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Ranjay Gulati, PhD, SM

Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration; Charles B. (Tex) Thornton Chair, Advanced Management Program; and Unit Head, Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School

Ranjay Gulati is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor and Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership, strategy and organizational issues in firms. His recent work explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high-growth organizations in turbulent markets. Some of his prior work has focused on the enablers and implications of within-firm and inter-firm collaboration. He has looked at both when and how firms should leverage greater connectivity within and across their boundaries to enhance performance.
 
Gulati is the chair of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He has directed several executive education programs on such topics as Building and Leading Customer Centric Organizations, Leadership in Turbulent Markets, Managing Strategic Alliances and Sustaining Competitive Advantage. He has received a number of awards for his teaching including the Best Professor Award for his teaching in the MBA and executive MBA programs at the Kellogg School where he was on the faculty prior to coming to Harvard.

His most recent book, Principles of Management (Cengage, 2013), is a primer on the fundamentals of management that provides a new overview of the field using contemporary examples and cases. In his book, Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Organization (Harvard Business Press, 2009), which was a finalist for the George Terry Best Book in Management Award, Gulati explores how "resilient" companies—those that prosper both in good times and bad—drive growth and increase profitability by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers.
 
Gulati is the past-President of the Business Policy and Strategy Division at the Academy of Management and an elected fellow of the Strategic Management Society. He has been a Harvard MacArthur Fellow and a Sloan Foundation Fellow. His research has been published in leading journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, American Journal of Sociology, Strategic Management Journal, Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Journal and Organization Science. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, strategy+business and the Financial Times

Gulati holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, a Master's Degree in Management from MIT's Sloan School of Management and two Bachelor's Degrees, in Computer Science and Economics, from Washington State University and St. Stephens College, New Delhi, respectively.