Vishwanatha Saragur Ramanna

Vishwanatha S R is a Professor of Finance and the MBA program chair at Mahindra University, Hyderabad. In his earlier role he was the MBA Program Chair, EMBA Chair, and the Director of the Center for Online Learning in the School of Management and Entrepreneurship at Shiv Nadar University. He is the author of 50 case studies and several books books published by McGraw Hill (India), Springer Verlag, Sage Publications, and PHI Learning (formerly Prentice Hall of India), Asian Case Research Journal, The CASE Journal, U.S., and Ivey Business School Publishing.

His papers have been published in major international finance journals such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Financial Management, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, International Review of Finance and International review of Financial Analysis.

He has held academic appointments at the S P Jain Institute of Management in Mumbai, T A Pai management Institute in Manipal, Bharatidasan Institute of Management in Trichy, and Institute of Management Technology in Nagpur. He has nearly three decades of experience in teaching graduate students and executives from a variety of industries. He was the Regional Editor of Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, U.K during 2012-2014. He has received the Ruth Greene memorial Award, the Best Workshop Case Award and Jonathan Welch Case Award from North American Case Research Association in the U.S. He was nominated for the CMA of Alberta Governance Award at NACRA in 2013 and Excellence in Case Writing Awards in 2014 by the Case Association of the United States. He is the recipient of the Hindustan Unilever Dewang Mehta Best Professor in Financial Management award, the Research Excellence Award from Shiv Nadar University and NYU Stern-NSE competitive research award. He has received the highly commended research paper citation at the Asia Pacific Family Business Symposium and best paper award at the Indian Academy of Management conference.

He has presented his research at major global conferences such as American Economic Association/ASSA meetings, Southern Finance Association Conference, Emerging Markets Finance Conference, World Banking and Finance Conference, World Finance Conference Journal of Corporate Finance Special Emerging Markets Conference, Asian Finance Association Meetings, EFMA Meetings, Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference, and North American Case Research Association meetings. He has been enlisted in the Marquis Who’s Who in the World and Madison’s Who’s Who among Executives and Professionals throughout the World.

• Ph.D. National Law University, Jodhpur

• PGDBA, Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship

• B.E. Malnad College of Engineering, Mysore University

• The Role of Anchor Investors in Initial Public Offerings (with S Kalra and A Singhal), International review of Finance, 25 (3), September, 2025 [ABDC: A] (lead article)
• Pre-Opening Auctions and Price Discovery in Initial Public Offerings (with K Kaur), Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 165, August 2024, 2024 [ABDC: A*]
• Price Bands and Their Effects on Equity Markets: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with Ajai Singh, Vladimir Gatchev and Rama Seth), Journal of Financial Markets, Vol 66, November, 2023 [ABDC: A*]
• The Effect of Lead Institutional Investors on Investment and Capital Structure of Young Firms: Evidence from Indian IPOs (with A Singhal and A Sharma), International Review of Financial Analysis, January, 2024 [ABDC: A]
• Ownership Concentration and Stock Returns: Evidence from Family Firms in India (With S Hegde and Rama Seth), Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Vol. 61, June 2020 [ABDC A]
• Allocation to Anchor Investors, Underpricing and the After-Market Performance of Initial Public Offerings, (with Rama Seth and Durga Prasad), Financial Management, Vol. 48, Issue 1, Spring 2019 [ABDC: A]

• An Overview of Islamic Sukuk Bonds, Journal of Structured Finance, Winter 2008
• The Information Content of Grey Market Prices of Indian IPOs, International Research Journal of Applied Finance Vol. II, Issue. 8, August, 2011
• The Value of Analyst Recommendations before the IPO: Evidence from Indian IPOs, International Research Journal of Applied Finance, April
• Corporate Restructuring at Tata Steel Ltd., The Case Journal, Emerald Publishing Group, U.S., September, 2023
• Larsen and Toubro: The Bid for Mind Tree, The Case Centre, 121-0070-1, July 2021
• Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd.: The Corporate Governance Failure, Ivey/HBS Publishing, April 2020
• Wockhardt Limited: Will it rise from the ashes? The Case Journal, Emerald Publishing Group, U.S., 2018, https://doi.org/10.1108/TCJ-05-2017-0041
• Dividend Policy at SRF Ltd.: Buyback of Shares, Ivey/HBS Publishing, June 2017
• Suzlon Energy Ltd.: Debt Restructuring, The Case Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2017 (published by the Case Association of the U.S and Emerald Publishing Group, U.K)
• iDE in Nicaragua: Quest for Sustainability, The Case Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2017 (published by The Case Association, U.S and Emerald Publishing Group, UK)
• Wipro Ltd: The Demerger Decision, Asian Case Research Journal, Vol 21, Issue 2 December 2017, NUS/World Scientific, Singapore (with Rajesh Haldipur and Vijaya Narapareddy)
• Reliance Communications: A House of Cards? Asian Case Research Journal, Vol 21, Issue 1 June 2017, NUS/World Scientific, Singapore
• Financing Strategy at Tata Steel, Asian Case Research Journal, NUS/World Scientific, Singapore, December 2015 (with Rajesh Haldipur and Vijaya Narapareddy)
• Kingfisher Airlines: A Pie in the Sky? Ivey /HBS Publishing, June 2015
• Corporate Governance Scandal at Satyam Computer Services Ltd, The CASE Journal, Fall, 2014, Vol. 10, No. 1 (published by The Case Association, U.S and Emerald Publishing Group)
• Hindalco: The Novelis Acquisition, Asian Case Research Journal, NUS/World Scientific, Singapore, Vol. 17, Issue 1, 2013
• Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Asian Case Research Journal, NUS/World Scientific, Singapore, Vol. 16, Issue 2, 2012
• EVA Financial Management at Godrej Consumer Products Ltd, Asian Case Research Journal, NUS/World Scientific, Singapore, Vol 14, Issue 1, June 2010
• Tata Steel: Financing the Corus Acquisition, Asian Case Research Journal, NUS/World Scientific, Singapore, Vol 14, Issue 2, December 2010

Books

• Corporate Finance: Text and Cases, 3rd ed., Atlantic Publishing, 2024
• Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring: Text and Cases, 2nd edition, Atlantic Publishing, 2023
• Cases in Corporate Finance, Vol. II, McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2012
• Cases in Corporate Finance, Vol. II, Instructor’s Manual, McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2012
• Analysis of Investments: A Modern Guide to Security Analysis and Stock Selection.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5801-0410

• Working as a professor of finance at the School of Management, Mahindra University: (October 2022 – present)
• Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, July 6, 2015-October 7, 2022

His research examines IPO trading mechanisms at stock exchanges, the impact of institutional investors on investment and capital structure of IPO firms, performance and risk taking by family firms, the impact of board compensation on firm performance, the effect of dividend taxes on investor and corporate behavior and the role played by anchor investors in the market for IPOs.