U. Srinivasa Rangan

Dr. Rangan holds the Lukšić Chair Professorship in Strategy and Global Studies at Babson College, USA. His teaching, consulting, and research focus on competitive strategy, globalization, and alliances. His current research deals with the globalization of Indian, Chinese, and Brazilian firms, their use of acquisitions and alliances, evolution of industries and firm-level strategies, and the impact of national business systems on them.

After serving as a manager with State Bank of India in India and England, Dr. Rangan held research and faculty positions at IMD, Harvard Business School, and Tulane University. He has been recognized for both teaching excellence and scholarly accomplishment. At Tulane, he received the Howard Wissner Award for Outstanding Teaching. At Babson, he was the first, and so far the only, professor to receive the Deans’ Award for Teaching Excellence, the Thomas Kennedy Award for Outstanding Teaching in graduate school, and the Faculty Award for Scholarship. He also received teaching excellence award in executive programs at Rotman School (University of Toronto). He is also a fellow at Legatum Institute, a major think tank in London.

Dr. Rangan has been a consultant to and a designer/deliverer of executive programs for several firms. He has taught in several such programs at Babson, Helsinki School of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Amos Tuck School (Dartmouth), Rotman School (Toronto), and Indian School of Business, working with senior managers from North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Among the firms and organizations he has worked with are: AAMO, ACMA, Aditya Birla Group, Allied Domecq, Amoco, American Saw & Manufacturing, BACI, Biotech Council of Massachusetts, Bosch, Constantia, Deere, Entergy, Expolanka, Gammon India, GE, Haemonetics, Holcim, IBM, Infineon, Intel, L&T Finance, Novartis, Nypro, Olam, ONGC, PDVSA, Panasonic, Pitney-Bowes, Polaroid, SAP, Siemens, State Bank of India, TCIL, Telenor, TVS Motors, UNCTAD, and Wipro. He also worked with Professor Porter of HBS to advise the Indian government on the economic development policies to pursue in order to ensure national competitiveness following the government’s decision in the 1990s to liberalize the economy.