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Introduction

Pankaj Chandra is an Indian educationist, management expert, author and academic. He was Director of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, from 2007 to 2013.[1] and is the Vice Chancellor and Chairman, Board of Management, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India since October 2015[2]. He is also one of the founding members of Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) whose goal is to improve governance and strengthen democracy by working in the area of Electoral and Political Reforms. He is the author of Building Universities That Matter – Where are Indian Institutions Going Wrong? published by Orient Blackswan[3].

Early Life

Pankaj Chandra was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He completed his schooling from St. Joseph's High School, Allahabad, India in the year 1978. He holds a BTech degree from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, and a PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Career

Chandra has held tenured appointments at McGill University in Montreal and IIM Ahmedabad (IIMA) and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva, International University of Japan, Cornell University, and Renmin University, Beijing.  He has worked briefly with The World Bank in Washington DC. He was the Chairperson of the Doctoral Programme at IIM Ahmedabad and the first Associate Dean (Academic) at Indian School of Business[4], Hyderabad. He was part of the founding team at the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship at IIMA and its first Chairperson. He was also a Professor of Operations & Technology Management at IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore.  

He has served as member of the Government of India Committee on Clusters for Development of the Informal Sector[5].  He was a member of the two High Powered Committees - the Government of India Committee on Rejuvenation of Higher Education (Yashpal Committee)[6] that relooked at the Indian Higher Education system and the Committee on the Autonomy of Central Institutions[7]. He was a member of two Steering Committees constituted by the Planning Commission of India for 12th Plan Development, one on Higher & Technical Education (where he also chaired the Sub-Committee on Student Financial Aid), and the other on Industry[8].  He was a member of Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) subcommittee on Teacher Education[9]. He was also a member of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the regulator of the telecom industry[10].

Chandra has been involved in several startups, has also been a consultant to large Indian and multi-national firms and serves on the Boards and Academic Councils of several firms and institutions  - Mindtree[11], BIRAC[12], NID[13], IGIDR[14], Srishti School of Art, Design &Technology[15], Bangalore, Film & Television Institute of India, Pune, IIT Jodhpur[16], IIIT  Bangalore, IIIT Dharwad[17] and Banaras Hindu University.

Research

Pankaj Chandra’s research and teaching interests include Manufacturing Management, Supply Chain Coordination, Building Technological Capabilities, higher education policy, and hi-tech entrepreneurship. He has published in international refereed journals and has served on the editorial boards of several international journals. He has been conducting the national survey on Competitiveness of Indian Manufacturing for the last 20 years.

Books

  1. Building Universities that Matter: Where are Indian Institutions Going Wrong? Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2017.[3]
  2. Technology, Practices, and Competitiveness: The Primary Textile Industry in Canada, China and India,” P. Chandra (ed.), Himalaya Publishing House, Mumbai, 1998.[18]

