Background/ Past experience:

Dr. K.V.M. Varambally has more than 25 years of academic experience. He has worked at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, a premier research institute in the country, for five years and T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal for about fifteen years. He was the head of the department, at MIT before taking charge as Director, MIM in June 2002.

Areas of Interest in teaching:

Economic Analysis of Business, International Business Management, Entrepreneurship Development, Development Economics, Rural Development.

Research Projects/ Publications:

• “Service quality in General Insurance Sector: An empirical study” Indian Journal of Industrial relations, July 2008
• “Insurance Sector Dynamics: Towards Transformation into Learning Organisation”, The Learning Organisation Journal (Special Issue of Emerald Insight Journal on Learning Organisation), Vol. 14, No.6, November 2007, ISSN: 0969-6474
• Out Sourcing Policy and Competitive Advantage – Lessons for future, Amity Business Review Vol. 5 No. 1, January – June 2004
• Renewable Energy – Need for a Paradigm Shift, Pigmy Economic Review, August – September 1996, pp 10 – 11
• Business Stability and Economies of Scope, Employment Review Vol. XXI No. 25, Sept 21 – 27 1996 p.1