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Name : Professor Mohammad Akbar Designation : Advisor - Area of Startegy

Institution : Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) Email : m.akbar@bimtech.ac.in Phone : +91-9811390592 BIOSKETCH: Had been professor, scholar, trainer, consultant and administrator (Dean, for last 37

years of which about 30 years at IIM Lucknow. Worked with Income Tax, IFCI, EDII, IIM

Lucknow, and IIMLEIC. Had been visiting professor at USM Business School and UMP

Kuantan in Malaysia, MDI, IIM Indore, Sirmaur, Kashipur, and Ranchi, IMT Ghaziabad and

many other institutions / universities. Published about 3 dozen papers and as many in

conferences of international repute and two books. One Best paper award and 2 Best

Paper nominations. About 35 cases. Consulted about 2 dozen companies. Editorial boards

and reviewer on half dozen journals including JOE, IJOEM, BFJ, JFBR, EJMS, AGBA, AJE &

conferences like AOPM, AIB, INDAM, TM. Past Editor Metamorphosis, Currently Advisor

at BIMTECH for SIE Area.

EDUCATION:

Growth of Muslim Entrepreneurship in India:1947-1980. Ph.D. from JNU New Delhi 1988

Growth of Bombay Textile industry: 1854-1947, M.Phil. JNU,1982 M.Phil Statistics, 1978, AMU Aligarh M.Sc. Statistics ,1976, AMU Aligarh

AREA OF INTEREST AND RESEARCH Strategy, Internationalization, Alliances, Diversification, Governance, Real Options and

start-up ventures, Entrepreneurship, family business and corporate entrepreneurship

COURSES DESIGNED AND TAUGHT AT PG LEVEL Corporate Strategy (MBA USM) Managing Transnational Organizations at USM Penang, Malaysia and IIM

Lucknow India New Venture Planning Social Environment of Business Research Methodology (incl. Market Research) Strategic Management I and II New Venture Development Competitive strategy International Strategic Management Marketing Planning and Strategy Organizational Design and Change Internet Entrepreneurship Applied theory in Strategy and Competition

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Strategic Alliances (part course) COURSES DESIGNED AND TAUGHT AT DOCTORAL LEVEL Current Issues in Business and Management (USM,2007)

Leadership Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Strategy and Organization Strategy and Competition Theory of Firms

EXPERIENCE

Professor and Advisor , SIE, Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida, India, June 2019 – onwards. (Please use the official designation awarded)

Senior Professor (HAG) , Strategy and Entrepreneurship , IIM Lucknow 1999-2017 & Managing Director IIML Incubator May 2017-July 8, 2019

Associate Professor, Strategy and Entrepreneurship IIM Lucknow 1995-1999, Assistant Professor, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, 1990-1994 Research Faculty, EDII Ahmedabad, 1985-199 Research Associate , NIEPA 1983-84 Research Assistant , NIEPA 1981-82 (The on leave/ parallel assignments at Income Tax Deptt 1979-1981, IFCI 1987-

89, MDI Gurgaon 1997& 1999), USM 2007 (Malaysia) UMP 2010 (Malaysia) as full time Visiting Professor in Management .

ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Chairman, MDP , IIM Lucknow , 1993-95 Area Chair, 1991-2, 1995-6 Chairman, Management Committee Kendriya Vidalaya, 2005-2008 Chairman, Audit Committee , 2006-09 Dean (P&D), 2008-10 Editor-in Chief, Metamorphosis Journal 2009-10 Board Member, IIM Lucknow BOG , 2008-10 Acting Director for short tenures during absence of the regular Director , 2008-

10 ( 1 month each) Chairman and Committee member of various task forces at IIM Lucknow during

1995-2010 Faculty In-charge IIML Incubator 2016-2017 and Managing Director 2017-19 at

IIML incubator .

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS Was appointed as the member of NSTBED Consultative Committee, MoS&T , GOI,

2003-06 Was appointed on the BOS at AMU Department OF Management Studies 1995-

96 Was Appointed on BOS at the Faculty of Commerce at AMU, 1997-1999 Was appointed Advisor to Indian Industries Association-,Lucknow UP 1994-97

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Was appointed Advisor and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of LMA which upgraded LMA ranking by 10 ranks.

