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    Kshitij Awasthi

    Kshitij Awasthi

    Associate Professor
    Strategic Management

    Kshitij Awasthi is Faculty at Indian Institute of Management Lucknow in Strategic Management area since November 2016. He completed his Fellow Program in Management (equivalent to Ph.D.) from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked close to three years as Manager-Business Development in Oil and Gas sector.

    His primary research interest lies in corporate political activities wherein he looks at various government connections to firms and its effect on different aspects of business performance. His other areas of interest are in corporate governance, international business as well as in health, education and energy policies.

    He has been teaching core Strategic Management courses on Strategy Formulation and Implementation and International Business elective at MBA and executive-MBA levels. In executive education and training, he has been taking sessions primarily around Strategy and Innovation, Strategy Implementation, Strategic Decision Making among others.

    • F.P.M. (Corporate Strategy and Policy) from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
    • M.B.A (Oil and Gas Management) from University of Petroleum and Energy studies, Dehradun
    • B. Sc. (Physics, Mathematics, Geology) from Lucknow University

    He has done consulting in areas such as Innovation Management, Innovation Culture and Public Private Partnership.

    • Distinguished Paper Award, BPS Division, Academy of Management Conference 2016 for the Paper titled “Effect of political connections on profit persistence: Evidence from India”
    • 2nd Best Paper prize (IIMB Award) at IMR Doctoral Conference (22-23 December 2015), IIM Bangalore
    • 2nd runner-up prize at 3rd Public Policy Hackathon in Annual CPP conference, IIM Bangalore (2014)
    • Special Mention Award at 1st Public Policy Hackathon in Annual CPP conference, IIM Bangalore (2012)