Starting his career with The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi Dr Majumdar has spent around 22 years in research and teaching. Previously he was associated with the Birla Institute of Management and Technology, Indus World School of Business and Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management. He has also been a visiting faculty at the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad.

Qualifications/Education

• Ph.D. (Startup Valuation), UPES Dehradun
• MA Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
• MFC (Finance and Control), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Professional Experience

• Current Position: Professor (Finance) and Dean Academics

Courses Taught

• Corporate Finance
• Fixed Income
• Financial Derivatives
• Investment Management
• Quantitative Methods

Research Interests

• Startup valuation, women entrepreneurs and capital structure

Publications

• Majumdar, R. (2012). On the determinants and role of secured and unsecured borrowing: evidence from the Indian corporate sector. Decision, Vol. 39 No. 1, pp. 40-54.
• Majumdar, R. (2014), “The determinants of indebtedness of unlisted manufacturing firms in India: A panel data analysis”, Management Research Review, Vol. 37 No. 9, pp. 833-854.
  https://doi.org/10.1108/MRR-09-2012-0193
• Majumdar, R. (2019), “Valuation of hotel property: issues and challenges”, Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 418-428. https://doi.org/10.1108/WHATT-04-2019-0017
• Majumdar, R. (2021), “Surviving and growing in the post-Covid world: the case of Indian hotels”, Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, Vol. 13 No. 5, pp. 584-598. https://doi.org/10.1108/WHATT-05-2021-0064
• Majumdar, R., and Mittal, A. (2023). Startup financing: Some evidence from the Indian venture capital industry. FIIB Business Review, 23197145221142109.
• Majumdar, R., Mittal, A., and Bhardwaj, S. (2023). The Challenges Faced by Women Micro-entrepreneurs: Evidence from Urban India. Vision, 09722629231185464.
• Majumdar, R. (2024). Evaluation of early-stage start-ups by business angels: Indian evidence. International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, Vol. 31 No. 1, 106-121.
• Majumdar, R. and Mittal, A. (2024), “Revisiting the financial challenges faced by women-led microenterprises: some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector”, IIMT Journal of Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IIMTJM-01-2024-0002

Key Projects/ Consultancies

• Developed a Hedonic Price Model for Residential Real Estate in Coimbatore and Mumbai
• Outcome based Budgeting for Mumbai Municipal Corporation

Professional Memberships

• Life member of The Indian Econometric Society