MYSURU, India, September 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
With grief and sorrow, MYRA School of Business shares the news of passing of our founding Dean - Dr. Rajiv Krishna Sinha on July 17, 2015.
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As the founding Dean of the MYRA School of Business, Professor Rajiv Sinha understood that he was a pioneer and was venturing into an uncertain terrain of launching a new business school in India. He was chartered not just with leading an organization, but also with creating an entire academic model. A defining feature of MYRA is the presence of a stellar group of instructors from across the world, spending short durations on campus. This mode of instruction (the Immersion Learning Model of MYRA) serves students well, but takes an enormous amount of organizational skill, global connections and capacity to influence. It is easy to imagine and hard to execute. That MYRA has been able to make it work, is largely due to Dean Sinha. His successors have large shoes to fill.
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Rajiv Sinha was a very good teacher. His course on 'New Product Development' was one of the most popular courses at MYRA. He made sophisticated things like the Bass model easily understandable; he empowered students to use software like SPSS with skill; and he made marketing an intellectual discipline in addition to being a business function. He was a leading researcher in his field, globally recognized, but he wore his recognitions lightly and students approached him at ease. His course may well continue, but his style is irreproducible.
Rajiv Sinha's leadership was not always visible. But it was there, always beaconing us. He joined us on our MYRA journey exactly 4 years back in July 2011 and helped build brand MYRA and lay the enduring foundations of excellence.
Dr. Sinha was a multifaceted person - playing table tennis with students and colleagues so as to know them better (and enjoy their company). A music lover, he enjoyed food and fine things of life. He went shopping in Mysore and used his experiences to encourage prospects to join the MYRA team. He was always connected, even in the depths of severe illness. His positive attitude to life was infectious and during his painful last days also he was enormously courageous and full of kindness (as recounted by a close friend who was with him during his final days). At Arizona State University, one of his last responsibilities was to lead the committee that decided on faculty promotions, across the University (not just the Business School). That is a reflection of the trust and respect his long-time colleagues had for him.
He loved his work; he loved his family; and he loved what life had to offer. We will miss Rajiv Sinha - Dean, Professor, and Friend to MYRA.
Biography of Dr. Rajiv Sinha:
Dr. Rajiv Sinha, Founding Dean, MYRA School of Business, expired on July 17, 2015 in Tempe, Arizona after a prolonged illness. He was 56.
Dr. Sinha wore many professional hats - in addition to being the Founding Dean of MYRA School of Business, he was Professor of Marketing, Lonnie Ostrom Chair in Business at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, USA.
An authority, a pioneer and a leader in the scholarly understanding of Marketing as a discipline, Dr. Sinha received his BA (Honors) in 1978 and MA in Economics (1980) from the University of Delhi, and a PhD from Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.
His professional career took him across the globe to University of Canterbury, New Zealand; University of Warwick UK; Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University; Catolica Lisbon School of Business, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, where he held the position of a Fulbright Distinguished Chair.
He served in the Office of the Provost, Arizona State University as a Leadership Fellow and was responsible for developing future university leaders.
He also served on the University Promotion and Tenure Committee; University Regents' Professor Selection Committee; Dean's MBA Advisory Committee; College Promotion and Tenure Committee and as Academic Director of Custom Corporate MBA Executive Program.
He was on the Editorial and Review Board of journals such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, Management Science and Information Systems Research.
His contributions to academia is further complemented by his consulting services to industries such as Apple Computers, Intel, Motorola, American Express, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), Honeywell, AT&T, MasterCard and others.
His research interests include new product development, technology diffusion, software and music piracy, product pricing, public policy issues related to tobacco and alcohol addiction, Internet-based brand communities, and marketing strategies for digital products.
His publications on these and related topics have appeared in leading marketing, management, engineering and environmental economics journals such as Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, Information Systems Research, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Supply Chain Management Review, IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management, Ecological Economics and others.
He was the recipient of various awards - the most significant ones being the W.P. Carey Outstanding Research Award (2011); Leadership Fellowship for developing Transformational Leaders (2010, 2011); the James W. Creasman Award for Excellence - a quadrennial award given for outstanding contributions to Arizona State University & the community (2009); W.P. Carey School of Business Outstanding Teaching Award Full-Time MBA Program(Inaugural Award)(2007); the Penley Teaching Award (2001), the Outstanding Teacher Award for an MBA track (four times 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001); the Governor's State Award for Excellence(1998), and the Faculty Research Development Award for Outstanding Research (1992).
The Business Week's Annual Rankings of the major business schools have listed him as the "Most Popular Professor" in the MBA program and listed his E-Commerce and the New Product Development courses as the "Best Electives" in the MBA program (1996 & 1997).
About MYRA School of Business:
The MYRA School of Business is a unique boutique Global B School located in the royal city of Mysore - an educational hub and a heritage city. MYRA's unique learning platform blends Indian and Western perspectives and teaching methods to add intellectual diversity in the classroom by bringing faculty from some of the top B Schools in the world such as Cornell, Kellogg, Cambridge, IIMs and others. MYRA's study abroad program partners include W.P Cary School of Business, Arizona State University, USA; Catolica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Portugal and The University of Washington, Bothell, US.
The four academic programs offered are - the two-year-AICTE approved, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDM); the one-year Post Graduate Program for executives (PGPX); Customized Executive Education Programs and PhD (University of Mysore) program. MYRA's leadership team with a vision to provide world-class business education to young Indians so that they can deliver exceptional value to whoever hires them, is committed to "excellence" in everything-faculty, pedagogy, and campus.
For more details: http://www.myra.ac.in
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