Prof. S. Manikutty – Fellow (IIMA)

Prof. Manikutty specialized in Business Policy and Strategy in his doctorate and teaching, graduating from IIMA in 1987. Before joining IIMA, he served in the Indian Railways as a mechanical engineer for 21 years. His areas of interest include strategic management and competitive strategy, leadership, global competitiveness of industries, corporate governance and strategies for family businesses. His paper (coauthored with another person) won the award for the best paper on family businesses for 2003 awarded by the Family Firm Institute, Boston, U.S.A. His paper (coauthored) also won an award for the best empirical paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Small Business Institute, Clearwater Beach, Florida, February 11-15, 2004. His book on leadership based on literature, Essentials of Leadership: Explorations from Literature (Delhi: Bloomsbury), co-authored with Sampath P Singh, won the award for the best management book awarded by the Indian Society for Training and Development, in 2010, and its second edition has been published by Bloomsbury India. His subsequent books are: Business Ethics: Ethics as the Foundation of Business and Strategic Management: A South Asian Perspective jointly with Michael Hitt, Robert Hoskisson and Duane Ireland.

Prof. Manikutty was a visiting scholar at the Cornell University in the year 2000. Has written a number of cases, mostly dealing with issues in strategy, and published 13 papers in national and international journals. He was a visiting faculty at ESSEC, France, where he taught a full course for four years before retirement.

He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He also served in the Board of Governors, Sardar Patel Institute for Textiles, Coimbatore from 2016 to 2018. Currently he is on the Board of Governors of the IILM Institute for Higher Education, New Delhi (from April 2018).

At ELS 2020, Prof. Manikutty will speak on Literature: What It Can Offer for Education Community

Prof. Manikutty figured in the Marquis Who’s Who in the World for the year 2012.

He retired from Indian Institute of Management, Ahhedabad on December 31, 2010 and was on a contractual appointment as a full time faculty in the Business Policy Area, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad till March 31, 2012. Now he is a visiting faculty at IIM, Ahmedabad and an adjuct faculty at IIM, Bangalore, teaching courses on understanding leadership through literature.

He was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the National Academy of Indian Railways, Vadodara for the year 2018.