Rakesh Gupta

Rakesh Gupta
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Strategy and entrepreneurship Faculty PhD (Delhi University)
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Rakesh Gupta is professor in the area of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and teaches courses in the field of Strategy & Entrepreneurship. He is a PhD in Strategic Entrepreneurship from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University and moved to academics after a stint of 8 years in industry. He is passionate & prolific case writer and loves to teach through cases. Some of his cases have won awards including the “Best Case Award” at ISB-Hyderabad. He has attended many Faculty Development Programs including Participant Centered Learning by Harvard Business School (HBS), International Teacher Programme (ITP) at Kelloggs School of Management, Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE) at Babson College. He has been trained in the field of Design Thinking from Stanford University.

  • Gupta Rakesh, Reema Khurana (2023), “Open banking on the horizon: a scientometric analysis and research agenda”. Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (ABDC-A).
  • Gupta Rakesh, Ritesh Pandey & V.J Sebastian (2021), “International Entrepreneurial Orientation (IEO): A Bibliometric Overview of Scholarly Research”, Journal of Business Research (125), 74-88 (ABDC-A).
  • Gupta Rakesh, (2019); “Entrepreneurial Orientation, Resources and Small Firm Growth: Evidence from India”. International Journal of Business & Economics, 18 (1), 41-58 (ABDC-B).

  • Cases

  • Gupta Rakesh, K. Ramesh & Ansh Arora (2023), “Udaan: A Case of Flying Too High”. Ivey Publishing No. W28397 & Teaching Note No. 28398.
  • Gupta Rakesh & Harvinder Singh (2023), “Universal Studios: Editing Dilemmas under Geopolitical Conflict”. Ivey Publishing No. W30304 & Teaching Note No. 30305.
  • Gupta Rakesh & Harvinder Singh (2023), “Getwell Pharmacy: Partner or Perish”, Ivey Publishing No. W30160 & Teaching Note No. 30161.
  • Gupta Rakesh & Shailaja Agarwal & Damini Gera (2022), “INK-PPT: Quit or Continue”. Ivey Publishing No. W26611 & Teaching Note No. 26612.
  • Gupta Rakesh, Amit Shukla, Joel Joseph & Kuvam Uppal (2022), “Letsshave: Selecting a Product Centric versus Promotion Centric Strategy”. Ivey Publishing No. W26675 & Teaching Note. Ivey Publishing No. W26676.
  • Gupta Rakesh & Agnitra Das Sarma (2021), “Tingvong Homestay: The first Homestay in Dgonzu”. Ivey Publishing No. W24961 & Teaching Note. Ivey Publishing No. W24962.
  • Gupta Rakesh & Aanya Jain (2020), “FableStreet: My Style, Your Fit”. Ivey Publishing No.9B20M211 & Teaching Note. Ivey Publishing No.8B20M211.
  • Gupta Rakesh & Lubna Nafees (2020), “Pharmeasy: Expansion Dilemma among Regulatory Uncertainties”. Ivey Publishing No.9B20M090 & Teaching Note. Ivey Publishing No.9B20M090.
  • Gupta Rakesh, Lubna Nafees & Saumyajit (2020), “Extracarbon: Working for a Cleaner Future”. Ivey Publishing No.9B20M044 & Teaching Note. Ivey Publishing No.9B20M044.

  • Strategic Management-1&2
  • Corporate Strategy
  • Strategies in Emerging Markets
  • Geopolitics & Strategy
  • New Venture Creation & Growth
  • Design Thinking Workshop
  • Case Writing Workshop & Practicum

Regularly conducts workshops and Training Programs in the field of DESIGN THINKING. Has been involved in conducting many training programs for senior industry people and completed few consultancy assignments

As an academic administrator, he has held various positions including Chairperson of PGDM-Full Time program and has been actively involved in AACSB Accreditation in his earlier assignments.