Faculty

Dr. (Prof.) Suresh Srinivasan

Adjunct Faculty- Strategy, Finance & Accounting
Program Director - OPGDM
Great Lakes Institute of Management

Area of Expertise: Strategy & Accounting

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Dr. Suresh Srinivasan, is a PhD (Strategy) from IIT Madras, a Chartered Accountant (All India Rank Holder), Cost Accountant and an MBA from Bradford Business School, Bradford, UK. He has more than 38 years’ experience in a wide range of manufacturing, banking, service and infrastructure industries, both in India and abroad. Has worked for 8 years in Emirates Airlines, the largest carrier in the Middle East across functions including Strategy, Finance and Accounting across various businesses of the airline that includes Airline, Airports, Financial Services, Security services, Hospitality and international joint ventures.He has also worked with other leading companies like Tata Steel and Industrial Development Bank of India. During his tenure with the French-American joint venture company ETPM – McDermott, a Texas based oil and gas infrastructure company, covering Middle East and Asia Pacific regions, his role was focused into infrastructure project tendering, analysis and project financing.

Current roles include, Distinguished Professor Adjunct - Strategy & Accounting at Great Lakes, Director oPGDM Chennai and Associate Director with International Infrastructure Consultants (IIC) in Chennai, a niche financial and management advisory firm focused into infrastructure. He is also a partner in LearnBiz Simulations, providing simulation based experiential management learning to academics and corporate.

Regularly conducts management development programs and consulted with companies across sectors like manufacturing, automobiles, airlines, ports, information technology, pharmaceuticals, business process management, insurance, earth moving equipment, banking, financial services, healthcare, infrastructure and construction. Advised boards and senior managers in the areas of strategic thinking, analytical thinking, strategic planning, competitiveness, executing strategy on ground, strategic turnaround, transcending functional boundaries, finance for non-finance and organizational development.

LIST OF REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

CASE STUDIES

RESEARCH PAPERS & BOOK CHAPTERS (PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS)

  • López-Cabarcos, M. Á., Srinivasan, S., & Vázquez-Rodríguez, P. (2022) 'An approach to firm's innovation from the explicit and tacit knowledge spiral', Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 22(4), 340–353. https://doi.org/10.1080/14778238.2023.2173679

  • López-Cabarcos, M. Á., Srinivasan, S., & Vázquez-Rodríguez, P. (2020) 'The role of product innovation and customer centricity in transforming tacit and explicit knowledge into profitability', Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 24 No. 5, pp. 1037-1057. https://doi.org/10.1108/JKM-02-2020-0087

  • Srinivasan Suresh, Gupta Mahima, Jayaraman Vaidy. (2021). Deconstructing Corporate Value Creation; Evidence from Indian Information Technology Enabled Service (ITeS) companies. Benchmarking: an international journal. Volume 28, Issue 9, 26 February 2021, Pages 2741-2770

  • López-Cabarcos, M. Á., Srinivasan, S., Göttling-Oliveira-Monteiro, S., & Vázquez-Rodríguez, P. (2019). 'Tacit knowledge and firm performance relationship. The role of product innovation and the firm level capabilities'. Journal of Business Economics and Management, 20(2), 330-350. https://doi.org/10.3846/jbem.2019.9590

  • Viswanathan, P. K., Srinivasan, S., & Hariharan, N. (2020). Predicting financial health of banks for investor guidance using machine learning algorithms. Journal of Emerging Market Finance, 19(2), 226-261. doi: 10.1177/0972652720913478

  • Ajay R., Srinivasan S., and Jopry S R., (2025), Competitive Advantage, Ownership Structure, and Real Earnings Management: The Role of Business Group Dominance in Emerging Markets, Accepted for Publication in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management

  • Srinivasan, S., Thenmozhi, M., & Vijayaraghavan, P. (2020). PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS OF DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGIES DURING INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS: AN EMERGING MARKET STUDY. Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal, 15(3), 25-59.

  • Srinivasan, S., Thenmozhi, M.. and Vijayaraghavan., P. (2019). 'Who drives corporate diversification: Owners or managers?' Journal of Management Research, 19(4), 267-284.

  • Srinivasan, S., Thenmozhi, M., & Vijayaraghavan, P. (2016), 'Product Diversification Deciphered'. Global Business and Management Research: An International Journal, 8(2), 38-52.

  • Book Chapter: ‘Orchestrating Sustainable Stakeholder Value Creation: A Product Life Cycle Extension Perspective’, Suresh Srinivasan and Vaidyanathan Jayaraman, 2020, in ‘Pursuing Sustainability: OR/ MS Applications in Sustainable Design, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Resource Management’, Chialin Chen, Yihsu Chen and Vaidyanathan, Jayaraman, Springer, 2020.

  • Suresh, S., Thenmozhi, M. and Vijayaraghavan, P. (2006), 'Impact of diversification strategy on firm performance: An entropy approach'. The ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, 12(11), 27-48.

  • Suresh, S., Thenmozhi, M. and Vijayaraghavan, P. (2005), 'Stock Market Reaction to Corporate Strategic Decisions. Proceedings of Ninth Capital Markets Conference', Indian Institute of Capital Market, Mumbai, December, 19-20 2005, pp. 1-19.

BLOGS

CONFERENCES

  • Suresh, Srinivasan and Thenmozhi, M. and Vijayaraghavan, P., Stock Market Reaction to Corporate Strategic Decisions. Indian Institute of Capital Markets 9th Capital Markets Conference Paper. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=873987 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.873987
  • Suresh, S., Thenmozhi, M. and Vijayaraghavan, P. (2005), Impact of diversification strategy on firm performance: An entropy approach. Proceedings of International Conference on Business and Finance, ICFAI University and Philadelphia University, Hyderabad, December, 2005.
  • Suresh, S., Thenmozhi, M. and Vijayaraghavan, P. (2007), Effect of Ownership Dynamics on Firm Diversity-Performance Relationship. Proceedings of International Conference on Global Academy of Business and Economic Research, Bangkok, Thailand, Dec 27-29, 2007
  • Suresh, S., Thenmozhi, M. and Vijayaraghavan, P. (2009), Effect of Ownership Dynamics on diversification performance relationship during institutional transition: The India experience. Corporate Finance and governance in Emerging Markets Conference, Guanghua School of Management, Peaking University, Beijing, 23-25 August 2009

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

  • As a partner in Learn Biz Simulations, the company that develops and markets business simulation games to business schools and corporate, Dr Suresh Srinivasan has developed a number of simulation games that are extensively used across business schools and corporate. Through this initiative Dr Suresh Srinivasan is a key proponent in developing and delivering experiential learning solutions to aspiring and young managers in the country.
  • Has delivered a number of management development programs across industries to various levels of managers; from board and senior management level to middle and entry level managers. MDPs include City Union Bank, L&T (Strategy Workshops), CUMI (Strategy workshops), Hyundai (Strategy workshops) to name a few.
  • In a number of occasions; a regular speaker in forums like Madras Management Association, Guest lectures in a number of business schools, TiE, forums organized by the business press, etc,.

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