Naveen Munjal
Managing Director, Hero Electric
Teaches the business of electric vehicles — strategy, supply chains and category creation — from the front seat of India's EV transition.
Masters' Union
Faculty
Faculty at Masters' Union
At most B-schools, faculty study companies. Here, they ran them — and most still do.
500+ Masters. Built by scholars. Led by industry practitioners. Your classroom is powered by Ivy League academics and global business leaders — from Harvard to McKinsey, from Wharton to Google. They don't just teach the playbook. They wrote it.
By the numbers
500+
Masters on the roster
40%
Active industry practitioners
9
Ivy & top global schools
25
Full-time PhD faculty
Harvard
Wharton
Stanford
Kellogg
Cornell
NYU
Columbia
USC
Imperial
500+ Masters
Built by Scholars, Led by Industry Practitioners
At Masters' Union, your classroom is powered by Ivy League academics and global business leaders, from Harvard to McKinsey, from Wharton to Google. Our Masters don't just teach the playbook. They wrote it.
01Industry Practitioners
The people who teach here are not between jobs. They are active.
40% of the faculty are CEOs, MDs, founders and investors — bringing this week's decisions into the classroom, not last decade's case studies.
The Mix · Industry Practitioners
40%
of faculty
40% of the faculty are active operators — CEOs, MDs, founders and investors bringing this week's decisions into the classroom.
By the numbers
200+
Active practitioners on roster
40+
CXOs & Managing Directors
Arjun Vaidya
Founder, Dr. Vaidya's · V3 Ventures
Teaches D2C brand building and consumer psychology. Built and exited a modern ayurveda brand to a Fortune 500 group in his early thirties.
Thomas Kuruvilla
Managing Partner, Arthur D. Little, Middle East
Teaches management and strategy as a Master-in-Residence, drawing on global consulting mandates across the Gulf and Europe.
Dr Edward W. Rogers
Former Chief Knowledge Officer, NASA
Teaches the art of managing complexity, innovation systems and organisational learning. His previous employer sent people to space.
Satish Krishnan
Former Managing Director, Standard Chartered
Teaches derivatives and structured products from two decades on global banking and markets desks.
Nitin Gaur
Former Director, Financial Sciences & Digital Assets, IBM
Teaches DeFi, digital assets and blockchain architecture from the team that built IBM's digital currency research division.
Barkha Dutt
Former Editor, NDTV
Teaches women in leadership, public narrative and media strategy — one of India's most recognised journalists.
Gurneesh Khurana
Former Sales Director, General Motors
Teaches sales strategy and enterprise selling from a career leading large automotive sales organisations.
Jamshed K Daboo
Former Managing Director, Star Bazaar (Trent · Tata)
Teaches the ins and outs of retail — formats, margins and merchandising — from running a national grocery chain.
Dr Avantika Tomar
Partner, EY-Parthenon
Teaches strategic human resource management and organisation design, advising boards on talent and transformation.
Rahul Wadhawan
Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
Teaches digital strategy and marketing analytics from consulting engagements across consumer and technology sectors.
Monica Jasuja
Former Head of Product, Emerging Markets, Mastercard
Teaches payments, fintech and digital financial infrastructure from inside one of the world's largest payment networks.
Subhonil Ghoshal
Managing Director, Trafigura India
Teaches commodity markets, trading and global supply chains from one of the world's largest physical commodity traders.
Dr Narendra Jadhav
Former Chief Economist, RBI, Former Member, Planning Commission of India
Teaches macroeconomics and public policy from a career at the centre of India's monetary and planning institutions.
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Rajat Mathur
Former Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
Teaches people management through interactive debates, games, and live case studies. Rated among the most popular faculty at Masters' Union. Was in a board meeting before your class started.
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Rohit Kapoor
CEO, Food Marketplace, Swiggy
Teaches growth, marketplace dynamics, and P&L management from the front seat of one of India's most complex consumer businesses.
Manoj Kohli
Former CEO & MD, SoftBank India · Former CEO, Airtel International
Teaches global business strategy and leadership from a career spanning the world's largest telecoms and technology investors.
Captain Raghu Raman
Former President, Reliance Industries · Former CEO, NATGRID
Teaches leadership, national security strategy, and high-stakes organisational decision-making. There is no textbook for what he teaches.
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Malthi Satish
Former Director of Product Management, PayPal
Teaches product management and digital platform strategy from inside one of the world's first and most influential fintech companies.
AM
Dr Arvind Mayaram
Former Finance Secretary of India
Teaches macroeconomics, fiscal policy, and public finance from the office that once managed India's economy. Literally.
