Awards & Honors

Professor of the Year Co2025, Teaching Excellence Awards (3 awards) for Core Courses and Elective Courses in Hyderabad and Mohali campuses for the Post Graduate Programme in Management, Indian School of Business, 2025.

Among the Business Mint's 50 Under 50 Brightest Minds of India, Business Mint, 2025.

Professor of the Year Co2024, Teaching Excellence Award for Core Courses for the Post Graduate Programme in Management, Indian School of Business, 2024.

Among the world’s top 50 Global Thought Leaders of Operational Excellence, PEX Network, IQPC, 2023.

Professor of the Year Co2023, Teaching Excellence Awards (2 awards) for Core and Elective Courses for the Post Graduate Programme in Management, Indian School of Business, 2023.

Among the world’s top 2% of the management scientists list (2020-2023) published by Stanford University based on a composite research score, 2021-2023.

Quality Champion Gold Award, Quality Council of India, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt. of India (for outstanding contributions in the field of Quality Management), 2022.

ASQ’s Global Crosby Award, American Society for Quality (ASQ), Awarded at ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement in Anaheim, California, 2022.

Responsible Business Education Award: Runner-up in the Teaching Cases category, Financial Times (FT), 2022.

British American Tobacco (BAT) Research Fellowship Award, British American Tobacco plc, JFRA-ISB, 2021

Professor of the Year Co2021, Teaching Excellence Award for Elective Courses for the Post Graduate Programme in Management, Indian School of Business, 2021.

Walter E. Masing Book Prize 2020, and recognition as Walter E. Masing Thought Leader in Global Quality Community (representing India and Asia; first Indian to receive this award in the past 10 years), International Academy for Quality (IAQ), c/o American Society for Quality (ASQ), Awarded in 2022

Institute Research Award 2018, Best researcher for quality and quantity of research output produced, IIT Madras, 2018

Outstanding Reviewer Award 2018, Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence: Outstanding Papers, International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, Emerald Publishing, 2018

Highly Commended Paper Award 2017, Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence: Outstanding Papers 2017, “Constructs of quality in higher education services”, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 65 No. 8, 2016, pp. 1091-1111, Emerald Publishing, 2017.