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PhD Admission Experience | We are featuring Anurag Chaturvedi on the Inkpothub’s Ph.D. Admission experience series. He is a research fellow at MDI Gurgaon.
PhD Admission Experience RESEARCH INTERESTS
Strategic management, Evolution of strategic management, Ambidexterity.
Anurag Chaturvedi Interview
EDUCATION
FELLOW PROGRAM IN MANAGEMENT | AUGUST 2021- PRESENT |
MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE GURGAON, INDIA
Major: Strategic Management
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION | MAY 2019 | NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROURKELA, INDIA
Major: Finance | Minor: Human Resources | School of Management | CGPA: 8.48/10.
M.B.A Thesis: “Psychological issues of knowledge workers in post-demonetization: A Study of Grameen and Cooperative Banks in Rourkela, Odisha” | Advisor: Prof. Binita Tiwari.
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY | MAY 2016 |
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD, INDIA
Major: Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering | B. Tech Thesis: “Implementation of UART in Verilog” | Advisor: Prof. Y Divya Reddy.
PhD Admission Experience RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
RESEARCH ASSISTANT at Mudra Institute of Communications (MICA), Ahmedabad, India | Business Management Area | June 2021 to July 2021 | Advisor: Prof. Taral Pathak (Assistant Professor).
∙ Assisted the faculty in preparing course outlines, identifying and collecting reading material, developing teaching notes, grading of class participation, grading of quizzes, examinations, assignments, group projects, etc.
∙ Coordinated with guest faculties involved in teaching courses.
∙ Coordinated with program office for arranging for exams/quizzes.
∙ Assisted the faculty in their research work and academic endeavors
(Including aspects like literature search and review, data collection, etc.).
PROJECT ASSISTANT at Industrial Research and Development Unit, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India |July 2020 to March 2021 | Advisor: Prof. Sanjay Dhir (Associate Professor).
∙ Deeply involved in the ongoing research and drafted reports with a focus on the needs and requirements of the project. ∙ Analyzed Industry Trends, Identified Target Segments, and preferences based on primary and secondary research. ∙ Data Insights and empirical results assisted in attaining an insight on research processes and comprehend modern research practices.
SUMMER RESEARCH INTERN at National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, Regional Office Raipur, India | May 2018 – July 2018 | Advisor: Bimal Prasad Mishra (Assistant General Manager).
∙ Detailed Study of 14 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), to analyze the changes in farmer’s household income in Chhattisgarh after the implementation of FPOs.
∙ Conducted an interview of 120 farmers, with a focused group discussion with the CEO and board of directors (BOD) of FPOs in 7 districts of Chhattisgarh.
∙ Analyzed the impact of FPOs in agriculturist’s household income before and after implementation of these institutions and determined the reasons for FPOs’ success and failures.
∙ Suggested measures for further strengthening of FPOs.
PhD Admission Experience | ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
- SCIENCE TEACHER |Intercultural Cooperation Foundation (ICF) India | August 2016 – April 2017 |
∙ Taught Computer Science to elementary students and Science to high school students at one of the projects of ICF, India: Manchi School, Balapur, Hyderabad.
∙ Instrumental in designing the course work and constantly bought novel approaches in the teaching process. ∙ Assisted in preparing annual academic reports of students and suggested a new course of action to be taken in this regard.
PhD Admission Experience | SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS
∙ 2020 – Qualified Graduate Record Examinations (GRE).
∙ 2019 – Constantly ranked in the top 6 % in the MBA batch of School of Management, NIT Rourkela.
∙ 2018 – Participated as a delegate of North Korea in Disarmament and International Security Committee (DISEC), during NIT Rourkela International Model United Nations (IMUNC).
∙ 2018 – Conducted a seminar for students of Cognizen club, the official Politics and Economics club of NIT Rourkela, on “Investment Banking”.
PROJECTS
∙ January 2019 – May 2019 | Project name: Psychological issues of knowledge workers in post-demonetization: A Study of Grameen and Cooperative Banks in Rourkela, Odisha | Objective: To study the changes in employee relations, work-life balance, and psychological effects and focusing on reducing the stress and improving the work-life balance and employee relations in Grameen and Cooperative custodian institutions | Advisor: Prof. Binita Tiwari | National Institute of Technology, Rourkela.
