Sushil Vachani to take over as IIM-B director from July 1

Sushil Vachani, till recently a tenured Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Boston University, is taking over as Director, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, from July 1.

In his 28 years at Boston University, Vachani served in a range of leadership positions: Faculty Director of the International Management Programme in Japan, Chairman of the Strategy and Policy Department, Chairman of the Doctoral Programme and Special Assistant to the University’s President for its India Initiative. He designed, taught and coordinated programmes for students, executives and policy makers in the US, Japan, China and India.

Vachani received his doctorate in International Business from the Harvard Business School, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

He has extensive managerial and consulting experience in both the US and India. He worked at the Boston Consulting Group developing strategies for US, Japanese and European multinationals. He also worked, in India, with Philips, the Tata Administrative Service and Tata Motors.

His research interests include the global institutional environment of business, multinational-government relations, corporate social responsibility, climate change, strategy and innovation at the base of the pyramid and the impact of NGOs on international business. His research has been published in leading journals including California Management Review, Harvard Business Review and Journal of International Business Studies. He has published four books. He is co-editor of Adaptation to Climate Change in Asia and Multinational Corporations and Global Poverty Reduction, editor of Transformations in Global Governance: Implications for Multinationals and other Stakeholders and author of Multinationals in India: Strategic Product Choices.

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