Co-founded FISME for support small and medium industries Headquartered at New Delhi during2000-2002

M. Akbar (2003) Absorptive Capacity and Corporate Venturing Business Models: A Conceptual Framework, 2003 , was awarded Best Paper in the conference by International Entrepreneurship Conference 3rd Conference held at Bangalore

Dhyanithi, D and Akbar, M., Growth Options: Definition, Measurement and Its Valuation by Investors, presented at Consortium of Students of Management Research (COSMAR), September 23rd-24th 2004, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, The paper was rated Best in the Finance Track

Goparaju Rajan and Mohammad Akbar (2015; Exploring Institutional Antecedents of Firm Network Behaviour in the Asian Context: An Empirical Analysis of IT ecosystem firms of India China and Japan; Presented at the 4th Biennial IAM Conference at IIM Lucknow, Noida , 11-13 Dec 2015 (Nominated in the list of best papers)

Sheeba Khan and M Akbar(2015); Personal Entrepreneurial capabilities complement firm dynamic capacities: case-based exploration in the Indian institutional context; Paper presented at the 4th IAM Conference, December 11-13, 2015, IIM Lucknow Noida Campus.(Nominated among the best papers in the conference).

RESEARCH FUNDING AND CONSULTING (worth about Rs. 1.2 Crore)

Granted UGC Fellowship for Ph.D. degree in Statistics from AMU. Aligarh during 1976-79- bothe Junior and Senior Fellowship

Granted ICSSR Senior Fellowship during 1982-84 for Ph.D. at the CSSS/SSS, JNU new Delhi

DST granted funding of Rs. 5 Lakhs for carrying out research on Entrepreneurship and Family business in 2005-2007

Regularly availed seed funding from IIM Lucknow for 4 years between 2007-2015

Evaluation of Mid-day Meal Scheme for the UP Government 2012-13 Conducting Course development workshops for Faculty Development for a

reputed Private Business School in India and also have offers of Directorship from three business schools.

Corporate Plan for UPRVNL is Completed , 2011 Study for COHANDS, on Marketing Strategy for artisan products of Indian state

development corporations, 2010 Corporate Plan for UP Transco Limited, ( In progress) 2009- to date Restructuring of Moradabad Handicrafts Service Corporation , 2008-09 Consultant to ILO for a study on ‘Human Resource Asset Specificity’ and labor

markets in Leather industry, India Strategic & organizational restructuring for a mid-sized company, 2007 Wrote Strategic Plan for a mid-sized MNC 2006 “Developing Strategy, structure and systems for a mid-sized company”, 2005 ILO study on” supply chain study on Micro and Small Enterprises”, June2004 Involved in SBI, PO selection process as part of consulting team, 2003, 2005, 2006

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Setting up a World Class Business School in Management and IT by HPCL at Pune-INDIA, 2002

Revival Strategy for the 23 mills of he UP Texfed Group (Joint): completed, August, 1999

Study on the 78 sugar mills sponsored by the U.P. Sugar Corporation (Joint): completed, June, 2000

Developed competitive strategy for a mid-sized telecom firm, 1997-98 Study on Industrial Clusters sponsored by SIDBI, 1996. Management Audit of Regional Rural Banks, 1995 Pre-launch market research for on Indo-German Joint Venture, 1995 Prepared Strategic Plan for a small business, 1993 Customer Satisfaction on Public Sector Banks in the State of Uttar Pradesh, IBA,

1991.

