Research Policy

Research Cell-SIBMH 2019-20

Research Cell-SIBMH is the dedicated department of SIBM Hyderabad for promoting and facilitating research among students and faculty. Through its academic and administrative services, Research Cell enables researchers to achieve excellence in their work, and eventually, translates SIBM’s vision of creation of knowledge for the benefit of the Society into reality. This cell is strengthened by advisory committee of eminent academicians and researchers. The committee is a blend of academic experts and corporate leaders to develop institutional research agenda, establish minimum standards for research activities, built a research capacity and mentor researchers and to set up systematic procedures for administration of research programs at our campus.

Focus areas of Research Cell:

• To develop institutional research agenda and to formulate policies to nurture research culture within the Campus/University.
• To establish minimum standards for research activities.
• To enhance in-house research capacity by mentor researchers/early-career faculty & building relevant infrastructure.
• To set up systematic procedures for administration of research programmes.

Research Cell administrates various support services related to Research Projects, Publications, and Ethical Conduct in research.

Dr. Ravi Kumar Jain

Chairman-Symbiosis Center for Research and Innovation-Hyderabad (SCRIH):

Dr. Ravi Kumar Jain, a start-up evangelist, is a Doctorate in Business Management and holds Masters in Business Administration (Finance) and PGD in ICT management. Dr. Jain brings in over 20 years of rich experience in family business management, teaching and training, research, business consulting and academic administration. Institution building and championing new initiatives has been his forte. He is an avid researcher with more than 100 international and national publications to his credit; authored and edited several books in the area of business management, banking & finance and ICT management. He serves on the editorial boards of reputed international refereed journals. He brings in a strong business and academic network, has conducted several successful international events and conferences and has been actively engaged in business coaching, faculty training and executive training programs at various organizations including L&T Metro, Indian railways, several banks and IT services companies, Indian armed forces to name a few. He is an expert trainer in case method teaching.

He has held various academic and administrative positions at Icfai Research Center, Hyderabad; Symbiosis International University, Pune; and in the faculty of Finance at IBS- Hyderabad campus. He was the founding director of Symbiosis institute of Research and innovation at Pune; and currently he is the Founding Director of Symbiosis Institute of Business management (SIBM) Hyderabad Campus.

He is serving on the Board of Directors of a very prestigious global consortium The Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), Houston USA in the capacity of VP for Asia Pacific Region (APDSI). He is the immediate past president of Indian Subcontinent DSI (ISDSI) and has been on its board for the last 6 years holding various positions.

His areas of research interest are corporate finance, valuations, market microstructure, Business Economics and outsourcing.

Dr. Rajkumar Pillay

Member Secretary - Symbiosis Center for Research and Innovation-Hyderabad (SCRIH):

Dr. Rajkumar Pillay, earned a doctoral degree in Commerce and Business Management, holds a degree in Master of Business Management (Finance) and Masters in Science (Mathematics). Dr. Rajkumar Pillay’s academic career now spans more than 15 years, during which he has published several research papers and articles in national and international journals. His research areas include, teaching pedagogy in the faculty in Business Statistics, Data Analysis Methods and Supply Chain Analytics with special reference to simulation models in operations. 

His significant publications are (1) Revisiting Servant Leadership: An Empirical study in Indian Context and (2) Teaching Concepts of Probability: A case Methodology for B-Schools, (3) Orchestrating Business Statistics: A Methodology for Chi-square Test. His google scholar has 49 citations with “h-index and I10 index”.

Research and Advisory Committee-Hyderabad: Faculty of Management

To steer research activities and initiatives of each Faculty to the relevant, significant and emergent areas of the discipline, Faculty-wide Research and Advisory Committee (RACH) have been constituted. The constitution of RACH Faculties can be found below:

The Role and Responsibilities of RACH shall be as under:

1). To suggest topic/ area for project/ dissertation/ case study.

2). To review and approve field studies/ research projects/ research publications/dissertations submitted by the degree students and faculty members.

3). To offer guidance for research projects/ research publications to students and faculty members.

4). To advise/ forward research projects/ dissertations that may require approval of Independent Ethics Committee of Symbiosis International University (SIU).

5). Any other activity which the RAC may feel appropriate.