management Review, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management amongst others. He has provided consultancy to the Government of Haryana, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Utility Powertech Limited (a JV of NTPC and Reliance Infra) among others on Strategic Plans and evaluation studies.

The core of Dr. Srivastava’s work centers around the industry with the firm belief that management education at all levels has to be absorbed by the industry. Her research ideas have been appreciated at national and international marketing conferences. Her paper titled, “Employee Actions that lead to Customer Satisfaction: services revisited in India, 2014”, was adjudged the Best Paper at the International Marketing Conference at Fore School of Management, New Delhi and has been documented in the Academic Reference Series–Reinventing Marketing for Emerging Markets, Bloomsbury India, 2014. Her latest research work revolves around the Indian Consumer in a changed shopping context which has been adapted as a Textbook on Retailing Management by Pearson, 2017, which is a bestseller. An avid case writer publishing with leading publishers such as Richard Ivey School of Business and Emerald Emerging Market Case Studies., she is presently working on the low-income customers in India. Low-income customers in India represent a big segment for marketers to serve. As a trainer, her programmes on marketing, services marketing and marketing communications have been appreciated by the clients and participants. She has been involved with training various organizations such as BEL, DST, DGET, DGR, LIC, NADP, Canon India and Vodafone. She also has developed a simulation, 'Customer Black Box' which is being used by B-Schools for Marketing Management.

Prof. (Dr.) Narain Gupta is a distinguished faculty of Operations Management area at Management Development Institute Gurgaon since 2012. He received his Doctoral Degree FPM (Fellow Programme in Management) from Department of Production and Quantitative Methods of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (2008). He obtained Master of Technology from Department of Industrial Engineering and Management of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (2003). He has a US Copyright for an Optimization based Decision Support System on his name. He started his corporate career as a senior consultant from a procurement outsourcing consulting company Global eProcure. He worked on multiple international consulting assignments for various MNCs in the area of Strategic Sourcing. His employer Global eProcure obtained a US Patent on his name for an algorithm developed by him for Auto-Classification of Spend-Data Analytics. Later, he joined A P Moller Maersk, the largest logistics and liner shipping company in the world. He joined the offshore centre of Maersk Procurement as a Senior Business Analyst. During his stint at Maersk, he led strategic sourcing analytics projects and multiple initiatives to improve the existing processes to enhance customer satisfaction. He was heading six different teams with 20 employees in Procurement Analytics including Supplier Analysis, Market Research, Spend Management, Contracts, TCO/TVO. He has travelled to more than 20 countries including USA, Denmark, China, UAE, Singapore, Austria, Denmark, Slovenia, and Hungary etc. for teaching, training, consulting, and conference presentations. He has been a visiting fellow of the Aarhus University, Denmark to teach a course on Business Analytics. He has taught at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; SP Jain, Dubai; IMT Dubai, IIMM, Pune; and MDI, Gurgaon. He teaches Business Statistics, Research Methods, Decision Sciences, Materials Management, and Services Operations Management at MDI, Gurgaon. He has conducted training programmes for KPMG, Carlsberg, TCIL, Coca Cola, Maruti, MES, NADP, AAI, ONGC, IOCL, BEL, and DRDO organizations on general management. He has published in A* (DSS) and A (JKM, IJPE, IJCS, C&IE, IJPR, JCP, IBR) category international journals and business case studies in Richard Ivey. He has presented his research in reputed international conferences. His expertise is Strategic Integrated Supply Chain Planning, Decision Support System, Mathematical Modeling, Process Optimization, Procurement Analytics, Strategic Sourcing Projects, etc

Prof. (Dr.) Amit Kumar Gupta is an Assistant professor of Operations Management area at Management Development Institute. He has received his Doctoral degree (PhD) and Master degree from Industrial and Management Engineering department from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has obtained his B. Tech. (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology¸ Kurukshetra (Formerly REC). He, during his M. Tech and PhD at IIT Kanpur, handled few projects either independently or with the help of his supervisor. Project on “location and allocation of fire station in the district of UP” a project of UP fire department was successfully completed by him. He was then felicitated with a memento and cash award by IFE (UP) during conference held in Lucknow organized by IFE India, UP chapter for successful completion of project. He has also worked in industries, Nuclear power Corporation of India Ltd., a central Govt. entity for four years. He was groomed across different activity of company, i.e., Planning, Operations and Maintenance, and handling new projects (commissioning). He has published in reputed journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production (JCP), Technology in Society, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, and presented papers in international conferences. He has received best paper award in HR and Management area in an international conference held in India. He has also designed and delivered executive trainings in the institute. He has delivered training to the executives of L&T, SPCL, AFCONS, AVON, Bacardi, BEL, ONGC, MES, NADP, etc.

Oindrila Dey is a Assistant Professor in Economics at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. She holds a Ph.D in Economics from the Department  of Economics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She did her M.A in Economics with First Class from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and B.Sc in Economics (Hons) with First Class from University of Calcutta. Her areas of interest lies in Applied Microeconomic Theory, Game theory, Industrial Organization, Labour Economics, Experimental Economics, Transport Economics. Prior to joining IIFT, Prof. Oindrila was an assistant professor in the Economics Department at FLAME University, Pune. She is a member of Advisory Board of Journal of Business & Economic Issues (JBEI), a UGC Enlisted and Approved Peer reviewed journal.