RESEARCH PAPERS AND WORKING PAPERS

Fuad, M., & Akbar, M. (2018). International new ventures and firm performance: Evidence from India. European Business Review, 30(6): 645-659. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/EBR-07-2016-0099/full/html

Shukla, D. and Akbar, M. (2018), "Diffusion of internationalization in business group networks: evidence from India", Management Decision, Vol. 56 No. 2, pp. 406-420. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-10-2016-0741

Manish Popli , Mohammad Akbar, et.al. (2017). Performance Impact of Temporal

Strategic Fit: Entrainment of Internationalization with Pro‐Market

Reforms,Global Strategy Journal, Volume7, Issue4 November 2017 , Pages 354-

374. https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1160

Popli, M; Akbar, M.; Kumar, V.; Gaur, AS (2016; ); Re-conceptualizing Cultural

Distance: The Role of Cultural Experience Reserve in Cross-border Acquisitions,

Journal of World Business, Volume 51, Issue 3, April 2016, Pages 404–412. doi:

10.1016/j.jwb.2015.11.003

Ashish Hajela and M. Akbar, mKrishi, Asian Case Research JournalVol. 19, No. 01,

pp. 103-126 (2015), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218927515500042

Ali, J. and Akbar, M. (2015), "Pupils’ satisfaction with school mid-day meal

program: A comparative study of centralized versus decentralized

kitchens", British Food Journal, Vol. 117 No. 7, pp. 1933-

1948. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-01-2015-0002

Ali, J. and Akbar, M. (2015), "Understanding students’ preferences on school mid-

day meal menu in India", British Food Journal, Vol. 117 No. 2, pp. 805-

819. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-03-2014-0099

Farhat Azad, M. Akbar & A. Saurikhia (2013), Decision Making Framework For Research & Development Organization For Road & Transportation Sector , Social Science International Journal of Economics and Management . Volume 3, Issue 5 (Sept 2013) ISSN 2231-4962

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Hajela, A. and Akbar, M.(2013) ‘Internationalization of small and medium software firms from India’, Int. J. Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, Vol. 6, Nos. 1/2, pp.88–101. https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijtlid:v:6:y:2013:i:1/2:p:88-101

Akbar, M. and Joshi, M. (2012), Endogenous Agency Problems, Their Impact and Mitigation in Privately-Held Family Firms for Sustaining Growth (February 1, 2012). Amity Business Journal, Vol. 1, no. 2, August, 2012. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2061948 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2061948

Mark J. Ahn, Ashish Hajela, Mohammad Akbar, (2012),"High technology firms in emerging markets: Building biotechnology clusters, capabilities and competitiveness in India", Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration, Vol. 4 Iss:1 pp. 23 – 41, DOI: 10.1108/17574321211207953,

Madhavi, C Vasanta and M, Akbar (2011). Groundswell Effect Part II: A

Quantitative Indicator of Company Performance. Strategic Change. Special Issue:

Entrepreneurial Finance in Emerging Markets; Volume 20, Issue 1-2, pages 47–

58, February 2011. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.884

Madhavi, C Vasanta and M, Akbar (2011). Groundswell Effect Part I: a new

concept emerging in the world of social networks. Strategic Change. Special

Issue: Entrepreneurial Finance in Emerging Markets; Volume 20, Issue 1-2, pages

31–46, February 2011 https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.883

Hajela, Ashish and Akbar,M.,(2010) Impact of internationalization on SME Performance: A study of Indian software firms, 2nd Copenhagen Conference on "Emerging Multinationals: Outward Investment from Emerging and Developing Economies", Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, 25-26 November, 2010.

Akbar, M. (2009), Strategic response by Indian internet entrepreneurs o to dotcom boom and bust: an exploratory study, J. International Business

and Entrepreneurship Development, Vol4, No.1/2, 2009, pp 45-61.

DOI: 10.1504/JIBED.2009.022528

Akbar, M. (2008), Do the Governance , strategic and Organisational Practices differ in Indian Family and professionally managed firms, Vision, Vol.12, No.3, July-September, 2008, pp 15-30.

Mishra, Anurag and M. Akbar (2007), Parenting Advantage in Business Groups of Emerging Markets, Vision: The Journal of Business Perspectives, Vol.11, No.3, 2007, pp 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1177/097226290701100302

Mishra, Anurag and M. Akbar (2007) Empirical examination of diversification strategies in business groups: evidence from an emerging markets, International Journal of Emerging Markets , Vol2, No.1, 20007, pp22-38

Vijaylakshami, C and M. Akbar, Answering the Question in Greiner’s Life Cycle Model: A dialectical Alternate, Amity Global Business Review, Vol1, No.1 August 2005, pp60-67

Akbar, M. Challenges before SMEs in Globalised Era, Published in SME Navigator, September-October, 2004

Akbar, M.“Small Business in 2000 AD: competitive Strength of SSI', IIA News, July, 1995.

