Rajesh K Pillania

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Professor Rajesh K Pillania is passionate about happiness, strategy, innovation and strategic humour. He makes happiness, strategy and innovation simple, humorous, and applicable and writes in popular media besides books and research papers. He is a prolific writer, a popular teacher, and a sought-after trainer on happiness, strategy and innovation. He has taught thousands of executives over the last two decades. His work has been covered multiple times in international, national and regional media such as Travel and Leisure, Yahoo News, MSN, Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Economic Times, Mint, Business Standard, India Today, NDTV, Moneycontrol, Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar, Manorama, Anand Bazar Patrika, etc. He has shared his insights multiple times on TV/Radio in India and outside India such as in Canada, South Africa, Dubai etc. He has shared happiness ideas with millions of people in India and outside India.

Dr Rajesh K Pillania is the leading researcher and teacher on happiness in India, popularly called India’s Happiness Professor. He has taught thousands of students and executives about happiness strategy. He has written 11 books and reports on Happiness such as Happiness Strategy, Happiness Diary: My Experiments with Happiness, India Happiness Report 2020, India Cities Happiness Report 2020, World Happiness 2021, India Happiness 2022 and World Happiness 2022. These works are the first of their kind in India. His pioneering work is endorsed by many industry stalwarts and global leading thinkers such as HH Dalai Lama, Management Legend Philip Kotler, Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, the Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach. His book “Happiness Strategy: Happiness and Strategy for Everyone” is a best-selling book. His elective course Happiness Strategy is a popular course in MDI.

He is rated and awarded the Top Professor of Strategy in India by ASSOCHAM and Education Post. He is a multiple award winning, globally recognised and distinguished researcher. He is ranked jointly number one in average research productivity among management faculty (including IIMs and IITs) in India for research output from 1968 to 2014. He was ranked globally number three for number of research publications on India in area of business management for 1960-2010 in ISI Web of Science databases (the global leading impact factor-based journal database) by a research study in an international journal of repute. In MDI he has been awarded best research professor multiple times. He is on the advisory board of many esteemed international research journals¸ professional bodies and conferences consisting of leading international academicians¸ industry leaders and policy makers.

His research and academic experience include organisations in Asia, Europe and North America such as the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode; Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Harvard University; MCI Management Centre (Innsbruck, Austria) among others.

Select Endorsements of Prof Rajesh Pillania’s Happiness Work:

“I am pleased to see that a compilation of photos selected from this year’s first World Happiness Photo Contest is being published...……... It is my hope that this book will be an encouragement to people to contribute towards achieving this,” HH Dalai Lama.

“I appreciate the contributions of Prof Rajesh K Pillania in happiness and in bringing out World Happiness 2022.  I am told this is his 11th book on happiness and related aspects,” Management Legend Prof Philip Kotler.

“India Happiness 2020 is a great and timely initiative by Rajesh. In a concise and accessible way, the report highlights important components of happiness and offers valuable insights,” Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, the Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach.

“Happiness Diary: My Experiments with Happiness belongs to a family of positive psychological interventions which appear to work out positively on happiness in the sense of life-satisfaction,” Dr. Ruut Veenhoven, Pioneer and World Authority on the Scientific Study of Happiness.

“Rajesh Pillania, India’s Happiness Professor, has made seminal contributions to the study of happiness in India. Read India Happiness 2022 and be happy!” Dr Jaideep Prabhu, Professor, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, England.

“India Happiness Report 2022: Rajesh has produced an insightful piece of work, providing an interesting snapshot of happiness across India today,” Dr Tal Ben-Shahar, taught the popular course at Harvard University on Positive Psychology.

"Happiness Diary: My Experiments with Happiness by Rajesh Pillania is an amazing tool to help us find happiness in our daily lives," Héctor García, co-author of the international best-seller IKIGAI.

“India Happiness 2022 is an outstanding piece of work by a global rising star of happiness Dr Pillania. I wish him to be the signature of happiness in the world,” Dr Saamdu Chetri, Founder Director, Gross National Happiness (GNH), Bhutan.

“Most unique and humorous way to learn about basics of strategy and its application for generating personal happiness,” Padma Bhushan Prof Jagdish N. Sheth, Emory University.

“Rajesh has emerged as India’s Happiness Guru.” Padma Bhushan Dr Mrityunjay Athreya, DBA (Harvard, 1967), India’s Management Guru.

Professor Pillania’s teaching and training interests and expertise are in happiness, strategy, innovation and strategic humour. He has taught Strategic Management, Innovation Strategy, Advanced Strategic Management, Strategic Consultancy, Strategy in India, Global Strategy, Emerging Markets Strategy, and Happiness Strategy in various programs to MBA and PhD students. He has conducted various training programs on Strategic Management, Disruptive Strategy, Innovation Strategy, Happiness Strategy and Strategy for High Performance for middle to senior-level executives in India and abroad. His teaching and training focus on adding value to participants by explaining concepts in an innovative simple and fun way focusing on the application of concepts using experiential learning.

Dr Pillania is a multiple award-winning, globally recognised and distinguished researcher. He was ranked jointly number one in average research productivity among management faculty (including IIMs and IITs) in India for research output from 1968 to 2014. He was ranked globally number three for a number of research publications on India in the area of business management from 1960 to 2010 in ISI Web of Science databases (the global leading impact factor-based journal database) by a research study in an international journal of repute. In MDI he has been awarded best research professor multiple times. His research work is endorsed by global leading thinkers and industry stalwarts. His research work is covered by national and international media. He is on the advisory board of many esteemed international research journals¸ professional bodies and conferences consisting of leading international academicians¸ industry leaders and policymakers.

His research and consultancy interests and expertise are in happiness, strategy, innovation and strategic humour. He has written many books and research papers. His research is focused on two broad areas. The first one is on the frontiers of happiness, strategy and innovation and the second one is on democratizing happiness, strategy and innovation. For frontiers of happiness, strategy and innovation, he is involved with a number of esteemed international research journals and has written research papers and books. For democratizing happiness, strategy and innovation, he has published innovative humourous books which are available on Amazon, offers workshops, and writes in popular media such as Times of India, The Economic Times, India Today etc.

Prof Pillania’s research and consultancy interests and expertise are in happiness, strategy, innovation and strategic humour.