Sustainability and waste management
Digital transformation in operations management
Operations and supply chain management
Operations Supply Chain Management and Quantitative Methods
Mukesh is a faculty in the Operations and Supply Chain Management area at SPJIMR. He has over 25 years of industry experience in various companies like Asian Paints, Schindler, Marico Limited, and Parekhplast Packaging. He has worked in leadership positions across the areas of business operations, supply chain, digital transformation and IT, finance and M&A in emerging markets of Asia and Africa in his various industry stints. He was the CEO of Parekhplast before joining academics.
He has been a member of the IMC Digital Committee and CII TCM National Committee, and he is also an independent director of a nutraceutical company. He has received the Distinguished Alumni award from IIM-Mumbai (2023), the Mint-SAP Digitalist award (2017) and the FinThinker award (2013) from the CFO Institute.
He is a graduate of mechanical engineering from Mumbai University (SPCE) and has completed his post-graduation from NITIE Mumbai (now called IIM Mumbai). He is pursuing his research interests in digital and sustainability in operations management from IIM-Indore.
Ph.D., pursuing
Focus: Operations Management and Sustainability
PGD, 1993
Major: Operations Management
BE
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Sustainability and waste management
Digital transformation in operations management
Operations and supply chain management
Kripalani, M., Gajjar, H. and Kumar, B. (2025), Implementing Extended Producer Responsibility in Organizations: A Bibliometric Review. Bus Strat Env, 34: 3141-3176. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4145
Presented at SOM Conference, 2022 at IIM Indore
Presented at POMS Conference, 2022 at IIM Kozhikode