People

India Research Center is supported by eminent faculty of the Ross School of Business. Prof C K Prahalad and Prof M S Krishnan are the co-directors of the center, while many prominent faculty provide support in its research and collaboration initiatives.

Brief profiles of faculty members actively involved with India Research Center initiative are attached below:

C.K. Prahalad C.K. Prahalad, the Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration and co-director of the Center for Global Leverage: India is a world-renowned expert in corporate strategy and the role of top management in large, diversified, multinational corporations. He is a prolific author of numerous books and award-winning articles, including Competing for the Future, which he co-authored with Gary Hamel, and the Harvard Business Review article “The End of Corporate Imperialism,” co-authored with Kenneth Lieberthal in 1998. His work on the role of the private sector in alleviating poverty, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, was published in August 2004.

M.S. Krishnan M.S. Krishnan is chair of the Business Information Technology area, a Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow and the co-director of the Center for Global Resource Leverage: India. His research interests include corporate IT strategy, the business value of IT investments, the return on investments in software development process improvements, software engineering economics, metrics and measures for quality, productivity and customer satisfaction for products in software and information technology industries. In January 2000, the American Society for Quality (ASQ) selected him as one of the 21 voices of quality for the twenty-first century.

Gautam Ahuja Professor of corporate strategy and international business and a Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow, he has received several international awards for his research on innovation and technology strategy, including the Free Press Award for outstanding research in Strategy and the Sage-Pondy and West Publishing awards for Organization Theory.

Susan J. Ashford The Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professor of Business Administration and director of the Executive MBA Program. She studies leadership and managerial effectiveness, issue selling, self-management and organizational change.

Ravi Murthy Anupindi A Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow and associate professor of operations and management science, he studies supply chain management, e-business, supply contracts and inventory management, lean operations and operations-marketing interfaces.

Wayne Brockbank Clinical professor of business and director for the Center for Strategic Human Resource Leadership, he does research and consulting on human resource strategy, the development of competitive corporate cultures and emerging high value-added agendas of the HR profession.

Michael D. Gordon Associate dean for information technology and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Business Administration, he studies areas of effective retrieval and use of information, the application of technology and social conventions to support learning and teaching and the relationship between information technology and social enterprise.

Prashant Kale Assistant professor of corporate strategy and international business, he conducts research in corporate strategy, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions and the dynamics of alliance management.

Andrew (Andy) F. Lawlor Director of Global MBA Projects and lecturer of entrepreneurship, corporate strategy and international business. He studies entrepreneurship, new business development, corporate venturing, strategic planning, market development and project and business planning.

Kenneth G. Lieberthal The William Davidson Professor of Business Administration and professor of political science focuses his research on the evolution of China’s political economy, multinational corporate investment in China and India, foreign policy decision making in China, U.S. foreign policy and Asian security issues.

M.P. Narayanan Professor of finance and chair of the Finance area, he focuses on issues of corporate governance, corporate scope (conglomeration, divestitures), managerial behavior and management compensation.

Venkatram Ramaswamy Professor of marketing and a Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow, he pursues managerially oriented conceptual and empirical research on emerging patterns of value creation, co-creation of experiences and the future of competition. He is coauthor with C. K. Prahalad of The Future of Competition: Emerging Patterns of Value Creation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003).

James P. Walsh The Gerald and Esther Carey Professor of Management and Organizations is interested in traditional questions of corporate governance (the relationship between managers and owners as mediated by the board of directors and disciplined by the market for corporate control). He also considers how society figures in the governance of the firm.