Mahadeo Jaiswal: The Management Guru at the Grass Root of India

Business management is a specific field which the progenies of either business class or the rich families prefer to study so as to multiply their family treasures. Rarely could be seen a person who comes out of tribal India to reach the echelon of management education. But Mahadeo Jaiswal the Director of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Sambalpur is an exception to this established rule. 

[his parents]

Mahadeo was born to a humble agricultural family of Ranjana, a small hamlet of Korba District of Chhattisgarh. His father was rearing his family by cultivating paddy. He had inherited 30 acres of agricultural land from ancestral property. They had four buffaloes and two wooden bullock carts. Their farming was purely depending on the grace of Lord Indra, the God of rain. Many years they were succumbed to low agricultural income due to poor monsoon rains. His father never went to attend any school, but knew the value of education. So he wanted to impart the best education to his children. He ensured all his children should go to primary school and learn the alphabets of Hindi which in fact is the National Language of India. His father enrolled his son in the Adibasi Prathamik Pathsala. It was a school for educating the aboriginal children of this subcontinent. On passing out primary school Mahadeo joined high school at Kathgora. For facilitating education his father shifted his family to Kathgora. His father bought one bicycle for him so as he can commute to school conveniently. Instead of alphabets Mahadeo was proficient on numbers. His fort was mathematics and in the 11th Board Exams he scored 99 percent in it. But instead of rejoicing Mahadeo wondered where on the path his one mark was dropped. 

His father use to encourage all his children to study as far as possible so as to acquire knowledge and degrees, instead of doing any job. Whereas his other two brothers discontinued studies from school and opted to do business. But Mahadeo on passing out Matriculation went to Sagar University (Madhya Pradesh) to do graduation in Electronics. On acquiring the Graduation degree Mahadeo packed his bags and headed for New Delhi. He enrolled his name for PHD at Dept. of Computer Science, Delhi University. On acquiring the PhD degree in the year 1991 he applied for the post of Asst. Professor in Information & Digital Strategy at Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand. This institution was setup by Dr Varghese Kurian who brought white revolution in India. He was the founding father of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). It is that cooperative organisation which markets milk products under the brand of Amul. In the year 1997, Mahadeo joined Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon as an Associate Professor. 

[While addressing a conference at MDI Gurgaon, India as Dean(Research)]

[Prof Mahadeo Jaiswal as 

Sr. Fulbright Fellow at 

Carnegie Mellon University]

In the year 2004 his career propelled vertically upward when he was selected as a Senior Fulbright Fellow by the Government of USA. Mahadeo was one out of five professors in the Country who had been granted this prestigious fellowship that was funded by US Government. He went as a Senior Full Bright fully funded by US Govt to teach Digital Policy for Government at one of the world’s top ranking educational institutions i.e. Carnegie Mellon University at Pittsburgh to teach and research there. That research centre was funded by Pentagon, US Defence Information Security. In the year 2011 he went to do Executive MBA at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Boston, USA. Consecutively for many years this institution reigning at the number one slot of the world. 

[In a meeting at White House, Washington DC 

during Fulbright Fellowship in the year 2005]

[With the Dean of MIT Business School USA while pursuing MBA]

[At San Francisco during visit to Stanford University]

[at  NASA Space Centre]

[Books Co-authored by Prof Mahadeo Jaiswal]

On returning to India, Prof Jaiswal joined back MDI Gurgaon as Dean(Research) and until now he has co-authored seven academic books that are recommended as textbooks of many Universities including IIT's and IIM's across the country.  That apart his 100 research papers were published in International Journals be it Harvard/ Richard IVEY Case publications, ABDC class A/A*, Inter Science etc. Apart from his teaching and research at MDI, Prof Jaiswal became top most Management Consultant in the field of ERP and Digital Transformation and hence was engaged as Management Consultant with over 40 large Public Sector Undertakings(PSU) such as SAIL, POWERGRID, Coal India Ltd., SJVNL, HPPCL, India Post, Indian Railways, NTPC-SAIL JV etc. 

In the year 2015 IIM Sambalpur was setup under the mentorship of IIM Indore so their Director Prof Krishnan joined as a mentor. But in the year 2017 Mahadeo Jaiswal joined as its Founding Director at IIM Sambalpur. For these five years he is carrying the beacon of IIM, Sambalpur. Some of his remarkable work at IIM Sambalpur includes MOU with Flipkart to promote businesses of Weavers, Artists and Tribals through the modern digital platform.

[Could be seen here Sh. Mahadeo Jaiswal(L) in a conversation with 

writer and developer of this blog E Kiran Mohan(R)]

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