Akbar, M. “Udyami Kyon Bane”, Udyami Disha, Vol – I, 1995

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Akbar, M. “Fostering Entrepreneurship through Education Systems in India with a Specific Reference to Business Schools: Developing a Perspective”. Asian Entrepreneur, 4 (3) & 5 (1), 1994.

Akbar, M ‘Ideology, Environment and Entrepreneurship: Typologies from Islamic Texts and History’. Journal of Entrepreneurship (Vol. 2 (2), 1993) https://doi.org/10.1177/097135579300200201

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

1. M.Akbar, (1990) Entrepreneurship and Indian Muslims, Manohar Publishers

2. G. Jain and M. Akbar (1989), First Generation Impact Making Entrepreneurs, Published by EDI-1 , Ahmedabad

3. Hajela, Ashish; Shahid ,Shad and Mohammad Akbar,(2010) ” Biocon: From Local to Global” case published in Mark J. Ann. Michael A. Alvarez, Arlen D. Meyers and Ann S. York (editors) , Building the Case for Biotechnology, First edition, Logos Press, Washington DC July 2010 ,

4. M. Akbar (2010), Corporate Venturing Models and Absorptive Capability: A Conceptual framework, in Mathew J. Manimala, et al (editors): Enterprise Support System, Sage Los Angeles

5. M. Akbar and Anurag Mishra (2008), “Flex Industries Limited”, Product No. 907M76, pages 14, with teaching note 16 pages , Harvard Business School Publishing, on Entrepreneurship available http://www.harvardbusinessonline.com/b01/en/search/searchResults.jhtml?userView=CORPORATE&N=0&Ntt=Flex+Industries&Ntk=main_search&x=7&y=10

CONFERENCE AND SELECT UNPUBLISHED PAPERS

M. Akbar,( 2018), The impact of socioemotional wealth and business group affiliation on the entrepreneurial orientation of Indian private family firms? Is being prepared for publication.

Nikhil Sahasrabudhe, M. Akbar (2016) Intent to crowdsource: Is it influenced by organizational culture? , Management Decision (under review confirmed, October 1, 2016), accepted 2017

Dhirendra Mani Shukla and M.Akbar (2015); Business Groups as social Networks: An exploration of relationship between network cohesiveness and within—network similarity of firms strategies; Presented at the 4th Biennial IAM Conference at IIM Lucknow, Noida , 11-13 Dec 2015

Goparaju Rajan and Mohammad Akbar (2015); Network Determinants of Firm Performance in Technology Convergence Paradigm: Evidence from the Indian IT Industry; Presented at the 3rd PAN IIM World Management

Conference at IIM Indore 16-18 Dec 2015

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Goparaju Rajan and Mohammad Akbar (2015; Exploring Institutional Antecedents of Firm Network Behaviour in the Asian Context: An Empirical Analysis of IT ecosystem firms of India China and Japan; Presented at the 4th Biennial IAM Conference at IIM Lucknow, Noida , 11-13 Dec 2015 (Nominated in the list of best papers)

Nikhil Sahasrabudhe and M. Akbar (2015):,Does organizational culture impact firm’s intent to crowdsource? Paper presented at the 4th Biennial IAM Conference at IIM Lucknow, Noida , 11-13 Dec 2015

Sheeba Khan and M Akbar (2015); Contribution of Stakeholders to Dynamic Capabilities in Start-up firms (2015) ;Paper presented at 3rd PAN IIM World Management Conference, December 16-18, 2015, IIM Indore.

