ISB professor ends life at Hyderabad campus flat

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A professor at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, ended his life due to depression at the campus residential quarters on Tuesday night, PTI reported.

As per the report, Nikhil Madan, 37, of Delhi, jumped off from the fourth floor of his residential building at the ISB campus at Gachibowli.

As per Business Line, Madan took the extreme step probably between 9 PM and 10 PM. The body was sent for post-mortem examination, and a case was registered under Section 194 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).

As per information available on ISB’s website, Madan is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour and joined in 2019, Business Line reported.

He had a PhD in Organisational Behaviour from INSEAD, an MS in Quantitative Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Delhi.

As per the report, Madan’s research has been published in leading outlets such as Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Science, and Harvard Business Review. He teaches negotiation and decision-making at ISB.

The ISB has not issued an official statement on the suicide till Wednesday evening, and management was out of bounds when tried for a comment, the report added.