Mukesh Kriplani
  •  mukeshk@spjimr.org

Mukesh Kripalani

Associate Professor

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.

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Education

IIM Indore

Ph.D., pursuing

Focus: Operations Management and Sustainability

NITIE (now renamed as IIM Mumbai)

PGD, 1993

Major: Operations Management

SPCE – Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai University

BE

Major: Mechanical Engineering

  • Research interests

    Sustainability and waste management

    Digital transformation in operations management

    Operations and supply chain management

  • Selected publications

    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

  • Conferences

    Presented at SOM Conference, 2022 at IIM Indore

    Presented at POMS Conference, 2022 at IIM Kozhikode

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