Dr. B.V.Phani Associate Professor, Finance & Entrepreneurship Coordinator, SIDBI Innovation Incubation Center Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016,Uttar Pradesh, India Phone:  +91 512 2596646 (O), 2598657 (R) Fax:     +91 512 2597553,Email: bvphani@iitk.ac.in Research: http://ssrn.com/author=106283
Education
PhD,2005, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. BE (Mech),1987, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
Courses Taught
Security Analysis Derivatives and Portfolio Management, Commercial Banking Risk Management and Risk Modelling, Accounting for Management, Financial Intermediaries, Financial Institutions, and Regulators, Financial Management, Managerial Accounting, Finance And Economics, Corporate Finance, Financial Modelling & Valuation and Real Options

Teaching Interests

Financial Intermediation, Credit Risk Modelling, Market Microstructure, Corporate Finance, Valuation & Real Options, Entrepreneurial Finance, Security Analysis, Derivatives

Research Interests

Financial Intermediaries, Credit Risk Modeling, Securitization, Entrepreneurial Finance, Market Microstructure and valuation, Corporate Governance etc

Publications
B V Phani & Haritha Saranga, ’Determinants of Operational Efficiencies in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry’, International Transactions in Operational Research, Volume 16, Number 1, January 2009
B.V.Phani, Chinmoy Ghosh & John Harding,’Does Liberalization Reduce Agency Costs? Evidence from the Indian Banking Sector’, Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 32, Issue 3, March 2008
B.V.Phani & Murali Patibandla,’Market Reforms and Industrial Productivity: An Explanation Economic and Political weekly’, Vol XXXVII, No.1, January 5, 2002
B.V.Phani & Ashish Bhattacharya, ‘Economic Value Added: In search of Relevance’,Decision, Volume 27, No.2, July-Dec 2000, Pg25-55
Academic Awards and Recognitions Commended by the Academic Senate of IIT Kanpur for exemplary performance in teaching
National Stock Exchange Research Initiative award for Research
Copenhagen Business School’s, Aage & Yelva Nimb Foundation award, for doctoral research.
PD Agarwal-TCI award of doctoral research
London Business School’s A.V. Birla award for doctoral research
Government of India’s National Merit Scholarship
Visiting Faculty
National Entrepreneurship Network
Indian Institute of Fashion Technology
Indian Institute of Management Kozikhode
SP Jain Institute of Management Research
Asia Global School of Business, Hyderabad
	Academic Activities
Area Editor			Management Review, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Member			Editorial Review Board, Decision, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Reviewer			Annual Eastern Finance Association Meetings
Co-Chair			National Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights, 25^th Feb to 29^th Feb 2008, IIT Kanpur.
Participant			Entrepreneurship Education Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning, Harvard Business School, July 18^th -24^th , Boston
Member			Program Committee- 11^th Annual Convention of the Strategic Management Forum; May 10 - 12, 2008
Member			Program Committee, National Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights, 31^st March to 1^st April 2007, IIT Kanpur
Participant			Workshop on ‘Measuring Intangibles in a Knowledge Economy (MIKE)’, EU-Asia Link Project, 2^nd-6^th September 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
Participant			Winter Research Conference on Microstructure of International Financial Markets, Indian School of Business, December 17-19, 2006
Administrative Responsibilities
2006-09		Coordinator			SIDBI Innovation & Incubation Center
2007		Chairman			Innovators workshop on Grass root innovation, 6^th April, 2007
2006-08		Member			Management Committee of Endowment Fund-IIT Kanpur
Prior Industrial and Administrative Experience
Dec91-May95				CEO , Blue Chip Info Tech Ltd
Dec 90-Nov91				Vice President (operations), Blue Chip Info Tech Ltd
Sponsored Projects (Ongoing)
NSTEDB		Technology Business Incubator
DIT		Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneur
DST		Technology Seed Fund Support
SIDBI		SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre