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Chandra Sekhar Mishra, a faculty member of ICFAI Business School, has done his Master of Commerce and Ph.D from Utkal University. Mishra has over ten years of research and teaching experience in the area of corporate finance. He was earlier associated with the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, where he had exposure to the areas such as public sector restructuring and disinvestments. Apart from teaching, he is also actively involved in conducting management development programs for corporates. His areas of interest are business valuation, corporate finance and corporate disclosure practices. He is the Consulting Editor of the ICFAI Journal of Accounting Research (IJAR), a refereed journal published by the ICFAI University Press.

D K Malhotra is a professor of finance, School of Business Administration, Philadelphia University, USA. He joined Philadelphia University in 1993. Before joining Philadelphia University, he was working on his Ph.D degree in finance at the University of Alabama from 1989 to 1993. Malhotra teaches courses in Derivative Securities, Fixed Income Securities, International Finance, and Investment and Portfolio Management at the undergraduate and graduate level. His research interests are interest rate swaps, currency swaps, credit derivatives, mutual funds, and application of neural network and neuro-fuzzy techniques in finance. Malhotra has published over 35 research articles in foreign journals. In addition, he has presented over 50 research papers at various academic conferences all over the world. Malhotra is currently serving on the editorial board of the Icfai Journal of Management Research (IJMR) and International Journal of Insurance and Risk Management. Malhotra’s biographical profile has been included in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Finance and Industry, and Who’s Who in the East. Malhotra was also the recipient of 1999 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Philadelphia University. He also received the School of Business Administration’s award for excellence in research for two consecutive years.