Dr. Rangan

Dr. Rangan is a visiting faculty in Executive Education, at Mahindra University. He holds the Lukšić Chair Professorship in Strategy and Global Studies at Babson College in the United States. 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. He is also a fellow at Legatum Institute, a major think tank in London.
Dr. Rangan has held research and faculty positions at IMD, Harvard Business School, and Tulane University. He has been recognized for both teaching excellence & scholarly accomplishment, and has been awarded several times for outstanding teaching. 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.
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, Tuck School (Dartmouth), Rotman School (Toronto), and Indian School of Business, working with senior managers from North and South America, Europe, and Asia.These include firms such as: AAMO, ACMA, Aditya Birla Group, Allied Domecq, Biotech Council of Massachusetts, Constantia, Entergy, Expolanka, Bosch Engineering, SAP Labs, John Deere India, Abbott Labs india, GE, HDFC Life, Haemonetics, Holcim, IBM, Infineon, Intel, L&T Finance, Novartis, Nypro, Olam, ONGC, PDVSA, Panasonic, Pitney-Bowes, Siemens, State Bank of India, TCIL, Telenor, TVS Motors, and Wipro.

Dr. Rangan is the co-author of three books (Strategic Alliances: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Globalization, 1995; Capital Rising, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010; and Thriving in the 21st Century Economy: Transformational Skills for Technical Professionals, 2013) and the co-editor of a fourth (Global Strategies for Emerging Asia, 2012). He is also the author of several best-selling case studies.

Dr Rangan holds an MBA from IMD, Switzerland and DBA from Harvard University.