He has over 20 years of international work experience across industry and academia.
Dr. Pathak teaches various foundational and advanced courses on Strategic Management, International Business, Design Thinking, Innovation, International HRM, and Management Consulting in the MBA, Executive MBA and PhD programs at leading Indian institutes.
Dr. Pathak has designed and delivered executive education programmes and consultancy assignments for a number of corporate and public-sector organizations such as HPCL, IOCL, Coal India Ltd., Bosch Ltd., Western Coalfields Ltd., NLC Ltd., Titan Ltd., Tata Steel, Power Grid Ltd., NLC India Ltd., Mineral Exploration & Consultancy Ltd. (MECL), Manganese Ore India Ltd. (MOIL), Ultratech Cement, Maharashtra State Skill Development Society, Canara Bank, NTPC Ltd., Balmer-Lawrie Ltd., Birla White, ZIM Labs, Transrail Lighting, Ratnasagar Publishing, Reliance Industries, Kirloskar, Amdocs, ThoughtWorks Technologies, Transrail Lighting, and Wadeshwar Group.
Dr. Pathak’s research has been published as papers and cases in various international journals. He has received best-paper awards when presenting his research at various international and national conferences. Dr. Pathak was awarded the Best Thesis award at IIM Ahmedabad for his doctoral research. He was also awarded the Chaudhary Padmanabhan Pant award and merit scholarship for his scholastic achievements at IIMA.