Shailendra Raj Mehta

Dr. Shailendra Raj Mehta (born 9 July 1959) is an Indian Economist, who has done extensive research in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Industrial Organization, Information Economics and Experimental Economics. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Management at Auro University. He is also the President and Director of MICA (institute), Ahmedabad.

Career

Dr. Mehta has impeccable academic credentials with a BA and MA from Delhi University (St. Stephens College and Delhi School of Economics respectively). He earned an M. Phil. from Balliol College at Oxford University and a PhD from Harvard University (all in Economics). From 1997 to 2004, Mehta was assistant professor of economics at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, and was a director of the Krannert School of Management's Entrepreneurship initiative. He taught a wide range of topics from Economics of uncertainty to Macroeconomic theory. During this period he was also co-director of Simulex Inc.

2006 onwards Shailendra Mehta has been a visiting professor for business policy at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. From 2006-12 he was the academic director of Duke’s Corporate Education arm and Regional Managing Director, India Middle east and West Asia of the same arm. He served as Provost/Vice Chancellor of Ahmedabad University and was the Chairman of the Board of Management at Auro University. Currently he is the President, Director and Distinguished Professor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at MICA (institute) - The School of Ideas.

Bibliography

Selected publications (refereed, peer reviewed, global journals only)

• Gupta, Mukul, AlokChaturvedi and Shailendra Mehta (2011): Economic Analysis of Tradeoffs Between Security and Disaster Recovery. Communication of the Association of Information Systems.Vol 28, Issue 1.
• Jian Li, Suresh Chand, Maqbool Dada, Shailendra Mehta (2009): Managing Inventory Over a Short Season: Models with Two Procurement Opportunities. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Vol. 11, No. 1, Winter 2009, pp. 174–184.
• Paul Drenevich, RangarajRamanujam, Shailendra Mehta and AlokChaturvedi (2009): Affiliation or Situation: What Drives Strategic Decision Making in Crisis Situations? Journal of Managerial Issues, Vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 232–245.
• JeevanJaisingh, J.Barron, S. Mehta and A. Chaturvedi (2008): Privacy and Pricing Personal Information," European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 187, Issue 3, 16 June 2008, Pages 857-870.
• Busemeyer, J.R., R. Barkan, S. Mehta and A. Chaturvedi (2007): Context effects and models of preferential choice: implications for consumer behavior. Marketing Theory, Vol. 7 #1 pp. 39-58.
• Arnold C. Cooper and Shailendra Mehta (2006): Preparation for Entrepreneurship – Does it Matter? Journal of Private Equity. Fall 2006, Vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 6-15.
• Chaturvedi, A. Mehta, S., and Gupta, M.K., (2006): "Computational Experimentations in Market and Supply-chain Co-design,” Journal of Information Systems and E-Business Management, Volume 4 no. 1, January 2006, pp. 25–48.
• Chaturvedi, Mehta, Dolk, and Ayer, "Artificial Labor Market," European Journal of Operational Research, No. 166, pp 694–716, 2005
• Mehta, S.R. and Arnold C. Cooper (2003): “Preparation for Entrepreneurship – Does it matter?” in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2003.
• Mehta, S.R. and Arnold C. Cooper (2000): “The Role of Optimism as a Predictor of New Firm Performance” in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2000 –. pp. 595–607.
• Mehta, S. R. (2000). “Quality of Education, Productivity Changes, and Income Distribution.” Journal of Labor Economics 18(2): 252-81.
• Chaturvedi, A. R. and Mehta, S., “Simulations in Economics and Management: Using the SEAS Simulation Environment,” Communications of the ACM, March 1999, pp. 60–61.
• Mehta, ShailendraRaj(1998). v“The Law of One Price and a Theory of the Firm: A Ricardian Perspective on Interindustry Wages.” RAND Journal of Economics 29(1): 137-56. (The Economist of London, did a full review of this paper and its results in its Economics Focus section, 30th May 1998.)
• Mehta, ShailendraRaj(1993). “A Solution to a Class of Agency Problems, with Application to the Question of Limited Liability.” Economics Letters 43(2): 193-97.

Book chapters

• Mehta, Shailendra (2014) (forthcoming): A Strategic Analysis of an Institution of Excellence: The Case of IIM-Ahmedabad in: “The Future of Indian Universities: Comparative and International Perspectives”edited by C. Raj Kumar, Shiv Visvanathan, R. Sudarshan and Y.S.R. Murthy. To be published by Oxford University Press.
• Drnevich, P.L., Mehta, S., Dietz, E. (2005). Coordinating Effective Government Response to Bio-Terrorism, in Amass and Chaturvedi (Ed.) Advances in Homeland Security Vol. 2: Guiding Future Homeland Security Policy – Directions for Scientific Inquiry. Purdue University Press: West Lafayette, IN.
• Drnevich, P.L., Mehta, S., Chaturvedi, A. (2005). Bio-Terrorism Response Training Simulations: Observations and Lessons Learned, in Amass and Chaturvedi (Ed.) Advances in Homeland Security Vol. 2: Guiding Future Homeland Security Policy – Directions for Scientific Inquiry. Purdue University Press: West Lafayette, IN.
• Chaturvedi, A., Mehta, S. and Drnevich, P. (2004) “Computational and Live Experimentation in Bio-terrorism Response,” in Dynamic Data Driven Bandyopadhyay, S., Chaturvedi, A., Barron, J, Rees, J, and Mehta, S., (2003)"Simulating Sellers' Behavior in a Reverse Auction B2B Exchange," in ICCS 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2660, pp. 365–374, Sloot, Abromson, Bogdanov, Dongarra, Zomaya, Gorbachev (eds.).

Refereed conference papers

• Shailendra Mehta, LiviuNedelescu, Michael Nolan Kyle Krull, Jim Whitford, Mike Pfleiderer, CheemunFoong (2006): Using Agent-Based Simulation to Evaluate Technology and Concepts for the National Airspace System. IEEE 2006 Aerospace Conference, Big Sur, Montana.
• Chaturvedi, Chi, J., Mehta S., "SAMAS: Scalable Architecture for Multi-Resolution Agent-based Simulation," ICCS 2004, Krakaw, Poland, June 7–9, 2004.
• Chaturvedi, A. R. John M. Barron, Jackie Rees and Shailendra Mehta (2003): Simulating Sellers' Behavior in a Reverse Auction B2B Exchange (2003) Proceedings of the ICCS 2003 Conference.
• Jie Chi, AlokChaturvedi, AnanthGrama and Shailendra Mehta (2003): “Oceanus: A Distributed Web-based Framework for the Execution of Genetic Algorithms,” Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECC-2002).
• JeevanJaisingh, Shailendra Mehta and Chaturvedi, Alok, (2002); "Privacy and the Value of Information in Adverse Selection Markets" Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Research (ICECR-5 2002), Montreal, Canada, Oct. 2002.
• Jaisingh, Jeevan, Jack Barron, Chaturvedi, Alok, and Shailendra Mehta "Privacy on the Internet: An Economic Analysis," Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2002),
• Chaturvedi, A. R., Mehta, Shailendra Raj, Gupta, M. K., and Valerie, L., "Information Security Issues for On-line Banking, I N E T 2000, The 10th Annual Internet Society Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 18–21 July 2000.
• Chaturvedi, A. R., Mehta, S. R., Gupta, M. K., and Yue, W. T., "Agent-Based Simulation Approach to Information Warfare in the SEAS Environment" HICSS minitrack on Agent-based Simulations, January 2000.

Other papers

• Shailendra Raj Mehta: Mergers, Acquisitions and Trading in a Synthetic Environment with Heterogeneous Traders.
• Shailendra Raj Mehta: Why Do Firms Decentralize When They Expand? Information Flows and Monitoring In Firms.
• Shailendra Raj Mehta: Ability, Wages and The Size Distribution Of Firms. Productivity Differences and Monitoring in Hierarchies.

Other intellectual property

Obtained US Patent 6,931,365 (granted August 16, 2005). Granted to Shailendra R. Mehta and Alok R. Chaturvedi for the Industry Simulation Environment.

Talks

Dr Shailendra Mehta delivered a talk on The University of the Future: Lessons from a 2600 Year History at MIT.^[1][2]

Awards

• On 22 April 1995, Shailendra Mehta was awarded the ‘Class of 1922 prize for Teaching Innovation and Helping Students Learn’, one of the highest awards of its kind for all of Purdue.
• Rector's Prize. Delhi University's highest undergraduate honor.
• INLAKS Scholarship for study at Oxford University

References

External links

• "Faculty Profile - IIMA". Iimahd.ernet.in. Retrieved 2016-09-17. 
• "Analytics for US Patent No. 6,931,365, Industry simulation environment". Patentbuddy.com. Retrieved 2016-09-17. 
• "Microsoft Word - SEAS White paper.doc" (PDF). Krannert.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2016-09-17. 
• "Dr. Shailendra Mehta". Aurouniversity.edu.in. Retrieved 2016-09-17. 
• "Dr. Shailendra Mehta". mica.ac.in. Retrieved 2017-06-02.