© Dr. Swapnil Sahoo 2025

Strategy & Entrepreneurship

The Academic & Professional Portfolio of Dr. Swapnil Sahoo

About Me

I hold a Ph.D. from XLRI Jamshedpur, specializing in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. With 17 years of extensive corporate experience, I have held senior strategic roles at leading organizations such as Wipro, Accenture, Cognizant, and Mahindra. Most recently, I served as Global Partnership Head at 42Gears Mobility Pvt Ltd, excelling in building C-suite relationships across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

My research explores how businesses creatively leverage limited resources to drive growth and innovation. An advocate for continuous learning, I foster a collaborative and mentoring-oriented approach in both academia and professional spaces.

Publications

Book Chapters

Journal Publications

Mainstream Press

  • Quoted in Story: “Depositing Big Cash Sums? Tax Rules, I-T Notices...", Business Standard, July 10, 2025.
  • Quoted in Story: “Why Earning Just Over Rs. 50L Can Be a Net Loss”, GoodReturns, July 8, 2025.
  • Co-authored Article: “Neuroscience of Learning in an AI Era”, BW Education, July 3, 2025.
  • Quoted in a Story: "Who Is Poor?", India Today, July 3, 2025.
  • Quoted in a story: “RBI MPC meeting highlights...”, Business Standard, June 3, 2025.
  • Authored Article: "How Entrepreneurs Are Building a More Secure Digital Future", DataQuest, Feb 10, 2025.

Conferences & Presentations

  • "Conceptualising Family Business Resourcefulness", 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2025), Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • "Impact of Family Involvement on Sustainable Innovation", International Conference on Sustainable Business Management (SBM 2023), IIT Roorkee.
  • "Bibliometrics Analysis of Family Firms Internationalization", 9th Management Doctoral Colloquium, IIT Kharagpur.
  • "A Study of How Family Involvement Impacts Sustainable Innovation" (Awarded Best Paper), MERC 2023, IIM Kashipur.
  • "Exploring the Innovation Heritage", POMS India International Conference 2023, XLRI Jamshedpur.
  • "Cultivating Trust... in Family Enterprises", International Industrial Relations Conference 2024, XLRI Jamshedpur.
  • "Navigating the Maze: Corporate Bribery...", International Conference on “Enabling Social and Business Responsibility...", XLRI Jamshedpur.
  • "Conceptualizing Family Business Resourcefulness (FBR)...", Doctoral Colloquium 2024 on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability, XLRI Jamshedpur.

Teaching & Professional Development

Course Sessions

Session1_What is Strategy?

Session2_Auto Industry Disruption by TESLA

Session3_Values, Purpose & BHAGs

Porter's 5 Forces

Internal Analysis

EY Young Leaders Finale StrategyHub

Strategy & Operations Consulting Prep

The Consulting Interview Playbook

The Case/Guesstimate Consulting Interview Playbook

Yash_Consultant_Preperation

Cracking the Techno-Functional Consultant Interview

Case Hub Consulting

Session5_Internal_Firm_Analysis

Session6_Session6_Business Strategy_Differentiation, CostLeadership_BlueOceans

Session7_Corporate_Strategy

Session 9: Corporate Strategy,Strategic Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions

Session 10: Global Corporate Strategy

Management Development Programs (MDPs)

My MDPs are designed to equip senior leaders and high-potential managers with the frameworks and capabilities to navigate complex strategic landscapes. We focus on the full lifecycle of strategy, from formulation and alignment to implementation and control.

Module 1: Strategic Formulation & Leadership

  • Strategy Formulation Process
  • Top-down and bottom-up strategy formulation
  • Influence of key stakeholders on strategy formulation
  • Strategic leadership
  • Role of vision & mission: purposeful organization

Module 2: Implementation & Organizational Design

  • Organizing for Implementation
  • Relevance of organization capabilities for Implementation
  • Role of Middle Managers in Strategy Implementation
  • Organization Structure
  • Resource allocation
  • Organisational Alignment
  • 7S framework

Module 3: Leading Teams & Managing Change

  • Communicating strategy
  • Building Committed Teams & Right Team configuration
  • Inspirational (affective) leadership
  • Negotiation in problem solving
  • Influencing tactics
  • Change management
  • Pervasive commitment

Module 4: Performance Management & Control Systems

  • Balance Scorecard
  • Management Control Systems
  • Dashboards for the performance management system
  • Finance versus operational control systems

Module 5: Advanced Strategic Contexts

  • Implementation Illustration: Contextual Intelligence
  • Innovation: Technology adoption
  • Internationalization: Overcoming liability of newness
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