Publications

  • Chandra, P. “Questioning Academic Freedom,” in Academic Freedom in India,  ed. Apoorvanand, Westland, Pune, 128-135, 2018.
  • Chandra, P, “Management Education in India: How Far Have We Come?” in Routledge Handbook of Higher Education in India: Debates, Practices, and Policies ed. Krishna Kumar, Routledge, 189-202, 2018.[19]
  • Chandra, P. “Governance in Higher Education: A Contested Space (Making the University Work),” in Navigating the Labyrinth: Perspectives on India’s Higher Educations , eds. Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Orient Blackswan, 235-264, 2017.[20]
  • Chandra, P. “ Pivoting Indian Manufacturing Policy Differently,” India Review,  14,1, 111-127, 2015.[21]
  • Chandra, P. “Networks of Small Producers for Technological Innovations: Some Models,” Rethinking Innovations: Global Perspectives eds. Ram Subramanian, Martin Rahe, Vishnuprasad Nagadevara, and C Jayachandran, Routledge, 145-191, 2014.[22]
  • Palsule-Desai, O., D. Tirupati, P. Chandra, “Stability Issues in Supply Chain Networks: Implications for Coordination Mechanisms,” International Journal of Production Economics. 142, 1, 179-193, 2013.[23]
  • Chandra, P., P. Mehta and D. Tirupati, “Permutation Flowshop Scheduling with Earliness and Tardiness Penalties,” International Journal of Production Research, 47, 20, 5591-5610, 2009.[24]
  • Chandra, P. and N. Jain, “The Logistics Sector in India: Overview and Challenges,” in Indian Economic Superpower: Fiction or Future? J.Swaminathan (ed.), World Scientific Press, Singapore, 105-134, 2009.[25]
  • Chandra, P., “Returning Competition to the Factory Floor: Building Manufacturing   Capabilities,” in India and the Global Economy, Rajiv Kumar and Abhijit Sen Gupta (eds.), Academic Foundation and ICRIER, New Delhi, 2008[26].
  • Chandra, P. and T. Sastry, “Competitiveness of Indian Manufacturing: Findings of the 2001 National Manufacturing Survey,” Technology, Operations and Management, 1, 59-89, 2007.[27]
  • Basant, R. and P. Chandra, “Role of Educational and R&D Institutions in City Clusters,” An Exploratory Study of  Bangalore and Pune Regions,” World Development, 35, 6, 1037-1055, 2007.[28]
  • Chandra, P., “The Textile and Apparel Industry in Indian,” in The Oxford Companion to Economics in India, ed. Kaushik Basu, Oxford University Press, 525-529, 2007.[29]
  • Basant, R. and P. Chandra, “University-Industry Links and Enterprise Creation in India: Some Strategic and Policy Issues,”   How Universities Promote Economic Growth, S. Yusuf and K. Nabeshima (eds.), The World Bank, Washington D.C.,  209-226, 2007[30].
  • Basant, R. and P. Chandra, “Capability Building and Inter-Organizational Linkages in the Indian IT Industry: The Role of Multinationals, Domestic Firms and Academic Institutions,” India in the Global Software Industry: Innovation, Firm Strategies and Development, A. D’Costa and E. Sridharan (eds.), Palgrave, London, 193-219, 2004[31].       
  • Basant, R, and P. Chandra, "Building Technological Capabilities in a Liberalizing Developing Economy: Firm Strategies and Public Policy,” Journal of the Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 11, 4-5, 399-421, 2002.[32]
  • Chandra, P. and R. Bhatnagar, “Quality Management Practices in India,” in Comparative Study on Quality Management Practices in Asia, H.Quazi and C.T. Heng( eds.), QMRU, Nanyang Technological University , Singapore, Chapter 4, 121-163, 2000.[33]
  • Bhatnagar, R., P. Chandra, R. Loulou and J. Qiu, “Order Release and Product Mix Coordination in a Complex PCB Manufacturing Line with Batch Processors,” International Journal of  Flexible Manufacturing System, 11, 4, 327-351, 1999.[34]
  • Chandra, P., “Competing Through Capabilities: Strategies for Global Competitiveness of the Indian Textile Industry,”  Economic and Political Weekly, vol.XXXIV, no. 9, M17-M24, 1999.[35]
  • Basant, R. and P. Chandra, “Conceptualizing Strategies for Technology Development: A Case Study of an Indian Licensee,” in Technology Transfer and In-House R&D in Indian Industry, B. K. Pattnaik (ed.), Allied Publishers, New Delhi, vol. II, 497-50, 1999[36]
  • Patibandala, M. and P. Chandra, “Organizational Practices and Employee Performance: A Case of Canadian Primary Textile Industry,” Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 37, 431-442, 1998.[37]
  • Chandra, P. and T. Sastry, “Competitiveness of Indian Manufacturing: Findings of the 1997 Manufacturing Futures Survey,” Vikalpa, 23, 3, 25-36, 1998.[27]
  • Chandra, P., “The Primary Textile Industry: Trade Policy, Technology and Practices,” in Technology, Practices, and Competitiveness: The Primary Textile Industry in Canada, China and India,” P. Chandra (ed.), Himalaya Publishing House, Mumbai, 1-37, 1998.[38]
  • Chandra, P., “Country Study: The Canadian Primary Textile Industry,” in Technology, Practices, and Competitiveness: The Primary Textile Industry in Canada, China and India,” P. Chandra (ed.), Himalaya Publishing House, Mumbai, 38-66, 1998.[38]
  • Chandra, P., M.X. Wang, J. Saha, and P.R. Shukla, “Manufacturing Management in the Primary Textile Industry: Some Assessments from a Plant Level Study in Canada, China and India,” in Technology, Practices, and Competitiveness: The Primary Textile Industry in Canada, China and India,” P. Chandra (ed.), Himalaya Publishing House, Mumbai,108-157, 1998.[38]
  • Chandra, P., W.W. Cooper, S. Li, and A. Rahman, “Using DEA to Evaluate 20 Canadian Textile Companies - Considering Returns-to-Scale,” International Journal of Production Economics, 54, 129-141, 1998.[39]
  • Basant, R. and P. Chandra, “Linking Telecom Technologies: Complementarities, Capabilities, and Policies,” Vikalpa, 22, 3, July-September, 1997.[40]
  • Chandra, P. and S. Gupta, “Managing Batch Processors to Reduce Lead-time in a Semiconductor Packaging Line,” International Journal of Production Research, 35, 3, 611-633, 1997.[41]
  • Basu, K. and P. Chandra, “Market Driven Manufacturing: A Requirements Analysis,” Vikalpa, 21, 4, October-December, 3-16, 1996.[42]
  • Chandra, P., “Production Planning Model for a Flexible Manufacturing System,” in Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Recent Developments, A. Rouf and M. Ben-Daya (eds.), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 157-170, 1995.[43]
  • Bhatnagar, R. and P. Chandra, “Variability in Assembly and Competing Systems: Effect on Performance and Recovery,” IIE Transactions, 26, 5, 18-31, 1994.[44]
  • Chandra, P. and M.L. Fisher, “Coordination of Production and Distribution Planning,” European Journal of Operational Research, 72, 3, 503-517, 1994.[45]
  • Chandra, P. and P.R. Shukla, “Manufacturing Excellence and Global Competitiveness: Challenges & Opportunities for Indian Industries,” Economic and Political Weekly, M2-M11, February 26, 1994.[46]
  • Chandra, P., “Synchronization Issues in Managing Shops with Batch Processors,” in Production Management Methods (IFIP Transactions B-19), C. Walter et al. (eds.), North Holland, Amsterdam, 263-270, 1994.[47]
  • Bhatnagar, R., P. Chandra and S.K. Goyal, “Models for Multi-Plant Coordination,” European Journal of Operational Research, 67, 2, 141-160, 1993.[48]
  • Chandra, P., “A Dynamic Distribution Model with Warehouse and Customer Replenishment Requirements,” Journal of Operational Research Society, 44, 7, 681-692, 1993.[49]
  • Chandra, P., S. Li and M. Stan, “Jobs and Tool Sequencing in an Automated Manufacturing System,” International Journal of Production Research, 31, 12, 2911-2925, 1993.[50]
  • Chandra, P. and M. Tombak, “Models for the Evaluation of Routing and Machine Flexibility,” European Journal of Operational Research, 60, 2, 156-165, 1992.[51]
  • Thomason, T., H. Zwerling and P. Chandra, “Labour Relations in the Canadian Textile Industry,” in Industrial Relations in Canadian Industry, R.P. Chaykowski & A. Verma (eds.), HBJ-Holt Publishers, Toronto, 1992.[52]

