Thu. Mar 28th, 2024
Himanshu Rai

Himanshu Rai, a professor of Human Resource Management at IIM Lucknow has been appointed as the new director for IIM Indore by the Board of Governors. The previous Director Professor Rishikesha T. Krishnan completed his tenure of five years and handed over the post to Professor Himanshu Rai in an official ceremony on Thursday.

“Professor Himanshu Rai has been selected by the Board after a rigorous selection process. I am confident that he will take IIM Indore forward in keeping with our vision of being a contextually-relevant business school with world-class academic standards” Professor Krishnan said.

Professor Himanshu Rai is an educationist of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and has been teaching PG and Doctoral students at Indian Institute of Management  Lucknow since 2006. He had earlier taught in the HR area at XLRI Jamshedpur.

We would also focus on doing research which not only is rich in content and data but also which contributes to the society, city, state, and nation as a whole,” Prof Rai said at the ceremony.

“We will plan for new pedagogies and we aim to be one of the top Institute in the world in the coming years’, he added.

He stressed Indore, being the cleanest city, he will focus on creating clean leaders, entrepreneurs, etc. out of the students of IIM Indore.

‘We look forward to working with government organizations-in betterment of the nation; with NGOs-to reform and bring about a positive change in the society; and with start-ups who are not involved with the Institute as well-to encourage young minds and support them in every way required’, he said.

He also emphasized on the collaborations with the foreign universities for better understanding and growth for the children.

“We will also be focusing on strengthening MOOCs and involving foreign universities in our research. India has a lot of family businesses, however, a good amount of research about family businesses is done in Italy; and not much in India. We will collaborate with foreign universities to understand their point of view and do research based on our nation”, he said

He concluded by saying that he will aim at to the better growth of the children along with providing them with world-class standards.

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