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Saurabh Sengupta
Former VP, Zomato
Teaches growth, product strategy, and consumer marketplaces from one of India's most scrutinised public companies.
RK
Rachel Konrad
Former Director of Communications, Tesla
Teaches communications, brand narrative, and launch strategy. Her last major project was helping introduce the Model S to the world. Before that, Amazon.
VG
Vivek Gambhir
Former CEO, boAt
Teaches brand building and consumer electronics — the mechanics of building a ₹3,000 Cr consumer brand from near-zero in under a decade.
SB
Sanjiv Bhasin
Former Director, IIFL
Teaches equity markets, capital markets strategy, and investment analysis from decades on India's trading floors.
Dave Lewis
Former Group CEO, Tesco
Teaches large-scale organisational transformation and consumer strategy from the turnaround of one of the world's largest retailers.
Havish Madhvapaty
Industry Practitioner, Masters' Union
Teaches marketing, brand strategy and consumer research grounded in live industry engagements.
Ekhlaque Bari
Industry Practitioner, Masters' Union
Teaches technology strategy and enterprise transformation from a career leading large digital programmes.
Sumit Shukla
Industry Practitioner, Masters' Union
Teaches business strategy and operations from years spent building and scaling category-defining businesses.
Aditya Turalapati
Industry Practitioner, Masters' Union
Teaches finance and analytics with a practitioner-first, case-driven approach.
Parikshit Khanna
Industry Practitioner, Masters' Union
Teaches technology, product and platform strategy from an operator's vantage point.
Karmanya Suri
Industry Practitioner, Masters' Union
Teaches strategy and general management, blending consulting rigour with startup pace.
Gaurav Arora
Industry Practitioner, Masters' Union
Teaches finance and corporate strategy from a career across capital markets and industry.
02Full-time Faculty
37 PhD faculty. Active researchers. Published where the best B-schools read.
A core of PhD faculty from India's and the world's top institutions — shaping curriculum and publishing in FT50 and A* journals.
The Mix · Full-time Faculty
30%
of faculty
A core of PhD faculty from India's and the world's top institutions — shaping curriculum and publishing where the best B-schools read.
By the numbers
37
Full-time faculty
50+
FT50 / A* publications
Dr Bhupesh Manoharan
Ph.D., IIM Calcutta · Dean
Dr Nandini Seth
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Quantitative Methods & Decision Sciences
Dr Garima Chaklader
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Economics
Dr Vipin Sreekumar
Ph.D., IIM Calcutta · Assistant Professor, Strategic Management
Dr Kashika Sud
Ph.D., IIM Ahmedabad · Assistant Professor, Organisational Behaviour
Dr Manu Prasad
Ph.D., IIM Tiruchirappalli · Assistant Professor, Organisational Behaviour & HRM
Dr Nimisha Bora
Ph.D., Xavier Institute of Management · Assistant Professor, Accounting & Finance
Dr Aarti Sharma
Ph.D., Shiv Nadar University Delhi · Assistant Professor, Management Finance
Dr Rinku Mahindru
Ph.D., Delhi University · Assistant Professor, Organisational Behaviour
Dr Anushree Poddar
Ph.D., TERI School of Advanced Studies · Assistant Professor, Business Sustainability & Marketing
Dr Ashish Bhandari
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Production & Operations Management
Dr Shivangi Rajora
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Public Policies
Dr Bhasker Malu
Ph.D., Christ University · Assistant Professor, Psychology
Dr Ajith Babu
Ph.D., IIM Calcutta · Assistant Professor, Operations Management
Rajat Mathur
Former MD · Professor of Practice
Ankur Kulshrestha
Educator · Financial Accounting & Analysis
Dr Muneer Kalliyil
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Economics
Dr Antra
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Decision Sciences
Prof. Aditya Kulashri
Ph.D., IIM Calcutta · Assistant Professor, Organisational Behaviour
Prof. Devprio Ray
Ph.D., IIM Ahmedabad · Assistant Professor, Operations Research
Dr Tanya Jain
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Economics
Dr Naina Duggal
Ph.D., IIT Bombay · Assistant Professor, Economics
Dr Harish Shetty
Ph.D., University of Bath UK · Assistant Professor, Organizational Behaviour
Dr Meera Simon
Ph.D., IIM Kozhikode · Assistant Professor, Quantitative Techniques
Dr Abhishek Vashisht
Ph.D., IIM Tiruchirappalli · Associate Professor, Quantitative Methods and Decision Sciences
Dr Shiril Saju
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Operations Management
Dr Satyajit Roy
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Operations Management
Sharukh Moin Khan
PGDM, IIM Calcutta · Associate Professor of Practice, Finance & Accounting
Sumit Shukla
M.Sc., IIT Kanpur · Associate Professor of Practice, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Prof Shreyansh Chaurasiya
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Finance & Accounting
Prof Akshay Dhuria
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Finance & Accounting
Prof Arindam B.
