Dr. Lellapalli Venkata Ramana (Dr. L V Ramana ) Associate Professor Finance and Accounting Area Indian Institute of Management Indore Pigdamber, Rau Indore 453 331 INDIA Education i. Ph.D. (Finance) : Topic: Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in India - Analysis of Their Performance and Pricing. Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai, India and degree awarding institution is University of Madras, India 1997 ii. MEP (Management Education Programme) : Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India (November 1997 April 1998) iii. M.Tech. (Management Studies) : Department of Management Studies Indian Institute of Science (I.I.Sc.), Bangalore, India 1992. iv. M.A. (Economics) (with Mathematical Economics orientation) : Department of Economics School of Social Sciences University of Hyderabad (Central University) Hyderabad, India, 1990 v. B.Sc. (Mathematics) : Loyola College (Autonomous College under the University of Madras). Chennai, India, 1987 1
Work Experience Employment history (Academic) i. Employment during May 2007 April 2009) (On leave from Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India) ii. 2004-2007 and 2009-present (Joined IIM as Assistant Professor in November1997) Iii 1996-97 (September 96 October 97) iv. 1996 (January April) Specialist in Finance Multimedia University (MMU) Cyberjaya Campus Selangor, Malaysia Associate Professor in Finance Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, India (Joined as Assistant Professor in Finance in 1997, and currently on leave from IIM to take up the academic assignment at MMU). Associate Professor in Finance Maharishi Institute of Management (MIM) Chennai, India.(MIM is headquartered in Iowa State, USA) Project Associate Institute for Financial Management and Research Chennai, India. Experience with Industry Senior Executive (May September) Ashok Leyland Ltd., Chennai, India 1996. Teaching Experience Teaching in academic programmes CORPORATE FINANCE (for students enrolled in the Doctoral programme at MMU, Malaysia) during May 2007 to April 2009 QUANTITATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF FINANCIAL MARKETS (an elective course in MBA at IIM Indore) offered it for seven batches during 2001-2010 FINANCIAL MODELING (with a focus on Stochastic Calculus, derivatives and risk management) - a course offered in the Bachelor of Financial Engineering (BFE) at MMU during May 2007 to April 2009 2
at MMU during May 2007 to April 2009 INVESTMENTS ANALYSIS (elective course for the MBA and Executive MBA at IIM Indore; and MBA at MMU) at IIM Indore for four batches of Executive MBA students and at MMU for four different batches of students during May 2007 to April 2009 PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT (compulsory course) at BFE MMU for four batches of students during May 2007 to April 2009 CORPORATE FINANCE (compulsory course) at MBA IIM Indore and MBA MMU PRINCIPLES OF FINANCE (compulsory course) at B.Acc. (Bachelor of Accounting) MMU; for two batches during May 2007 to April 2009 CORPORATE FINANCE (compulsory course) at B.Acc. MMU; for two batches during May 2007 to April 2009 FINANCE I (compulsory course) at MBA MMU PERSPECTIVES IN FINANCE (elective course) for FPM IIM Indore; for two batches of students during 2009-11 FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AND RESOURCES (compulsory course) EPGP programme at IIM Indore; for the first batch of EPGP students during 2009-10 MODELS AND MODELING IN FINANCE (elective course) PGP at IIM Indore; for one batch of PGP second year in the AY 2009-10 Teaching in Executive education programmes Audience for programmes : executives of Harita Finance Ltd., Chennai, India (in 1996) executives at Ashok Leyland Ltd., Chennai, India (in 1997) managers of Steel Authority of India Ltd. At IIM Indore (in 2006) senior managers of Alstom India in December 2009 and 2010 managers of NTPC in 2009 managers from several organizations for the MEP in 2009 Research (reviewed) 3
Capital Structure Peril: Limit Debt in Corporate Finance published in Journal of Managerial Finance and Research, Vol. 5, No. 1, January June 2009 Growth, Non-Debt Tax Shields, Agency Conflict and Corporate Debt: A Study of the Malaysian Corporate Sector, Advances in Global Business Research, Vol. 4, No. 1, May 2007 (pp 331 336) 'Initial Public Offerings - An Attractive market for Foreign Investors', Indian Journal of Finance and Research, Vol. VII, No. 2, July 1995, pp 20-31 Initial Public Offerings - Indian Experience with Equity Issues,'Journal of Applied Finance (Journal of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India), Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1995, pp 26-39. ASD'Innovations in Financial Instruments - New Dimensions to Corporate Financial Strategies in India,' Businex (Journal of the Management Association, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore) Vol. XXIV, 1994, pp 9-15. 'Indian Automobile Industry - Industry Volatility in the Four Wheeler Sector,' Business Spectrum (a quarterly journal of the Indian Centre for Business Research), Vol. 3, Issues 1 & 2, Jan-March 1993, April - June 1993, pp 33-38. 'The Lease - Purchase Decision in the Theory of Finance' published in an edited book on Financial Services. Publications (not reviewed) Attended a national-level seminar conducted by the Madras Chapter of the Indian Econometric Society in November 1992 and presented a paper titled "Pricing of Initial Public Offerings in India - Some Issues." 'Initial Public Offerings in India - A Study of their Performance,' Research Working Paper No. 2 brought out by the Centre for Financial Information, Institute for Financial Management and Research, Madras in July 1996. Contributions to Professional Community Invited to deliver the J N Kapur Memorial Lecture at the 21 st Annual conference of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society at University of Hyderabad on July 6, 2006. The topic of the lecture was Developments in the Theory of Finance: Impact of Quantitative Disciplines. 4
Keynote paper titled Intellectual Waves in Finance and Accounting presented at IIMI-UNITAR conference held at Kuala Lumpur during December 7 10, 2010. (Informal comments received was that it was a good summary of key developments incorporating the works of the leading researchers in the filed of finance; hence a mention of it at this juncture) 5