Sheeba Khan and M Akbar(2015); Personal Entrepreneurial capabilities complement firm dynamic capacities: case-based exploration in the Indian institutional context; Paper presented at the 4th IAM Conference, December 11-13, 2015, IIM Lucknow Noida Campus.(Nominated among the best papers in the conference)

Rajesh Nangia and M. Akbar (2015); Big companies don’t fail : Long term business survival with a focus on impact of Learning capabilities and Innovation on firm performance, presented at the 4th IAM conference held from 11-13 December, 2015 at IIM Lucknow Noida Campus

Nikhil Sahsrabudhe and M. Akbar (2015), Firms intent to crowdsource: Does organizational culture matter more than national culture” published in proceeding of the international conference on R&D Management conference, June22-26, 2015 held at Pisa Italy

Popli, M and Akbar M.and Kumar V(2014)., ‘Cultural friction and the role of effective cultural distance in cross-border M&A Deal abandonment. Paper presented at 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, United States, August 5, 2014

Popli, M, Akbar, M and Kumar V (2013 )'Persistence of Superior Financial Performance: Impact of Internationalization and Its Entrainment with Institutional Reforms.73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - "Capitalism in Question", Orlando, United States, 13th August 2013

Popli, M, Akbar, M & Kumar V, (2013) Persistence of Superior Financial Performance: Impact of Internationalization and Its Entrainment with Institutional Reforms, paper presented at Academy of International Business Annual Meeting AIB 2013 “Bridging the Divide: Linking IB to Complementary Disciplines and Practice”, Istanbul

Hajela, Ashish and Akbar,M.,(2010) Impact of internationalization on SME Performance: A study of Indian software firms, 2nd Copenhagen Conference on "Emerging Multinationals: Outward Investment from Emerging and Developing Economies", Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, 25-26 November, 2010.

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M. Akbar (2008), Do the Governance , strategic and Organisational Practices differ in Indian Family and professionally managed firms, Vision, Vol.12, No.3, July-September, 2008, pp 15-30

Akbar, M. (2008). How differently do the family firms’ governance system affect the organisational practices than professional firms, Paper presented for the First Asian Invitational conference on sustaining growth in family business t held at ISB Hyderabad, Feb1-3,2008 9

Akbar,M. and Joshi Manoj, (2008), Endogenous agency problems, their impact and mitigation in privately held family firms for sustaining growth, Paper presented for the First Asian Invitational conference on sustaining growth in family business held at ISB Hyderabad, Feb1-3,2008

Akbar,M. (2007) , Human Resource Asset Specificity, Transaction Cost and Decent Work in Global Production Networks (GPNs): A Case Study from Kanpur-Unnao Leather Cluster, invited paper in ‘International Workshop on “Global Production Networks and Decent Work.” , November 18-20, 2007 held at Bangalore, India and published in the proceedings of the workshop, Vo.1, pp 1-31

Mishra, Anurag and M. Akbar (2007) Empirical examination of diversification strategies in business groups: evidence from an emerging markets, International Journal of Emerging Markets , Vol2, No.1, 20007, pp22-38

Akbar, M.(2007), Why do the Entrepreneurial Firms Exist? A Theoretical Perspective from Emerging Markets, paper presented and published in the proceedings, at the7th AAM International Conference on “Re-imagining Management in an Era of Multiple Crises: Success and Sustainability of Business in Dynamic Asia” 21-25 May, 2006 held at, Penang, Malaysia.

Akbar, M.(2007), How Founder managed firms are different from professionally and family-managed firms? Paper presented at the 4th Annual Wold Congress of AGBA, 21-25,May,2006, held at Penang, Malaysia..