Awards and Honours

  • IIT BHU Alumnus of the Century in Making Award on the occasion of 100 years of the Engineering
  • Education at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2019
  • Guru Shrestra Award (inaugural award), PES University, Bangalore, 2014
  • Distinguished Award, Karnataka Employers Association, Bangalore, 2013
  • National Education Leadership Award, ET NOW, Mumbai, 2013[53]
  • Distinguished Alumni Award, Banaras Hindu University, 2012
  • Bharat Asmita Acharya Shrestha Award, MIT Institutions Pune, 2011
  • 18th Dewang Mehta Business School Awards, Best Teacher in Operations Management, 2010[54]
  • Distinguished Alumni Award, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, 2009
  • Alumni Award, All India ITBHU Alumni Association, New Delhi, 2009.
  • Courses & teaching consistently rated among the top 5 per cent at IIMA, IIMB and McGill.
  • OM Course ranked highest in the DMA program, Universite de Geneve, 1991, International University of Japan, 2003, 2004, Cornell University, 2004.
  • Best Student Paper Award, Delaware Valley ORSA/TIMS Student Paper Contest,  1986, Philadelphia, USA.
  • AIME/SME Scholastic Achievement Award, University of Alaska, 1984.
  • J.N. Tata Scholar (National Merit Award), 1983-1984.
  • University Merit Scholarship, 1981-1982.

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  33. R Bhatnagar, Pankaj Chandra (2000). Comparative Study on Quality Management Practices in India. Singapore. pp. Chapter 4, Pages 121–163. Search this book on
  34. Richard Loulou Jin Qiu, Rohit Bhatnagar Pankaj Chandra (October 1999). "Order Release and Product Mix Coordination in a Complex PCB Manufacturing Line with Batch Processors". International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems. 11 (4): Pages 327–351. doi:10.1023/A:1008169312705.
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