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DISTINGUISHED GUEST LECTURES, FACULTY RESEARCH SEMINARS AND

INVITED TALKS

For the seventh episode Vaktavya on 21 August, IIM V hosted Mr. Abhishek Shaw, Senior Operational
Excellence Manager at Pfizer India who delivered a talk on ‘Operational Excellence in Business Strategy’.

EPIC- Entrepreneurial Passion & Innovation Club of IIM Visakhapatnam hosted Mr. Martin Zwilling, Founder
& CEO of Start-up Professionals Inc. and an Angel Investor for the eighth episode on 28 August.
He delivered a talk on ‘Mistakes Made by New Entrepreneurs’. For the last episode during this quarter, i.e.,

episode 9, Dr. Gopichand Katragadda, the CEO & Founder of Myelin Foundry and an Independent Director
of Bosch India Limited. He is also the Vice President of the IET, Board of Trustees UK, and a member of the
NASSCOM governing council for the Centre of Excellence for Data Science & AI, addressed students on the
topic ‘Thriving in the age of intelligent Machines’

ShodhSamvad- Editors Talk series

23 AUGUST
IIM Visakhapatnam organizes Editors Talk series ‘ShodhSamvad’,
with the objective to understand editors’ views on publishing in

high-impact factor journals. We hosted Prof. Kannan Govindan,
Professor, Operations & Supply Chain Management, University of
Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark for the third episode of
SodhSamvad. Prof. Kannan Govindan, Operations & Supply Chain
Management, University of Southern Denmark. He discussed the
best practices for targeting top ranked journals and shared an
editor's perspective of publishing in high impact factor journals.The Prof. Kannan Govindan
Operations & Supply Chain Management,
talk was moderated by Prof. Aalok Kumar. University of Southern Denmark
31 AUGUST
For the fourth episode, we hosted Dr.Jacqueline Eastman, Professor
of Marketing, Honors Coordinator, Georgia Southern University,
Editor, Journal of Consumer Behaviour; Dr.Steven D’Alessandro,
Head of the International School,Professor of Marketing, University
of Tasmania, Editor, Journal of Consumer Behaviour and Prof. Rajesh
Iyer, Chair and Professor of Marketing, Director of International

Business, Department of Marketing, Bradley University, Associate
Editor, Journal of Consumer Behaviour. The talk was moderated by
Prof. Amit Shankar, IIM V faculty(Marketing area). These talks were
attended by faculty members and research scholars of IIM V.

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