Mukund R. Dixit was a faculty at IIMA from 9th April 1981 to 30th November 2016. He held a PhD from IIT Kanpur. He worked in the Corporate Planning division of HMT, a large diversified company in India prior to joining IIMA. He has written cases and published papers in the field of strategic management. His teaching, research and consulting areas are Corporate and Competitive strategies, Taking Charge and Leading Strategy, Innovation and Knowledge Management, and Case Method of Learning. He has been a member of the Board of Governors of Private and Public Sector Undertakings in India. He was the Editor of Vikalpa, IIMAs Journal for Decision Makers. He was an EEC visiting professor in the Euro-India Cooperation Programme at ESSEC, Paris and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands. He also taught in Multi Media University, Malaysia. He has coordinated management development programmes for top and senior managers in India and abroad.