Mishra, Anurag and M. Akbar, ‘ The Direction of Diversification in Business Groups: Evidence From Emerging Markets, IIML Working Paper Series paper, 2005-16

D. Dhayanithy and M. Akbar (Indian Institute of Management, India), First Follower's Real Option to Revert to the Competitive Strategy, 9th Annual International Conference on Real Options: Theory Meets Practice, Organized by Real Options Group EDC and U. of Cergy, Paris, June 22-25, 2005, Paris, France

D. Dhayanithy and M. Akbar (Indian Institute of Management, India), Internal Measure of Growth Option Quotient: Empirical Analysis, 9th Annual International Conference on Real Options: Theory Meets Practice, Organized by Real Options Group EDC and U. of Cergy, Paris, June 22-25, 2005, Paris, France

Akbar, M. and Mishra Anurag, Growth Strategies of Indian Mid-Size Entrepreneurial Firms, Sixth Bi-anneal Conference held at EDI-I Ahmedabad, 9-11 February, 2005

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Dhayanathi, D. and Akbar, M., First Follower’s Real Option to Revert to the Competitive Strategy’ European Academy of Management (EURAM)-2005 Annual Conference, Munich, May 4th-7th, 2005

Dhayanithi, D. and Akbar, M. , “Real Option to Play the Competitive Strategy: First-follower Capital Investment and Pricing’ Academy of Management (AoM)-2005 Annual Meeting , August 5-10, Hawii

Dhyanithi, D and Akbar, M., Growth Options: Definition, Measurement and Its Valuation by Investors, presented at Consortium of Students of Management Research (COSMAR), September 23rd-24th 2004, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore,

Dhyanithi, D and Akbar, M “Growth option- market value relationship: Impact of research, branding and distribution spends”, Journal of Academy of Business and Economics.

M. Akbar and Anurag Mishra, “ Creating Butterflies from caterpillars” Paper accepted at the International Conference on Indian Mid-Size Manufacturing Enterprises, New Delhi, Feb19-20, 2004

M. Akbar (2004), “ Strategic Response by Indian Internet Entrepreneurs to Dotcom Boom and Bust”, in the International AGBA Conference held during January 7-9, 2004

Dhayanithi, D and Akbar, M. “Configuring Value Chain into Generic Business Models”, AGBA International conference, January 7-9, 2004

M. Akbar (2003) Absorptive Capacity and Corporate Venturing Models: A conceptual Framework Received the Best Paper Award by International Entrepreneurship Forum’ In the 3rd Conference held at Bangalore

Chandrashekhar and Akbar, M. (2003) A Holistic view of growth of the firm: Competitive and Innovative influences International Entrepreneurship Forum, held at Bangalore

Dhayanithi, D and Akbar, M. (203) : Is Vision at odds with Innovation? A conceptual basis: International Entrepreneurship Forum, held at Bangalore

M. Akbar (1987) ‘Regional Variations in Entrepreneurial Competencies in India’, in the National Conference on Small Business Policy, held at Chandigarh organized by Chandigarh and NIESBUD, New Delhi, 1987.

ain, G.J, and Akbar, M. “Self- made impact making Entrepreneurs’ which was accepted in the workshop on “Recent Research in Entrepreneurship”, Durham University Business School conference, November, 198 Awasthi, D and Akbar, M., “On Reaching the Rural Poor: Search for Diagnostic and counselling skills” in the National Conference on “Evolving Strategy for Sustaining Entrepreneurship” held at Delhi in October, 1988.

Akbar, M. “Corporate Venturing: An Anti-Aging Strategy” presented at the First Conference of the Strategic Management Forum held at Lucknow., January 27-29, 1997.

Akbar, M. ‘Entrepreneurship and Strategic Vision’, paper presented the IIA and IDD, UP Convention, Lucknow, December 3-4,1998.

Akbar, M. ‘Trends in R & D in Indian Industry’ for the SMFI Conference held at IIM Calcutta, May 4-6, 2000.

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Akbar, M. Comparative study of Strategies followed by owner-led companies and professional led companies in India, presented on the biennial conference at EDII, Ahmedabad, during 8-10 November, 2000.9.

SELECT CONFERENCES ATTENED

Attended & presented paper in conference AMRC , Chaired sessions, to held from 16-18 January 2016 in Dubai, UAE , presented the case on GMs EV1 – Right Car, Wrong Time?

