Mukesh Hasirumane is an Associate Professor in Strategy and Consulting at the Goa Institute of Management. Before joining GIM, he was a Researcher at SFU Engage, Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), having joined as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He was also an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Hincks Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellence, Munster Technological University, Ireland.

His research sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial learning, and also focuses on family business management, and has appeared in journals such as Studies in Higher Education, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, and Journal of Family Business Strategy. He regularly presents at international conferences, including the Academy of Management and the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship’s (ECSB) 3E and RENT conferences, and won a best paper award at the 2022 3E Conference in Dijon. He was also part of the team that secured a Research Council of Norway-funded INTPART project, Norway-India Collaboration for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education and Research.

Over his career, Mukesh has taught entrepreneurship, strategic management, and innovation to students across India and Europe, drawing on an action-based, experiential approach that mirrors his own research interest in entrepreneurship education. At NTNU, he has taught the UNIPAD (University Pedagogy) course, an introduction to entrepreneurship education for better learning, which helps educators from other disciplines apply entrepreneurship education within their own fields, and developed Entrepreneurs’ Pathway to India, a lifelong learning course for Norwegian entrepreneurs seeking to do business in India.

Academic Experience

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), SFU Engage, Trondheim, Norway — Researcher and Postdoctoral Fellow
• Munster Technological University (MTU), Hincks Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellence, Cork, Ireland — Adjunct Research Fellow and ECSB Visiting Scholar
• Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India — Associate Professor
• Karnataka State Law University, Hubli, India — Assistant Professor, KSLU Law School

Industry Experience

• National Collateral Management Limited, Mumbai, India — Manager, Commodity Finance, Collateral Management & Commodity Multi-Link Point
• JK Agri Genetics Ltd, Hyderabad, India — Trainee, Field Crops

Journals

• Mukesh, H. V., Pillai, K. R., & Mamman, J. (2020). Action-embedded pedagogy in entrepreneurship education: an experimental enquiry. Studies in Higher Education, 45(8), 1679-1693.
• Kenny, B., Mukesh, H. V, & Guirk, H. M. (2026). Realigning the dots: the disconnect between student assessment practice and learning in entrepreneurship education. Studies in Higher Education, 1-20.
• Mukesh, H. V., Shetty, J., Kenny, B., & McGuirk, H. (2024). Value for Value: Social Entrepreneurship Education Through Value Creation Extracurricular Activity. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 1-26.
• Mukesh, H. V., & Bailey, A. (2023). Bringing context to the foreground: Explaining the early-stage career development of next-generation family business members. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 14(4).
• Mukesh, H. V. (2022). Digital Transformation Taking Centre Stage: How Digital Transformation is Reshaping Entrepreneurial Innovation? The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 31(2), 364–401.
• Mukesh, H. V., Acharya, V., & Pillai, R. (2022). Are extracurricular activities stress busters to enhance students’ well-being and academic performance? Evidence from a natural experiment. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education.
• Mukesh, H. V., & Rajasekharan Pillai, K. (2020). Role of Institutional Ecosystem in Entrepreneurship Education: An Empirical Reiteration. The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 29(1), 176-205.