Yogesh Malhotra, Ph.D.

[Current Focus: Rethinking Risk] [Prior Research: Panels & Publications]

Research Impact & Rankings in Risk Management Research

A Fortune magazine special issue on the knowledge economy reported about Yogesh Malhotra’s focus on bridging theory and practice. He is ranked and profiled among Nobel laureates, and, Harvard and MIT professors in scientific impact studies, business press, and industry surveys for his contributions to advancing applied research and global practices.

In February 2008, AACSB International Impact of Research Report recognized Risk Management practitioner Yogesh Malhotra's research among 'exemplars' of 'considerable impact on actual practice' such as Nobel laureate works of Black-Scholes, Harry Markowitz, and, William Sharpe.

In 2008, he was invited to join the Emerald Management First (UK) International Advisory Board. The other member from university research academia invited to serve on the same board is the pioneer of Balanced Scorecard and Activity Based Cost Management Robert S. Kaplan: Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School.

In 2007, Business Standard, India profiled his work among World's 12 Leading Management Experts on Digital Competitive Strategy including scholars-practitioners and senior professors from institutions such as Harvard, Wharton, and Yale whose contributions have significantly advanced real world business practices.

In 2006, his biographical reference was nominated and published for the first time in the Marquis Who's Who in Science & Engineering^® for contributions to high-impact fundamental empirical statistical and quantitative modeling field study research guided by his pragmatic and applied focus as global Finance-IT-Risk Management Practitioner.

Between 2002-2005, he served by invitation on 32 National Expert Panels of Computer Scientists, Venture Capitalists, and Technology Analysts for the National Science Foundation (USA) headquarters to judge and award multi-million dollar technology commercialization grants for U.S. Finance-IT-Risk Management and Web Computing Innovation.

In 2005, his applied thought leadership was profiled among world's leading knowledge management pioneers such as Tom Davenport, the IT scholar-practitioner-management consultant most renowned as the pioneer of global Business Process Reengineering and Knowledge Management global practices, by Emerald Publishing, UK, world's top management publishers.

In 2004, he was ranked among world’s pioneering contributors to knowledge management such as 'the man who invented Management' Peter Drucker and Nobel laureate Herbert Simon based on a study by an IBM scientist published in a research monograph of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. *

In 2003, he was ranked among world's most influential experts on knowledge management such as economist Joseph Schumpeter and information scientist Herbert Simon in the University of Minnesota MIS Research Center scientific impact study. **

In 2003, he delivered the invited expert paper and keynote on the Measurement of Knowledge Assets at the United Nations World Headquarters at the invitation of United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Of four global experts, two on the expert panel are from U.S. university research academia, the other member from university research academia being Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University. Paul A. Strassmann, acting CIO at NASA characterized Yogesh Malhotra's expert paper written at the invitation of the UN for presentation at this seminal event as "a critical and definitive examination of KM measurement."

In 2002, his biographical reference was nominated and published for the first time in the Marquis Who's Who in America^® for applied contributions to advancing global Finance-IT-Risk Management practices.

In 2002, CNET Networks awarded the Corporate Computing Award for his article 'Why Knowledge Management Systems Fail' with its focus on risk management of systemic failures for being the most influential article.

In 2001, his biographical reference was nominated and published for the first time in the Marquis Who's Who in Finance & Industry^® for applied contributions to advancing global Finance-IT-Risk Management practices.

In 2001, at the invitation of the Intel Corporation, he wrote the expert paper on the Next Generation e-Business Architectures.

In 2000, he was ranked among world’s three most influential scholar-practitioners on Knowledge Management across all disciplines in the worldwide ISWorld survey published by the Drexel University, the top two ranked professors being Tom Davenport and Ikujiro Nonaka. *** He had just completed about two years out of the PhD program where he became interested in Knowledge Management as a doctoral research fellow and PhD candidate.

In 1999, his biographical reference was nominated and published for the first time in the Marquis Who's Who in the World^® for applied contributions to advancing global Finance-IT-Risk Management practices.

In 1998, while in final year of his Ph.D., he was invited among Herbert Simon and Ikujiro Nonaka by the administrator of Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program Awards, American Society for Quality, as contributor to Knowledge Management journal special issue of the Journal for Quality and Participation.

In 1997, his Finance-IT-Risk Management technology venture was exclusively selected for the Computerworld Annual Forecast Best Site Award. The same technology venture was subsequently reviewed by Information Week as a "benchmark for practice".

In 1996, his Risk Management Venture submitted as a last minute entry received the Industry.Net Best Research Site Award and was ranked right between the top two Web search engines of that time, Lycos and Alta Vista.

Around 1994: Just with the advent of the first WWW browser, Finance-IT-Risk Management Practitioner Yogesh Malhotra's digital social enterprise about rethinking the Future of Finance-IT-Risk Management Practices took shape on the WWW. For its cutting-edge view of global Finance-IT-Risk Management Practices and their projected 'future' evolution in the business world, this ad hoc digital enterprise started getting reviewed in almost every top-tier Finance-IT-Risk Management trade publication. Its leading-edge content was 'borrowed' with due credit by leading-edge global institutions such as the Harvard Business School MBA program for advancing global management practices. To teach Harvard MBAs, professors at Harvard were using the cutting-edge applied knowledge of Finance-IT-Risk Management practices generated by the global Finance-IT practitioner PhD student who had just joined the PhD program one year ago.

Yogesh Malhotra among other 'Vision Korea' National Campaign Keynote Speakers in Seoul, South Korea:
Charles Lucier of Booz Allen Hamilton, David Snowden of IBM, Robert H. Buckman of Buckman Labs, Hubert Saint-Onge of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Professor Ikujiro Nonaka of Hitotsubashi University

“If you spend some time at [the digital research lab] founded by Dr. Malhotra you will be blessed by some of the world’s most astute thinking on the nature of knowledge and its value.”
- U.S. Army Knowledge Symposium, Theme: "Knowledge Dominance: Transforming the Army...from Tooth to Tail", Department of Defense, United States Army.

 

* Reference: Ponzi, Leonard J. (IBM), Knowledge Management: Birth of a Discipline. In Michael E.D. Koenig & T. Kanti Srikantaiah (Eds.), Knowledge Management Lessons Learned: What Works and What Doesn't, (American Society for Information Science and Technology Monograph Series), 9-26, 2004.

** Reference: Subramani, M. and Nerur, S.P., 'Examining the Intellectual Structure of Knowledge Management, 1990-2002: An Author Co-citation Analysis.' University of Minnesota Management Information Systems Research Center Study. MISRC Working Paper #03-23, 2003.

*** Reference: Overmyer, Scott P., Survey about the most influential scholars-practitioners in Knowledge Management, ISWorld, 2000.

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