D.V.R. Seshadri is Clinical Full Professor of Business at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. His areas of interest are business-to-business marketing, corporate entrepreneurship, and strategy. He holds a BTech (mechanical engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, an MS (engineering sciences) from University of California, San Diego, and a fellow title (doctorate) from IIM Ahmedabad, with specialization in production and quantitative methods. He had over 15 years of industrial experience prior to joining academics since 2000. He teaches in the various programs at IIM, Bangalore, in his areas of interest and at IIM, Ahmedabad, in the one-year executive MBA program. He also teaches in various executive development programs at IIM, Bangalore. He works closely with several companies, providing them training/consulting services in his areas of expertise.
Over the last 10 years, he has developed a number of case studies and authored a number of research papers. He has co-authored three books: Innovation Management (2007) and Global Risk/Global Opportunity (2010) with Professor Shlomo Maital, and the Indian adaptation of the book Business Market Management (B2B): Understanding, Creating and Delivering Value (2010) with James Anderson, James Narus, and Das Narayandas.