∙ December 2015 – April 2016 | Project name: Implementation of Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter (UART) in Verilog | Objective: To program a Verilog code for UART and examine its applications | Advisor- Prof. Y Divya Reddy | CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad.
June 2015 – November 2015 | Project name: Automatic brake system in vehicles | Objective: To develop a safety car braking system using ultrasonic sensors and design a vehicle with less human attention to the driving | Advisor- Prof. R. Prameela Devi| CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad.
INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONFERENCES
∙Anurag Chaturvedi “Status of Rural Financial Institution in Chhattisgarh State”, 1st PAN IIT International Management Conference 2018 (PANIITIMC 2018), Title of the book: Book of Abstract: First PAN IIT International Management Conference 2018 PANIITIMC-18, pg.275, ISBN Number: 978-93-5311-935-5.
∙Anurag Chaturvedi, Sahastranshu Mishra, Pritish Dwibedy, “Financial Management in Healthcare”, Feb – 2018, Indian Council of Social Science Research Sponsored National Conference on “Healthcare Management: Current State and Future Trends”, NIT, Rourkela (Conference Proceeding), Proceeding eBook – “Healthcare Management: Current State and Future Trends”, pg. 208, ISBN Number:978-93-86940-00-1.
PUBLICATIONS
∙ Nakul Parameswar, Akriti Chaubey, Anurag Chaturvedi, Sanjay Dhir, “Organizational Performance in the Indian IT/ITeS sector: The effects of strategic thinking and organizational constituents” under consideration for the International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM).
∙ Nakul Parameswar, Akriti Chaubey, Anurag Chaturvedi, Sanjay Dhir, “Ambidexterity and Organizational Performance: A Test of Moderation Models” under consideration for International Studies of Management and Organization.
SEMINARS/ WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
∙ May 2021: Attended International Conference on Responsible Tourism and Hospitality 2021 (ICRTH2021): A collaboration between the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MTAC) Sarawak, the Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management (FHTM), UCSI University, Sarawak Research Society (SRS) and Emerald Publishing Limited.
∙ December 2020: Attended a workshop on Faculty Development Programme on “Advance Research Methodology for Decision Making” organized by Birla School of Commerce, Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar.
∙ November 2020: Attended Advanced Level of Data Analysis workshop using SMART-PLS from 24th – 29th November 2020; assisted by Prof. Dr. Christian M. Ringle at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany, and Prof. Dr. Marko Sarstedt at the Otto von Guericke University, Germany.
∙ September 2020: Attended a live webinar about Publishing in top SSCI journals and get recognition for your research through citations by Professor Dimitrios Buhalis of Bournemouth University, England; organized by Emerald Publishing Limited.
∙ February 2020: Attended a live webinar about writing teaching cases by Professor Michael Goldman from the University of San Francisco, and Editor-in-Chief of Emerging Markets Case Studies. The webinar was organized by the Central and East European Management Development Association (CEEMAN) and Emerald Publishing Limited.
∙ August 2019: Attended a workshop on “Social entrepreneurship and Leadership” organized by Gandhi Fellowship of Piramal School of leadership and Kaivalya Education Foundation.
∙ December 2015: Attended a workshop on “Understanding Industrial Process, Measurement, and control” by the Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering department, CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad.
∙ December 2015: Attended a three-day workshop on “Understanding Industrial Process, Measurement, and Control” organized by the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad.
∙ January 2015: Presented a technical paper at Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) Techfest-2k15 conducted by IETE CVR student’s Forum at CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad.
∙ March 2014: Presented a technical paper at CIENCIA, a National Level Technical Symposium, organized by CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad.
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
∙ 2019: Chief Editor of Post Graduate Souvenir, a souvenir book for the class of 2019 PG students of National Institute of Technology, Rourkela.
COMPUTER SKILLS
MS-Excel, MS-Word, Microsoft-PowerPoint, SPSS Statistics, SmartPLS.
RELEVANT COURSES
Strategic Management. Research Methodology.
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