Ph.D., IIM Calcutta · Assistant Professor, Organizational Behaviour
Anubha Shokhand
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Strategic Management
Prof. Shikhar Bharadwaj
Ph.D., IIM Ahmedabad · Assistant Professor, Strategic Management
Prof. Sukanya Roy
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Strategic Management
Prof. Kunal Biswas
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Economics
Prof. Rochak Khandelwal
Ph.D., IIM Bangalore · Assistant Professor, Marketing
Doctorates from IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Kozhikode and Tiruchirappalli, IIT Bombay and Kanpur, Delhi University, Shiv Nadar, Christ University, TERI and the University of Bath — across finance, marketing, operations, organisational behaviour, economics, decision sciences and strategy.
03Visiting Faculty
Professors who teach here because they believe in what Masters' Union is building.
Professors from Ivy League and global top schools bringing international rigour and perspective to Gurugram — every term.
The Mix · Visiting Faculty
30%
of faculty
Professors from Ivy League and global top schools bringing international rigour and perspective to Gurugram — every term.
By the numbers
40+
Visiting professors annually
12
Countries represented
Dr Zal Phiroz
Adjunct Professor, Supply Chain & Operations
Harvard University
Daniel G. Van Der Vliet
Executive Director, Family Business
Cornell University
Dr Lan Ma
Adjunct Professor of Business
NYU Stern
Mihir Mankad
Senior Lecturer
Harvard Kennedy School
Dr Rajesh Bhargave
Associate Professor of Marketing
Imperial College London
Rajat Baijal
Adjunct Professor, Enterprise Risk Management
Columbia University
Dr Shad Morris
Professor of Global Strategy
Brigham Young University
Meenakshi Rishi
Professor of Economics
Seattle University
Dr Alireza Kabirian
Professor of Data Sciences
USC
Benjamin Dunford
Professor of Management
Purdue University
Dr Garrick Hileman
Visiting Fellow
London School of Economics
Shruti Mantri
Associate Director
Indian School of Business
Dr Krishanu Rakshit
Professor of Marketing
IIM Calcutta
Dr Jyotsna Bhatnagar
Professor of OB & HRM
MDI Gurgaon
Vijaya Bhaskar Marisetty
Professor of Finance
University of Hyderabad
Dr Sundar Venkatesh
Visiting Faculty
Asian Institute of Technology
Utkarsh Majmudar
Visiting Faculty, Finance
IIM Bangalore
Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
Visiting Faculty
IIT Kharagpur
Dr Thomas Joseph
Visiting Faculty
Masters' Union
Dr Pratap Giri
Visiting Faculty
Masters' Union
Dr Harshali Damle
Visiting Faculty
Masters' Union
Souvik Dutta
Visiting Faculty
Masters' Union
Radhika Narayanan
Visiting Faculty
Masters' Union
Akash Krishnan
Visiting Faculty
Masters' Union
Pradeep Hota
Visiting Faculty
Masters' Union
Amit Shrivastava
Visiting Faculty
Masters' Union
Dr Vishnuprasad N.
Visiting Faculty
Masters' Union
Kellogg School of Management — led by Professor Mohanbir Sawhney, one of the world's foremost authorities on technology strategy and marketing innovation — has brought students to Masters' Union for two consecutive years. Harvard Business School India immersion students have visited campus. When schools like these come here to learn, something is working.
04What students say
Learning from operators, in their own words.
“I met and learned from 50+ CXOs and MDs on the Masters' Union campus. That gave me confidence and exposure that nothing else could have.”
Priyansh Sharma
Manager Strategy, Talabat Dubai
“The faculty here are not teaching from textbooks. They are teaching from last quarter's decisions. That changes everything about how you absorb what they say.”
Abhishek Deb
Senior Associate, BCG
“You ask a question and the person answering it was the one who actually made the decision. Not someone who read about it. The actual person.”
Omkar Hundekari
Bain & Co.
05Become a Master
We're always looking for practitioners who want to teach what they know.
If you have built something, led something, invested in something, or shaped something — and you believe the best way to teach business is to have done it — we want to hear from you.
The number that matters
500+
Masters on the roster. 40% of them active industry practitioners who were in a meeting this morning before they came to teach you this afternoon.
That is not a teaching philosophy. It is a hiring policy.
Learn from the people doing it — not just studying it.