Organized as Co-chair, attended, chaired , reviewed and presented papers in the 4th IAM Conference held at IIM Lucknow, Noida campus, December 11-13, 2015 with 400 scholars and 350 papers

Attended the Pan-IIM Conference held at IIM Indore from 16-18, January 2015

Attended R&D Management conference in Pisa Italy from June 22-25, 2015, and presented a paper on , “ Firms intent to crowdsource: Does organizational culture matter more than national culture” published in proceedings

Attended the conference organized by Academy of International Business, July 3-6, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey and presented a paper , and Chaired a session on ‘FDI and Location’

Delivered Invited session for the All India Management Association 7 Lucknow Management Association on the financing of SMEs and also chaired the session on a similar theme, 3rd February 209

Conducted seminar for the 100th Meeting of the Federation of All India Printers , January 2009

Key note speaker at Apeejay School of Management Lucknow and Gyan Jyoti school of Management Chandigarh, 2007-08

.M. Akbar , Delivered the Inaugural Address as Chief Guest in the National conference on Strategies for sustainable Growth in the Era of Information Technology on 12th March, 2004. The conference was organized by Hindustan Institute of Managements & Computer Studies, FRAHA, Mathura

.M. Akbar and Anurag Mishra, “ Creating Butterflies from caterpillars” Paper accepted for the International Conference on Indian Mid-Size Manufacturing Enterprises, New Delhi, Feb19-20, 2004, published in proceedings

Attended AGBA International Conference during January 7-9, 2004, New Delhi, and Chaired the session on “Contemporary Issues in Global Entrepreneurship, Marketing and IT Development Presented paper in the conference on “ Strategic Response by Indian Internet Entrepreneurs to Dotcom Boom and Bust”

Paper presented as co-author with Deepak Dhayanithi, “Configuring Value Chain into Generic Business Models”, AGBA International conference, January 7-9, 2004

Attended 3rd International Conference on Entrepreneurial Innovation Held at IIM Bangalore organised by the International Entrepreneurship Forum. Received the Best Paper Award “ for Conceptual Clarity and Insight” entitled Absorptive Capacity and Corporate Venturing Models: A conceptual Framework

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Attended and presented a paper on “ Beyond Organizational Life Cycles” at the SMFI Conference held at MDI, April, 25-27, 2002

Attended and presented a paper on Business Model for Value Creation through Corporate Governance organized by FICCI in 2001.

Attended, 3rd, Strategic Management Conference held at IIM Calcutta, May 4-6, 2000.

Invited to present a paper on ‘Entrepreneurship and Strategic Vision’ in the workshop organized by IIA and IDD of UP Government, December 3-4, 1998.

Member, Organizing Committee of the First Strategic Management Forum. Conference at IIM, Lucknow, January, 1997. Board Member for two years.

Invited to coordinate a Working Group on Industrial cluster by UNIDO in the workshop of Restructuring and Modernization of Industrial Clusters in India, November, 1996, New Delhi.

Attended Workshop on “Entrepreneurship Education in India” a XIM, Bhubaneshwar organized by AIMS-CCMS February, 1995.

Attended “Case Workshop” organized by AIMS-CCMS in Bangalore, 1993. Resource Person for Indian Industries Association Convention held at Taj

Hotel, Lucknow, December 1993. Resource Person for IIA Convention held at Begun Hazrat Mahal Part,

Lucknow, 1992. Key speaker in a Workshop on Women Entrepreneurs organized by KVIC held

at Lucknow, 1995. Key discussant in the Study Group on Indian Management, organized by USIS

and IIM, Lucknow on Entrepreneurial Cultures and Entrepreneurship in Government, 1993.

Conducted about a dozen seminars for Industry associations

SELCT TITLES OF THE MDPs CONDUCTED

Designed and conducted 4 edition of six-month online ‘Advance Management Program in Strategy for Leaders)-

New Enterprise Planning for SME’s (1992) Enterprise Management Programme for SME’s (1992) Market Research Methodology (1992) Strategic Management for Entrepreneurial Firms (1993) Financial Management for Entrepreneurial Firms (1994) Strategic Management for Entrepreneurial Firms (1994) Strategic Management for Entrepreneurial Firms (1996) Corporate Venturing for Middle Managers (Jan., 1997) In-company Programme on Entrepreneurship for a large Multinational

pharmaceutical Company, 1996. In company Programme on Strategic Management for a Public Sector

