Rahul Gandhi Burra
Dr. Rahul Gandhi Burra comes with 9 years of industrial as well as academic experience in various domains of management particularly Supply Chain management. His career kick-started as a management trainee in marketing at PEC limited, a PSU under ministry of commerce where he was responsible for managing imports and domestic sales. Later he joined Infosys and was associated with their ProcureEdge platform (built on SAP SRM) of Business platforms unit. His team worked closely in executing M&A, Strategic partnerships & alliances, Business Research, Marketing and Presales related activities. His last corporate experience was with CtrlS Datacenters Ltd, working for CMD’s office under the capacity of AVP, Corporate planning. He was entrusted with various responsibilities in the areas of Business Analytics, Business plan formulation & new business development, marketing and strategy formulation. Later, in mid-2014, he started his journey in academics as an Assistant Professor by teaming up with the bright minds at Centre for Management Studies, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.
He strongly believes that learning can be imparted in a fearless but disciplined environment. Since he lays more emphasis on quantitative approach while addressing real life problems he simulates them by teaching students at a moderate pace and then give rigorous exercises to practice them as quantitative aptitude can be strongly imparted by practice. He rewards meritocracy and at the same time believes "simplifying the systems" is the key to address the burning issues of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity in the minds of students. He doesn't believe in weaker students but in the right dissipation of knowledge by the teacher.
He feels MS-Excel is one of the best inventions from Microsoft and has been teaching the interested on how to leverage it for personal, corporate and academic purposes.
He loves interacting with students and involves in knowledge sharing sessions with them besides counseling them in shaping their career. For the past six years, he could experience good number of success stories towards this initiative.
He actively participate in seminars, workshops and deliver guest lectures across various venues. He is interested in planning and organizing the execution of events and has been doing the same throughout his corporate as well as academic career and hence he could able to successfully lead the MBA admissions at CMS NALSA
- PhD (Management), 2018, RTMNU, Nagpur
- PG Diploma in Patent laws (2016), NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad
- UGC-NET (Management), 2011
- MBA (International Business), 2009, IIFT
- B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering), 2007, MNNIT
Agriculture and Energy are the two areas which are majorly influencing the Indian Economy be it in terms of Balance of trade, Exchange rate, Food security, Energy Security, Industrialization and Sustainable self-sufficiency. My research shall be centered on these areas in the perspectives of
- Supply chain management
- Operations Management
- International Trade and Logistics
- Economics and Public Policy.
I'm open to research on other relevant perspectives which I may come across in the research journey.
- Burra R.G (2017). “Farmer suicides: Examining the role of farm economics, geo-climatic conditions and socio-economic characteristics in the Bemetara district, Chhattisgarh”. Conference paper, 3rd International conference on Economic growth and sustainable development: Emerging trends, SDMIMD, Mysuru on 10th& 11thNovember 2017.
- Burra R.G and Chand S. (2017). “The impact of product life cycle on advertising behavior of a firm; exploring the evidences from the Indian liquid detergent industry”. Conference paper, International conference on Marketing: Marketing in a Digital World, SDMIMD, Mysuru on 26th& 27thOctober 2017.
- Burra R.G (2017). “Restriction on import of non-fumigated pulses-Review of food security and sustainability aspects of Indian economy, without pulses imports from Canada”. Conference paper, International conference on “Engaging Canada and India: Perspectives on Sustainability”, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi on 11th& 12th May 2017.
- BurraR.G and Meghe B. (2016).“Inventory management at points of sale: Exploring and Analyzing the trends in Indian paint industry”. International Journal of Research in Computer Application & Management, 6(12), 79-81.
- Burra, R.G and Meghe B. (2016). “Understanding seasonality and its impact on demand forecasting: The case of Indian Paint Industry”. International Journal of Research in Commerce and Management, 7(4),1-5
- Yerramalli, R.T. and Burra, R.G (2016). Milk run Logistics and Vehicle Routing: A literature review. Seminar Paper, International Seminar on “Management Perspectives on Globalisation, Technology and Innovation” Department of Management Studies, University of Madras on 18th&19thMarch, 2016
- • Yerramalli, R.T. and Burra, R.G. (2014). Optimization of Electronic waste Recycling network and reverse logistics- A literature Review. Journal of Supply chain management systems, 3(4), 18-24
- Presented a paper in 3rd International conference on Economic growth and sustainable development: Emerging trends, SDMIMD, Mysuru on 10th& 11thNovember 2017.
- Presented a paper in International conference on “Engaging Canada and India: Perspectives on Sustainability”, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi on 11th& 12th May 2017.
- Presented a paper in International Seminar on “Management Perspectives on Globalisation, Technology and Innovation” Department of Management Studies, University of Madras on 18th&19thMarch, 2016
- Presented a Paper in International conference on Marketing: Marketing in a Digital World, SDMIMD, Mysuru on 26th& 27thOctober 2017.
- Participated in Taylor & Francis Journals Editorial Roundtable 2016 on 09th March 2016 at Taj Vivanta, Hyderabad, India
- Participated in Supply chain analytics workshop delivered by Prof. Sunil Chopra, at IMT Hyderabad on 20th January 2016.
- Participated in Society for Technology Management (STEM )Annual Summit on 26th to 27th November, 2015 at Taj Vivanta, Hyderabad, India
- Participated in Financial Analysis and Modeling using Excel, organized by IMT Nagpur on 17th to 18th May 2013.
- Participated in Statistical Data Analysis using SPSS, organized by IMT Nagpur on 16thto 18th January 2013.
- Operations Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Operations Research
- Managerial Computing (MS-Excel Based Analytics)
- Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
- Financial Derivatives