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Dr. Rishikesan Parthiban is an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems and Analytics area at IIM Trichy. He has completed his doctoral studies with a major in MIS and minor in Marketing from IIM Calcutta and graduated in Engineering from BITS Pilani, Rajasthan. He has served as an Assistant Professor in SPJIMR Mumbai and also worked in the VLSI chip design industry as a practitioner, for close to two years each.  Rishikesan is a passionate teacher who teaches elective courses in the MBA program like digital product management, active digital debates, besides the core course in the information systems area. The core pedagogies he leverages are case based learning, lectures, tool based learning and dialectical debates. His primary research interests include digital social innovations, subsistence marketplaces and grand challenges. His research work (along with his co-authors) has appeared in leading journals such as Information & Organization, Information Technology & People, Information Systems Frontiers, International Journal of Information Management and European Journal of Marketing. His passion for digital social enterprises in general and those focussing on rural development in particular leads him to focus on action oriented approaches that attempt to balance research efforts and practical implications.