Corporation (1996) Participated in in-company Programmes of 4 companies, 1997-98 Jointly conducted open MDP : on Strategic Management: Shaping the Future,

1997-98

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Conducted four Programmes on Strategic management for the Senior Executives of ONGC

Conduced a Two-week Training Programme on Strategic Management for the Senior Executives of GAIL

Also, organized Two more Programmes on Strategic Management for the senior executives of ONGC and HPCL

Managing in Changing Environments for Gail, 2000, 2003,2005 Advanced Management Programme for Sr. Executives of Power grid

Corporation, 2002 Developing Entrepreneurial Business Models Growth Strategies for Entrepreneurial Firms Conducted session on stakeholders and strategic analysis for senior IPS

Officers, August, 2003 , 2005, 2007 Programmes General Management Programme for Pepsico, 2004 Merger &Acquisition Program for Tata Chemicals Limited , 2004 Conducted Advanced management Programme in India and Europe for ONGC

Executives in 2005 The above course was directed 2006 also Also conducted Programme for Senior Police Officers (IPS) during 2005 and

2007 Taken classes for Senior executives of the largest Indian Bank Participation in Management Development Programmes- over 100 Conducted 1-week Vertical Interaction Programme for IPS Officers, August,

2007 Conducted Programme on Strategic Management for Tanaka group senior

executives at USM , Malaysia, 2007 Conducted 1-month Programme for State Bank of India Probationers AM,P for Excise and Customers officers in 2013 Taken 1000 classes (1500 hours) in various training PrograMS like SBI, NTPC,

IPS , IRS, IAS etc Conducted Programmes for Oil and energy sector companies in India Some of the private companies are leaders in their industries like Religare,

MSD, Minda Group, Bajaj Finance , Tata group, HUL, PepsiCo, beside many top Public sector companies in India, in addition to open programs and government programs like Ministry of HRD programs for VCs , Directors and administrators

CASE REPOSITORY, COURSE MATERAI AND PUBLICATIONS

Flex industries, 2009, IVEY /HBSP # 907M76 with teaching note #807M76 Management of Ethics. (1992) A few political technological and environmental issues on Tehri Dam.(1992) Sardar Sarovar Project: A Socio-Development Battle field (Case

Research).(1993) Corporate Social Responsibly of Business(1993) Technology and Sustainable Development (1993) Business Corporations and Rural Development (1993)

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Jetbet India Ltd. (Case Research) 1997 Stripped of Medals (Case Research) 1997 Asian Latex Pvt. Ltd. (Case research)2007 Hotel Mira Inn. (Case Research) 2007 Excel Plastics (Case Research). 2007 Kalori Bread (Case Research) 2006 Rako Merchantile (Case Research) 2006 Kalp-taru: A case in small business 2006 A brief note on the ONGC for class discussion, 1999 A brief note on GAIL, July 15, 2000 INDAL Kaolin Project: Technology Management Case 2000 27case studies in the book: First Generation entrepreneurs in India

PUBLISHED by EDI-1, 1989 (Published )

EDITORIAL POSITIONS AND REVIEWS

Editor-in-chief, Metamorphosis, IIM Lucknow Journal 2009-11 Editorial Board member , Indian Journal of Entrepreneurship, 1992-2017 Reviewer, International Journal of Emerging Markets 207 onwards Reviewer, British Food Journal 2017 onwards Reviewer, Journal of Family Business Review Reviewer top conferences Like Academy of Management, Academy of

International Business, Indian Academy of Business, Strategic Management Society 2012 onwards, AGBA 2006-11 etc.

Reviewer, South Asian Journal of Business and Management, 2018 -2019. DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS AND AWARDS

11 doctoral candidates awarded the degree 3 doctoral candidates in progress at different stages Reviewed about 2 dozen doctoral theses of top business and research

institutions PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth 02 May 1952 : Address: 3011, D3, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi EMAIL: m.akbar@bimtech.ac.in