KANDARP H MEHTA CONTACT INFORMATION Office Contact: Home Contact IESE Business School Av. Pearson, 21 Barcelona 08034 Spain Calle Moragas, 3, 1º-3ª Barcelona 08022 Spain Tel: +34 932534200 Fax: +34 932534343 Cell : +34 610 876 024 E-mail : kmehta@iese.edu EDUCATION • PhD in Management. IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain 2008 (Expected) Topic: Team Design, processes and Creativity: A study of teams involved in Movie production • ICWA (Professional qualification in Management Accounting) 2003 Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India • Master of Business Administration : (Specialization : Finance) 2000 K.S.School of Business Management, Gujarat University. Ahmedabad. India. • Bachelor of Business Administration : (Specialization : Finance) 1998 K.S.School of Business Management, Gujarat University. Ahmedabad. India. RESEARCH INTEREST Creativity Organizational Design and creativity Management of innovation Corporate turnarounds PUBLICATIONS November 2007 (Forthcoming) ‘Team Design and Creativity’ Kandarp Mehta; in International journal of Change, knowledge and Innovation, Commonground Publisher, Melbourne, Australia December 2006 ‘Organizational Design and Corporate Creativity in Indian Context’ Dr. Pradip N. Khandwalla and Kandarp Mehta; in The Creative Enterprise, Edited by, Tony Davila, Marc Epstein and Robert Shelton, Greenwood Publishers, New York. USA January 2004 ‘Designing Corporate Creativity’, Dr. Pradip N. Khandwalla and Kandarp Mehta; in Vikalpa, Journal of Decision Making, January-March 2004, India. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS "Horses for Courses: Team Design and Creativity - A theoretical perspective" Presented at International Science Conference by EDAMBA, Nove Zámky, Slovakia. Dt: 20th April, 2007 (This paper won a cash prize for the best paper in Management category) "Conflict, Crisis and Creativity - An Experience from Making of a Documentary Film" Presented at European Doctoral Conference at Imperial College, London Dt: 1st June, 2007 "Team Design and Creativity" Presented at Seventh International Conference on Knowledge, Change and Culture in Organizations, at Singapore Management University, Singapore. Dt: 27th July, 2007 TEACHING INTERESTS Entrepreneurship Creativity Strategy Organization Theory ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE 2001-2004 ICFAI Business School Ahmedabad India Position: Faculty Work Profile: • Taught following subjects for the M.B.A. program ⇒ Strategy ⇒ Mergers & Acquisition ⇒ Creativity (workshop) ⇒ Financial Management ⇒ Security Analysis & Portfolio Management 2003-2004 • Editor of the magazine of the school “ IBS Insight” • Convener of the cultural wing of the school “Spandan” Sheth Damodardas School of Commerce Gujarat University India. Position: Visiting Lecturer in the Master of Commerce program Work Profile: • Taught following subjects for the M.B.A. program ⇒ Business Strategy ⇒ Security Analysis EXECUTIVE EDUCATION Theme Organization Corporate Creativity Pioma Industris Ltd., Ahmedabad. India (June 2004) Management of Innovation (February 2004) Netlon Industries Ltd (Murugappa Group) Vadodara, India. Corporate Creativity for Top Management Wockhardt Ltd (January 2004) India Corporate Creativity Reliance Industries Ltd., Hazira. India (December 2003) Alongwith Dr. Pradip Khandwalla, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India Management of Innovation Aditya Vikram Birla Group (May 2003) Alongwith Dr. Pradip Khandwalla, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India Advanced Strategies ICFAI Business School (Valuation in Acquisitions) Mumbai Silvasa, Daman. India Gyanoday - Birla Institute of Management Learning Ahmedabad India. (May 2003) Corporate Creativity Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (March 2003) Alongwith Dr. Pradip Khandwalla, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India Mutual Funds Concepts and Issues (September 2003) Dholka, India State Bank of India Ahmedabad. India EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES A protagonist in a full-length documentary feature film, “Camino a Bollywood”, screened at Sitges Film Festival, October, 2006. Founder of “NEEV: The foundation”; dedicated to self-development of children. Writer, director and actor of 4 plays, at ‘Club du Théâtre’, ‘Alliance Française’ Ahmedabad. LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY Gujarati English Hindi Spanish French Mother Tongue, Fluent Fluent Fluent Fluent Basic PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of Birth : 11th May 1978 Nationality : Indian http://www.iese.edu/studenthome/phd_cvs.asp?id=DOCKMEHTA