Anil Gupta
Widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on strategy and globalization
Anil K. Gupta is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy, globalization and emerging markets. He is The INSEAD Chaired Professor in Strategy at INSEAD. Anil is also the Michael Dingman Chair in Global Strategy and Entrepreneurship (on leave) at the Smith Business School, The University of Maryland at College Park and serves as chief advisor to The China India Institute, a Washington DC-based research and consulting organization.
He received a doctorate from the Harvard Business School, an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur.
Anil’s most recent book - Getting China and India Right: Leveraging the World’s Fastest-Growing Economies for Global Advantage (Wiley, 2009), coauthored with Haiyan Wang - received the 2009 Axiom Book Awards’ Silver Prize as one of the world’s two best books on globalization/international business. Anil is also the author, coauthor, or coeditor of The Quest for Global Dominance: Transforming Global Presence Into Global Competitive Advantage (Wiley, 2008), Smart Globalization: Designing Global Strategies, Creating Global Networks (Wiley, 2003), and Global Strategy and Organization (Wiley, 2003).
The recipient of numerous awards for research and teaching, Anil was recently recognized by the Economist magazine as one of the world’s “rising superstars” in an April 15, 2010 cover story on “The New Masters of Management.” He is also a recipient of the 2010 “Best Professor in Strategic Management” award from CMO Asia. In addition, he has been recognized by BusinessWeek as an Outstanding Faculty in its Guide to the Best B-Schools, inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame, and ranked by Management International Review as one of the “Top 20 North American Superstars” for research in strategy and organization.
He is an elected lifetime Fellow of the Academy of International Business.
Anil serves as a columnist for BusinessWeek and as a Contributing Editor for Chief Executive magazine. His opinion pieces have also been published in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Chief Executive Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, China Daily, Economic Times, and other outlets. He has been interviewed and quoted by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, BusinessWeek, Forbes, BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Reuters TV, New Delhi TV, CCTV China as well as other media in the U.S., Asia, and Europe.
Anil serves regularly as a keynote speaker at major conferences and corporate forums in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa – including the BusinessWeek CEO Forum, the Global Partnership Summit organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry, the CEO2CEO Summit organized by the Chief Executive magazine, the Yale CEO Summit, and the Global Leadership Conference, Shanghai.
He has also served as a consultant, keynote speaker and/or executive education faculty with some of the largest corporations in the world including Wal-Mart, IBM, Deutsche Bank, SAP, Microsoft, PPG, MTN Group (South Africa), Accenture, Astra Zeneca, Marriott, First Data, Jacobs, Monsanto, ABB, Lockheed Martin, McGraw-Hill, Indian Oil, Steel Authority of India, Huawei Technologies (China), TeliaSonera, Metso, UPM-Kymmene, Finnair, Cemex, and Penoles.
Anil is an elected member of the board of directors of Origene Technologies (a gene cloning company). He has earlier served on the boards of directors of Omega Worldwide (NASDAQ, an asset management company), Vitalink Pharmaceutical Services (NYSE), NeoMagic Corporation (NASDAQ, a semiconductor company), and TiE-DC, the premier organization of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in the Mid-Atlantic region. He also serves on the advisory boards of Asia Silicon Valley Connection (San Mateo, CA), RavGen (a biotech start-up), and India Globalization Capital. He has also been an advisor to the US-India Business Council.
Anil has earlier served as a visiting professor at Stanford University, Dartmouth College, Bocconi Business School (Italy), Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), and IPMI (Indonesia).
Publications
* Getting China and India Right, Anil K. Gupta and Haiyan Wang Jossey-Bass (John Wiley), February 2009
The rise of China and India is a game-changing phenomenon. Given the size and rapid growth of these two economies, a suboptimal strategy for China and India is no longer a matter of merely leaving some money on the table. Many of today's Western giants that don't have solid China-and-India strategies will face severe threats to their very existence in as little as ten years' time, as competitors who are making the most of China and India mark these companies with a bull's eye for annihilation or acquisition. Putting in place the right strategies, as outline in this book, is crucial to leveraging these economies for global advantage.
* The Quest For Global Dominance: Transforming Global Presence Into Global Competitive Advantage, 2nd Edition Anil K. Gupta, Vijay Govindarajan, & Haiyan Wang Jossey-Bass, March 2008
In The Quest for Global Dominance they present the lessons from their twenty-year study of over two hundred corporations. They argue that, in order for a company to create and maintain its position as a globally dominant player, executives must ensure that their company leads its industry in the following four essential tasks:
- Identifying market opportunities worldwide and pursuing them by establishing the necessary presence in all key markets
- Converting global presence into global competitive advantage by identifying and developing the opportunities for value creation that global presence offers
- Cultivating a global mindset by viewing cultural and geographic diversity as an opportunity, not just a challenge
- Leveraging the rise of emerging markets especially China and India to transform the company's growth prospects, global cost structure, and pace of innovation
* Global Strategy and Globalization, Anil K. Gupta & Vijay Govindarajan John Wiley, 2003
* Smart Globalization, Anil K. Gupta & D. Eleanor Westney Jossey-Bass, 2003
* The Quest for Global Dominance, Anil K. Gupta & Vijay Govindarajan Jossey-Bass, 2001
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