HOD-MBA

Journalist turned academician, Dr.Hari Sundar G is a  degree holder in Plant Sciences and Post graduate in Sociology from University of Kerala and PG Diploma in Journaliam from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Dr. Hari Sundar worked for around a decade as Staff Reporter in THE HINDU at Thiruvananthapuram where he was handling the Young World and Friday page and was instrumental in the setting up of Newspaper in Education and The Hindu Business Line Clubs in many institutes in Kerala. He later did his MBA and Ph.d from Anna University Chennai and took to full time academics since 2006. Dr.Sundar has also completed the PG certificate programme in Market Research and Data Analytics as well as Managing Brands and Marketing Communication from MICA Ahmedabad. He has also completed the Executive Development Programme in Strategic Management from IIM Kashipur.

A vivid researcher and educator, he has a rich academic and research experience of two decades and as many as seven years of industry experience. He has also done his Post doctoral research in the area of Bhagavad Gita and Executive development programmes from. He has presented as many as 83 research papers in several reputed National and International conferences in various IIT s IIM s and other prestigious institutes in India and abroad and has more than 120 research publications in reputed national and International journals. He also has the credit of being the Batch topper in the Executive Programme in Strategic Management of IIM Kashipur in 2023. He has also authored as many as 7 case studies on various areas of Management.

He has been a research guide in Bharathiar University, KUFOS, AIMA AMU, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth and Hindustan University and has successfully guided as many as 11 scholars for their Doctoral research. Currently he is the co supervisor  for three candidates for their Doctoral research. He has also served as external expert and thesis evaluator in several Indian Universities.

A passionate Carnatic musician and scripturian, he has also authored four books-two in music and Management each which includes a biography on the life and contributions of renowned Carnatic vocalist Padmasri Parassala Ponnammal tiled “Hemavathy” (Malayalam and Englis). He has also done the research and script for a documentary on renowned mridangam maestro late Padmasri Mavelikkara Krishnankutty Nair . He  has written the script for a documentary series for All India Radio Thiruvananthapuram titled “Endaro Mahanubhavulu” which features Carnatic singers of yesteryears from Kerala, the programme which is on air on all Sundays.

He has served as faculty in various reputed management institutes including TKM Institute of Management Kollam, VIT Business school and Department of Management Studies of SNGCE Kolenchery. Passionate in teaching and research, Dr.Hari Sundar also regularly conducts several training programmes for students and teachers on Participant centred Teaching and Learning, Research Methodology, The Art of Lierature Review, Teaching with case and more. He has also won several awards to his credit for his achievements in the area of management research and teaching to name a few Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan award for Management teaching and Research in 2024 from IMRF, Indo Spanish International award for Promising Biographer from Ernesto Pedro Global Services in 2024, Kamal Ratna Puraskar  for Excellence in Management Education in 2024, Peter Drucker Management Excellence award n 2021 from red Talks International, Best Post Doctoral researcher award in 2020 by Novel Research Academy, Lifetime Achievement award for Management Teaching in 2022 by GMRAF and more.

An academician and author with a limpid view, his hobbies include Reading, writing, gardening and listening to traditional Carnatic music of the masters of yesteryears.