About
Dr. Madhvi Sethi is a distinguished academic leader and finance scholar with over two decades of experience in management education, research, and institutional leadership. She currently serves as Dean, School of Business at RV University, Bengaluru.
She holds a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and a PhD in Finance, complemented by an MBA (Finance & Marketing).
Dr. Sethi has an extensive teaching portfolio spanning MBA and executive education programs, with expertise in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, financial markets, and impact investing. Her rich academic experience includes prior roles at premier institutions such as XLRI Jamshedpur and Symbiosis International University.
A prolific researcher, she has published widely in reputed Scopus-indexed and ABDC-ranked journals, contributing to areas such as financial markets, sustainability, trade, and corporate strategy. She is also a published case author with Ivey Publishing and has co-authored a book with Cambridge University Press.
Beyond academia, Dr. Sethi actively engages with industry through executive education and consulting assignments for leading organizations such as Wipro, Infosys, ICICI, and L&T. Her contributions have been recognized through multiple awards, research grants, and international conference presentations.
Research Papers Published:
“Determinants of Wilful Default in Emerging Economies Evidence from India”, Economic and Political Weekly, 2025
“Facebook’s investment in Jio Platform, India: the big deal,” Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 2025
“Mapping the Landscape of Analyst Stock Recommendations: A Bibliometric Analysis,” Journal of Knowledge Economy, 2025
“Target price accuracy of sell-side analysts: evidence from India,” Cogent Economics and Finance, 2024
“Transforming the Performance Management System at Sapient,” Asian Journal of Management Cases”, 2024
“Emissions-foreign trade nexus: establishing the need to harmonize environment and economics in RCEP”, Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, 2024
"The Dairy Meltdown”, Asian Journal of Management Cases”, 2023
“Direct Cash Transfers in Emerging Economies: The Case of India”, Business Perspectives and Research, 2023
“Relationship between fixed capital formation and carbon emissions: Impact of trade liberalization in India”, Cogent Economics and Finance, 2023
“A cross-country analysis of the relationship between human capital and foreign direct investment”, Journal of Economic Studies, 2022
“Emissions-foreign trade nexus: Establishing the need to Harmonize Environment and Economics in RCEP”, Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences,2022
“A review of innovative bond instruments for sustainable development in Asia”, International Journal of Innovation Science, 2022
“Revisiting the food security system in India in the pandemic era: the case of a Southern Indian state”, International Journal of Social Economics, 2022
“Investigating the foreign trade-emission nexus in RCEP”, International Journal of Green Economics, 2022
“Green Bonds Driving Sustainable Transition in Asian Economies: The Case of India”, Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business, 2021
“Do Indian stock market message board discussions really matter? A machine learning-based approach”, Research in Finance, 2020
“The entry of a second generation at SK Enterprises: challenges and future prospects”, The Case Journal, 2020
“Equity market reaction to regulatory reforms: a case study of Indian banks”, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, 2020
“Monetary Policy Transmission during Multiple Indicator Regime: A Case of India”, Journal of Asian Finance Economics and Business, 2019
“Cross-border vs. domestic acquisitions: Evidence from India”, Journal of Economics and Business, 2018
“Capital structure decisions of Indian drugs and pharmaceutical firms”, Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development, 2017
“An Analysis of Factors Influencing Crossborder Acquisitions and its Implications For India”,International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research, 2017.
"An Analysis of Characteristics of Large Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions", Academy of Accounting & Financial Studies Journal, 2013
"Methodologies Used To Determine Mergers And Acquisitions’ Performance”, Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal, 2012
Case Studies Published:
1. Innovating Through Adversity: How Thoughtworks in India Sourced and Onboarded Top Talent in 2020, Ivey Publishing, W44638.
2. reCharkha: Scaling Production and Staying Sustainable, Ivey Publishing, W36578.
3. Franklin Templeton: A Case of Excessive Risk or the Fallout of a Black Swan Event?, Ivey Publishing, W36713
4. McDonald’s in India: Not a Happy Meal, Ivey Publishing, W19598.
5. Swadhaar – Self Support through Financial Services, Ivey Publishing, W20036.
6. Universal Basic Income: Is there A Case For India?, Ivey Publishing, W20557.
7. Decision to go for IPO:Dilemma in SF Express, GC-17-031-CE (CEIBS China Cases)
8. Groupon India: A Management Buyout Decision, Ivey Publishing, W17587.
9. Amarnath Gupta and Sons: The Family Business, Ivey Publishing, W16702.
10. Economics of Gold: India’s challenge in 2003, Ivey Publishing, W16170.
11. The Game of Financial Ratios, Ivey Publishing, W17015.
Book:
Sangem, Santosh, Kakani, Ram Kumar and Sethi, Madhvi, “Financial performance of Indian Business Groups”, ISBN938446337X, 9789384463373, Cambridge University Press, 2015
Book Chapters:
Madhvi Sethi and Katrina Plumb (2020), “To invest or not to invest? Anita’s dilemma”, Title: Storytelling for Sustainability in Higher Education An Educator's Handbook, Petra MolthanHill Heather Luna Tony Wall Helen Puntha Denise Baden, Routledge, ISBN-978-0-4292-911-11.
Rishikesh Kulkarni, Madhvi Sethi and Rajesh Panda (2018), “Gravity Model Applications in Understanding Trade: A Review and Future Research Agenda”, Advances in Business Management:A contemporary perspective by Dr. R Raman Dr. Shailesh Rastogi Dr. Prabir Bandyopadhyay Dr.Poornima Tapas, Emerald Publishing, ISBN - 978-1-78635-425-9.
Bhattacharya, S.,Sethi, M., Behl, A., Venkatesh, V.G. (2017), Regression techniques and their application in the corporate social responsibility domain: An overview.” Handbook of Research Methods in Corporate Social Responsibility, 2017, pp. 205–224 (SCOPUS)
Madhvi Sethi (2011), "“Local-Global –Local loop in International Curriculum Development”, Internationalization of higher education by Gupte, R., Venkataramani, B., Gupta,D., Excel Books. ISBN 9788174469809 817446980X
Research focus areas in finance, corporate strategy, sustainability, and emerging markets (India focus)
Published papers in Scopus-indexed and ABDC-ranked journals with policy and industry relevance
Authored global teaching case studies with Ivey Publishing and a book with Cambridge University Press
Active in international conferences and funded research (ICSSR grant on Digital India impacts)
Recipient of multiple research and case-writing awards, reflecting academic excellence and real-world impact
Research Interests
Corporate Finance
Mergers and Acquisitions
Financial Markets and Emerging Markets Policy and Developmen
Grants:
The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) has sanctioned INR 10,00,000 grant for our project “Socio-economic Impacts of Digital India on Farmers - A Study of Five South Indian States”
Awards received:
Second Best Paper Award at NSE Research Scholar Program 2020
ISB Ivey Case Competition Winner and Honourable mention for the years 2014,2015,2016 and 2018.
CII Edgefarm awards for Best Case in 2016 and 2017
Trainings and Certifications:
2024 Global Colloquium on Participant Centered Learning, Harvard Business School, Boston, USA
Professor and Dean
School of Management
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Bengaluru, Mysuru