07
January 2015, KIAMS (Harihar & Pune). Noted corporate-honcho-turned-academician, Dr.
C.N. Narayana, has taken over the reins at Kirloskar Institute of Advanced
Management Studies. KIAMS is the brainchild of Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar,
one of the first Indians to have studied Engineering at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and a distinguished son of India. It is backed by the
Kirloskar Group, which is amongst the biggest corporate conglomerates of Asia.

A
Management PhD in HRM Strategies from Canterbury University, UK, Dr. C.N.Narayana
comes from a sterling corporate background spanning nearly 25 years, before
moving into the academia in 2010. In his corporate avatar, he has traversed a
number of industries and roles, with organisations like Godrej & Boyce, GE
Appliances, Thermax, Xerox, RPG; reaching at the zenith of his corporate career
at Essar Group as the Head – Global Working Capital Assurance. After being
bestowed a PhD by Canterbury University, Dr. Narayana shifted into the
academia. Starting with International Management Institute, he held the dual
roles of GM, Operations, as well as Professor between 2007-08. He returned to
IMI later in 2011, again in a dual role, as a Registrar and Secretary, Board of
Governors, and Chief of Operations for New Delhi and Bhubaneswar. In June 2014,
he joined as a Professor of HRM and Director of CDL at IFIM, Bangalore, before
taking over as Director of KIAMS. In November 2014, he won the 22nd Dewang
Mehta Best Professor of HRM Award.

“KIAMS has spearheaded numerous industry-oriented
innovations in full-time PGDM education,” said Dr. C.N.
Narayana on taking over at the helm of affairs. “KIAMS introduced
the Balanced Growth Card – a holistic evaluation of the student that focuses
not only on performance outcomes but also on demonstrated effort and underlying
competencies. We were the first to Introduce seminar credits. This brought to
the student the latest industrial practices in management, delivered by
industry practitioners. I intend carrying forward in this vein of innovation.”

About Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management
Studies (KIAMS)

Raised
in 1991, and with campuses at Harihar and Pune, KIAMS is widely recognised
amongst the Top-40 B-schools in the country, and is AICTE approved. Originally
designed for the purpose of being a captive management centre-of-excellence for
the managers of Kirloskar Group, KIAMS became a regular B-school in 1995 with a
strong industry-based curriculum. This move was deeply motivated by the larger
benefit to the nation. By the late nineties, the Indian economy had opened up
considerably, and industry-relevant managers were the prime need of growth and
nation building. KIAMS adopted “Education through Values” as its
credo… its ruling paradigm, in line with the Kirloskar
philosophy and outlook. Today, KIAMS graduates all over the world are
recognised for their industry-immersed knowledge.

The institute has
been instrumental in offering not just management knowledge to aspiring
leaders, but development and consultancy to some of the most inspired businesses
across the world like Adecco, Grasim Limited (Aditya Birla Group), JSW Steel
Limited, and the Abdullah Hashim Company Limited (Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia). Till the 2011-12 academic session, KIAMS has conducted 457 MDP’s for a total of 9228 executives. 120 research
papers and conference representations have originated from amongst the Faculty
and researchers at KIAMS. Over a period of time, KIAMS has established a second
state-of-the-art campus at Pune. The pool of world-class faculty at Harihar, also
mentor students at the Pune campus.