Prof. Murthy is the former Director of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and he has been active in Management Education for nearly three decades.
A Gold Medalist from Mysore University, Prof. Murthy worked in industry for nearly a decade before taking up studies in management. After his Masters in Statistics from Mysore University, he obtained a Masters in Management from Sloan School of Management, M.I.T., and a Doctorate in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A., before joining the Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad as Professor of Business Policy. He initiated electives in public enterprise management in the Post Graduate Programme. He has taught in the Post Graduate, Executive Development, Doctoral and Faculty Development Programmes in IIMA, besides heading academic administrative positions such as the Fellow Programme in Management and Editor, Vikalpa. He was the first Director of the Institute of Rural Management Anand.
From 1991 to 1997, Prof. Murthy was Director of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. For a short period in 2000, he was Vice Chairman of the All Indian Council for Technical Education, New Delhi. He was a member of the Disinvestment Commission. From 2000 to 2006, he was Honorary Chairman of the Board for Information Technology Education Standards, a society registered by the Government of Karnataka, in association with industry and academia, to promote the quality of education in Information Technology.
Prof. Murthy has been actively involved, as a member of the Governing Council, in several educational and non-profit institutions, such as the Indian Institute of Capital Markets, Vashi; National Institute of Securites Markets, Mumbai; Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode; Amrita University, Coimbatore; TAPMI, Manipal; The Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions, Bangalore; and The Public Affairs Centre, Bangalore.
Prof. Murthy has been / is on the Boards of Directors of Life Insurance Corporation of India Ltd., Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., CMC Ltd., National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. and Himatsingka Seide Ltd. |
