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Assistant Professor,
School of Management

Bhutani, B., & Jain, S. (2026). When Greenwashing Appears to Work: Opposite Risk–Return Effects in the UK and India. Finance Research Letters, 110498.
Bhutani, B., & Jain, S. (2025). Navigating three decades: corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and risk. Journal of Business Strategy, 46(5-6), 142-168.

Worked on several projects, such as “Evaluating Quality Assurance and Enforcement in Government e-Marketplace (GeM)” and “Impact Assessment of Government-e- Marketplace” under the guidance of Prof. Sonali Jain and Prof. Sanjay Dhir with Minsitry of Commerce and Industry.
“Received the Research Scholars Travel Allowance (RSTA) from IIT Delhi to present at the Finance and Accounting (F&A) 2024 Annual Research Symposium, University of Westminster, London, UK, in June 2024, and at the 4th Vietnam
Symposium in Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Innovation (VSEFI2023), Hanoi, Vietnam, in July 2025”
Actively served as a peer reviewer for reputable ABDC journals including International Review of Financial Analysis, Management Decision, and Global Finance Journal as well as the IIM Ahmedabad IMRC (2025 & 2026).
Delivered an invited address at the DGI International Conference on Synergy in Progress (2024)
Delivered session & participated in the Doctoral Consortium on Teaching, IIM Bangalore (Jan 2025).

Presented research titled “Navigating Three Decades: Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Risk” at Westminster Business School, United Kingdom, on June 17-18, 2024.
Presented study titled, “The Green Fallacy: Investigating the relationship between Greenwashing and Risk at IMRC 2024, organized by IIM Ahmedabad on Dec 7-9, 2024
Presented my paper titled “Do Financially Distressed Firms Employ Greenwashing as a Business Communication Strategy?” at MERC 2024, organised by IIM Kashipur, on May 31-June 2, 2024.
Presented the paper titled: “The Green Fallacy: Investigating the Relationship between Greenwashing and Firm Risk” at the 4th Vietnam Symposium in Entrepreneurship, Finance & Innovation on July 10-11, 2025.
Presented the study titled: “From Cash Flow to ‘Cash Faux’: Does high cash flow volatility promote greenwashing?” at Research Symposium on Finance and Economics (RSFE) 2025, by IFMR GSB, Krea University, on June 11-13, 2025.